Theater

WONDER OF THE WORLD: More Than One Wrong Way To Take The Plunge!

Ever rummaged through your spouse’s sweater drawer expecting to find argyles, yet instead stumbling across a secret fetish so utterly demented that it immediately sent you bolting toward a new life? Deftly directed by Jeanne Smith, Attleboro Community Theatre’s Wonder of the World is a dark, fast-paced comedy of Niagara Fall-out proportions! Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire […]

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Or Maybe Malicious Melancholy, Masked Revelry And Tongue Fencing

Hark, spectators of the realm! If thy soul doth hunger for a “reverent irreverence” turning a 77-seat black box into a roaring arena of wretched romance, get thee to the Burbage Theatre Co! Director Stephen Thorne, who has been called “without question, one of the most electric theatre professionals that Rhode Island has to offer,” […]

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BELL, BOOK & CANDLE: What if the life you’re supposed to want isn’t what you actually want?

Gillian Holroyd is a witch living in NYC’s Greenwich Village in the late 1950s. Upon encountering Shepherd “Shep” Henderson, she decides to cast a love spell to make him her own. What’s a nefarious witch to do when her nifty neighbor’s fiancée — her old college rival — can’t hold a candle to her? Enchant […]

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Four Things You May Not Know About the Award-winning Comedy Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical 

The Tony Award® and Olivier Award®-winning musical launches the North American leg of its world tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center September 20 through 26, 2026, opening PPAC’s 2026/2027 Taco and The White Family Foundation Broadway Series. What began as a small fringe production in an 80-seat London theatre has grown into an international […]

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You’ve Still Got a Friend: Theater by the Sea presents a rousing world premiere tribute

Okee dokee folks… Tonight, at Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck, was the world premiere of You’ve Still Got a Friend: A Musical Tribute to the Lives and Friendship of Carole King and James Taylor.  You’ve Still Got A Friend is not entirely what you would think it would be — a tribute show to […]

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Fall Theater Preview: Some new reasons to visit RI’s professional playhouses

In 1835, after sailing into Newport and then continuing his journey through the United States, famed French historian and apparent theater geek Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the cultural and political revolution that was still taking place in this country. In his Democracy in America, he argued that as a society transitions from aristocracy to […]

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THEATER PREVIEW: Touring Operation Mincemeat, a stranger-than-fiction musical, to launch at PPAC after award-winning runs in London and New York

There is no shortage of musicals that have been record-breaking successes in the West End but flop upon their transfer across the pond to Broadway.   Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1984 rock musical Starlight Express, for instance, ran for 7,406 performances in London but only 761 in New York. More recently, Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, and Björn […]

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