The drone of the audience quiets as the house lights dim. The stage lights brighten, and the audience sits back to enjoy a seemingly typical two-man show.The only catch? One of the actors has never seen the script.Thus begins Tim Crouch's innovative play, "An Oak Tree," which appears one night only ...
Every December since 2002, Providence shoppers in search of artisanal holiday gifts have relied on the annual Craftland show, a craft fair as homey and handmade as the work sold there. This year, the annual event has established a year-round presence at Craftland's permanent store at 235 Westminster ...
"I drink to excess, smoke a lot of dope, but I still can't forget anything. It's horrible."
Criticized by the locals and pitied by its neighbors, Rhode Island is frequently written off as too small to combat the titanic issues it faces. But despite the state's soaring unemployment and economic stagnation, one Ocean State native is getting the word out about what can be done to bolster a struggling ...
This fall has the masses anxious about "the swine," with college students in particular trying to avoid the H1N1 flu. But for the Hillel Gallery Project — a committee of Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students responsible for organizing art exhibitions at Hillel — the looming flu ...
The interdisciplinary queer feminist performance group Sister Spit held workshops at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design last Thursday and Friday, followed by a presentation of their poetry, fiction, film and tour anecdotes in List Art Center Friday night.About 110 people — including Brown ...
Near the middle of "Anna Bella Eema" — currently running at Perishable Theatre — one character is about to embark on a psychological journey, a quest that will take her through a fairy tale world populated by animal beings, both helpful and threatening. She leans toward the audience and ...
Things are definitely going bump in the night as the Rhode Island International Film Festival unleashed its 10th annual Horror Film Festival last night. The festival continues through Sunday night for a hair-raising cinematic experience.
The publication of the first issue of The Round adds a new magazine to the University's collection of literary and artistic journals. The magazine — a collection of poetry, prose and visual art — includes work by Brown undergraduates, graduates, students from other universities and several ...
Perishable Theatre opens its 2009-2010 season tonight with the regional premiere of "Anna Bella Eema," a musical with a great deal of Brown artistic muscle behind it. This "ghost story spoken and sung in three voices" was written by Lisa D'Amour, a visiting lecturer in theatre arts and performance studies, ...
"Let us imagine a straight line," a new multimedia installation, opens today at the Cogut Center for the Humanities. The work, by Joseph "Butch" Rovan, an associate professor of music and the co-director of Brown's computer music program, combines cinema with a 19th-century machine aesthetic.
The term "catharsis" invokes a particular combination of purification, purgation, insight, clarity and cleansing that cannot be reduced to any one of those sensations. Aristotle used the word to describe the feeling of emotional release at the end of a good tragedy, but catharsis is also surprisingly ...
Eight years ago, as freshmen, Jeff Prystowsky '06 and Ben Miller '06 were jazz DJs for WBRU's graveyard-shift jazz show, 2:30-5:30 a.m.
In 1998, playwright Moises Kaufman traveled to Laramie, Wyo. — where gay 21-year-old Matthew Shepard had died after being brutally attacked because of his sexuality — to talk to the town's residents in the wake of the crime. The interviews he collected became the backbone of "The Laramie ...
As part of this year's Pixilerations, the FirstWorks Festival's new media showcase, accordionist and composer Pauline Oliveros visited Providence to give a concert last Friday and lead classes on her work and her unique artistic process.Oliveros is "an American master," said Kathleen Pletcher, executive ...
For theater companies during an economic recession, the drama isn't just in the plays, as Donald King '93, artistic director of Providence Black Repertory Company made clear at a public forum in Rites and Reason Theatre on Friday. Before the talk, King was honored with the 2009 John Hope Alumni Award ...
At times, in the multimedia installation "To Begin," there is just darkness. But sometimes the ever-present voice reading Samuel Beckett becomes a thunderous roar, and typeset words jump from the walls, swiveling through the air. Sometimes they burn.
Jen Bervin's soft but steady voice fit perfectly in the intimate setting of the McCormack Family Theater in a reading Thursday that featured her and fellow poet Joshua Beckman.
As she picked up the magnifying glass with her right hand, Emily Peters took a couple of steps forward. She stood in front of the engraving of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergen and said, smiling, "I think this one knocks your socks off."
Cuba is coming to Providence this week, despite dropping temperatures and changing leaves.
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