STUDENT MATINEES
STUDENTS: $15 | TEACHERS & CHAPERONES: $35
Receive one free chaperone ticket for every 25 student tickets ordered.
The Gamm makes live, professional theater accessible and affordable to the region’s middle and high school audiences through 10 a.m. weekday performances at significantly reduced rates. A minimum of 10 students is required for group rates.
Our student matinees often sell out!
Contact The Gamm Education Team at education@gammtheatre.org to book today.
• A free curriculum-based study guide
• An invitation for you and a guest to the final dress rehearsal
• A pre-show visit from a member of our education team
• A lively post-show discussion with members of the cast and crew
Your matinee
benefits package
includes:
Season 41
Student Matinee Schedule
Angels in America,
Part Two: Perestroika
by Tony Kushner
Friday, September 26th, 2025 at 10 AM
Considered by many to be the greatest play of the last 40 years, this Pulitzer Prize, Tony & Emmy award-winning masterpiece is set in 1980s New York City at the devastating height of the AIDS epidemic. Masterfully exploring love, sex, religion, family, and politics in Reagan-era America, Angels in America is “the most ambitious American play of our time, an epic that ranges from earth to Heaven...” (Newsweek)
Curricular Connections & Themes:
AIDS epidemic, public health, LGBTQ+ issues, American politics, magical realism
Eureka Day
by Jonathan Spector
Friday, January 9th, 2026 at 10 AM
Fresh off Broadway, this biting and timely satire skewers the clash between individual freedom and collective responsibility. At a progressive private school in Berkeley, decisions are made by consensus and everyone gets a voice—until a mumps outbreak throws everything into chaos. As Zoom meetings unravel, alliances crack, and tensions rise, Eureka Day takes a sharply funny and frighteningly familiar look at how we communicate, or fail to, in a hyper-connected, hyper-polarized world. Don’t miss this razor-sharp comedy that’s as much about public health as it is about personal belief.
Curricular Connections & Themes:
Public health, satire and comedy, politics, media literacy
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen; Adapted by Tony Estrella
Friday, February 27th, 2026 at 10 AM
Henrik Ibsen’s (A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler) haunting masterpiece of moral reckoning, Ghosts lays bare the corrosive power of secrets and the cost of keeping up appearances. In a remote Norwegian town, widow Helen Alving prepares to dedicate an orphanage in her late husband’s name. But when her son Oswald returns home, buried truths begin to rise, and the ghosts of the past refuse to stay hidden. Hypocrisy, illness, and forbidden love begin to expose the rot beneath respectability, igniting a firestorm of guilt and desire. Bold, unsettling, and decades ahead of its time, Ghosts still hits like a gut punch with one of the most powerful climaxes in all of modern drama.
Curricular Connections & Themes:
Ethics, morality, religion, illness, adaptation of a classical work
The Cripple of Inishmaan
by Martin McDonagh
Friday, April 10th, 2026 at 10 AM
From the darkly hilarious mind of Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, Hangmen) comes this wickedly funny tale of hope, cruelty, and island gossip. On the remote Irish island of Inishmaan, young “Cripple” Billy dreams of escaping his bleak life and earning a role in a Hollywood film. When a movie crew arrives on a neighboring island, Billy sees his chance—but at what cost? With its absurd characters and razor-sharp wit, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a twisted comic gem that balances laughter with heartbreak in equal measure.
Curricular Connections & Themes:
Disability and society, cultural exchange, black comedy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 10 AM
One of the most iconic dramas of the 20th century, this searing American classic returns to The Gamm. In the sweltering Mississippi heat, the Pollitt family gathers to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday, but the air is thick with tension. Brick drinks to forget, Maggie claws for love—and everyone is hiding something. With Williams’ (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Night of the Iguana) signature lyricism and emotional depth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof burns with desire, denial, and the desperate fight to hold on to what’s already slipping away.
Curricular Connections & Themes:
LGBTQ+ issues, gender roles & conformity, mendacity
Booking Policies
A signed contract, along with a 50% non-refundable deposit and a $5 handling fee, are required to reserve your seats. Balance must be paid in full 2 weeks before your scheduled performance.
Please note: You may increase or decrease the number of seats up to two weeks before your performance, contingent upon availability. There are no refunds or exchanges once the final payment has been made.
Want to deepen the experience for your students?
Do you want to further contextualize the production for your students? In addition to your complimentary pre-show classroom visit, the Gamm also offers residencies designed to engage students in discussions and artistic response to the theatrical season. Prices vary.
For more information contact Joey Del Santo, Director of Education & Community Programs, at joey@gammtheatre.org
The Big Yellow
School Bus Grant
Need funding for a school bus to The Gamm? Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) has a grant program specifically to help schools hire buses to attend arts events! Applications open on September 1st and are considered on a rolling basis. LEARN MORE HERE.
Study Guides
Interested in what our comprehensive study guides look like? Take a look through our study guides from past seasons: CLICK HERE.