Bob Abelman

This year’s reboot of the Dickens classic is intimate, magical, and passes the litmus test for yuletide spirit.

From left, Zachary Keller as Jacob, Connor Sullivan as August and Helen Krushinski as Marlena in the touring “Water for Elephants” at Providence Performing Arts Center through Dec. 7.

Gorgeous a capella harmonies lift this dense, weighty chamber musical

From the fantastic to the unfortunate, here’s a look back at what’s most memorable from this year’s professional productions.

The talented Wilbury Theatre cast handles the sobering and the sardonic with equal aplomb, along with the playwright's infamous verbosity

If You Go “Disney's The Lion King” runs from May 20 – June 7 at the Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St., Providence.

An isolated, uneventful existence becomes captivating, unexpectedly comical storytelling

But this Trinity Rep production about loneliness and small acts of kindness tries too hard to be heard

The company's conventional barn theater brand gives way to this musical's defining sci-fi idiosyncrasies

This beguiling collection of sad stories, grounded in Bob Dylan's music and lyrics, lacks the onstage talent to tell them