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The Players at the Barker Playhouse present the final production of their 117th mainstage season, TALK RADIO. This underperformed classic, originally created by Eric Bogosian...
Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written....
Gothic horror meets comedy in this Brontë-esque show about two sisters, their dog, and the arrival at their manor of a whole lot of trouble.
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...
Burbage Theatre Co concludes its 14th Season with the 21st Century Rhode Island premiere of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” directed by Artistic Director Jeff...
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...
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...
In the late 1950s, Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a modern-day witch living in New York City’s Greenwich Village. When she encounters charming publisher Shepherd...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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by Christopher Verleger - April 24, 2026
Reverie Theatre Group presents ‘Edges,’ a funny, thoughtful, highly entertaining four-person song cycle, with no spoken dialogue or discernible plot, that explores the challenges of young adults, including family dynamics, career opportunities, and most significantly, the trials and tribulations...
by Christopher Verleger - April 21, 2026
Arctic Playhouse’s remarkably stylish, extraordinarily well-acted production of Noël Coward’s 1930 farce, ‘Private Lives,’ pokes fun at the idea of marriage as little more than a social construct while speculating whether a toxic relationship is conceivably better than one without any passi...
by Jay Pateakos - April 16, 2026
All of us have our safe space, our comfort zone amidst the chaos of the world but what if that's where you spend most of your time and suddenly, that safe space is shattered? Can you even recover? Where would you go from there?...
by Jay Pateakos - April 15, 2026
The Outsiders musical struck a seminal chord at the Providence Performing Arts Center last night, combining richly harmonic music with songs that speak to your very soul. Believe the Hype! This Tony Award winner sets itself apart from the pack early on and never looks back!...
by Andria Tieman - April 13, 2026
The Gamm has dipped back into Martin McDonagh’s canon (previous productions include Hangmen, 2023, A Skull in Connemara, 2016), for their latest production–The Cripple of Inishmaan. Set in the remote Aran Islands, this play shows what feels like a softer side of McDonagh in that it’s a peek ...
by Yuliya Pokhylko - April 11, 2026
What did our critic think of ACTOR ON PAROLE at Everett Company Stage School?Ari Brisbon is the Actor on Parole, whose show opened on Everett Stage on April 10th. A fusion of a one-actor play and stand-up comedy, it tells a personal story of a Providence actor, just out of prison, where he spent two...
by Christopher Verleger - April 01, 2026
In the 1983 film, 'The Big Chill,' starring Glenn Close and Kevin Kline, a group of middle-aged, lifelong friends are reunited at a funeral after a member of their college clique commits suicide. The character Chloe, played by Meg Tilly, asks, “I haven’t met that many happy people in my life. Ho...
by Caitlin Howle - March 28, 2026
What did our critic think of CLYDE'S at Burbage Theatre Company?...
by Christopher Verleger - March 24, 2026
Terrence McNally’s one-act comedy, ‘Whiskey,’ now at Roundabout Productions, is not so much a play but rather an extended skit that features five television personalities performing in the shadow of an unseen horse who is the titular star of a wildly popular series (á la ‘Mister Ed’). ...
by Yuliya Pokhylko - March 21, 2026
A quirky rom-com about cats, as the Director Debora Sadler, introduced the play, was indeed quirky throughout. The two-act play follows Samanatha the cat as she tells her life story speckled with drama and self-discovery....
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