"The story I'm about to tell is filled with so many levels of shame, it's almost unbelievable," said professional comedian Michael Ian Black Wednesday night in MacMillan 117 before launching into a description of a drug deal that took place at a Buffalo Wild Wings. "I'm not even sure why I'd want to ...
When one thinks of Ireland, one might imagine green fields, pots of gold and a pub or two. But for the Brown Jazz Band, the country is more a miniature mecca of improvisational beats and bluesy rhythms. Over spring break, the 20 members of the ensemble and Matthew McGarrell, senior lecturer in music ...
Inspired by the public radio program "This American Life" and a nonprofit storytelling organization "The Moth," the Brown Storytellers brought art of storytelling to campus for the first time this past weekend with their "story slam."
Today I want to call attention to something I've noticed Brown students embracing: a cultural trend popularly known as irony. I'm not talking about literary paradox, nor am I talking about the scenarios in the Alanis Morissette song — which, incidentally, are more coincidental than ironic. I am ...
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the classic duo responsible for 14 zany Victorian operettas, were never big on "coherent plot," said Hannah Jones '14, director of Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan's latest production "Princess Ida." Instead, the duo gave their audiences stirring music, ...
"Talk," Sock & Buskin's final production of the 2010-2011 performance season, is, as director Erik Ehn described it, "somewhere between a thesis panel, a ghost story and a murder mystery."
Every murder mystery has its key components — an eccentric detective generally prone to monologues, a suspicious butler, a weapon and a thunderclap or two. A barrel of laughs, though, might not make the shortlist for integral ingredients — unless the writers behind the whodunit are the Brown ...
What happens when you throw some chickens, cats, a group of parrots and perhaps even a deer into a home? "Once Upon a Time," the unique media exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design museum, juxtaposes the absurd with the realistic to examine questions of daily life and domesticity.
Michael Dawkins '12 is not a music concentrator, but he has always made time for maintaining his virtuoso piano abilities.
The musical "Next to Normal," running through March 27 at Providence Performing Arts Center as part of a nationwide tour, does not explore magic, rock and roll, race politics or any of the issues dominating other recent Broadway hits. Rather, it is about something much more mysterious — the modern ...
Jessie Austrian '03 MFA'06 made her Broadway debut Tuesday, playing Gwendolen Fairfax in the Roundabout Theater production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.
Preston Sadleir, who plays the young, hopeful Henry in the touring production of "Next to Normal," spoke with The Herald from his hotel room in Des Moines, Iowa.
Students packed the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Friday night to see an exhibition of contemporary art, much of it by students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. But in this exhibit, the focus is not on the artists. It is on the curators.
Clapping mixes with blaring music, filling Alumnae Hall as a dozen dancers in street clothes line the stage. Audience members at the imPulse Dance Company's annual spring show clap to the beat as the freestyling begins. Dancers start with top rock then progress into spins and flips and handstands. They ...
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"Rabbit Hole" is a movie about choices. It is about how even the most arbitrary decisions can destroy a life, how people choose different means to attain the same ends and how the universe chooses events for inexplicable reasons.
Shakespeare on the Green moves indoors this weekend to present "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)," directed by Nicole Damari '12 and Kirsten Ward '12. The play attempts to condense all 37 Shakespeare plays and 154 sonnets into one night. The result is an explosion of sounds and props.
Whoever said art is dead would be confused by "The Famished," a new play written and directed by Max Posner '11 and the first to be staged in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. "The Famished" is a testament to the enthusiasm and excitement which a young playwright and cast can ...
In one continuous shot, the camera follows a car painted with the Palestinian flag blaring Arabic songs down the main thoroughfare. As the camera passes through the local cafe, the cafe's owner pulls a child inside. She slams the door shut as military trucks and armed soldiers arrive, shots ringing ...
"If You Can't Love Yourself … (How Can You Love Anyone Else?)" was the question posed at the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council's workshop yesterday. The event — the second of the group's annual Sex Week — addressed body image issues like body mass index and shaving pubic ...
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