CLICK HERE TO VOTE As we’ve been doing for years, Motif seeks to recognize the excellence in local theater at many different levels. We polled the critics and theater companies themselves– about their own best work and the best work they saw. Here’s who they picked! At our awards show, coming in late August, we’ll have technical […]
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society was founded in 1958 to accommodate the influx of artists and performers who tended to appear around the edges of the traditional Edinburgh Festival, unannounced and unplanned. Instead of discouraging these performers from dropping in, they were incorporated into the event in the slightly anarchic spirit of the performers themselves. […]
The Artist’s Exchange is currently in rehearsal for its 9th Annual One Act Play Festival, opening July 25. Over 250 short plays were submitted from local, regional and national playwrights and then selected for performance by a panel of directors/artists. All casts feature community actors ranging in age from 9 to 79. During Wave 1, […]
The Colonial Theater and TRIST host Shakespeare in the Park Summer: The season that brings to mind beers on the patio, camping trips with the family, and epic tales of magic, manipulation, and romance … okay, maybe not so much the last one, but it could be time to mix it up and take in […]
By Despina Durand and Khrysta Ryan Thursday June 19 the Providence Poetry Slam held an open mic night at AS220 including members from the youth team as well as new poets stepping up to the mic for the first time. Although this was not an actual slam, the mic was open to not only poets […]
Theatre by the Sea’s new take on an old classic by Khrysta Ryan In the 81st year, Theatre by the Sea’s 2014 summer season is packed full of nostalgic shows including Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show, Grease, Disney’s Mary Poppins and Monty Pythons Spamalot. Friday marks the opening night of their second show of the season, Grease, […]
Ever since Book of Mormon became a runaway hit, skewering a religious viewpoint via musical theater seems almost de rigueur, but this is fertile ground and Elemental Theatre’s latest iteration of their evolving (yes, evolving) musical, A Brief History Of The Earth And Everything In It does it better than most. Motif’s publisher briefly considered […]
Déjà vu is a singular experience shared by all. We all know how that ephemeral sensation can be maddening and heartbreaking all at once. Technically, of course, déjà vu has nothing to do with past lives, kindred spirits or wandering souls, but talking about the corpus callosum and misfiring synapses is a sure fire way […]
Burbage Theatre Company is performing The Bald Soprano, a piece of absurdist theater by Eugene Ionesco. The performances are June 19 through the 28th. The setting is the London suburbs. A stuffy upper-crust couple, the Smiths (David De Almo and Cassie De Almo), invite the Martins (Andrew Iacovelli and Lauren Odenwalder) to their home. The […]
The book reads like a poetic journal, as if a different day in the life of one person Rosalynde Vas Dias’s book Only Blue Body proved to be an amazing read, thick with images. Each line stands on its own, as it should, and draws a picture in the mind. Sometimes subtly like water colors […]