Rhode Island — Plays
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Hamlet
Reverie Theatre Group presents a production of Hamlet set in a Baptist church in the present-day American South, directed by Omar Laguerre-Lewis. The production interrogates the supposed divide between church and state while exploring themes of mortality, madness, and moral...
Art
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 piece and what truly constitutes “art,” they uncover long-held grievances and tension points in their relationships. Can their...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, runs August 14 through September 12, 2026 at The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Two young bachelors invent alter egos to escape their social obligations, only to have their romantic schemes...
Bell, Book and Candle
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...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Stephen Thorne
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...
Little Women
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...
Deathtrap
In this house the only thing sharper than wit is the knife.
The Great Gatsby
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...
Almost, Maine
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
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.
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Three summer weekends, eight men, and one endless friendship.
Grand Horizons
Grand Horizons is a Rhode Island Premiere play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bess Wohl, directed by Artistic Director Josh Short. After fifty years of marriage, Bill and Nancy decide they want a divorce, devastating their adult sons, while Nancy discovers she is...
The Antipodes
The Antipodes is a Rhode Island Premiere play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, in which nine writers sit around a conference table attempting to crack a story as confessions are made and people disappear. Baker puts a room full of people under pressure and waits...
Latest Rhode Island Reviews
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
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
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. …
Review: A searing MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Burbage Theatre Co
A searing MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Burbage Theatre Co. offers a gripping production of Shakespeare's 'problem play'…
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Finding Neverland The Little Theater Of Fall River (8/05-8/15) |
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Made On Hope Ballet RI (4/16-4/25) |
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Ballet Meets The Beatles Ballet RI (3/12-3/21) |
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Plaza Suite The Little Theater Of Fall River (4/15-4/25) |
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Carmen Ballet RI (5/25-5/27) |
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Hamlet Reverie Theatre Group (8/13-8/23) |
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The Secret Garden The Little Theater Of Fall River (2/04-2/14) |
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The Nutcracker Ballet RI (12/17-12/27) |
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Deathtrap The Little Theater Of Fall River (10/15-10/25) |
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A Real Life Fairy Tale: Princess Diana Ballet RI (4/25-5/02) |