When Laura Colella's GS play "Liquorland" hits the stage Friday evening, it will open the third annual Writing Is Live, a free playwriting festival featuring new work by graduate and undergraduate students. Colella and five other student playwrights in the Departments of Theater Arts and Performance ...
"You don't know who you are until you experience … tragedy," Deborah Salem Smith, playwright-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company, told students and medical professionals crowded in Pembroke Hall as she spoke about complicated reactions to medical malpractice Wednesday. The lecture, entitled ...
Samina Quraeshi is a Renaissance woman in every sense of the phrase. A native of Pakistan, she has worn the hats of author, artist, architect, speaker, academic, photographer, curator — and now filmmaker.
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Put away your Muppets lunch box and say goodbye to Kermit — there is a new kind of puppetry in town.
Canadian pop starlet Lights — nee Valerie Poxleitner — has come a long way since her sugary first LP dropped in 2009. Her high-energy performance at The Met Friday night, mainly featuring tracks from her sophomore effort, "Siberia," was more grit than girly.
Walking into the David Winton Bell Gallery, located in the lobby of the List Art Center, visitors are immediately confronted by a barrage of brightly colored pop-art pieces, photorealist prints and politically relevant montages. These pieces make up the featured exhibition, "Optical Noise: American ...
With uncertainty and tumult beyond the Van Wickle Gates, students can take solace in Brown's thriving and healthy theater world this semester. This spring's thespian offerings include student-written theater, as well as a drama by two of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Paris. Milan. New York. Providence? With StyleWeek Providence, setting up runways for the fourth time Jan. 22–28, it may not be long before this college town becomes a fashion destination.
There are few places worth a 20 minute walk in the bitter cold of a dark December night. But Red Stripe, a self-described casual fine dining spot in Providence's East Side, definitely tops the list. The best part about Red Stripe, located on Angell Street near Wayland Square, is that it has all the ...
Few college students can afford to spontaneously jet off to Italy, but at least they can spend an evening at Siena. The restaurant, which was voted "Best Restaurant in Rhode Island" in 2008 and 2010, is appropriately located on Federal Hill, Providence's Little Italy, and bills its fare as Tuscan soul ...
Production Workshop's latest Downspace play commences, unexpectedly, in the Upspace — on a beach, surrounded by the sounds of surf crashing and the imagined sight of summer stars. So begins Margaret Maurer's '13 unconventional interpretation of "Eurydice:" a reimagining of the myth of ...
When I read that Farmstead, the cheese shop-turned-restaurant near Wayland Square, pledges to teach its costumers to "enjoy and imbibe in the once lost, yet re-discovered art of crafting true, artisan foods," I was a little wary. It is a promise that sets the stage for some killer gastronomy, but whether ...
Walking into Mediterraneo Caffe on Federal Hill, diners are greeted with qualities of the most high-end Italian restaurants: a warm atmosphere, an array of wine bottles and pictures of Italy displayed around the room. On the walls are photographs of the impressive number of celebrities who have visited ...
"This might be overkill," said baker and author Joanne Chang as she waved a large rolling pin over a tiny lump of dough on the table beneath her, "but when you're rolling dough, you don't want to be tentative." With that, she spun and rolled the lump into a finely wrought pate brisee before an audience ...
By the time students start trickling onto campus after winter break, Mama Kim's — the Korean barbecue truck that usually sets up shop near Thayer Street and serves hearty, savory portions of beef bulgogi and homemade kimchi — will have expanded to a second truck and a sit-down restaurant. One truck ...
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