Category Archives: Arts
Newport Folk Festival “Folks On” after a year away
Grace Potter performs at the 2021 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Doug MacGunnigle Photos and story by Doug MacGunnigle, Cumulus Media After a year’s absence due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandem...
Jul 25, 2021
Viola Davis memoir ‘Finding Me’ scheduled for next April
Viola Davis arrives at the 4th Annual Woman Making History Brunch at the Skirball Cultural Center on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP) NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar wi...
Jul 20, 2021
Cultural, humanities nonprofits to share $1M in funding
Singer Anglique Kidjo in performance at The Vets Auditorium in Providence February 22, 2020. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Cultural and humanities nonprofits in Rhode Island...
Jul 12, 2021
Raimondo: Phase 4 of reopening plan not imminent soon
RI Governor Gina Raimondo offers her weekly coronavirus update August 19, 2020 at Vets auditorium. Pool photo by Kris Craig / The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - There are no immediate plan...
Aug 21, 2020
Gamm’s Assassins Is High-Caliber Musical Theater
By Kimberly Rau Assassins, the first-ever Broadway musical to be performed at the Gamm Theatre, opened this week, and if this is how Gamm is going to handle big musicals, may this be the first of many...
Mar 11, 2020
“Hello Dolly” shines at PPAC
John Bolton and the National Tour Company of Hello, Dolly! - Photograph by Julieta Cervantes 2019 By Kimberly Rau "Hello Dolly," the 1960s musical based on Thornton Wilder's 1930s farce, may not be ab...
Mar 04, 2020
“A Bronx Tale” Not One of the Great Ones
The Company of A BRONX TALE. Photo by Joan Marcus By Kimberly Rau First it was a one-man show based on the true story of a young man growing up in the Bronx. Then it was a movie starring Robert...
Feb 22, 2020
A Favorite Classic Returns with PPAC’s Fiddler
By Kimberly Rau The Providence Performing Arts Center is hosting the non-equity national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, which boasts new staging and choreography, this week. For a show that premiered in...
Feb 13, 2020
Newport Jazz Festival announces first wave of artists
Norah Jones, who will headline the 2020 Newport Jazz Festival is seen here at the festival in 2016. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Newport Jazz Festival today announce...
Feb 11, 2020
The Relevant and Stirring “Radio Golf” at Trinity Rep
By Kimberly Rau There is so much to praise about the late August Wilson's play "Radio Golf," the last in a series of 10 plays that chronicle various aspects of Black life in America throughout the twe...
Feb 09, 2020
