How do they do stop-action smoke? The adult, animated puppet drama ‘Anomalisa’ opens Friday at the Cable Car Cinema. Co-directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson — an Emmy winner for that stop-motion Christmas episode of Community — this R-rated puppet-love gem was the first animated film to win the Grand Jury prize at the …
Vampire or not, Mercy Brown has indeed achieved a kind of immortality. This bleak but compelling 19th century episode involving the Brown family of Exeter, Rhode Island continues to inflame the imagination and inspire pilgrimages to the poor girl’s grave. This Friday, the Awesome Collective will perform their interpretation of the events surrounding the death …
And that will be rewarded with a special mention. DJ’s are all right I guess, but the more venues that open up to local bands with real live musicians the better. Plus this poster is awesome. Normally posters are too cluttered with teeny tiny text to make the proper impact here and/or they are too …
It’s that time of the every other month again. ‘Blood From a Turnip’ — which has been bringing short form puppetry to adult audiences for over a dozen years at Perishable Theatre — is doing it again this Friday at 10pm. The other thing they’ve been doing from the beginning is charging only five bucks …
Now this is how you get on The Dose. If you don’t respond to this image I weep for your malignant and blighted soul. These finger puppets are the work of Seekonk resident and children’s artist Megan Jeffery, part of a new exhibit at the Providence Children’s Museum. I Live in a Small Town showcases …
The FirstWorks Festival 2010 runs through November, and there are just too many things — dance, theater, new media installations, visual arts — for us to list all of them. But here’s one event, should you need another thing to do on Sunday. . . pretty much the opposite of Roller Derby. Heather Henson will …
. . . and the balloons are getting their freak on. Hey, it’s a long night.
At Perishable Theatre, Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages. $5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street
[youtube]onqMRScrt2E[/youtube] I can’t get the first sentence started here because to call this guy a singer and a songwriter doesn’t begin to cover it. Musician and Berklee grad Bleu McAuley has so many irons in the fire and projects going on it makes your head explode. This is his new single ‘Come ‘n Go’ and …
And glorious: [youtube]hWABJzHrGww[/youtube] Session’s out for somewhere between 2 and 28 weeks, so they say…
Jobs you can’t just outsource to China, or even Nashville. [youtube]EgkBLETsi_Q[/youtube]
That is where we get the Priestess classes and the matriarchal powers coming from. The fact now that were keepers of the secrets. Innitators. Right?
An unusual production tonight at AS220 — Yorick’s Marionettes Play Shakespeare. Here’s what they have to say for themselves. Marionettes are puppets activated by strings. Those used by Yorick’s Productions are hand carved by artist Dusan Petran, a native of the former Czechoslovakia. Mr. Petran studied the Theater Arts at the Janacek Academy of Arts …
I’ve been laying off recently, but am very happy to have noticed that the trippiest and probably best-est episode of the Muppet Show has resurfaced on YouTube. Brooke Shields doing Alice in Wonderland: [youtube]-u-EPYntx2I[/youtube]