In light of The Herald's extensive coverage of the recent opening of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, it seems appropriate to examine the new building in a way its makers might appreciate — as a piece of art. It is fitting to the center's mission that its design — ...
You start at the bottom of a staircase, with little to no idea of what awaits you. A masked actress descends and leads you back up. You go through a door into a room that — if you are familiar with Production Workshop's upspace — you thought you knew.
For musicians with an interest in Middle Eastern music, the University is now offering a performance group students can enroll in for credit — MUSC 0691: "Middle Eastern Ensemble," directed by Mehmet Sanlikol, visiting assistant professor of music.
Take a healthy dose of punk, more than a little rock-and-roll and a heaping cup of traditional Irish music. Now crank up the bass, mix and repeat. The end result — the soulful lyrics, fast rhythms and driving melodies of Celtic-punk band Flogging Molly — is sure to send listeners to Ireland ...
The Israeli Film Festival of College Hill kicked off its third year Thursday with a screening of "Precious Life" at the Avon Cinema. The festival, free and open to the campus and community, will end Feb. 17.
Lost, lonely but boldly independent, a troop of women took over the entertainment portion of Friday evening at Cuban Revolution Restaurant in Olneyville.
By Alexandra Macfarlane Contributing Writer "I should like to fall in love again, just one more time," says the narrator in John Banville's latest novel, from which he read Tuesday evening in Salomon 001. The renowned Irish novelist and winner of the 2005 Man Book Prize captivated the audience and left ...
The opening of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts celebrated much more than just a new building on campus on Thursday evening. The architects — Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro — have given us the finest piece of modern architecture in Providence ...
Minutes into Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," the main characters are alone together, in the midst of one of the most intimate, sexually-charged scenes of the play. They are sitting five feet apart, staring straight out into the audience.
Calls for peaceful cooperation between Israel and Palestine received a response from Remi Kanazi at an evening of slam poetry in Salomon 001 Friday night. The performance marked the first night of Kanazi's nation-wide tour to promote "Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine," his new ...
The Rhode Island School of Design's theater group, the Exhibitionists, played the avant-garde card last weekend, holding their production of "The Shape of Things" — a Neil LaBute play about art, relationships and relationships as art — in no place other than an art museum. Director Alex ...
LONDON — On any given day, Danny Bressler '12 can be found studying in the library, going to class, practicing rugby or playing the trumpet — a seemingly normal, though perhaps busy, day for a Brown student.
"The Colors of Love," featuring local artists and celebrating six years in Bristol, R.I., opened at the Hope Gallery Saturday. Despite economic pressure, the show attracted long-time visitors and passers-by alike.
The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies' second annual "Writing is Live" festival — a 10-day event featuring nine fully staged productions, readings and workshops in locations all over campus and downtown Providence — begins tonight with "And Joy," written by Zarina Shea GS ...
What do pandas, feminists and gender confusion have in common? They will all be featured as part of Main Stage and Production Workshop's spring semester line-ups.
This Friday, the '80s metal flashback group Hinder will throw "a big old party" at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, said Mark King, the group's guitarist.
A family with three small children enters a room at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The youngest child, Karis, 3, sees a bright red button on the wall and squeals, "Can I touch it?"
Jeff Reichert's '00 film "Gerrymandering," which explores what he considers a significant flaw of the American democratic system, will be screened at the Cable Car Cinema on Feb. 2. Inspired by the 2003 electoral debacle in Texas, Reichert decided to create a documentary to make his audience wonder ...
Professor of Sociology John Logan and the Russell Sage Foundation have teamed up to create the US2010 project, a research initiative that aims to study demographic changes in the United States in the past decade using information from the 2010 census and the American Community Survey.
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