"King Lear" is a name synonymous with tragedy, but the inaugural performance joyously launched the Trinity Repertory Company's 49th season last week. Opening to a packed Dowling Theater, Trinity's take on one of Shakespeare's most famous plays spared no punches in its heart-wrenchingly bleak but gripping ...
The plot of "Ordet," Production Workshop's newest show, revolves around a modest family in rural Denmark whose ordinary life becomes completely unordinary when one of the family members believes Jesus Christ possesses him. This production of the play, which was written in the 1920s by Danish playwright ...
The room is pitch black, eerily silent. Flashlights begin to slowly flicker across a dark stage, dancing over shoes of all shapes, sizes and colors scattered disconcertingly across the floor. Tall, dried cornstalks provide the only hint as to where the audience might be. The actors release a collective ...
As the sun went down on the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Saturday evening, students trickled in for a Fall Concert that featured a motley array of dubstep and upbeat indie jams from artists TOKiMONSTA and Titus Andronicus. Many of the students in attendance had never heard of the performers, who were ...
Original cast and crew members from last October's production of "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" came together for a little summer fun in New York City, reviving the Production Workshop show at the 3LD Art and Technology Center for 10 performances in July. The idea to bring a revamped version ...
In a reading of his newest novel, "Swallowing a Donkey's Eye," science-fiction author Paul Tremblay described the process of writing the book as "an oddly personal journey, although not biographical in any way." Tremblay addressed a small crowd at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday evening.
Punk band Titus Andronicus will perform on Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Sept. 15, preceded by opening act TOKiMONSTA, at this year's Fall Concert. The concert will officially be held outside, the Brown Concert Agency announced via its blog Wednesday. "We bring people that we know will put on a good live ...
There's nothing like the sound of rushing air, the rhythmic beating of a heart and the alluring sigh of echoes to usher moviegoers into an almost otherworldly experience. Brown Television screened its first student-made feature film, "Two Hearts," Friday at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the ...
With the start of a new school year comes an opportunity for reevaluation, and many of the productions on tap for Brown's fall theatre season will highlight both characters' desires and their inabilities to discover their true selves. Alongside these themes, shows will delve into the fantastic ...
In her new exhibit at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, artist Dawn Kasper's works are not the only thing on display - the artist herself will be living in the space, putting herself and her personal belongings at the center of the installation entitled "Everything you could ...
This semester, students in HIAA 1410C: "What Is Islamic Art?" are using the University's Minassian Collection to explore questions surrounding the history, limitations and contemporary status of Islamic art.
"There are two kinds of inspirations," Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams told a crowd of about 50 students Thursday afternoon. "There's the kind of inspiration that captures you, and there's the kind of inspiration you capture."
Nollywood, the digital film industry of Nigeria, is not just about new technology in filmmaking - it is about documenting and preserving the country's culture, said filmmaker Tunde Kelani in a discussion panel Friday as part of this year's Africana Film Festival, entitled "Nollywood and Beyond." Kelani ...
On a very summery Main Green, Spring Weekend laid forth its mottled bounty. Friday's concert, featuring What Cheer? Brigade, Sepalcure and Childish Gambino, was characterized by tough crowds straining to catch a glimpse of Gambino's altogether bland performance. But Saturday's musicians - Twin Shadow, ...
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