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” […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
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 […]
Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner
When director Jeff Toste’s documentary Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner has its Providence premiere on Saturday, June 7 at the Columbus Theatre, the iconic food truck itself will […]
Cloud 9: “We Are Not In This Country To Enjoy Ourselves”
Decades before playwright Caryl Churchill in her dotage earned a notorious reputation as arguably the most virulent anti-Semite active in mainstream British theater, her plays, despite the heavy baggage of […]
Raising Matty Christian
Christian de Rezendes discusses documentary When Rhode Island-based director Christian de Rezendes was approached by a mutual acquaintance about making a documentary on the life of the recently deceased Matthew […]
SENE Showcases Local Talent and Awards Filmmaker Andre Gregory
On the Screen The 6th annual Southeast New England Film, Music and Arts Festival opens Tuesday, April 22, 2014, and runs through Sunday, April 27, according to Philip Capobres, its […]