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February 5 - July 26
Pride returns to PVD this June 15 and it promises to be more energetic than ever! The theme of this year’s celebration of the LGBTQ community is Live Your Truth. “The Live Your Truth theme for 2019 reflects what’s at the heart of Pride: an opportunity to be exactly who you are, out in the […]
One of musical theater’s favorite masked men returns to Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) courtesy of the touring company of Phantom of the Opera. The blockbuster Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will play March 21 – 31 and will include the songs “Think of Me,” “The Music of the Night,” and “All I Ask of You.” Jordan Craig […]
The Gamm is presenting the Rhode Island debut of Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone from February 28 through March 17. The show runs along with Samuel Beckett’s Come and Go. Carol Drewes plays Lena, a member of a group of older women who spend a summer of afternoons in a suburban backyard. They discuss grandchildren and lost […]
The National Tour of the hit musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comes to Providence Performing Arts Center February 5 through 10. Based on a children’s novel by Roald Dahl, the story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. It’s a fun show the entire family will be able […]
The new National Tour of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical CATS will kick off at the Providence Performing Arts Center January 22 and will run through January 27. CATS is based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the […]
Stephen Brower is starring as Dmitry in the musical Anastasia, opening at PPAC on November 27. Based on the 1997 film, the musical adapts the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who could have escaped the execution of her family. Years later, an amnesiac orphan named Anya hopes to find some trace of her family by siding with […]
The Gamm Theatre is continuing their new season with the dark comedy Gloria, from playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate). The play made its debut off-Broadway in May 2015 and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The action takes place in the New York office of an upscale magazine focusing on news and entertainment (loosely […]
The Gamm will open their 2018-2019 season with The Night of the Iguana on October 11. Fred Sullivan, a longtime member of Trinity Repertory Company, is directing the classic play by Tennessee Williams at The Gamm’s new home: the former Ocean State Theater Company building in Warwick. Tony Estrella stars as the Rev. T. […]
Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) is hosting the launch of a new national touring production of the Broadway smash “Miss Saigon” from September 21-30. In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find […]
The legendary Tarzan swings into the Stadium Theatre August 10 through 12 in Tarzan: The Musical, based on Disney’s epic animated musical adventure and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan features music by Phil Collins, and a book by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Rebecca Donald is directing. Jack Cappadona stars […]
