Sponsored Content Disney Theatrical Group and the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney’s THE LION KING will go on sale to the public on Friday, November 14 at 10A. Providence’s most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the PPAC stage on Wednesday, May […]
Trinity Repertory Company presents its 49th annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted from the novella by Charles Dickens, with original music by Richard Cumming. This year, the production is Co-directed by former Trinity Rep Artistic Director and Emmy Award–winner Richard Jenkins and acclaimed choreographer Sharon Jenkins. Due to ongoing renovations of the theatre, this […]
Sponsored Content The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) announces that the North American tour of the hit Broadway musical WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is coming to PPAC Tuesday, December 2 to Sunday, December 7, 2025. The Providence engagement of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is part of the Taco and The White Family Foundation Broadway Series. Tickets for […]
The Arctic Playhouse has long been a gem of Rhode Island’s theater scene, and their latest production, Keep On Laughing, is a testament to the venue’s knack for blending humor with heart. Director W. Richard Johnson’s treatment of Paul Elliott’s play creates a “comfort-comedy,” delivering a freshness that keeps the evening from slipping into the predictable. […]
Is it true love or a rewarding romp in the sack? You’ll go back and forth for two hours trying to decide in “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.” What’s undisputed is the sparking chemistry and riveting banter between the diner waitress and cook on their first date. Specifically, the show, playing at […]
The energy ignites the moment the Hadestown crew takes the historic Providence Performing Arts Center’s stage, as the musicians begin with the promise of myth re-imagined. As told by PPAC, Hadestown — the Tony-winning musical from Anaïs Mitchell and Director Rachel Chavkin — is the ancient tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, a Greek myth woven […]
The Community Players’ new production of Carrie: The Musical, directed by Morgan Salpietro, with book by Lawrence D. Cohen based on the novel by Stephen King, captures both the unsettling undercurrent of King’s story and the brave heart of community theatre. The music by Michael Gore, with lyrics by Dean Pitchford, certainly adds to the […]
The Burbage Theatre Company has conjured a work of sinister magic which begs the question, will you stay once the hour has struck? There’s a mesmerizing fire-crackle sound to the stage as though the air itself is charged with anticipation— and perhaps something more arcane. The lights dip, the hush deepens, and you remember you’re about […]
Just when you think you’ve experienced all live theatre can do, the line is pushed even further into the realm of utter amazement. The latest “did-you-see-that?” moments come in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, at Providence Performing Arts Center through Oct. 4. Mind-warping visual trickery and clever direction take this written-for-stage franchise extension to […]
Silence = Death Under Brian McEleney’s direction, the much-anticipated Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, wowed audiences just as much as part 1, Millennium Approaches. This continuation revisits the lives of its beloved, memorable characters as they confront illness, identity, the shifting tides of history and the human heart. Highly regarded as the greatest play […]