Goddess//Insect
Goddess//Insect is a new work by JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung, co-commissioned by Newport Classical and a national consortium of concert presenters, receiving its New...
Rhode Island Theatre Shows
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FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: ETIENNE CHARLES GULLAH ROOTS
Internationally renowned jazz trumpet maestro Etienne Charles returns to Providence with his festive big band! High spirits and dancing feet are in the forecast for this free jazz concert inspired by Lowcountry Gullah-Geechee culture and its connections...
WYSH Project
The WYSH (Worcester Youth Speak Honestly) Project is an original production created and performed by Worcester teens, inspired by their own lived experiences. The performance...
Weird Al Yankovic
Legendary satirist Weird Al Yankovic descends upon the stage with his groundbreaking Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour. Experience onstage performances of timeless tracks like Eat...
Grease
Grease, with book, music, and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, tells the timeless story of bad boy Danny Zuko and new girl Sandy...
Naissance
Naissance is the inaugural production of Renaissance Ballet Collective, a nonprofit ballet company founded in 2026 by Nina Yoshida-Webster, a professional ballet dancer with more...
Newport Classical Music Festival
The Newport Classical Music Festival features 30 concerts across 11 venues in Newport, RI, including The Breakers, The Elms, Castle Hill Inn, Blithewold Mansion, Rosecliff...
Pageant
The musical comedy beauty pageant...with something extra.
FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: The GroovaLottos
This Grammy-nominated Soul-funk Afrobeats jam band leads the vanguard of the “Thump & Soul” music scene, a feel-good blend of soul, rock, funk, hip-hop, and Afrobeats that can be heard at live music clubs, lounges,...
Into the Woods
Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, follows a baker and his wife as they set out...
La Broa' en tu barrio (La Broa' in Your Neighborhood)
La Broa' en tu barrio is a new adaptation of La Broa' (Broad Street) by Orlando Hernández, drawing from the true tales of Latino/a Rhode...
Shakespeare on the Saugatucket: Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare on the Saugatucket returns for another summer with William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost performed in the gardens and under the stars on the riverfront...
Bernard John Album Release Party
Providence-based indie-folk artist Bernard John is releasing his new album, Acres and celebrating his 40th birthday with a full band performance, special guests, and sets...
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION
A RISE TEEN production directed by Danielle Pennacchia, this haunting Greek myth folk opera is inspired by classic Americana and vintage New Orleans jazz. The...
1776
The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits
FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: Pedro Pastor
Pedro Pastor represents and leads a new generation of singer-songwriters in Spain. At just 31 years old, and with six albums under his belt, he has performed over 700...
Mamma Mia! - In Concert
West Bay Community Theater presents Mamma Mia! - In Concert, a hybrid musical event blending in-concert staging with traditional musical theater, featuring ABBA's hits that...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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Latest Rhode Island Reviews
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
What did our critic think of TRINITY REP'S NEXT TO NORMAL at Trinity Rep?…
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'…
Review: TALK RADIO at The Players At The Barker Playhouse
Just like a radio host’s shift, the show moves at lightning speed, following the conversations of Barry Champlain who is as enigmatic as he is exhausting to listen to. Nearly 40 years after the play was originally staged, the issues throughout the show still ring true today.…
Review: A FINE 'DINING ROOM' AT GRANITE THEATRE
he set immediately grabs you when you walk into the theatre: An intricately crafted dining room, set on a stage with a pronounced tilt, in front of which sits one of those little museum gallery cards in a frame: 'Dining Room. American. 20th Century.' It is immediately clear that director and set des…
Review: Kimberly Akimbo at Providence Performing Arts Center
At it’s most basic, Kimberly Akimbo tells the story of a sixteen-year-old girl who has a chromosomal disorder that makes her age rapidly. While that’s already an interesting premise, this musical goes much further than a typical ‘issues’ play and creates something wholly unexpected and qui…
Review: HIEROGLYPHICS CURRENCY at Daydream Theatre Company
Nowadays when you tune in to watch the news or read the latest headline in your social media feed, it’s difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction. Furthermore, there is no middle ground, and everything is described as a superlative—like the “least” effective or the “most” offen…
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In Motion Ballet RI (10/23-10/25) |
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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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FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: The GroovaLottos Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn (7/24-7/24) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater Stadium Theater (9/11-9/11) |
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Carmen Ballet RI (5/25-5/27) |
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The Nutcracker Ballet RI (12/17-12/27) |
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PVDFest Downtown Providence (9/18-9/19) |
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Deathtrap The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |