(7.20) “How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night. Like softest music to attending ears!” What better place for that soft “music” than the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park. Adapted by Brown/Trinity Rep MFA student Marcel Mascaro, this new bilingual English-Spanish adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet features local actors from the community, Brown/Trinity Rep […]
Trinity Rep, in partnership with Rhode Island Latino Arts, announces the second year of its program Shakespeare en el Verano (Shakespeare in the Summer). This year’s production premieres a new bilingual English-Spanish adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Adapted by Brown/Trinity Rep MFA student Marcel Mascaro and co-directed by Mascaro and Trinity Rep’s associate artistic director Tyler Dobrowsky. Two
(4.3) The April 3rd deadline for RISCA Grants is fast approaching — you have a couple of extra days to get your application in because April 1st lands on a Saturday. I’m assuming the schools and non-profits don’t need a nudge from us, but you ‘individual artists’ out there may need a reminder. Check out
Another great poster from Gamm, this one for their production ‘The Nether’ written by Jennifer Haley. Is it the blue that makes it creepy, or the little girl. About the play, Log in. Choose an identity. Live out your private dreams. This is life in the Nether—a lush, virtual wonderland offering total sensory immersion, free of
Head downtown Saturday for the opening of the February Galleries at AS220. Seen here is ‘Web of Lost Dreams,’ acrylic on canvas, by Rhode Island artist Zach Prosser. His ‘Visions of Energy’ will be in the Open Window Gallery at 115 Empire Street. Prosser also works in chalk pastel, citing Basquiat as an early influence.
I used to teach girls this age and I think I speak for teachers everywhere when I say . . . aaaarrrrgghhh! I first encountered this startling image walking up Angell Street where a bus shelter features a large poster for the play. A flashback ensued: palpitations, shortness of breath, the smell of napalm. So
(12.4) Head over to the Avon Cinema on Thayer Street Sunday, December 4, at 12:55pm for a one-off showing of The Nutcracker. Danced by the Bolshoi’s principals, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairytale staged by Russian ballet master Yuri Grigorovich will transport children and adults alike to a world of magic and wonder for the holiday season. And/or
The Rhode Island State Council for the Arts (RISCA) is accepting applications from artists, designers, and cultural institutions — the deadline is October 1st. Grants are available for organizations, individuals, education, and folk and traditional arts. October 1 is the deadline for Project Grants for Education, Project Grants to Individuals (PGI), Fellowships in Choreography, Drawing
(8.18) How often do you get invited to a 100th birthday party? The Rhode Island Foundation is celebrating its centennial by hosting a free concert in Roger Williams Park featuring the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. There’s room for thousands of music lovers on blankets and lawn chairs. The two-hour program includes rousing standards like ‘The
Rhode Island visual artists who dream of having more time to work on their craft have until August 18th to apply for $25,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. Established in 2003, the Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund makes up to three grants a year, rotating among composers, writers, and visual artists on
Shakespeare is getting a real workout lately, it being the 400th anniversary of his death. Having your work in the public domain ensures immortality, but also, Shakespeare is really really good. Gamm is celebrating with a production of The Winter’s Tale. A royal family is ripped apart when crazed King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons his
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, written by Anne Washburn and directed by Connie Crawford starts a short run this Thursday at the Leeds Theatre of the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. The play is about how stories change over time and become part of something bigger. Set in a future where
(3.6) Two more performances of “Sans Everything” at Black Box. “Sans Everything” explores a time so far in the future that humans have been replaced by disembodied intelligence. Set aboard a ship that invites the experience of traveling through the human life cycle, one embodied AI gets stuck on “As You Like It.” The resulting
(3.6) Well ‘ello guvnah. Walking Dead’s David Morrissey stars in the Royal Court Theatre production of “Hangmen” to be broadcast live into the Avon Cinema this Sunday. In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey – The Walking Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But
Now through February 7 George Brant’s ‘Grizzly Mama’ directed by Rachel Walshe at the Gamm Theatre. Deb is a divorced suburban mom who reimagines herself as a righteous, liberal avenger following the death of her activist mother. Her daughter, Hannah, is a typical texting teenager – at least until she discovers the real reason Mom
Stella!!! You have all winter to practice your best Kowalski before heading down to the annual “Stella” shouting contest at the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. In the meantime check out the Gamm’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” running now through October 25. Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep