In response to Christian criticisms of the portrayal of Jesus Christ put forth in Godspell, composer Stephen Schwartz added the following note to the script: “Godspell is about the formation of a community which carries on Jesus’ teachings after he has gone. In other words, it is the effect Jesus has on the others which […]
The new original play Me Three: A Guide to New Beginnings by Lenny Schwartz could charitably be described as genre-defying, swinging between farce and serious social critique, or less charitably as careening wildly from one random thing to another. What could be a passable magical-realist comedy – the advertising describes it as “darkly funny and […]
“Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine? ‘Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here Don Henley, “The Last Resort” The wanderlust and notion of manifest destiny that drove our forefathers west spoke to the American character, warts and all. Alongside noble ideals […]
The Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach) begins in 2019 at sunset (7:30pm in Providence) on Friday, April 19, commemorating the central defining event in Jewish history, the biblical Exodus about 3,300 years ago, during which the Jewish people escaped from slavery in Egypt and began the process of establishing a national identity on their own […]
“I just got us tickets to see Banshee!” Sarah tossed her phone and purse onto the table next to me. I looked up from my phone, “What? Wait, what? I thought they were sold out!” “Happy birthday,” she said smugly, and flopped down in a chair. “It should be a…Oh. My. God. Look!” Sarah punctuated […]
The last ice piles finally melted back to reveal more than a little bit of trash marring the face of our fair state. Luckily, there are local organizations willing to gather a few folks and get the job done. We asked Save the Bay, URI Flow and Clean Ocean Access to provide some images of […]
