Category Archives: Arts

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...

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 b...

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 cou...

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 poi...

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 ...

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 ...

Conan O’Brien at the 2024 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twai...

By Kimberly RauGamm kicks off 2025 with Dennis Kelly's arresting "Girls & Boys" a one-woman show about a deceptively simple life that turns on a dime, and it's something you shouldn't miss during ...

By Kimberly RauLin Manuel Miranda's hit musical "Hamilton" returns to the Providence Performing Arts Center this week, and, no surprise, it's as good as ever and playing to packed houses (but there ar...

By Kimberly RauThe second show in Gamm's season is Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus," a beautifully written play about how jealousy, morality and devotion can shape both life and art. Directed by Tony Estrell...