220 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI 02903
Providence Performing Arts Center is a theatre in Providence, RI.
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 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...
Set in the Roaring Twenties, this Tony Award-winning Broadway musical follows the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby in pursuit of his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Based on the beloved novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the production features an electrifying jazz and pop-infused score...
The party's roaring on Broadway! THE GREAT GATSBY is a “great, big Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy” (Entertainment Weekly). Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), this story of extravagance and longing features choreography by...
The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra returns to the Providence Performing Arts Center as part of their annual regional holiday tour across New England. Conductor Keith Lockhart leads the orchestra in a festive, family-friendly program featuring their signature Sleigh Ride, fresh...
Dark Star Orchestra recreates complete setlists from the Grateful Dead's three decades of touring, offering audiences the chance to experience the spontaneity and energy of a Dead show. For nearly 30 years and more than 3,300 performances, the band has honored the Grateful...
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen...
Inside a one-room apartment in the heart of Seoul, Oliver lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you’re a Helperbot 3, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow...
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical explores the life of rock icon Neil Diamond, from his early days in Brooklyn and New York's Tin Pan Alley to becoming a sold-out sensation. The musical traces his journey through his legendary songbook, ten Top 10 hits, and 140 million...
The show explores how four blue-collar guys — Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi — grew to become the singing sensation The Four Seasons.
PERFECT ARRANGEMENT at The Players. A timely gut punch, elegantly delivered…
Wilbury Theatre Group kicks off the new season with the world premiere of “Same Difference,” a gritty, unsettling, profound, entertaining drama about the troubled lives of a group of twentysomethings trying to get along, make ends meet, and most importantly, survive.…
The plot of Operation Mincemeat makes it a truly bizarre choice for a theatrical musical. During World War II, Britain needed a way to lure the Nazi troops away from Sardinia, which was militarily significant, to the coast of Spain, which wasn’t. The plan they came up with was preposterous, so…
What did our critic think of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Burbage Theatre Company?…
What did our critic think of THE SMUGGLER at The Gamm Theatre?…
Trinity Repertory Company kicks off the new theater season with the world premiere of “The Getaway Driver,” a compelling, poignant true crime drama told by two women who share a tragic connection, written by playwright-in-residence Deborah Salem Smith and company member Charlie Thurston, and dir…
Dynamic, deep, and oh so funny! After seven years of what appears to be a solid, if not happy, marriage, Cass (Anna Hindman) leaves her husband and sets on a journey or self-discovery. Armed with an undying optimism and a list of 230-something line items to check off, she takes a bus to Niagara Fal…
What did our critic think of YOU'VE STILL GOT A FRIEND at Theatre By The Sea?…
What did our critic think of THE GROWN UPS at Trial By Theatre?…
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).…
45 total · showing 21–30
Mighty Wurlitzer Restoration will open at the Providence Performing Arts Center on October 4, 2024, funded partially by a Save America’s Treasures grant. This initiative aims to restore the historic Mighty Wurlitzer organ, a unique 5-manual, 21-Rank pipe organ built in 1927 and...
More than 35 million people around the world have experienced the smash hit phenomenon that is BLUE MAN GROUP and now it’s your turn! BLUE MAN GROUP returns to PPAC for a limited engagement on their new North American tour. It’s everything you know and love about BLUE MAN...
From Lincoln Center Theater that brought you The King & I and South Pacific, comes “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production is “thrilling, glorious and...
Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations is the electrifying, new smash-hit Broadway musical that follows The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. With their signature dance moves and silky-smooth...
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary...
Stripped down to reveal the darker psychological truths at its core, Daniel Fish’s production tells a story of a community circling its wagons against an outsider, and the frontier life that shaped America. Upending the sunny romance of a farmer and a cowpoke, this OKLAHOMA!...
Everyone’s invited to the joyous Broadway hit that New York Magazine hails as “smart and big-hearted” while The New York Times declares it “makes you believe in musical comedy again!” THE PROM is a new musical comedy about big Broadway stars on a mission to change the world and...
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, based on the Oscar-winning film starring Richard Gere, is a breathtaking production that celebrates triumph over adversity and includes one of the most iconic and romantic endings ever portrayed on screen. Featuring the Grammy Award winning, #1 hit...
Jesus Christ Superstar is an iconic musical phenomenon with a world-wide fan base. In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production comes to North America. Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and helmed by the acclaimed director...
For a quarter of a century, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece RENT has inspired us to choose love over fear and to live without regret. Its immeasurable emotional impact has forever changed the world of musical theatre. RENT follows a year in...
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (12/03-12/13) |
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Stephen Thorne Burbage Theatre Co (9/17-10/11) |
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A Christmas Carol The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20) |
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Love! Valour! Compassion! The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (6/17-6/27) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Finding Neverland The Firebarn: Little Theatre of Fall River (8/05-8/15) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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Kaleidoscope Newport Elks Lodge Room (10/16-10/18) |
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The Nutcracker Ballet RI (12/17-12/27) |
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Carmen Ballet RI (5/25-5/27) |
