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The Arctic Playhouse

1249 Main Street
West Warwick, RI 02893

Upcoming Shows

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Aug 27 – Sep 13, 2026

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...

Little Women

Little Women

Oct 1 – Oct 18, 2026

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...

Almost, Maine

Almost, Maine

Nov 5 – Nov 22, 2026

Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United Statesit’s almost in Canada. And it almost doesn’t exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it’s just . . . Almost. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Dec 3 – Dec 20, 2026

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it’s too late.

Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Contemporary Theater Company

by Christopher Verleger · August 12, 2026

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: GREASE at Theatre By The Sea

Review: GREASE at Theatre By The Sea

by Christopher Verleger · July 1, 2026

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

Trinity Rep's NEXT TO NORMAL

by Caitlin Howle · June 5, 2026

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

Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at The Gamm Theatre

by Caitlin Howle · June 1, 2026

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

Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Wilbury Theatre Group

by Jay Pateakos · May 30, 2026

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

Review: THE LION KING at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Andria Tieman · May 22, 2026

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.  …

Past Shows

18 total · showing 1–10

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

May 21 – Jun 7, 2026

A timeless hit, both on Broadway and in the West End, Arsenic and Old Lace is the amusing story of two charming elderly ladies who decide that by poisoning their poor, lonely lodgers and burying the bodies in their cellar, they are saving these unfortunates from the sorrows of...

Private Lives

Private Lives

Apr 16 – May 3, 2026

Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find...

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

Feb 26 – Mar 15, 2026

The Musical Murders of 1940 is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud farce that spoofs classic backstage musicals and Agatha Christie–style murder mysteries. Set in a snowbound mansion during a 1940 out-of-town musical tryout, a colorful cast of eccentric characters finds themselves...

Flamingo Court

Flamingo Court

Oct 3 – Oct 12, 2025

Flamingo Court is made up of three short plays all taking place in an apartment building where several retirees live. Angelina, in 104, is a Neil-Simonesque piece where resident Angelina starts to fall for her neighbor Dominic. The only problem is her sick husband in the other...

Harvey

Harvey

Aug 29 – Sep 14, 2025

Harvey - Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides...

Picnic

Picnic

Mar 27 – Apr 13, 2025

The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other house belongs to Helen...

Deadline

Deadline

Feb 20 – Mar 9, 2025

Murder Mystery/Comedy When eight mystery writers arrive at a legendary writer’s fog-shrouded island mansion in the North Atlantic, they think they’re ready for the Deadline Challenge—twenty-four restful hours to write as much of their new novel as possible. But the Deadline...

Lone Star Love Potion

Lone Star Love Potion

Oct 3 – Oct 20, 2024

Mr. Stancliffe, the owner of a vast fortune, and a two hundred thousand acre Texas ranch has died. His long time butler, Jarvis, and the maid, Melody, along with Mr. Stancliffe’s niece and only living relative Patrice, are there for the reading of the will by the family lawyer...

One Slight Hitch

One Slight Hitch

Sep 5 – Sep 22, 2024

t’s Courtney’s wedding day, and her mom, Delia, is making sure that everything is perfect. The groom is perfect, the dress is perfect, and the decorations (assuming they arrive) will be perfect. Then, like in any good farce the doorbell rings. And all hell breaks loose. So much...

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

May 16 – Jun 2, 2024

The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital...

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