The latest theatre news from Rhode Island — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Christian McBride, the renowned bassist, composer, and nine-time GRAMMY Award winner, has resigned as Artistic Director of the Newport Jazz Festival after serving nearly a decade at the artistic helm of the festival
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) is welcoming three new fellows to its 2025-26 Gamm Fellowship Program.
Wilbury Theatre Group will present the world premiere of FROM HERE TO WHERE, a new musical by Umberto Crenca and The Gillen Street Ensemble, September 18–October 5, 2025.
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
Arts Alive! will present its 2026 Statewide High School Pre-Professional program/performance of Into the Woods.
Silkroad Ensemble with Wu Man will tour a reimagined American Railroad across New England and the Mid-Atlantic in November 2025, highlighting the contributions of immigrant and Indigenous communities to the Transcontinental Railroad.
“An Intimate Evening with David Foster and Katharine McPhee” will make its second return engagement to the Providence Performing Arts Center.
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
Wilbury Theatre Group has added two members to the Board of Directors: Maitrayee Bhattacharyya & Sara Kasen.
Ballet Rhode Island will hold its annual auditions for The Nutcracker Children's Cast.
Wilbury Theatre Group will open its 2025/26 Main Series Season with the world premiere of From Here to Where, a new musical with book by Umberto Crenca and music by The Gillen Street Ensemble.
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) has announced that the Golden Snitch Digital Lottery is now open for their upcoming engagement of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD.
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) will present Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from Friday, September 19 through Saturday, October 4, 2025, as the opener of its 2025/26 Broadway season.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
The Providence Performing Arts Center has announced that individual tickets for KIMBERLY AKIMBO, will go on sale starting Friday, September 12 at 10A.
BroadwayWorld’s industry-leading, completely free digital show program service, Stage Mag, announced the launch of Stage Mag 2.
BroadwayWorld introduces MyShows, a new feature that lets you track shows you’ve seen, rate productions, share reviews, and connect with friends.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Heathers The Musical, which recently made its return to New York City at New World Stages, plans to hit the road! Heathers will launch a US tour, beginning in Spring 2027, with tours across other parts of the world to come as well.
Rehearsals are officially underway for the North American tour of The Outsiders, the Tony Award winning Best Musical.
Judith Lynn Stillman, Rhode Island College's Artist-in-Residence, has announced a Fall 2025 season of chamber music concerts.
Gregory Alan Isakov will perform with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 7:30P.
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will open its 2025–26 season with Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, directed by Brian McEleney.
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.
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.
Wilbury Theatre Group will kick off its 2025/26 Main Series Season with the world premiere of From Here to Where, a new musical with book by Umberto Crenca and music by The Gillen Street Ensemble.
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Mamma Mia! - In Concert NK Town Beach Bandshell (8/15-8/15) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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Almost, Maine The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22) |
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PVDFest Downtown Providence (9/18-9/19) |
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1776 The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/07-8/09) |
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Little Women The Arctic Playhouse (10/01-10/18) |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Swamp Meadow Community Theatre (8/07-8/08) |
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Love! Valour! Compassion! The Little Theater Of Fall River (6/17-6/27) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Little Theater Of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
