Evening Sky is a band that is living proof that instrumental jazz in all its forms is not a dead genre. I have been fortunate enough to see them play live on several occasions, and their enthusiasm for the music always shines through. It is very apparent when you listen to them, that this group […]
For the entirety of 2015, I drove a taxi from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. throughout Providence on behalf of Economy Cab Company. It was a gap job while I formulated my next move, sandwiched between 15 years in hospital security, then 10 years (and counting) on the campus of Brown. Admittedly, taxicabs have enthralled […]
At first glance, a book like How to Have the Time of Your Life: Essays on Time Hygiene by Zachary Cooper might seem like yet another self-help title about time management — about being more efficient. That kind of advice is everywhere in our productivity- and grind-obsessed culture, with a slew of influencers and pop […]
Okee dokee folks… Back in 1982, I paid a scalper a whopping $90 for a ticket to see The Who at the Worcester Centrum. That was a lot of money back then. I had wanted to see The Who for quite a long time, and that was supposed to have been their last tour. I […]
It’s 2003, Thursday afternoon, in a quiet little town called Eberndorf, in the deep south of Austria, surrounded by fields, trees, and medieval churches; 10-year-old me is in my parents’ living room, glued to the four-by-three tube TV screen. “Sabrina – Total Verhext!” [Totally Bewitched! in English] is on. In the US, the iconic show […]
During the time in which F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby takes place, the US economy was in a massive post-World War I boom. Though there was money to be had, wealth was heavily concentrated at the top, creating a stark divide between the ultra-rich and the impoverished working classes. A stark divide […]
The Arctic Playhouse presents “Little Women,” based on Louise May Alcott’s timeless novel following the lives of the March sisters: spirited aspiring writer Jo, thoughtful Meg, tender Beth, and tenacious Amy. Their childhood in the 1860s is chronicled as they strive to be intelligent, imaginative, and kind young ladies. With each passing year, the sisters […]
Sidonie Smith and Adam Garcia in the 2026 UK tour of The Bodyguard. The musical’s North American tour runs from Oct. 23 – 25 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Photo credit: Paul Coltas Who could have possibly anticipated the onslaught of screen-to-stage productions that started when the 1937 film Nothing Sacred, a critically acclaimed […]
The logistics, physical, and emotional demands of the production are mind-boggling – one actor spending 80 minutes morphing among 12 characters with unique accents and mannerisms while delivering lines almost non-stop and, amazingly enough, in rhyme. While it might sound overwhelming at best or gimmicky at worst, the reality of The Smuggler, opening the 2026-27 […]
It’s 1993 in Providence. A gang leader from Harlem lands at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment in the middle of the night — wounded, on the run, with nowhere else to go. Despite his dire circumstances, he’s disgusted by her roommate — a grieving, white gay man into drag who’s not in the mood for the interloper’s […]