“Sounds like it’s highlighting the chaos in the world we are living in today.” This was the reaction I got from my friend Nancy Teo when I sent her some of the photos I’d taken at Screech Sprays RI!, a live graffiti event held at Nick Paciorek’s Pitcher-Goff House in Pawtucket on August 28. The […]
Bruce McCrae, aka Rudy Cheeks, aka Jorge of Phillipe & Jorge, passed quietly on Friday Night. Bruce had suffered several health events in recent years, and wasn’t out much, but in his heyday he was the sort of public figure you could find at major art, political, and music events almost every night of the […]
Ever rummaged through your spouse’s sweater drawer expecting to find argyles, yet instead stumbling across a secret fetish so utterly demented that it immediately sent you bolting toward a new life? Deftly directed by Jeanne Smith, Attleboro Community Theatre’s Wonder of the World is a dark, fast-paced comedy of Niagara Fall-out proportions! Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire […]
If there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, The Getaway Driver at Trinity Repertory Company is it. The world premiere of the two-person play by Deborah Salem Smith and Charlie Thurston that opens Trinity’s 2026-27 season runs one hour and 40 minutes with no intermission, approximately 20 minutes longer than […]
Hark, spectators of the realm! If thy soul doth hunger for a “reverent irreverence” turning a 77-seat black box into a roaring arena of wretched romance, get thee to the Burbage Theatre Co! Director Stephen Thorne, who has been called “without question, one of the most electric theatre professionals that Rhode Island has to offer,” […]
Gillian Holroyd is a witch living in NYC’s Greenwich Village in the late 1950s. Upon encountering Shepherd “Shep” Henderson, she decides to cast a love spell to make him her own. What’s a nefarious witch to do when her nifty neighbor’s fiancée — her old college rival — can’t hold a candle to her? Enchant […]
Much has already been written on the passing Sep 18 at age 76 of Bruce McCrae, who used the stage name “Rudy Cheeks.” The death was reported by his brother, W. Scott McCrae in a public forum for the Tolman High School Class of 1968. He hardly needs yet another obituary, and I highly recommend […]
2026 PVDFest is the can’t-miss local event this weekend; one of the biggest fests of the year for our city-state. This year reprises last year’s footprint, encompassing Kennedy Plaza with three stages and reaching out through Mathewson St. The Ice Rink will not only have a stage again this year, but it will also continue […]
The local arts community suffered an unexpected and tragic loss recently with the passing from sudden illness of Kayla St. George, 39. Many knew Kayla as one of the leaders and a former director of operations of the Providence Drum Troupe, under the stage name / nickname “Fife,” and the troupe held a memorial in […]
Over the past year, The Grind has gleamed as one of Rhode Island’s coffee gems. Set up at Crook Point Brewing Company (65 Massasoit Ave., East Providence), the espresso bar opened when baristas Madi Peck and Anthony Gesa set up shop after their former employer, The Bakeshop, shuttered its sun-streamed two-level in Warren. (The closure […]