2 Best Performing Arts Venues in Providence, Rhode Island

Brown University Theater

East Side

Every winter, Brown University's graduate playwriting program presents the Writing is Live festival of new plays. Dance performances take place in the Ashamu Dance studio and in the Stuart Theatre.

Cable Car Cinema & Cafe

Downtown

This neighborhood art-house cinema and café screens foreign and independent films. Seating is on couches and old-school theater chairs. The concession stand sells beer and wine.