Epic Theatre Company has announced “a series of programs designed to respond to the country’s political climate,” beginning on Sunday, January 22, with a one-off performance of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? by Eric Russell Bentley, a 1972 play that uses the the real words of questions and answers in testimony before […]
Wed 18 Dean Ween Group: Hot off their latest album, these funk rockers are on a national tour. Performing with Mike Dillion Vibes. The Met, 8pm, 1005 Main St, Pawtucket. themetri.com Thu 19 Drink & INK: Are you interested in printing, but feeling a little hesitant to take the plunge on one of our full-fledged […]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of the most well-known and recognizable plays of the past century. The film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives was the third highest grossing release of 1958, and the vision of Taylor, widely acknowledged as one of the classic feminine beauties of the era, […]
During alternative rock’s heyday during the late ‘80s and ‘90s, Ween was getting weird and pushing their own artistic abilities while their contemporaries were competing with each other to see who could be the loudest. Ranging from psychedelia, lo-fi and all things experimental, Gene and Dean Ween (also known as Aaron Freedman and Mickey Melchiondo) […]
There are bands that do unique and weird things, and then there’s The Flaming Lips. Things have changed a lot since the band started out as “the punks on acid” in the early ‘80s and then gradually became an enigmatic and psychedelic act of wonder. The core members of Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins and Steven […]
POP Emporium is an immense antique shop in a nondescript warehouse near Smith Hill, beautifully curated like a captivating museum of days gone by. Every square foot is full of more treasures than can be absorbed in a glance, from vintage furniture to movie posters to figurines and everything in between. The man behind POP […]
Creativity and originality play a major role when it comes to being an unsigned up-and-coming artist. Many artists follow trends in order to gain some momentum, but that is not the case with young up-and-coming artist Khary. Khary is an artist of his own and takes pride in developing his own lane built off of […]
The choice between art and money is at the heart of I Hate Hamlet, an offbeat comedy about an actor plagued by insecurities. Andrew Rally (Chris Plonka), the handsome star of a television show called “LA Medical,” moves to New York and has landed the role of a lifetime: Hamlet. Andrew has a lot of […]
Dear C, My daughter, Lila, is 14 and she had been complaining that she doesn’t want to go on visitations with her dad anymore. I have no reason to believe she’s in any danger or that there’s some kind of abuse going on. She doesn’t come home covered with bruises or telling stories about wild […]
There are times when the truth matters less than what shocks people — what plays into their fears and suspicions and spurs them on to outrage. This is particularly clear as of late in our Oxford Dictionary-declared post-truth era. A play about a compulsive liar who remorselessly ruins lives by playing on people’s paranoia is […]