Do we make our history, or does our history make us? How do we learn who and where we came from? How do we remember the stories of those who came before us? Who do we tell them to? Who do we keep them from? When do we try to forget them? What happens if we […]

Macbeth's bravery in battle gains him a promotion, for which he's humbly grateful. But when presented with a prophecy of himself as king, he abdicates any duty to earn the crown by valor, instead turning to deceit, betrayal, and murder to immediately gratify the fantasy of himself on the throne. His selfish, violent actions destroy everything he once fought to honor: […]

Context & Conversation is co-produced and co-presented by Trinity Repertory Company and Providence Public Library along and community partners specially chosen for each production. Most families include ghosts – of those no longer alive, but also of those dreamed of but never born, born but never acknowledged, of those gone one day without explanation. Attitudes […]

Context & Conversation: Human/Nature, inspired by Little Shop of Horrors Domesticated and disciplined into doing our bidding, the natural world awaits a chance to reassert its power, to overrun the man-made boundaries and borders we arrogantly thought would keep us safe. After decades of relying on antibiotics to wipe out once-fatal diseases, we now know that […]

We know that with "Little Shop of Horrors," things can get, well, a bit bloody. So in order to offset the plant's insatiable hunger for blood - we are going to be hosting a community blood drive with the Rhode Island Blood Center. Check out the details in the image, and get ready to help […]

The festival portion of Write Here! Write Now! strives to honor the student writers' texts while offering the playwrights the chance to see their work alive on stage for the first time. Each year, in an evening performance, the winning scripts receive staged readings on our main stage, directed by Trinity Rep staff and performed […]

Civilization is a set of orders that runs so automatically that we don't notice it until it breaks down. Then, we have to acquaint ourselves with the decisions behind the orders, with even the idea that decisions were ever made at all - and who made them? Did God make all this? Might there, in […]

In partnership with Seven Hills Rhode Island, Trinity Rep’s Active Imagination Network (TRAIN) presents The BFGs. In partnership with a variety of service organizations throughout Rhode Island, we offer engaging and high-spirited curriculum, which includes acting and improvisation, in order to give children and adults with autism, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities the tools they need to learn, […]