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Wombat Theatre Co presents A More (Un)Perfect Union. A political comedy. Written by Meaghan Cross, Steve Hart, Meghan O'Connor, Andrew Tejada, and Ashley Renee Thaxton-Stevenson

Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant continues their 36th Season of comedies with the mistaken identity farce Funny Money written by Ray Cooney, directed by Daniel Lee White, and running July 10 through August 30, 2019. Evening shows are held on Friday and Saturdays, with weekday and Sunday matinees at the Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant, 102 Connell Highway, Newport, RI. Admission for the play is $52.95, which includes a homemade buffet and post-show cabaret (show only admission is $25) Purchase online at www.newportplayhouse.com or by calling (401) 848-PLAY (7529).

Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant is thrilled to continue their 36th Season with the uproarious farce Always a Bridesmaid by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, Jones and directed by Olivia M. Sahlin running May 30 through July 1, 2019.

Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant is thrilled to continue their 36th Season with the farce Clothes Encounters by Roger Karshner, a farce of double-meanings, mistaken identities, and sexual innuendo. Two couples. One out-of-control shower head. 'A non-stop evening of hilarious nonsense.' (The Portland Oregonian) Directed by W. Richard Johnson, Clothes Encounters opens with a daytime matinee on Thursday April 4, and runs through Friday, May 25, 2019.

Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant launches their 2019 season with Lone Star Love Potion by Michael Parker and directed by Daniel Lee White. Now playing through March 31 this uproariously lusty comedy is a Texas-size farce about a mysterious love potion that will keep you guessing until the final curtain.

Rhode Island Stage Ensemble, one of the Ocean State's premier community theater companies, is thrilled to announce our fourth semi-annual cabaret fundraiser, LOVE ON THE RISE.

Rhode Island Stage Ensemble, one of the Ocean State's premier community theater companies, is thrilled to announce its fourth semi-annual cabaret fundraiser, LOVE ON THE RISE.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

Following the success of last year's debut tour with multiple sell-out performances, Belgrade Springboard Company Strictly Arts will revive their critically acclaimed show Freeman in 2018, thanks to support from the Charlie Hartill Special Reserve Fund. This summer, the Midlands-based company will make their Edinburgh Fringe debut, ahead of a welcome return to the Belgrade Theatre and second tour in the autumn.

It's an energetic good time featuring some of our area's finest young talent.

"Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him." Although taken from the Arthur Miller script, a terrible thing is also happening to the Willy Loman in Daydream Theatre Company's comedic musical spin on Death of a Salesman, THE INSIDE OF HIS SEVERED HEAD, which could alternately be referred to as Willy Loman: Vampire Hunter.

The Hartt School Community Division, University of Hartford will begin accepting applications January 1, 2018 for their popular Summer Musical Theatre Intensive programs, led by Hartt voice faculty and program director Michelle Murray Fiertek. Summer Musical Theatre Preprofessional and Junior programs are exceptional summer-study opportunities for young performers to develop their acting, singing, and dance skills while working closely with top industry professionals. The programs culminate in showcase performances that are tailored specifically to the participants.

Multiple award-winning writer Lenny Schwartz has teamed with the Daydream Theatre Company by staging his 2012 award-winning off-Broadway play Accidental Incest: Something For Everyone in Rhode Island for the very first time.

Multiple award-winning writer Lenny Schwartz has teamed with the Daydream Theatre Company by staging his 2012 award-winning off-Broadway play Accidental Incest: Something For Everyone in Rhode Island for the very first time.

Sometimes you just feel like laughing. The Contemporary Theater Company is full of laughter this summer with its production of One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, playing July 14 - August 12.

Sometimes you just feel like laughing. The Contemporary Theater Company is full of laughter this summer with its production of One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, playing July 14 - August 12.

Sometimes you just feel like laughing. The Contemporary Theater Company is full of laughter this summer with its production of One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, playing July 14 - August 12.

Onstage through Saturday night at Lipscomb University's Collins Auditorium, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, represents a musical theater genre that has fallen out of favor in the 21st Century: its very innocence and perceived lack of guile guarantee that it will ultimately become the stuff of community theater, academic theater and their ilk. After watching the show play out on stage - even when it's directed by Kari Smith with gleeful exuberance - you can't help but wonder how it ever played Broadway (Twice, even!), even after a rather successful mid-1960s off-Broadway stand.

Stephen Karam's drama explores a darker side of family love during a Thanksgiving dinner.