Photo Credits: FRINGEPVD / Wilbury Theatre GroupBy Kimberly RauThe annual Providence Fringe Festival is heading into its second week, with this year's event boasting 70 shows across multiple stages at many different venues. It's a guaranteed good time, no matter what types of theater you typically enjoy.The festival is...

Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were hurt.

By Kimberly RauThe second production in Theatre by the Sea's summertime lineup is "Waitress," singer/songwriter Sarah Bareilles's musical adaptation of the Adrienne Shelly movie, and it's one of the best things they've done in years.Meet Jenna, a waitress with a heart of gold and some great friends, who almos...

By Kimberly RauWilbury Theater Group kicked off summer with Green Day's "American Idiot" rock opera, a musical that takes place in the cultural crucible that was America just after 9/11, and there couldn't be a better theater to take an already powerful piece of art and make it something even more compelling....

By Kimberly RauTrinity Repertory is ending its 2024-25 season with Pearl Cleage's beautiful lyrical drama "Blues for an Alabama Sky," and, as if you'd expect anything else from the company at this point, it's incredible.Set in 1930s Harlem, "Blues" features five characters brought together through a...

By Kimberly RauTheatre by the Sea kicks off its 2025 summer season with the jukebox musical "Always...Patsy Cline," a 27-song, two-woman show that offers a glimpse into an unlikely friendship between the country music star and one Texas superfan.Louise, a housewife, is home taking care of her kids when she fi...

By Kimberly RauThe Gamm Theater concluded its 2024-2025 season with a special production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches," a stunning, raw perspective of the AIDS epidemic that swept through America in the 1980s and early 90s.Kushner wrote "Angels in America" in two parts...

CVS Health steered through rising costs in its insurance division to handily beat profit expectations on Wall Street.

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.

President Donald Trump's second inaugural address sounded a lot like his first, with a sweeping indictment of the country he inherits and grand promises to fix its problems.