BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at The Gamm Theatre
Shakespeare warns early in the first act of Midsummer Night's Dream that 'the course of true love never did run smooth.
Rhode Island Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Rhode Island.
BWW Review: MY FAIR LADY at Providence Performing Arts Center
This production has a mega-talented color-blind cast that turns every song into a showstopper.
BWW Review: BWW REVIEW: A stirring BEETHOVEN'S NINTH with RI PHIL, PROVIDENCE SINGERS at VETS Auditorium
Listen: These are tough times.
BWW Review: THE SQUIRRELS at Burbage Theatre Company
A show where all the characters are squirrels? Yes.
BWW Review: SUEÑO at Trinity Rep
The source material of Sueño may be 400 years old, but a brilliantly updated script, combined with the stunningly beautiful production currently onstage at Trinity Rep make this a fresh, relevant -- and darkly funny -- must-see experience.
BWW Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD at Providence Performing Arts Center
The music needs no introduction: all the hits that made The Temptations a household name are represented in this energetic and enjoyable national tour of 'Ain't Too Proud.
BWW Review: Heartfelt DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Providence Performing Arts Center
BWW's Critic Writes 'We’ve probably all been in a situation where a white lie or a misunderstanding ballooned into something bigger and unexpected.
BWW Review: ANTIGONX at Wilbury Theatre Group
Playwright Shey Rivera Ríos has vividly refreshed this work as a story for our time and AntigonX, at the Wilbury Theatre, is vibrant and visually stunning.
BWW Review: FINISHED WAITING by Bread And Puppet Theater tours Eastern US
It begins with a painted door labeled 'Here,' and a giant groaning ear spitting out the names of current conflict hotspots.
BWW Review: Brilliant OKLAHOMA! at the Providence Performing Arts Center
Warning: this is not your traditional version of OKLAHOMA!, and good riddance.
BWW Review: IRONBOUND at Gamm Theatre
If you have ever known anyone that is honest to a fault and holds nothing back no matter what situation, well, meet the play version.
BWW Review: FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS at Burbage Theatre Company
For those who have ever been in a wedding party, you know the drill.
BWW Review: THE PROM sparkles at Providence Performing Arts Center
Down-on-their luck Broadway stars swoop down on an Indiana town to take up the cause of a high-school student who can't take her girlfriend to the prom.
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Brown/Trinity MFA
The multiverse is everywhere now, replete with comic-book heroes and supervillain finger snaps, but in 2014, when British playwright Nick Payne wrote 'Constellations,' it was still pretty edgy.
BWW Review: GEM OF THE OCEAN at Trinity Rep
Providence's Trinity Rep has come roaring back from a two-year pandemic hiatus with a stunning production of August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean.
BWW Review: An Officer and a Gentleman at Providence Performing Arts Center
The movie An Officer and a Gentleman came out in 1982 to both critical and popular acclaim, but turning this story into a jukebox musical many years later seems like a strange choice.
BWW Review: A TREE FALLS IN BROOKLINE at The Community Players
If a tree falls in Brookline, does anybody laugh? That's the question asked by the world-premiere Community Players production of South County playwright David Christner's latest full-length comedy.
BWW Review: Festival Ballet Providence's UP CLOSE ON HOPE Returns
Festival Ballet Providence’s popular UP CLOSE ON HOPE series returns to their black box theatre.
BWW Review: The Gamm's AN OCTOROON Is Not To Be Missed
In AN OCTOROON, Jacobs-Jenkins seems to delight in taking audiences on a shock-and-awe tour through America’s history and present.
BWW Review: Triumphant JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at the Providence Performing Arts Center
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR landed at the Providence Performing Arts Center this week as part of its 50th anniversary tour, and the show does not disappoint.
BWW Review: FESTIVAL BALLET PROVIDENCE'S ALL NEW NUTCRACKER
Festival Ballet Providence’s new version of THE NUTCRACKER contains new sets, new costumes, new roles, new choreography, and even a new venue, but retains its charm while being exactly the shake-up this Rhode Island tradition needed.
BWW Review: CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE at Providence Performing Arts Center
When typically going into a theatre performance, you have either seen the play before or heard about it in some way so you go in with certain expectations.
BWW Review: HAMILTON Returns to the Providence Performing Arts Center
In a recent interview with CNBC, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the highly acclaimed composer and lyricist of HAMILTON, stated how the live show is as popular as ever due to the filmed stage version that has been available on Disney+ since July 2020.
BWW Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Gamm Theatre
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY.
BWW Review: BWW REVIEW: RI PHIL, KENSHO WATANABE bring infectious energy to ROMANTIC RACHMANINOFF at VETS Auditorium
A pair of stimulating, rarely heard pieces — not to mention a pair of young, energetic guest artists — made for a refreshing, unexpected and exhilarating evening at the VETS.
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Get Merry! Swamp Meadow Community Theatre (12/11-12/13) |
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Carmen Ballet RI (5/25-5/27) |
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Stephen Thorne Burbage Theatre Co (9/17-10/11) |
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Motion State Arts presents Jenna Riegel: Varvara Wilbury Theatre Group (11/07-11/07) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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WITCHING HOUR: SECRET CELLAR, a new Horror Anthology play by James Lucey Burbage Theatre Co (10/22-11/01) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Kaleidoscope Newport Elks Lodge Room (10/16-10/18) |
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Almost, Maine The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22) |
