On Friday night, Musical Forum’s production of Jonathan Larson’s “RENT” hit the stage of Alumnae Hall. It began with a spotlight on Mark Cohen, played by Anna Davis ’24, who made her way down the aisle that divided the audience in two. Transforming Mark — traditionally a ...
Shakespeare on the Green’s production of “Julius Caesar” ran March 17 to 20 at the Solomon Center. Directed by Emily Mayo ’24, the show revived Shakespeare’s timeless play in the unique setting of a women’s college. Mayo had the vision for this production since she played ...
After several pandemic-related delays, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art unveiled “Drawing Closer” to the public. The show opened March 13 and will remain on view until Sept. 4. “Drawing Closer” pays “special attention to the materials” and their relationship ...
Long lines of millennials wrapped around the casino floor at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut to see comedian John Mulaney’s “From Scratch” tour Saturday night. The comedian’s difficult and highly-publicized past 18 months were the subject of many of his jokes during his phenomenal new ...
“Fresh” opens as any typical romantic comedy does: A single, 20-something woman is on a date with a self-righteous, casually sexist man and she just wants to leave. When Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) recaps her date from the night before, her confidence-supplying best friend Mollie (Jonica Gibbs) talks ...
Ninety-five years after Virginia Woolf published her thoughts on the lack of representation of relationships between women in literature, these concerns still ring true to an alarming degree across modern media.
Brown Fashion Week came to a close Thursday night with Fashion@Brown’s biggest show to date. Every seat of the Martinos Auditorium in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, where the event was held, was filled for “Threads and Threats,” the club’s twelfth annual runway show. Fishnets, ...
“The Weekend Away” had the potential to be the next go-to tourist psychological thriller in the vein of the “Taken” franchise — it has the scenery, the celebrity name recognition and the drama. Who wouldn’t want to watch a film that depicts the idyllic backgrounds of Split, Croatia while ...
Of all the names on the campus music scene, Chance Emerson ’23.5 is likely one of the most widely known. Since getting his start by self recording what would become his first EP in the attic of his high school’s music building, he’s released a debut album, amassed over 24,000 monthly listeners ...
University Organist Mark Steinbach sat tall before the Sayles Hall Hutchings-Votey Organ. From the audience’s vantage point, his back was still as his hands glided from one level of the organ to the next and his feet moved from one pedal to another. With every movement, Steinbach filled Sayles ...
Released on HBO Max, Steven Soderbergh’s “KIMI” shows the auteur’s unfailing mastery. Despite its small screen release, “KIMI” tells a pulse-pounding tale of survival in a kinetic era in which fears of tech surveillance, privacy invasion and artificial intelligence inventions outwitting ...
Fashion@Brown welcomed Julee Wilson, director of beauty at Cosmopolitan magazine, and Amy Synnott, CEO and founder of Metaspark Media, to their virtual speaker series moderated by Thalia Bonas ’24 Monday afternoon.
To tie it all together, the new film is a full three hours, a length that seems to be the breaking point for many moviegoers. So the question to be asked is twofold: is its length justified, and does its creation stand out in an already crowded market of Batman adaptations?
Fashion@Brown continued its lineup for Fashion Week with a virtual visit from Brooke Shields. Shields — an icon in fashion, film, modeling, television and recent entrepreneur — participated in a conversation on Zoom. The event was moderated by F@B member Elliot Stephanopoulos ’25.
Actress and influencer Claudia Sulewski joined Fashion@Brown for a virtual conversation Wednesday evening. The event, which was free and amassed hundreds of viewers, was moderated by Alexandra Vitkin ’24. Sulewski joined the Zoom event from her home in Los Angeles.
Elton John, the 74-year-old singer, donned a baby blue suit with a picture of a bedazzled cat on the back of the blazer as he stood on the stage of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 2. The Brooklyn performance is one stop on his final tour, “Farewell Yellow Brick Road.” He sat ...
Brown Fashion Week kicked off to a lively start with a virtual interview featuring former InStyle Editor-in-Chief Laura Brown. Known for her profiles of Michelle Obama, Janet Jackson and Hillary Clinton, Brown spent the hour giving students advice on navigating the journalism world and the fashion ...
Through both the creativity of gameplay mechanics and their immersive decision making processes, video games have always been an exciting world to draw the latest blockbuster from. So it’s no surprise that one of last month’s most anticipated releases was an adaptation of a video game series ...
Mezcla — Brown/RISD’s Latinx dance troupe — opened their doors around 6:15 p.m. on March 3 to welcome viewers to Alumnae Hall for their first show since 2020. An hour later, there was not one empty seat in the house. Attended by an audience of over 300 at each performance, Mezcla’s ...
One of the first in-person events for the Painting Department at the Rhode Island School of Design since the COVID-19 pandemic began, “Painting 1” celebrates RISD seniors’ artwork while challenging traditional definitions of painting. Installed at RISD’s Woods-Gerry Gallery, ...
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