The first North American national tour of The Great Gatsby: A New Musical brings powerhouse Broadway veterans and rising stars to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC). The cast offers vocal power with the deep emotional range required to capture the fractured glamor of the Jazz Age. There are few literary parties more famous than […]
There are few things more terrifying than a haunted cellar, except maybe realizing you’ve wandered into the basement of a Halloween craft store and can’t find your way up to the clearance section. Welcome to Burbage Theatre Company’s Witching Hour: Secret Cellar, James Lucey’s wonderfully sinister horror anthology, where bygone merchandise, questionable decisions, and things […]
The party doesn’t have to end after Halloween weekend. Keep the festivities going with a trip back to the Roaring Twenties when the North American tour of The Great Gatsby visits the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) November 3-8. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, the musical transports audiences into a world of […]
It’s 2003, Thursday afternoon, in a quiet little town called Eberndorf, in the deep south of Austria, surrounded by fields, trees, and medieval churches; 10-year-old me is in my parents’ living room, glued to the four-by-three tube TV screen. “Sabrina – Total Verhext!” [Totally Bewitched! in English] is on. In the US, the iconic show […]
During the time in which F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby takes place, the US economy was in a massive post-World War I boom. Though there was money to be had, wealth was heavily concentrated at the top, creating a stark divide between the ultra-rich and the impoverished working classes. A stark divide […]
The Arctic Playhouse presents “Little Women,” based on Louise May Alcott’s timeless novel following the lives of the March sisters: spirited aspiring writer Jo, thoughtful Meg, tender Beth, and tenacious Amy. Their childhood in the 1860s is chronicled as they strive to be intelligent, imaginative, and kind young ladies. With each passing year, the sisters […]
Sidonie Smith and Adam Garcia in the 2026 UK tour of The Bodyguard. The musical’s North American tour runs from Oct. 23 – 25 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Photo credit: Paul Coltas Who could have possibly anticipated the onslaught of screen-to-stage productions that started when the 1937 film Nothing Sacred, a critically acclaimed […]
The logistics, physical, and emotional demands of the production are mind-boggling – one actor spending 80 minutes morphing among 12 characters with unique accents and mannerisms while delivering lines almost non-stop and, amazingly enough, in rhyme. While it might sound overwhelming at best or gimmicky at worst, the reality of The Smuggler, opening the 2026-27 […]
It’s 1993 in Providence. A gang leader from Harlem lands at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in the middle of the night — wounded, on the run, with nowhere else to go. Despite his dire circumstances, he’s disgusted by her roommate — a grieving, white gay man into drag who’s not in the mood for the interloper’s […]
A reimagined production of the international, award-winning musical The Bodyguard will arrive at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), October 23 – 25, 2026, as part of the Theatre’s 2026/2027 *Encore Series. Based on the 1992 film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, The Bodyguard the Musical features a host of unforgettable classics including “Queen […]