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The Arctic Playhouse

1249 Main Street, West Warwick, RI 02893
West Warwick, RI 02893

Upcoming Shows

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Aug 27 – Sep 13, 2026

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...

Little Women

Little Women

Oct 1 – Oct 18, 2026

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...

Almost, Maine

Almost, Maine

Nov 5 – Nov 22, 2026

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

A Christmas Carol

Dec 3 – Dec 20, 2026

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.

Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Contemporary Theater Company

by Christopher Verleger · August 12, 2026

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: GREASE at Theatre By The Sea

Review: GREASE at Theatre By The Sea

by Christopher Verleger · July 1, 2026

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

Trinity Rep's NEXT TO NORMAL

by Caitlin Howle · June 5, 2026

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

Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at The Gamm Theatre

by Caitlin Howle · June 1, 2026

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

Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Wilbury Theatre Group

by Jay Pateakos · May 30, 2026

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

Review: THE LION KING at Providence Performing Arts Center

by Andria Tieman · May 22, 2026

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

18 total · showing 11–18

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None

Apr 12 – Apr 28, 2024

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the...

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

Feb 29 – Mar 17, 2024

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are turned on their heads in this fast-paced, rollicking ride as two narrators and several actors attempt to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories...

Love, Sex & the IRS

Love, Sex & the IRS

Oct 6 – Oct 22, 2023

The classic farce that everyone should be doing – especially around tax time! Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as married. The day of reckoning comes when...

Social Security

Social Security

Sep 29 – Oct 16, 2022

This hilarious Broadway comedy surrounds a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wifes goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their...

Thanks for the Mammaries

Thanks for the Mammaries

Sep 28 – Sep 29, 2019

Back by popular demand, international recording and performing artist and native Rhode Islander Ida Zecco returns to The Arctic Playhouse with her new one-woman show filled with comedy, music and inappropriate banter. Thanks for the Mammaries! will be presented for 2 shows only...

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple

Sep 7 – Sep 17, 2017

The well known comic tale of the bickering Oscar and Felix comes to life in the intimate Arctic Playhouse. Throw in their poker playing buddies and their comic neighbors, The Pigeon Sisters and you have the ingredients for a laugh riot of a show.

Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free

Jun 18 – Jun 24, 2017

Butterflies Are Free is the story of blind boy, Don Baker living in NYC on his own for the first time. The year is 1969 and his over protective mother is worried about it. His next door neighbor is free spirit, Jill Tanner who enters his life in a whirlwind of daring new...

I Hate Hamlet

I Hate Hamlet

Jan 13 – Jan 28, 2017

I Hate Hamlet! by Paul Rudnick presented by The Arctic Playhouse and JMG Theater Performances: Jan. 13, 14, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 @ 8pm Jan. 22 @ 2pm The Arctic Playhouse 117 Washington St. West Warwick, RI 02893 $13 advance $18 door www.thearcticplayhouse.com Andrew Rally seems to...

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Kismet Improv (9/19-9/19)
Bell, Book and Candle in Rhode Island Bell, Book and Candle
The Arctic Playhouse (8/27-9/13)
A Christmas Carol in Rhode Island A Christmas Carol
The Arctic Playhouse (12/03-12/20)
Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater in Rhode Island Gunhild Carling at Stadium Theater
Stadium Theater (9/11-9/11)
Almost, Maine in Rhode Island Almost, Maine
The Arctic Playhouse (11/05-11/22)
Wonder of the World in Rhode Island Wonder of the World
Attleboro Community Theatre (9/11-9/27)
Get Merry! in Rhode Island Get Merry!
Swamp Meadow Community Theatre (12/11-12/13)
A Real Life Fairy Tale: Princess Diana in Rhode Island A Real Life Fairy Tale: Princess Diana
Ballet RI (4/25-5/02)
Love! Valour! Compassion! in Rhode Island Love! Valour! Compassion!
The Little Theater Of Fall River (6/17-6/27)
Made On Hope in Rhode Island Made On Hope
Ballet RI (4/16-4/25)