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URI Theatre’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ will spread joy and playfulness

‘Two by Two’: An evening of one-act plays produced entirely by URI Theatre students 

URI Theatre Department premieres season with a boisterous ‘Pride and Prejudice’ adaptation

URI Theatre’s 2025-26 seasons blends classic and contemporary stories

What can’t you do with a Theatre degree?

Several artists from the URI alumni community work together on a production at the Gamm Theatre in Warwick, Rhode Island from September 25 – October 19.

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URI’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is a musical comedy with a big bite

It’s scary when fiction syncs up so snuggly with real life. But with the recent solar eclipse, we are fittingly ready for an alien invasion from a highly invasive, man-eating plant.

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URI students perform in student-led theater show at University’s Will Theatre

“A Day In The Garden” is an original production written, produced, directed, and performed solely by URI students, and the play is free and open to the public.

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URI theatre to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’

First performed around 1606, “Macbeth” is the story of the brave Scottish general Macbeth, who chances on a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become king of Scotland.

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URI Theatre goes back to high school for the dark comedy ‘Speech & Debate’

Set in the early 2000s, “Speech & Debate” follows three high school misfits in the conservative community of Salem, Oregon, as they form a speech and debate club to expose a sex scandal within their school.

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URI Theatre opens season with contemporary look at Marie Antoinette

The URI Theatre Department opens its 2023-24 season with David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” a contemporary look at the doomed queen that is full of fashion, fun and revolution.

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