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Okee dokee folks… Tonight at the Garde Theatre in New London, CT, it felt like 1969-space travel, with socially conscious songs and a Woodstock alumnus appearing. Projected onto the big screen behind the stage, astronauts descended from space and splashed down in the ocean. That moment was met with a wave of applause and cheers […]
VOTING OPEN NOW! 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. The live celebration, including performances for each category and live voting, as well as the results of the online voting, will take […]
The 2026 Tattoo Awards took place on June 2 at Narragansett Brewery. Check out the winners and photos from the event at the links below! “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 […]
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 Weekly, “gasp-inducing” by Time, and “a marvel” by Variety. It is at the top of the food chain of an impressive franchise. It all began […]
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 a Catholic academy gather on the eve of their 20-year high school reunion. Fueled by cocktails and weed, they reminisce at a suburban porch pre-party […]
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 a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, […]
The Music Awards went off without a hitch this year, and over the course of the evening more than 400 local music lovers dropped by to dance, listen, and cheer on fellow musicians. We’ll have more photos and a fuller description soon, but for right now, here are the picks over 5,000 voters selected this […]
[See prior update: motifri.com/iran-war2026] Donald Trump built his entire life and career on denial of reality, convinced he could counter every adversary with some combination of cajolery and charm or, if that failed, threatening and bullying. In his first presidential term, Trump hit the wall because a pandemic virus is not susceptible to such […]
It’s often said (well, I definitely say this), that some of the deepest conversations and connected moments can happen while one is sitting in a car. This is certainly true for the duo, band, sisterhood — Ferns and Fiddleheads. Not only did Isa Arango-Tobon and Tess McGowan get to know each other in one, they […]
If you have been a craft beer lover over this past decade, you may remember when the first Rhode Island Brewery Passport was released. It was changed to an app in 2020. Six years later, it is reverting to a physical passport. Why did it change from booklet, to app, and soon back to booklet? […]