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There are few musicals with as prominent a place in the American theatrical canon as 'Gypsy'*. It's a big musical, meant for a proscenium stage, and while the Contemporary has mounted a creditable production, their attempt to fit it into a smaller theatre has not been entirely successful.

Everything's coming up roses this spring at The Contemporary Theater Company! The company will perform the classic musical Gypsy April 12 - May 11.

Everything's coming up roses this spring at The Contemporary Theater Company! The company will perform the classic musical Gypsy April 12 - May 11.

If you took two plutonium hemispheres labeled 'American folk tradition' and 'cerebral poetry' and smashed them together in a critical mass, the musical 'Futurity' would be the resulting atomic explosion. The Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence has captured the chaotic energy of this show in a production that is uplifting, thought-provoking, and totally enjoyable.

The Wilbury Theatre Group continues its record-breaking 2018/19 season with the Rhode Island premiere of the avant-americana musical by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps, Futurity, December 6-23, 2018.

Fall is here, and that means it is time for The Contemporary Theater Company's big musical of the year! They perform Little Shop of Horrors, music by Alan Menken and lyrics and book by Howard Ashman, October 19 - November 18.

Fall is here, and that means it is time for The Contemporary Theater Company's big musical of the year! They perform Little Shop of Horrors, music by Alan Menken and lyrics and book by Howard Ashman, October 19 - November 18.

This subversive, loopy, and fantastically eccentric take-think banjos, beach balls, and guitars-on Gilbert and Sullivan's preposterous musical took audiences in Chicago by storm when presented by rebel theatre-makers The Hipocrites. Frederic was mistakenly apprenticed as a young boy to a band of sentimental pirates. Now 21, he falls head-over-heels for the Major-General's daughter and forswears the buccaneer's life forever, or so he thinks. This buoyant, award-winning Pirates of Penzance by Sean Graney and Kevin O'Donnell and featuring just 12 actors (who also serve as the orchestra) is an irrevent and fresh homage to a world turned upside-down for Gilbert and Sullivan diehard fans and newcomers alike.

Due to popular demand, The Wilbury Theatre Group announces additional performances of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, now running through Saturday, February 11. Running to popular acclaim and full houses since previews, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH broke from established theatrical conventions when it premiered and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Wilbury Theatre Group launches into 2018 with a bold new staging of Thornton Wilder's tragicomic masterpiece The Skin of Our Teeth directed by Wilbury Founder/Artistic Director Josh Short with music direction by Matt Requintina (Spring Awakening), January 18 through February 4 at their new home and performance space at 40 Sonoma Court, Olneyville.

All the hilarious mayhem you expect in a fast-paced farce, but it's all made up on the spot! The Contemporary Theater Company is bringing back their popular show Slamming Doors: An Improvised Farce for a second year.

The Wilbury Group closes its 2016/17 season with the multiple Tony Award-winning rock musical with Spring Awakening.

The Contemporary Theater Company is known for its diverse offerings - this year features everything from The Fantasticks to Macbeth to a full-length improvised farce. This spring they go very "contemporary" with a new play by playwright-in-residence Andy Hoover, Narragansett Valkyrie.

The Contemporary Theater Company is known for its diverse offerings - this year features everything from The Fantasticks to Macbeth to a full-length improvised farce. This spring they go very "contemporary" with a new play by playwright-in-residence Andy Hoover, Narragansett Valkyrie.

Whether you love the carols, decorations, and stories of Christmas or find the constant barrage of commercialized holiday cheer exhausting, Planet Christmas, a new play opening December 4 and receiving its world-premiere at the Contemporary Theater Company, is sure to delight.

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a chilling musical thriller? Sweeney Todd, opening tonight, October 16, at the Contemporary Theater Company, is filled with ghostly memories, hauntingly beautiful music, revenge, and murder.

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a chilling musical thriller? Sweeney Todd, opening October 16 at the Contemporary Theater Company, is filled with ghostly memories, hauntingly beautiful music, revenge, and murder.

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a chilling musical thriller? SWEENEY TODD, opening October 16 at the Contemporary Theater Company, is filled with ghostly memories, hauntingly beautiful music, revenge, and murder. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below!

It's official! Joining previously announced Joely Richardson, Robert Sheehan and Kare Conradi in THE WARS OF THE ROSES at Rose Theatre, Kingston are: Rufus Hound (Bedford & Bolingbroke), Jack Cade (Rivers), Oliver Cotton (Winchester, Clifford, Hastings), Laurence Spellman (Young Clifford, Richmond), Alex Waldmann (Henry VI, Tyrrell), Susan Tracy (Margery Jourdain, Duchess of York).