The latest theatre news from Rhode Island — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Reverie Theatre Group presents ‘Edges,’ a funny, thoughtful, highly entertaining four-person song cycle, with no spoken dialogue or discernible plot, that explores the challenges of young adults, including family dynamics, career opportunities, and most significantly, the trials and tribulations
This summer, the Newport Jazz Festival will return to Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island for its 72nd edition, running from July 31st to August 2nd, under the newly appointed Newport Jazz Artistic Director, Nate Smith.
After six weeks of voting, BroadwayWorld readers have crowned Newsies the Ultimate Best Movie Musical in the 2026 edition of BroadwayWorld's Annual Bracket.
Theatre By The Sea announced a change to its upcoming summer season, replacing ON YOUR FEET! with the world premiere of YOU'VE STILL GOT A FRIEND, a concert celebrating Carole King and James Taylor.
Arctic Playhouse’s remarkably stylish, extraordinarily well-acted production of Noël Coward’s 1930 farce, ‘Private Lives,’ pokes fun at the idea of marriage as little more than a social construct while speculating whether a toxic relationship is conceivably better than one without any passi
WAMPTRONICA, a New England underground dance music collective, will present the THUMP & SOUL SESSION at The Gallery Bar in New Bedford, MA, featuring Deep Afro Jazz House Music from core members The ZYG 808, GM Slim-One, and DaPhunkee Professor.
Trinity Repertory Company will honor outgoing Artistic Director Curt Columbus and philanthropist Paul J.
The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, RI will present THE MOORS, Jen Silverman's gothic absurdist comedy set on 19th-century English moors, featuring a cast of Rhode Island theater artists directed by Sonny Wong.
All of us have our safe space, our comfort zone amidst the chaos of the world but what if that's where you spend most of your time and suddenly, that safe space is shattered? Can you even recover? Where would you go from there?
Burbage Theatre Co will present the 21st Century Rhode Island Premiere of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, directed by founding Artistic Director Jeff Church, at the Wendy Overly Studio Theatre in Pawtucket.
The Outsiders musical struck a seminal chord at the Providence Performing Arts Center last night, combining richly harmonic music with songs that speak to your very soul.
Newport NewWorks Musical Theater Festival will return this summer, featuring three new musicals, including STUPID.
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The Gamm has dipped back into Martin McDonagh’s canon (previous productions include Hangmen, 2023, A Skull in Connemara, 2016), for their latest production–The Cripple of Inishmaan.
Since launching last fall, BroadwayWorld My Shows has been the place where theatre fans log every production they've seen, rate performances, write reviews, and document their theatre experiences.
All new production photos have been released from The Gamm's current show, Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan.
What did our critic think of ACTOR ON PAROLE at Everett Company Stage School?Ari Brisbon is the Actor on Parole, whose show opened on Everett Stage on April 10th.
Ballet Rhode Island will present the world premiere of MACHINAL: A DANCE OF DEFIANCE, the first ballet adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist play, running May 7–10 in Providence and May 14–17 in Kingston, RI.
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Voting is now open for the final round of BroadwayWorld's Annual Bracket! Which film is really the Best Movie Musical of all time? Our editors have selected the options, and now BroadwayWorld invites YOU to join us and our readers in deciding which movie musical deserves the title of The Ultimate Be
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The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre will hold GALA 41 on May 14 at Providence Public Library, honoring Myrth York and The Otto H.
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre announced its 2026-27 Season 42 lineup, featuring works by Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard alongside a world premiere adaptation of Helen DeWitt's THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND WOOL.
The THUMP & SOUL SESSION, a monthly underground dance lounge, returns to the MAJA CAPEK Room at First Unitarian Church of New Bedford on April 18, featuring DJs GM Slim-One, The ZYG 808, and DaPhunkee Professor.
In the 1983 film, 'The Big Chill,' starring Glenn Close and Kevin Kline, a group of middle-aged, lifelong friends are reunited at a funeral after a member of their college clique commits suicide.
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Mamma Mia! - In Concert NK Town Beach Bandshell (8/15-8/15) |
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FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: Pedro Pastor 195 District Park (8/14-8/14) |
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Art The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/20-8/30) |
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Hamlet Reverie Theatre Group (8/13-8/23) |
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Little Women The Arctic Playhouse (10/01-10/18) |
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Bell, Book and Candle The Arctic Playhouse (8/27-9/13) |
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Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater Stadium Theater (9/11-9/11) |
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Plaza Suite The Little Theater Of Fall River (4/15-4/25) |
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Almost, Maine The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Little Theater Of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
