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The Wooly Fair gets cosmic

Amusements
The word "absurd" recurs frequently when you ask the creators of this year's Wooly Fair to describe the annual arts carnival.
By AMY LITTLEFIELD | June 22, 2011

Blithe Spirit at the Lyric; Hot Mikado at New Rep; August: Osage County at the Colonial
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict that Blithe Spirit , that cocktail shaker full of dry martini and ectoplasmic mayhem, will amuse. Playwright Noël Coward diagnosed his own gift as a talent to do just that.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 11, 2010

Play by play: May 7, 2010

Theater listings, May 7, 2010
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 04, 2010

Play by play: April 30, 2010

Theater listings, week of April 30, 2010
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 28, 2010

Gang of six

‘4 Thieves’ at Firehouse 13; Mays and Sgouros at the PAC
Around town lately, you may have noted the screenprint that Andrew Moon Bain designed for the four-person exhibit “4 Thieves” at Firehouse 13.
By GREG COOK | September 23, 2009

Steel, blowtorches, and a little trash talk

Metal Works
At the Steel Yard, arts center and business incubator for the metal-minded, a molten hot contest this past weekend. It was the second annual Iron Chef Competition -- a game pitting artist against artist, blowtorches in hand, in a breakneck race to produce the snazziest sculpture.
By ABIGAIL CROCKER | September 23, 2009

Going underground

The hidden quality of the Providence art scene is a big part of what sets it apart
The project in which Michael Townsend and seven collaborators created a secret apartment at Providence Place began as an adventure in which four friends tried to live in the mall for a week.
By GREG COOK | October 10, 2007

Trouble in paradise

An emerging art group fights bureaucracy in the supposed renaissance city
While our capital city continues to promote itself as a prime booster and center for the arts, we continue to wonder about the strength of that commitment.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | November 21, 2006

Firehouse 13, a new arts bastion, comes on the scene

City watch
With the emergence of Firehouse 13, an open format gallery space and artist-in-residency program off of Broad Street, one more piece of Providence history will be preserved against destruction and redevelopment.
By ANDREW FOX | July 19, 2006