Over the weekend, Ensemble’s production of Gerome Ragni and James Rado’s “Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” took Alumnae Hall by storm, with four performances spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The show began with cast members stumbling down the aisles, acting ...
In 2019, the Blockbuster in Bend, Ore. became the world’s last remaining location of the once-popular video store franchise. Blockbusters around the world shuttered largely as a result of enormous debt, legal issues and a national shift to streaming. But the Blockbuster brand has popped up in different ...
“Two Mile Hollow,” the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’ first show of its 2022-23 performance season, opened Nov. 3 at Stuart Theater and will run until Nov. 13. Written by playwright Leah Nanako Winkler and directed by Carol Ann Tan MFA’23, the show stands out from many ...
From the moment it begins, “The Banshees of Inisherin” places you under its spell. With sweeping shots of the rugged coastlines of Ireland, backed by a delightful fiddle melody, this simple introduction tells the audience that they are in for a treat. In the fictional island of Inisherin that ...
It is difficult to do justice to the horrors of a conflict that killed close to 17 million people, especially through a medium primarily used to entertain. But Edward Berger’s German-language war epic “All Quiet on the Western Front” makes an admirable effort, offering a harrowing portrayal ...
In contemporary filmmaking, there are few phrases that can evoke more fear in the mind of a moviegoer than that of “social commentary.” It’s not that commenting on social issues is inherently bad; rather, these commentaries can feel more smug and contrived than beneficial to any given social ...
“Ticket to Paradise,” the new movie starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, could not have appeared any more appealing to audiences than it did throughout its marketing run. The movie promised a star-studded cast including Kaitlyn Dever from “Booksmart” and “Dear Evan Hansen,” French ...
On Wednesday, Maggie Nelson — New York Times bestselling author of 10 books of poetry and prose — read from her latest book, “On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint.” She discussed how we “think, experience and talk about freedom” for an audience at the Granoff Center for the Creative ...
At the Brown Design Workshop’s annual costume open hours Thursday evening, workshop monitors joined undergraduates in assembling costumes for a weekend of Halloween festivities on campus. The Herald spoke to three students attending the event, all of whom rushed to complete their costumes ...
A line of students that stretched across the Main Green filed into Sayles Hall on Halloween night, buzzing with excitement as they took in the decorative cobwebs adorning the building’s balcony. The decorations come every year to Sayles, a key part of University Organist Mark Steinbach’s annual ...
There has always been a line in the cinematic world between the uncomfortable and the repulsive — good films know how to toe it; bad ones take either too much or too little graphic liberty. Undoubtedly, Netflix’s “The Good Nurse” falls into the former category, using discomfort as effectively ...
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since 1939 and was one of 31 looted artifacts, also called Benin Bronzes, repatriated to Nigeria by American ...
Netflix’s latest big-budget horror series, the star-studded anthology “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” draws influence from various horror sub-genres, with episodes ranging from ghost stories to body horror and Lovecraftian eldritch terror. Composed of eight episodes each of ...
On Oct. 21, the Arctic Monkeys released their seventh studio album, “The Car,” in competition with pop sensation Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” and cult-favorite Carly Rae Jepsen’s “The Loneliest Time.” But unlike the widespread reach of its pop counterparts — both Swift and Jepsen ...
Every Halloween comes with one essential question: “What horror movie are we watching tonight?” Horror is a vast and ever-expanding genre filled with more sub-divisions than one can count, so answering this question is quite the task. Here are some movies from across the decades that might quell ...
Amidst the University’s creative scene, a small group of students found that there was one thing missing: an organization dedicated to TV writing and production.
On July 12, Marcus Mumford cleared his Instagram feed and posted a single picture: an announcement for his new album “(self-titled).” The news broke a surprising period of inactivity from the artist following the fracturing of Mumford’s Grammy Award-winning band “Mumford and Sons,” due ...
At the end of August, Taylor Swift announced her 10th studio album in an Instagram post and invited her fans to “meet her at midnight” on Oct. 21. “This is a collection of music written in the middle of the night,” ...
Down College Hill and across the Providence River stands a large brick wall, home to a mural that has become an integral part of Downtown Providence. The mural depicts a contemporary Narragansett woman holding a portrait of her tribal elder, surrounded by vivid and deeply symbolic imagery of native ...
“I’m coming back for you, baby. I’m coming back for you.” These catchy lines from Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest single “The Loneliest Time” took TikTok by storm, adding the single to a long list of songs that found popularity on the social media platform. “The Loneliest Time” ...
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