Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29With a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22Musician/composer. Not Buddy Cianci.
December 22 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmLate on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that traverses the uncanny valley to visit the North Pole. I’m ready whenever!
December 23 @ 4:30 pm - 7:30 pmJazz from some of the best friends in RI.
December 23 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmA classic holiday movie that will bring tears to your eyes.
December 23 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmIn the Shadows tour for the Houston-based observational comic.
December 24 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmLynyrd Skynyrd experience… Whoa man.
December 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmThere’s a halo hanging on the corner of my girlfriend’s four post bed.
December 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThere is so much I want to say. If you were in middle school from 2012 onward, you know the hold this man had on the world.
December 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm9th Annual New Years Eve party – see you in the new year with these blues-rock RI legends.
December 31 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmFolk music for the new year.
January 1, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmAnnual Three Stooges Film Festival featuring Larry, Moe, and Curly at their comical best in classic episodes from the 1930s and 1940s. Nyek, nyek, nyek.
January 3, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmBig party band.
January 3, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmListen to some music and drink your coffee.
January 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmBruce Springsteen tribute band.
January 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmThis band plays Grateful Dead music their way, with some Stones, Beatles, Allman Bros, and JJ Cale pearls thrown in for good measure.
January 4, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPaying tribute to the great music legends of the ‘50s & ‘60s.
January 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm’90s & 2000s rock, with some old-fashioned attitude.
January 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmBeatles tribute.
January 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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