AUTUMN MACKENZIE
Cranston native Autumn Mackenzie is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music and is planning to grace the stage for local, regional, and national audiences. The 23-year-old grew up […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Fake RI DMV Text Message Scam: Tries to entice following a risky web link
Readers made Motif aware they received text messages trying to entice them into following a web link that presumably would lead to a scam, collecting financial information or infecting the […]
MOTIF’S 2026 RI SPOKEN AWARDS
Wednesday, May 276 – 10pmMyrtle, East Providence Join us for the 4th annual Motif Spoken Awards! We are excited to be returning to Myrtle to celebrate RI’s spoken word community. Want […]
2026 RI Tattoo Awards
“May your tattoo ink never run dry,” as the ancient Portlandian blessing goes, has rarely been more applicable. Motif is proud to partner again with Narragansett Brewery to bring you […]
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island: RHORI-ble
The second episode of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island will premiere tonight. (Well, Wednesday, depending on when you read this. Thursday on Peacock.) The show has produced a social media […]
THEATER PREVIEW: Disney’s The Lion King – PPAC’s Encore Series revisits this aww-inspiring musical
Disney’s The Lion King, which is coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center stage for the fourth time since 2011, is more than a mega-hit musical deemed “breathtaking” by Entertainment […]
THE COMEUPPANCE: Surreal Impact Of National Tragedies On A Generation
From the boundary-pushing, Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins comes this electrifying comedy meditation on impermanence, nostalgia, and isolation. Directed by Don Mays, The Comeuppance starts innocently enough as five former classmates from […]
Music Awards 2026 Photos
By Lillian MK Photography By Olivia Lunger By Izzy Cooke
CLYDE’S: It’s Sandwich Heaven! Welcome to Hell.
Burbage Theatre Co premieres Lynn Nottage’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clyde’s, directed by Burbage’s founding artistic director, Jeff Church. A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff […]