Using everything from piano and violin to computer sound effects and the audience itself, Brown New Music put on a sacred music concert Friday in Grant Recital Hall to an audience of about 50.
Kurt Ralske integrates aesthetic direction, artistic curiosity, technological prowess and cunning instrumentality in his digital art — a synthesis to strive for — and the results are captivating. Ralske, who has had a video piece permanently on display in the lobby of New York's Museum of Modern ...
The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is "about leaving the safety of what you know, to go into the chaos and the darkness of the unknown to discover who you are and what you want to get out of life," said director Shana Gozanksy GS, a student in the ...
The Rhode Island School of Design Illustration Department co-hosted a screening of "Library of the Early Mind," a new documentary about the world of children's literature, Wednesday night. The screening was the sixth in a series of 50 screenings across the country before the film is made more widely ...
David Sedaris wants to hear your jokes — the raunchier the better. "Don't be afraid of a filthy joke," he told his audience at the Brown Bookstore Wednesday night. "It can't be too dirty for me."
Frequenters of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Gallery will find themselves caved in by "Landslide," an exhibit of two- and three-dimensional images of glamorous guts by Hope Hardesty '08. Conveying vulnerability, slippage and escape, "Landslide" exposes something not conventionally for display: the ...
Color-changing, LED light finger-tipped gloves. Sequins. Feather eyelashes. Oversized plumes. Giant puppets. Patent leather platform heels.
Mariachi de Brown, Brown's — and Rhode Island's — only mariachi group, has been gaining popularity both on and off campus this semester, with 100 Facebook fans, gigs at a local restaurant and appearances at campus events.
A car engine revs. Water runs. Feet shuffle.
Rabbi Bob Alper and his Muslim performing partner of Indian heritage, Azhar Usman, brought their "Laugh in Peace" comedy tour to campus Thursday night.
"Nunsense," a musical comedy by Dan Goggin, is not the kind of production one usually sees at Brown. "Theater around here tends to get kind of high-brow," director Mariagrazia LaFauci '12 said. That's certainly not an issue with this show, running at Production Workshop Nov. 5-8.
The Brown University Chorus opens its fall season Saturday evening with a hauntingly beautiful performance of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Vespers" at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul.
Correction appended.
Tucked away in a small corner of the John Hay Library — always a treasure trove of information — is the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies' literary exhibit: "Portugal, 1910: The Advent of the Republic."
A dark figure appeared wearing a long black cape, and as the red spotlight flashed on him, the people gathered saw a face that appeared to be that of the undead. When the audience informed the figure that it was midnight on Halloween, all he could say was, "Oh I must play, I must play…"
Listeners of National Public Radio can hear Christopher O'Riley's informed commentaries on classical music and his classical compositions of Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith on his weekly radio show "From the Top." But on Saturday night, audience members in the Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium ...
Two understated speakers sit to the right of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center welcome desk. The subtlety of the white mesh speakers against the white wall strongly disguises the magnitude of the project they contain — a new permanent sound piece by Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian ...
Under the dim lights of Grant Recital Hall, students and faculty were serenaded by world renowned French chamber group Ensemble Zellig and student composers Saturday.
Santa Muerte is upset with the way the cartels are running the country and plans to overturn them by having Benecio rise in the ranks. But she does not take into consideration that what she asks him to give up in return may be too much. "I'm either going up in the cartel or down into my grave," Benecio ...
It's hard to imagine a play without a stage, a set, costumes and props, without lighting and sound, without the excitement of the curtain opening.
Solutions by The State News
