A year-long collaboration between staff and students brings the first edition of the New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema to campus this week. The festival features a variety of films, documentaries and short movies from directors around the world. The festival is being held at the Avon and ...
Students and faculty packed into McCormack Family Theater Thursday evening for a special poetry reading by Keith Waldrop, professor of literary arts. "The more we look at his poems, the more the enchantment," said Forrest Gander, professor of literary arts and comparative literature, as he introduced ...
Imagine surviving your own execution. Now imagine surviving it 326 times.
Under the watchful gaze of Marcus Aurelius on Lincoln Field, students jumped, jived and wailed to the electric beats of Stegosaurus and the hip-hop rhythms of Big Boi at Brown Concert Agency's Fall Concert Saturday night.
On Dec. 17, 2008, over 100 students barricaded themselves in a New School cafeteria in protest. Their goals: the resignation of unpopular President Bob Kerrey and other head administrators, more student participation in university decisions and more student space, among other reforms.
Set in the courtroom bowels of purgatory, "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" opens Friday at Production Workshop. Exploring controversial issues of religion, forgiveness and spirituality, "Judas" invites audience members to continuously question the paradoxes and contradictions that characters face, ...
"Camelot" is a self-conscious musical, the characters constantly referring to themselves and their predicaments in the third person — take the number "I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight," sung by none other than King Arthur (Stephen Thorne) in his introductory scene, as an example. Trinity ...
"Being Wrong," the first book by Kathryn Schulz '96, challenges its readers to truly examine the idea of being wrong in action or belief instead of simply treating it instinctively as negative and damaging to character.
Brown Television is back and expanding this semester with more episodes of student-run TV shows such as last year's "Mt. Olympus," "Campus Liquors" and "BTV Primer," the premier of "The Ratty" and additional student short films.
"Mi Tigre, My Lover," a collection of drawings by Naoe Suzuki currently on display at the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Gallery, explores the complicated relationship between a circus performer and her tigers through the interplay of mineral pigment and graphite on white paper.
Is wallpaper a mere decorative background or one of the fine arts? Providence artist Alison Owen takes up this question in "Divisibility," a new show in the David Winton Bell Gallery. Using found objects arrayed in rectilinear geometries, Owen plays off the gallery's architecture to create a delicately ...
Progressive hardcore metal band Coheed and Cambria played celestially themed songs under the stars at Kennedy Plaza Saturday, along with alternative punk rockers Manchester Orchestra and experimental indie rock act The Dear Hunter.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the John Hay Library, a new exhibit showcasing highlights from the library's collection is on display in the David Winton Bell Gallery.
Students trying to secure fall concert tickets should encounter less difficulty than last semester's Spring Weekend attendees, said Brown Concert Agency Booking Chair Abigail Schreiber '11.
Those strolling across the Quiet Green may notice an addition to campus scenery. "Untitled," created in 2003 by Arthur Carter '53 and displayed on the north end of the Green, will be a fixture on University grounds for the next three years.
Brown's on-campus theatre scene can seem like a slew of acronyms — MF, PW, BOP, BUGS, S&B — but they are acronyms worth keeping track of. It shouldn't be surprising that a school that can count stars like Laura Linney '86 and John Krasinski '01 among its recent alums should be home ...
Four years after his play "Speech and Debate" was originally staged at the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep Theatre, Stephen Karam '02 is looking forward to seeing his work on the big screen. The studio responsible for "Men Who Stare at Goats" and Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," Overture Films, ...
The sounds of acoustic guitars, harmonicas and soft melodies will fill the air by Lincoln Field on Saturday. Featuring 16 performers, including both bands and solo artists, the second annual Brown Folk Festival is bound to be a day of good music on College Hill.
Silk scarves, glass bead jewelry, furniture, paintings and hairy "Nightmare Snatcher" journals are just a few of the many items to be featured and sold in the Rhode Island School of Design's annual Alumni Spring Art Sale on Saturday.The spring sale is one of three main sales featuring alums' work that ...
Entwining a collection of beloved fairy tale stories, "Into the Woods," a musical showing at T. F. Green Hall this weekend directed by Alexandra Keegan '12, is an invitation to an exciting fantastical realm woven with symbolic real-life elements.Blending the characters of the baker and his wife with ...
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