Review: YOU'VE STILL GOT A FRIEND at Theatre By The Sea
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Review: THE GROWN UPS at Trial By Theatre
What did our critic think of THE GROWN UPS at Trial By Theatre?…
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
What did our critic think of TITANIC THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Theatre By The Sea?…
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. …
Past Shows
24 total · showing 11–20
On Golden Pond
The show starts Artistic Directors David and Beth Jepson. This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor with a failing memorybut still as tart-tongued, as ever. Ethel...
Barefoot in the Park
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK by Neil SimonJune 28 July 21, 2019Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. Hes a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and shes a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find too expensive with bad...
The Game's Afoot
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the...
Annie - The Musical
ANNIE has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned...
Bell, Book and Candle
Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head...
A Murder is Announced
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives...
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hit the skids, and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment...
A Comedy of Tenors
A COMEDY OF TENORS By Ken Ludwig July 12 – July 22, 2018 Sponsored by South County Hospital Orthopedics Center One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. What could possibly go wrong? It's 1930s Paris and the...
Proof by David Auburn
Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: there's her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert...
A Christmas Survival Guide
This intimate revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. Armed with a copy of “A Christmas Survival Guide” and an optimistic attitude, the characters charge into an urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. In songs and vignettes, they...
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The Nutcracker Ballet RI (12/17-12/27) |
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The Secret Garden The Little Theater Of Fall River (2/04-2/14) |
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Finding Neverland The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/05-8/15) |
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Get Merry! Swamp Meadow Community Theatre (12/11-12/13) |
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A Real Life Fairy Tale: Princess Diana Ballet RI (4/25-5/02) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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Deathtrap The Little Theater Of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |
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Bell, Book and Candle The Arctic Playhouse (8/27-9/13) |
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PVDFest Downtown Providence (9/18-9/19) |