TRANS Is a Powerful Experience
A staged reading of TRANS was held June 1 and 2 at the URI Feinstein Providence campus. Steven Pennell, coordinator of the Urban Arts and Culture Program at URI, […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Nick Albanese To Take Last Sicilian to New York
Playwright Nick Albanese has high hopes for his hit one-man show, The Last Sicilian. Albanese intends to perform the show in New York next January, and he launched an online […]
Blonde Ambition: MM
Marilyn Monroe was a world famous sex symbol and one of Hollywood’s top movie stars in the 1950s, and nearly 55 years after her death, she remains a major […]
Young Frankenstein Is a Monster Smash
Young Frankenstein is a cheerfully silly musical featuring excellent performances and superb choreography, performed May 5 through 7 at the Stadium Theatre. The show was adapted from the 1974 […]
Swamp Meadows’ Messy Rumors
Neil Simon is one of America’s most successful playwrights for a reason. He is skilled at crafting funny dialogue and memorable characters while reflecting our common humanity. That is […]
Chicago Dazzles at PPAC
Chicago is a musical with a lot of punch. This sizzling production with songs by the famed composers Kander and Ebb tells the tale of vixens Roxie Hart and […]
Brown’s Invasion! Exposes America’s Prejudices
Jonas Hassen Khemiri‘s Invasion! holds a mirror up to our own preconceived notions about other races and cultures, particularly the Arabic male. One of the most acclaimed novelists and playwrights […]
Rent still rocks after all these years
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) hosts the 20th Anniversary Tour of the classic musical, which features dazzling performances and a lot of heart. Composer Jonathan Larson did not live […]
Encore’s Joseph is a high energy winner
Encore Repertory Company has continued its winning streak with a dazzling, high-energy production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a musical retelling of the story from the Book of […]
Fantastic Performers Shine in The Altruists
Burbage Theatre Company’s production of Nicky Silver’s The Altruists is about a group of liberal activists who claim to care about women’s rights, gay rights, the plight of the homeless […]