Rhode Island Theatre Shows
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From Free to Freedom
A 75-minute music, dance, and storyteller experience tracing the journey of African people from freedom in their homelands, through bondage, and back to freedom again. Written and directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, with music direction by Kim Pitts-Wiley and choreography by...
Hamlet
Shakespeare in NB Presents: Hamlet In Partnership with Reverie Theatre Group Bringing the Bard’s most poignant plays to audiences of all ages and walks of life, RTG presents a chilling and timely take on Hamlet. Set in a Baptist church in the present-day, American south, this...
Hamlet
Reverie Theatre Group presents a production of Hamlet set in a Baptist church in the present-day American South, directed by Omar Laguerre-Lewis. The production interrogates the supposed divide between church and state while exploring themes of mortality, madness, and moral...
Ocean State Renaissance Faire
Rhode Island's only Renaissance Faire begins Friday with Revels on the River at the Contemporary Theater Company, featuring merriment, music, and drink. The weekend Faire takes place at Saugatucket Park and includes pirates, swordplay, artisan wares, feasting, costume contests...
Art
A play by Yasmina Reza, adapted by Christopher Hampton, about three longtime friends whose relationship unravels over a controversial purchase of a white painting. The witty and sharp story explores taste, ego, and the fragile bonds of friendship, exposing more about the viewers...
Art
Three longtime friends. One ridiculously expensive painting. Is it art, or is it just the world’s priciest inside joke? As the three men debate the piece and what truly constitutes “art,” they uncover long-held grievances and tension points in their relationships. Can their...
Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater
Gunhild Carling Queen of Swing's Big Band Show comes to Rhode Island! A Multi Instrumentalist singer and dancer performs alongside her Big Band with strings. Gunhild Carling is a Swedish Jazz Star. She plays multiple instruments, sings and tap dances. She performs all over the...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, runs August 14 through September 12, 2026 at The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Two young bachelors invent alter egos to escape their social obligations, only to have their romantic schemes...
Bell, Book and Candle
Gillian Holroyd is a modern-day witch living in New York City’s Greenwich Village. When she encounters charming publisher Shepherd Henderson, she decides to make him hers by casting a love spell. Gillian takes added pleasure in doing so because Henderson is engaged to her old...
Invoke: American Voices
Multi-instrumental quartet Invoke opens the Chamber Series with American Voices, marking the nation's 250th anniversary. The program encompasses bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism, spotlighting composers William Grant Still, Florence Price, and Duke...
PVDFest
Mayor Brett P. Smiley, the Citys Department of Art, Culture, Tourism and Producing Partner FirstWorks once again host PVDFest, Providences signature outdoor arts festival, September 18-19, 2026. This years festival returns to the beating heart of Downtown, animating the streets...
Operation Mincemeat
The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the...
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is set in 1943 and tells the wildly improbable and true story of the covert Allied operation that turned the tide of WWII, blending farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper with an assist from Fleming himself. Written by triple Tony...
The Getaway Driver
The Getaway Driver is a new crime drama written by Trinity Rep Playwright-in-Residence Deborah Salem Smith and Resident Artistic Company Member Charlie Thurston, directed by outgoing Artistic Director Curt Columbus. Inspired by the true story of Katherine Ann Power and Clare...
Trio Azura
Trio Azura, recent Grand Prize and Gold Medal winner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, explores the world of the piano trio across eras. The program spans the Impressionist and Romantic works of Maurice Ravel and Felix Mendelssohn to the contemporary voice of...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Stephen Thorne
Burbage Theatre Co begins its 15th Season with William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” directed by Trinity Repertory Company member Stephen Thorne. Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is a sparkling comedy of love, wit, and second chances, where old rivalries...
The Smuggler
A lone Irishman takes the stage and spins a tale that's equal parts confession, comedy, and cautionary tale. Recently arrived on the fictional island of Amity, Massachusetts, Tim Finnegan shares the winding path that brought him there, through heartbreak, bad decisions, and a...
Little Women
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, Little Women follows the lives of the March sisters: romantic Meg, spirited Jo, loving Beth, and tenacious Amy. The play adaption chronicles the sisters’ childhood in the 1860s as they strive to be kind, intelligent, and imaginative...
Wild Kratts LIVE 2.0 – Activate Creature Power!
Wild Kratts LIVE 2.0 – Activate Creature Power! is a theatrical production starring Martin and Chris Kratt, based on the Emmy-nominated PBS KIDS series. Chris and Martin take to the stage to activate new Creature Powers, confront a comic villain, and save the day alongside...
Rasa String Quartet: Portraits of an American Patchwork
The Boston-based Rasa String Quartet makes its Newport Classical debut with Portraits of an American Patchwork, a musical quilt weaving together cultural traditions that have shaped the nation's identity. The program spans jazz, bluegrass, Latin pop, Indigenous traditions...
DRACULA
This radical new production of Bram Stoker's gothic horror classic brings the suspense and seduction of the novel to the stage. Rich with humor and horror, the play paints a theatrical picture of literature's most famous vampire. The production is directed by Rose Linnell.
Latest Rhode Island Reviews
Review: THE GROWN UPS at Trial By Theatre
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Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Contemporary Theater Company
Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” premiered on a London stage in 1895 and has since then become the wickedly witty master playwright’s most often produced play (I already know of two forthcoming productions in Massachusetts alone).…
Review: TITANIC THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Theatre By The Sea
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Review: A DELIGHTFUL 'INTO THE WOODS' at Contemporary Theater Company
A DELIGHTFUL 'INTO THE WOODS' at Contemporary Theater Company…
Review: GREASE at Theatre By The Sea
If the summer heat has you at wit’s end, there is no better way to stay cool than Theatre By The Sea’s stylish, energetic, remarkably entertaining production of “Grease,” the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical that premiered on Broadway in 1972 and spawned the now classic 1978 movie starrin…
Trinity Rep's NEXT TO NORMAL
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Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at The Gamm Theatre
As I am writing this for the Rhode Island section of Broadway World, I feel as though I am uniquely equipped to talk about Tennessee Williams, or at least the world that so often lives inside his work, being that I am a Southerner who has now spent roughly thirteen years in New England.…
Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Wilbury Theatre Group
The Wilbury Theatre Group wrapped up it's 2025-2026 season with Conor McPherson's Tony-nominated stylistic musical 'Girl From The North Country'. Set in an a Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota boarding house in 1934, McPherson weaves a tale of multiple families and people's lives converging together …
Review: THE LION KING at Providence Performing Arts Center
The Lion King swept the Tony awards when it was on Broadway, and even for this semi-skeptical theatre reviewer, it’s easy to see why. It seems impossible to translate a cartoon about the lives of animals into a stage production performed by people, or at least, it seems like it will be corny. …
Review: A searing MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Burbage Theatre Co
A searing MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Burbage Theatre Co. offers a gripping production of Shakespeare's 'problem play'…
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The Nutcracker Ballet RI (12/17-12/27) |
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Love! Valour! Compassion! The Little Theater Of Fall River (6/17-6/27) |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Little Theater Of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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Deathtrap The Little Theater Of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |
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A Real Life Fairy Tale: Princess Diana Ballet RI (4/25-5/02) |
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Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater Stadium Theater (9/11-9/11) |
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Hamlet Reverie Theatre Group (8/13-8/23) |
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The Secret Garden The Little Theater Of Fall River (2/04-2/14) |
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Plaza Suite The Little Theater Of Fall River (4/15-4/25) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |