Some Like it Hot at PPAC: Sponsored Content
The national tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT is coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) in less than two weeks! Performances start on Tuesday, April 22 and continue through Sunday, April 27, 2025. SOME LIKE IT HOT is based on the 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The original […]
I’ll Take Whatever He’s Having: Strain reviews
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Hamlet: At the Gamm Theatre
Jeff Church was born to play Hamlet. As lead in a retelling of the Shakesperean tragedy at Gamm Theatre, Church is physically and emotionally nimble, leaping and swashbuckling about the three-tiered stage to deliver iconic lines – “To be or not to be,” “To thine own self be true,” “To die, to sleep, perchance to […]
Picnic: Sometimes the ants show up uninvited!
The Arctic Playhouse presents “Picnic” by William Inge and directed by Karen Besson. In 1953, when the play premiered on Broadway, Picnic won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Picnic explores themes of love, family, sexuality, repression, rites of passage, disappointment, and the complexities of human […]
Merrily We Roll Along: “I’d rather be me any day!”
The Community Players proudly present Merrily We Roll Along. The production follows three friends— Frank, Charley, and Mary— in reverse chronology, from the 1970s to the 1950s. In 1976, Franklin Shepard is a wealthy Hollywood producer, and as the story moves backwards in time the audience learns of his meteoric rise from penniless dreamer to […]
Earth Day: Fiction
*Rule Number One is that you gotta have fun. But when you’re done, you gotta be the first torun.” “Rule Number two, just don’t get attached to somebody you could lose.” “Two to a bunker each, and don’t forget your registered wristband!” Emerald could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she followed her […]
Pedaling for Power: One cyclist’s journey to preserve transgender and environmental spaces
On April 10, Jon Stenning will begin a monumental five-day, 515-mile journey from North Scituate, Rhode Island to Washington, DC, in support of two causes that are close to his heart: the Transgender Law Center and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA). What started as a joke about wanting to flip off the Capitol Building […]
Fat Ham: Reinventing a Shakespearean classic
FAT HAM by James Ijames, directed by Don Mays, is a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty. Wilbury Theatre presents this 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama in a candid, hilarious and thought-provoking tragedy that presents more as […]
Dead Man’s Cell Phone: One ringy dingy….
Through the Glass Theatre Ensemble presents Sarah Ruhl’s surrealist comedy Dead Man’s Cell Phone at AS220’s Black Box. Ruhl is known for her probing humor, vivid imagination and poignant humanity. Director Olivia M. Sahlin artfully takes on challenging topics in a world of ordinary people living extraordinary lives, and small coincidences opening into quirky metaphysical […]