Rhode Island Theater Reviews

BWW Review: SPAMALOT at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Randy Rice — April 16, 2011

You don't have to be a Monty Python fan to enjoy SPAMALOT, which is playing at PPAC through April 17, 2011

BWW Reviews: PAUL at The Gamm Theatre

by Randy Rice — March 25, 2011

Directed by Tony Estrella, Howard Brenton's play controversial play PAUL makes its American debut at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, RI

BWW Reviews: THE GOOD DOCTOR at 2nd Story Theatre

by Randy Rice — March 23, 2011

Ed Shea and Pat Hegnauer co-direct the Neil Simon comedy which is based on material written by Anton Chekhov

BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Randy Rice — March 23, 2011

Alice Ripley reprises her Tony-winning role as Diana Goodman in Next to Normal, which plays at PPAC through Sunday, March 27, 2010.

BWW Review: YELLOWMAN at Trinity Rep

by Randy Rice — March 4, 2011

With her 2002 play, Yellowman, playwright Dael Orlandersmith explores different aspects of racism both within the black communities and a subtler, more insidious, internalized racism.

BWW Review: THE LION KING NATIONAL TOUR at PPAC

by Randy Rice — February 5, 2011

The touring production of Disney's glorious Broadway musical plays at Providence Performing Arts Center through February 20, 2011.

BWW Review: BECKY SHAW at 2nd Story Theatre

by Randy Rice — February 2, 2011

Gina Gionfriddo's biting social commentary, based here in Rhode Island, plays at 2nd Story through February 20th

BWW Review: A DOLL’S HOUSE at The Gamm Theatre

by Randy Rice — January 30, 2011

Tony Estrella's adaptation of Ibsen's once-controversial drama plays at the Pawtucket, RI theater through February 20, 2010.

BWW Reviews: IN THE HEIGHTS at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Randy Rice — January 12, 2011

While the Broadway production of IN THE HEIGHTS closed this past Sunday night, the touring production opened last night at Providence Performing Arts Center.

BWW Review: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE at Trinity Repertory Company

by Randy Rice — December 9, 2010

BWW Review: SOUTH PACIFIC at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Randy Rice — December 8, 2010

It isn't lost on me that South Pacific opened at Providence Performing Arts Center on December 7th, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of the U.

BWW Review: THE RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR STARRING THE ROCKETTES at PPAC

by Randy Rice — November 15, 2010

Less than two weeks after Halloween, The Providence Performing Arts Center is 'beginning to look a lot like Christmas" , to borrow a phrase.

BWW Review: MAURITIUS at The Gamm

by Randy Rice — October 28, 2010

Written by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Rachel Walshe, the suspenseful drama plays through November 21st.

BWW Review: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR at Trinity Rep

by Randy Rice — October 23, 2010

The three-act comedy, directed by Brian McEleney, follows three British couples over three successive holiday seasons, in the early 1970s.

BWW Reviews: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at 2nd Story Theatre

by Randy Rice — October 4, 2010

The Warren, RI theater opens its season with David Lindsay-Abaire's perverse comedy, Kimberly Akimbo, the first in a season of comedies.

BWW Reviews: CAMELOT at Trinity Rep

by Randy Rice — September 16, 2010

Trinity Repertory Company opens its 47th season with an imaginative reinterpretation of Lerner and Loewe's CAMELOT, directed by Curt Columbus

BWW REVIEWS: GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS at The Gamm

by Randy Rice — September 12, 2010

David Mamet's play gets a fairly straightforward, but funnier than expected, treatment as the Gamm Theatre's season opener.

BWW REVIEW: THE FULL MONTY at Theatre By The Sea

by Randy Rice — August 9, 2010

TBTS ends its 2010 season with a crowd-pleasing musical theater romp.

BWW REVIEWS: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Theatre By The Sea

by Randy Rice — July 25, 2010

TBTS presents a delightful summertime, summer-stock, production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's 'Little Shop'

BWW Reviews: A CHORUS LINE at Theatre By The Sea

by Randy Rice — June 6, 2010

The beloved summer stock theater in Matunuck, RI opens its 2010 season with Michael Bennett's equally beloved 'A Chorus Line'.

BWW REVIEWS: JERSEY BOYS at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Randy Rice — May 15, 2010

Jersey Boys is the Tony-winning story of "four blue-collar kids" who "become one of the greatest successes in pop music history" and it plays at PPAC through June 6, 2010.

BWW Reviews: THE UNDERPANTS at 2nd Story Theatre

by Randy Rice — May 14, 2010

Louise was trying to get a glimpse of the King as he passed in a parade when a loose knot and gravity conspired to drop her undergarments to the ground.

BWW Reviews: THE SYRINGA TREE at Trinity Rep

by Randy Rice — May 10, 2010

The Syringa Tree is charming tale of a life lived amidst conflict in Apartheid-era South Africa

BWW Reviews: ROCK 'N' ROLL at The Gamm Theatre

by Randy Rice — May 6, 2010

Tom Stoppard's drama Rock 'n' Roll, now playing at Pawtucket's Gamm Theatre, is about two of the most exciting developments post-WWII: The generation-defining influence of Rock music and the fall of Communism.