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Trinity’s delicately balanced Merchant of Venice
The light and the dark
The Merchant of Venice gives modern audiences a lot to think and talk about — including, we can forget, a surprising amount of comedy. But the main concern is it being such a head-shaking case study of the era's anti-Semitism.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| February 15, 2012
A supersized Mary Poppins at PPAC
The bitter and the sweet
There's no secret why the hit musical Mary Poppins has filled more than 9 million seats around the world over the last seven years.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| February 15, 2012
The ‘2012 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition’
Bright spots
Last weekend The New York Times proclaimed Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning , the debut video game of former Red Sox pitcher and outspoken Republican millionaire Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, "one of the finest action role-playing games yet made."
By:
GREG COOK
| February 15, 2012
Interview: Alice Bag of Stay at Home Bomb
Once a punk rocker, always a punk rocker
Alice Bag (nee Armendariz), who shone bright in the Los Angeles punk scene of the late-1970s, will be in town Saturday to read from her book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage and to play a few tunes at 7 pm at Rochambeau Library.
By:
DAVID SCHARFENBERG
| February 10, 2012
‘Valentined’ showcases geek love at Craftland
Heart-felt
These missives don't have the swooning, steamy, bodice-ripping passion of romance novel covers.
By:
GREG COOK
| February 08, 2012
A knee-slapping Lend Me a Tenor at PC
Hilarious high notes
As hilarious as the race for the Republican presidential nomination is, even that is no competition for Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| February 01, 2012
‘Taoist Gods’ and ‘Immortals’ at Brown and RISD
The language of aesthetics
As China marked the beginning of the Year of the Dragon with lion and dragon dances and fireworks last week, Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology was debuting "Taoist Gods from China: Ceremonial Paintings from the Mien".
By:
GREG COOK
| January 31, 2012
2nd Story’s Take Me Out
A dramatic grand slam
Ironic, isn't it? To your ordinary man in the street or workplace, masculinity usually isn't an issue. Yet macho scale rankings readily come up in professional sports, where prowess should be enough evidence of testosterone levels.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| January 25, 2012
Myoda and Pender in ‘Illuminations’ at Chazan Gallery
Tricks of the light
Paul Myoda's kinetic sculptures are beautiful and unsettling.
By:
GREG COOK
| January 24, 2012
The Gamm’s Festen is a fractured family tale
Secrets and lies
A certain lugubrious prince had a difficult time in another Danish household, but that was all tea and sympathy compared to the turbulent family in Festen .
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| January 24, 2012
SALT showcases Lindsay-Abaire and Broccoli
Small pleasures
Intending to enhance the flavor of local theater, SALT (Stage Actors Live Theater) is presenting its second production at Artists' Exchange in Cranston through January 29.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| January 25, 2012
Ben Blanc’s intriguing ‘The Exchange’ at AS220
Selling an idea
Two hundred black wood sculptures, resembling abstracted chunks of coal from some old video game, are lined up on a shelf running around the room in Ben Blanc's installation "The Exchange" at AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson Street, Providence, through January 28).
By:
GREG COOK
| January 17, 2012
Lyn Ford will tell her stories at Funda Fest 14
The power of sharing
I have always considered the art of storytelling one of the purest forms of theater: it runs the gamut of emotions, presents a wealth of diverse characters, and can almost literally hold you spellbound.
By:
JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ
| January 11, 2012
Wilbury’s darkly humorous Exit the King
The reign man
Playwright Eugene Ionesco, a progenitor of Theater of the Absurd along with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, put a lot of himself into Exit the King instead of keeping his usual ironic or satiric distance.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| January 11, 2012
‘Chicken Little’ and ‘Manchester Tracks’ at the RISD Museum
Discomfort and joy
The star of New York painter Nancy Chunn's epic installation "Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear" at the RISD Museum (224 Benefit Street, Providence, through April 15) is the fabled fowl — you know, the one who mistakenly thought the sky was falling.
By:
GREG COOK
| January 10, 2012
Shrek the Musical charms at PPAC
'Toon time
Talk about your franchises.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| January 04, 2012
Raise the curtain
From classic to contemporary
There's plenty of theater to keep us warm in Rhode Island through the winter. From the professional companies to the colleges, there are shows for every taste and mood.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| December 28, 2011
Shows worth seeing in the new year
Eyes wide open
From centuries-old Taoist visions to the ways technology can channel emotions, local exhibits this winter prompt comparisons between then and now.
By:
GREG COOK
| December 28, 2011
A decidedly dramatic year (with a bit of comic relief)
Seriously!
This has been a good year for theater around here, from the reprise of a "Were you there when . . .?" rendition of a Shakespeare classic to a sprinkling of notable original productions.
By:
BILL RODRIGUEZ
| December 21, 2011
Exhibits worth buzzing about
Vivid visions
After a couple of shaky years, 2011 saw the local gallery scene blossom again.
By:
GREG COOK
| December 20, 2011
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