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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...
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...
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...
Rebecca Kaplan talks about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and her lifelong struggle to adapt, including following advice from friends, female pickup artists, and at one point literally googling “how to act normal” and landing on the pinnacle of the ‘00s internet: WikiHow. The...
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 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...
Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) kicks off its 69th season with “Wonder of the World” by David Lindsay-Abaire. From the author of the critically acclaimed Kimberly Akimbo , this barrel of laughs begins when Cass discovers a dirty little secret in her husband’s sweater drawer –...
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, 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...
The Hanover Theatre Repertory presents a fresh take on Shakespeare's timeless tragedy, directed by THT Rep Artistic Director Livy Scalon. The production stars Mathieu Myrick as Romeo alongside Alyssa Beaulieu as Juliet, bringing together an emerging cast of actors alongside an...
Shakespeare's comedy of love, wit, deception, and second chances follows the sharp-tongued Beatrice and Benedick as they spar in a battle of wits, while young lovers Hero and Claudio find their relationship threatened by deception and carefully guarded reputations. Stephen...
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...
Providence, 1993. A gang leader from Harlem arrives at his ex-girlfriend's apartment in the middle of the night — wounded, on the run, with nowhere else to go. What he doesn't know is that her roommate is gay, grieving, and not about to back down. Set against the twin epidemics...
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...
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! 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...
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...
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.
In this house the only thing sharper than wit is the knife.
Performances:Woodman Center, Moses Brown October 23 7:00pm October 24 1:30pm, 7:00pm October 25 1:30pm United Theatre, Westerly November 6 7:00pm Featuring Bathers, City of Women, and a world premiere in collaboration with the Holocaust Education Center.Ballet RI returns to the...
The String Cheese Incident brings their Just Keep Spinning Fall Tour to the Providence Performing Arts Center. For more than three decades, the band has built a reputation as one of live music's most celebrated touring acts, blending rock, bluegrass, funk, electronic, jazz, and...
Pianist Michael Leonardo Davidman, winner of the 2025 American Piano Awards, makes his Newport debut with a program of J.S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Cesar Franck, and Franz Liszt. Upstage has praised his thunderous authority and loads of interpretive nuance.
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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).…
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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…
What did our critic think of TRINITY REP'S NEXT TO NORMAL at Trinity Rep?…
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.…
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 …
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. …
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Little Women The Arctic Playhouse (10/01-10/18) |
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Stephen Thorne Burbage Theatre Co (9/17-10/11) |
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Wonder of the World Attleboro Community Theatre (9/11-9/27) |
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Carmen Ballet RI (5/25-5/27) |
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Deathtrap The Little Theater Of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |
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Finding Neverland The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/05-8/15) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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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) |
