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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. This innovative program is comprised of four unrelated pieces – two contemporary, one neoclassical, and one romantic, two of which are world-premieres. These shows are the perfect way for audiences t...
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. In turns horrifying and hilarious, this work manages to elicit almost every emotion a human being can feel as it burrows into your psyche....
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. Originally scheduled to visit Providence in 2020, the tour was cut short and delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, however, its return was triumphant a...
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. The great thing about 'Cirque Dreams Holidaze' was, with never seeing a performance, we had no idea what we were in for, a visually stunning per...
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. That certainly seemed to be true on Wednesday evening, based...
BWW Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Gamm Theatre
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY.....a perfect time for a perfect holiday performance...
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....
BWW Review: THE LATE WEDDING at Pell Chaffe Performing Arts Center
THE LATE WEDDING-an abstract look at relationships far and wide, how people interact, and why we are who we are, just don't expect it all wrapped in a bow....
BWW Review: Trinity Rep's Joyous Return to Live Theatre with A CHRISTMAS CAROL
This year marks not only Trinity Repertory Company’s 45th annual production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, but also the company’s return to live theatre after nearly two years - and what a return it is! This production feels particularly joyous, and, as directed by resident company member Joe Wilson, Jr...
BWW Review: CONTEMPORARY THEATER WHIRLS MUSIC AND MAGIC INTO AN ENCHANTING 'TEMPEST'
The Contemporary Theater Company has crafted a compelling outdoor production that is visually stunning, packed with beautiful musical motifs, and full of powerful performances....
BWW Review: PRETTY WOMAN - THE MUSICAL at Providence Performing Arts Center
I'm not the biggest fan of romantic comedies-so predictable and just too much, well, drama you know? Probably why the movie studios have shied away from these over the past 18 months. Who needs more depression? But THE 1990 PRETTY WOMAN has always been a rare feather in the Rom Com hat and the launc...
BWW Review: TIMELESS AND TIMELY A LIE AGREED UPON AT THE GAMM THEATRE
A LIE AGREED UPON is an excellent rewrite of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and the performances are more than equal to the bold material....
BWW Review: CONTEMPORARY THEATER COMPANY BRINGS 'BETHEL PARK FALLS' TO LIFE IN DELIGHTFUL OUTDOOR SETTING
The CTC delivers a perfect union of story and space in this finely polished 90-minutes of intersecting vignettes about an ill-fated park and the people who meet there....
BWW Review: RI PHIL, EMANUEL AX Dazzle at the VETS Auditorium
The Rhode Island Philharmonic teamed up with world-famous pianist Emanuel Ax for a performance of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto, played before the largest in-person crowd the VETS has seen in 16 months....
BWW Review: RI Phil springs into summer with its ORCHESTRA SHOWCASE
The Rhode Island Philharmonic’s chamber ensemble had a spring in its step at its last subscription concert of the 2020-21 season....
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL ONLINE at Trinity Rep sparkles with spirited innovation
In A CHRISTMAS CAROL ONLINE, Trinity Rep combines invention and tradition in a celebration of innovative spirit and holiday cheer....
BWW Review: ASSASSINS at The Gamm Theatre Hits the Mark
ASSASSINS, the 1990 Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman show featuring the stories of nine successful and would-be presidential assassins, may seem like an odd choice of subject for a musical, particularly as the first musical in the Gamm Theatre's 35 season history. However, with inventive staging an...
BWW Review: HELLO DOLLY Dazzles But Disappoints at PPAC
HELLO DOLLY first landed on Broadway in 1964, and the current (2017) revival, playing at Providence Performing Arts Center through March 8, won the Tony Award for Best Revival and Best Actress for Bette Midler. While those who have nostalgia for this show will no doubt think it's fun, the uninitia...
BWW Review: Spectacular MARIE ANTOINETTE At Brown/Trinity MFA
Providence theatre-goers have the opportunity to spend considerable time in 18th century France this spring--both at Trinity Rep's A Tale of Two Cities, and now at Brown/Trinity's MFA production of MARIE ANTOINETTE. Seeing both productions back-to-back makes for an interesting juxtaposition as Tal...
Justice Done to Dickens A TALE OF TWO CITIES at Trinity Rep
When you get seated inside the Chace Theater at Trinity Rep, you might think you're in the wrong place. Eugene Lee's set for A TALE OF TWO CITIES, written by Brian McEleny and based on Dickens' novel, looks like a library. Stacks and stacks of books on two levels set behind rows of tables. When Chri...
BWW Review: CALENDAR GIRLS at The Community Players offers spirited comedy
In Tim Firth's Calendar Girls, now being performed by Pawtucket's Community Players, an unlikely group of women bares it all for a charity calendar a?" and learns what each of them is made of in the process....
BWW Review: ANGELIQUE KIDJO at The VETS
Angelique Kidjo shines in Providence, RI....
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Providence Performing Arts Center. Don't Miss It!
There are times when being a theater reviewer is a fabulous gig. Last night at the Providence Performing Arts Center was one of those times. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, running through Sunday at PPAC is not to be missed. It is warm, funny, sad, uplifting, and helps us see the world from the vantage point o...
BWW Review: Exquisite AGNES OF GOD at Epic Theatre
Despite the fact that Norman Jewison's AGNES OF GOD has existed as both an award-winning play and later film, it doesn't seem to have been produced very often. That's all the more reason to rush out and see Epic Theatre's well-executed version of a play that is strange, fascinating and heartbreaki...
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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Almost, Maine The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22) |
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Deathtrap The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |
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Newport Comedy Series Newport Elks Lodge #104 (6/06-6/06) |
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The Lion King Providence Performing Arts Center (5/20-6/07) |
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FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: ETIENNE CHARLES GULLAH ROOTS Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn (7/10-7/10) |
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Bell, Book and Candle The Arctic Playhouse (8/27-9/13) |
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FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: The GroovaLottos Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn (7/24-7/24) |
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The Hope of Loving: Music for Chorus, String Quartet, and Piano Saint Mary of the Bay (5/30-5/30) |
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