Healey Gets on the Ballot: “Dude! There’s a party there!”
Former Cool Moose party leader Robert J. Healey, Jr., was approved to appear on the ballot as the Moderate Party nominee for governor of Rhode Island as the State Board […]
Events:
A Changing Reflection
This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues
Featured artists include: Jim Arendt, Elizabeth Duffy, Brooke Erin Goldstein, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Letitia Huckaby, Tamara Kostianovsky, Dinh Q. Lê, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Veronica Mays, Alison Saar, Emma Welty, Nafis M. White,
December 3, 2022 @ 8:00 am - June 11, 2023 @ 5:00 pmPaintings by Gregory Ricci
December 9, 2022 - April 13, 2023Superimposed
January 25 - June 4Outsider Art: Harnessing Color
This exhibition joins six art spaces from the East Coast that support artists with disabilities: Artists’ Exchange, Center for Creative Works, Downtown Designs Gallery, Spindleworks, Out of the Box Studio
January 27 - April 1Grateful Dead
The Vintage Posters, 1966-1995.
January 27 - March 31Whodunit? An Improvised Murder Mystery
This time, it’s the French Revolution and the nobility are stabbing each other in the back…literally. Every week is different, so you – and the cast – never know what
February 4 - April 1Elisabeth Subrin’s The Listening Takes
February 9 - June 4Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch
February 17 - August 4Red Series
by Jade Sisti
March 1 - March 31Annual Open Show
March 31Anvil/ Midnite Hellion
Heavy metal music
March 31 @ 7:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:30 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmForeigners Journey
Foreigner & Journey tribute
March 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Spatz
Acoustic
March 31 @ 9:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:00 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
April 1 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe English Beat
2-tone, ska, reggae and new wave
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPopa Chubby
The king of NYC blues
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJohn Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
An American rock band from RI
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
To Pee or Not to Pee: An All-Pug Hamlet Media Frenzy
Kevin Broccoli is a serious man: artistic director of Rhode Island’s Epic Theatre, author of plays and monologues that have been performed by literally hundreds of actors, and an acclaimed […]
Cock, or the Rooster Play: That’s not a euphemism
Plays with titles intentionally chosen to be unprintable in the mainstream press are usually terrible. The New York Times reviewed the off-Broadway American premiere under the title “___ (The Cockfight […]
It’s the Economy, Stupid!
It’s hardly any secret that the Rhode Island economy is in bad shape. In the most recent monthly data from June 2014, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 7.9 percent […]
The Primaries from Motif’s Data Nerd
1. Providence Mayor – Democrat Ordinarily the Democratic primary IS the election, because no Republican has been elected as Providence mayor since 1978 – the final time Vincent A. “Buddy” […]
Opinion: Censorship on the Fringe
The political situation in the Gaza Strip has dominated the news recently, and there is a substantial variety of reasonable views that reasonable people might have about it. My own […]
Noises Off: Entertaining Entropy
One of their most successful productions, Contemporary Theatre Company (CTC) in South Kingstown brings back playwright Michael Frayn’s Noises Off as a revival from their 2009 season. A favorite of […]
Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner – Food on a truck, man!
Beautiful late spring weather favored the crowds sampling the diner fare from the iconic truck parked in front of the Columbus Theatre on Broadway early in the evening of Saturday, […]
Future Justice: The End of the World and I Feel Fine
Rhode Island director Richard Griffin premiered his new film Future Justice that has the look of a movie with a $10 million dollar budget, despite the real budget being a […]
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: The Bunniality of Evil
Morality is personal, not political; this is, to a large extent, the theme of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, a theatrical experiment written by Nassim Soleimanpour. Because the playwright is an […]
