The national tour of The Outsiders, coming soon to the Providence Performing Arts Center, will seem familiar. And not just because it’s the stage adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s seminal 1967 […]
BY ALISON O’DONNELL ON FEBRUARY 20, 2026 Trinity Rep tells us their staging of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is a freewheeling blend of comedy and tragedy, a journey through […]
With the waning of winter, there’s no better way to close out the season at Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) than with The Winter Wolf by Joseph Zettelmaier, directed by Douglas […]
In true comedic (not exactly musical) style, a cadre of eccentric Broadway devotees gather under the premise of discussing a new play. Everyone, including the producer, writers, director, financial backer, […]
Henrik Ibsen’s haunting masterpiece of moral reckoning, Ghosts, lays bare the corrosive power of secrets and the cost of keeping up appearances. In a remote Norwegian town, widow Helen Alving […]
Seeing himself as a “roadie in training for a very, very long time”—having supported his mother’s country and classic-rock cover band, Roadhouse Band, on Long Island since childhood—lighting designer William […]
As the house lights dimmed on a nearly sold-out crowd of 3,000 at the Providence Performing Arts Center on January 29, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, silhouetted in silence on […]
Not since Oscar and Felix – or Laverne and Shirley – have we cackled so hard at the antics of mismatched roommates bumbling through life. Somehow the Trinity Repertory Company […]
Harold, a spoiled young man, experiments with destructive ways of destroying himself in order to get the attention of his self-obsessed, affluent mother. Maude is peacefully wise, an old but […]
There’s a curious vigilance that falls over a room where a story is told without words. Not the absence of sound, but an intimacy, a heightened awareness of breath, glance, […]