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Review: FROM HERE TO WHERE at Wilbury Theatre Group
The Wilbury Theatre kicked off its 2025-2026 season with the World Premiere of 'From Here to Where'-part Poet Jam, part Improvised ensemble performance, part reckoning with the world around us and so much more!...
Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Burbage Theatre Company
Burbage Theatre Company begins its new season on the highest of notes with a tender, heartwarming, profound production of “Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan MacMillan (with Jonny Donahoe), an engaging, uplifting one-person memoir-like play that reminds audiences of life’s concurrent simplicity ...
Review: COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE at Trinity Repertory Company
Trinity Repertory Company kicks off its 62nd season with the world premiere of Ro Reddick’s “Cold War Choir Practice,” a scrambled albeit compelling, highly entertaining musical dramedy thriller about a young Black girl coming of age during the era of Reagan, Soviet infiltration, and nuclear d...
Review: HEARTBREAK HOTEL at Theatre By The Sea
Theatre By The Sea wrapped up its 92nd season with the hip-swaying, leg-lunging Elvis bio-musical Heartbreak Hotel that had the near sell-out crowd dancing and strutting down their own memory lane of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley....
Review: THE WEDDING SINGER at The Academy Players Of Rhode Island
The Academy Players Of Rhode Island’s musical production of ‘The Wedding Singer’ by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin was a blast from the past and an absolute joy to watch from start to finish. From the high paced energy to the stunning choreo to the sharp comedic timing, this production had th...
Review: DR. KORCZAK AND THE CHILDREN by Head Trick Theatre
Head Trick Theatre’s emotionally intense, and powerfully performed production of Erwin Sylvanus’ ‘Dr. Korczak and the Children’ translated by George E. Wellwarth, immerses the audience in a heartwrenching true story that is ever so timely to this day....
Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Contemporary Theater Company
Jason Robert Brown's musical, 'The Last Five Years,' now at Contemporary Theater Company, depicts the courtship, marriage, and breakup of Cathy and Jamie, a young couple from Ohio, both blessed and cursed by the simple act of falling in love....
Review: KNOTTY HABITS at Homebrewed Theatre Company
Homebrewed Theatre Company takes audiences on a delightful journey back in time to medieval 12th century Belgium where fashion has an distinct, overarching influence on a village’s residents in Andrew Beauregard’s fun, clever, original work, 'Knotty Habits.'...
HAIRSPRAY at Theatre By The Sea Open Now Through August
The 2011 musical Hairspray, based on the 1988 film, tells the story of teen Tracy Turnblad, whose sole goal in life is to become a dancer on Baltimore’s Corny Collins Show. ...
Review: WAITRESS at Theatre By The Sea
Theatre By The Sea celebrates the arrival of summer with its magnificent production of “Waitress,” a romantic musical comedy about problematic relationships, second chances, and the unyielding power of friendship....
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL Lands at PPAC
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL lands at Providence Performing Arts Center. National Tour delivers spectacle, nostalgia, and a flying DeLorean....
Review: TRINITY REP'S BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY ENCHANTS
Some plays are like clockwork: the lights come up in medias res, and we watch, fascinated, as the gears turn — the surprise and delight being the journey. Such is the case with Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, in the enchanting, gripping production now running at Trinity Rep....
Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA (PART 1: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES) at The Gamm Theatre
Gamm Theatre closes another unforgettable season by setting the bar high—immeasurably high—for next season with its soulful, spirited, no-frills and all-heart production of Tony Kushner’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, “Angels in America.”...
Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Wilbury Theatre Group
Wilbury Theatre Group concludes its season with a powerful, spirited, heart-stopping production of “American Idiot,” a musical based on rock band Green Day’s concept album of the same name....
Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Theatre By The Sea
Theatre By The Sea kicks off its 2025 season with the heartwarming jukebox musical, “Always…Patsy Cline,” an enjoyable walk down memory lane featuring the songs from one of the last century's most unforgettable voices....
Review: YOU ON THE MOORS NOW at The Players
Considering the periodic, seemingly countless remakes of such classic works like “Little Women,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Wuthering Heights,” the significance of women’s voices in the history of literature cannot be overstated. Jaclyn Backhaus’ remarkably original satire, ‘You O...
Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Granite Theatre
In 1998, Matthew Shepard became a household name for the worst possible reason when he was robbed, beaten, and left tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson....
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Review: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] [AGAIN] at Contemporary Theater Company
When Shakespeare penned, “Oh, what fools these mortals be,” he couldn’t ever have imagined the deliberately, delightfully foolish behavior his words would incite more than four centuries later in ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again],’ now at Contemporary ...
Classic Chicago at PPAC
Chicago currently holds the record for the longest-running show on Broadway, with 10,500 performances, and the current touring show is an exact replica of the revival that has been running on Broadway since1996. It’s delightful to be able to see this classic production without having to travel t...
Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT SIZZLES ON TOUR at Providence Performing Arts Center
Some Like It Hot Sizzles on Tour at PPAC: Big band energy, tap-happy choreography, and sharp performances heat up the stage in this exuberant musical comedy...
Review: RIVERDANCE 30-THE NEW GENERATION at Providence Performing Arts Center
Whether you’re one of those who’s seen it a number of times in its 30-year run or just witnessing it for the very first time, like me, there’s a ton to love about this energetic musical and dance spectacular. “Riverdance 30-The New Generation” does an incredible job of working to make al...
Review: LA TEMPESTAD at Trinity Rep
What did our critic think of LA TEMPESTAD at Trinity Rep?...
Review: PICNIC at The Arctic Playhouse
The Arctic Playhouse welcomes the advent of spring with a gratifying production of esteemed playwright William Inge’s “Picnic,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic drama about the choices people make and the paths they take, intentionally or otherwise, to find happiness and avert loneliness....
Review: FAT HAM at Wilbury Theatre Group
What did our critic think of FAT HAM at Wilbury Theatre Group?...
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The Lion King Providence Performing Arts Center (5/20-6/07) |
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Plaza Suite The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (4/15-4/25) |
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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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MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Shakespeare's Darkest Comedy Burbage Theatre Company (5/14-6/07) |
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Almost, Maine The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22) |
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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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The Hope of Loving: Music for Chorus, String Quartet, and Piano Grace Episcopal Church (5/31-5/31) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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Art The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/20-8/30) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |
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