“The End of the Tour” kicked off the Ivy Film Festival to a packed audience in the Martinos Auditorium Monday. A dramatic subversion of the usual road trip comedy, the film follows a journalist tasked with profiling author David Foster Wallace on the final leg of a book tour. Jason Segel breaks ...
Exploring the relationship between paranoia, exclusion and the perilous terrain of adolescent friendship, “The Sisterhood of Night” kept audiences in suspense in its premier Wednesday, the third day of the Ivy Film Festival. The film, written by Marilyn Fu and directed by Caryn Waechter, is set ...
Light, punny and packed with satire, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” presented by Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan is sure to send audience members home chuckling. Directed by Paul Martino ’17, the musical features a comically absurd plot, a lively set and talented actors. Set ...
After dining on Mama Kim’s, audience members gathered to watch “KTX: Korean Time Express,” the ninth annual Korean Culture Show Saturday night. With acts representative of modern and traditional Korean culture, the show featured Rhode Island School of Design and Brown student performers as well ...
If you only listen to the first few seconds of a Penn Masala song, you would probably label it as typical a capella fare — the arrangement of a mainstream pop song — until the group bursts unexpectedly and abruptly into one of their signature mashups of Hindi and English lyrics. Penn Masala, a male ...
Ivy Film Festival will host an array of events this week, including screenplay readings, workshops and film screenings, illuminating issues of animation and diversity in the media. This year’s festival aims to provide “a diverse selection of events that would appeal to a varied audience,” said ...
GlobeMed at Brown — the University’s chapter of the national organization that aims to alleviate global health disparities — hosted “Intersection of Art, Health and Social Justice” at the Ashamu Dance studio Tuesday. Using performance and creative arts to promote health equity and social justice, ...
Though short on substance, Georges Feydeau’s frantic comedy, “A Flea in Her Ear,” which runs at the Trinity Repertory Company this month, entertains in an absurdist and innuendo-heavy exploration of infidelity. The 1907 French work is a classic in the genre of farce. True to its form, the play ...
Mary Dore’s feature documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” celebrates the Women’s Liberation Movement of the mid-’60s and early ’70s. A combination of historic photographs, archived documents, video footage and interviews with leaders of the movement captures the passionate ...
In the music scene of 2015, Modest Mouse is indeed a stranger. The indie rock band’s latest album is its first in eight long years. Where has the group been and what has taken so long? Touring is part of the answer to these questions. Starting with a North American circuit in 2008, Modest Mouse has ...
In a word, Attitude Dance Company’s 11th annual Spring Show boasts variety — a variety that highlights the technical skill of not only the dancers but also the sound and lighting crew. Such diversity, combined with the tangible positive energy the company exudes, will keep audience members engaged ...
What do Dance Dance Revolution, a jar of pickles and the Chinese land of the dead have in common? The answer is absolutely nothing, unless you are familiar with the story of “410[GONE],” the latest production staged by Sock and Buskin, which opened Thursday at the Leeds Theater. The semi-autobiographical ...
On Sunday, the jet-lagged yet appreciative members of the a capella group the Jabberwocks returned from a two-week tour in Hong Kong, where they sang at the Hong Kong International A Cappella Festival. Out of the 16 group members, eight left for the tour on March 13, and the other eight met them when ...
“What happened? How did this happen?” asked Sarah Koenig, a journalist and a producer of “This American Life,” to a nearly full audience Monday evening in Salomon 101. She was referring to the rise in popularity of the podcast “Serial,” for which she is the executive producer and host. “We ...
Profound probes into human memory and dysfunctional family relationships have lodged “The Glass Menagerie” in many hearts since its 1944 premiere. This exploration echoes with particularly disjointed, frenzied energy in Trinity Repertory Company’s inventive interpretation of Tennessee Williams’ ...
In the past year, the box office has seen movies chronicling life stories of success and describing the accomplishments of older or deceased members of society. In contrast, Taika Waititi’s and Jemaine Clement’s “What We Do in the Shadows” documents the lives of the undead — of vampires living ...
Yeasayer, an experimental indie rock band, will open Friday’s Spring Weekend concert, Brown Concert Agency announced on its blog Tuesday. Though BCA released the rest of the lineup Monday night, it withheld the name of the final performer until Tuesday due to contract negotiations. “We had one little ...
Speakers specializing in poetry, fine arts and literary studies gathered at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts this weekend to explore the impact of digital culture at the third “Interrupt” conference. But these conversations were largely displaced by controversy over poet ...
In collaboration with the Department of Italian Studies and Brown’s second annual Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour film festival, Brown Dining Services hosted a demonstration of gelato preparation — including a tasting of each flavor — in the Sharpe Refectory Bakeshop Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Owners ...
From ’90s rock to multiple Kanye West proteges, this year’s lineup for Spring Weekend will make both decades and genres converge. Brown Concert Agency announced the much-anticipated roster just after 12 a.m. Tuesday, revealing Scottish electronic producer Hudson Mohawke and American rock band Modest ...
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