Providence French Film Festival 2018
An annual event since 1998, the Providence French Film Festival takes place Saturday, February 24, through Saturday, March 3, with all screenings at the Cable Car Cinema. Although the event is […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Salve Regina French Film Festival 2018
The 13th annual Salve Regina French Film Festival take place from Sunday, Febrary 25, through Thursday, March 8. There are a total of six films, said French professor Dean de la […]
Everyone Is Not a Critic
My colleague Kevin Broccoli recently pronounced theater criticism dead: “You’re better off hiring 50 20-year-olds to talk about your show on social media than you are cozying up to a […]
Uncle Vanya: It’s a Dreadful Life
Starting with a breezy, witty and emphatically modern Russian-to-English translation by director Curt Columbus, the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov is a darkly comic and […]
The Little Foxes: Not All That Sly
Playwright Lillian Hellman was an awful person: Self-hating Jew, apologist for Stalin, plagiarist of the lives of other people, possessed of a remarkable talent for alienating friends, and prone to […]
Richard Walton E-Book Now Free on 5th Anniversary of Death
Herb Weiss and Nancy Carriuolo, co-editors of The Selected E-Mail Correspondences of Richard Walton, a commemorative collection of writing from the universally respected advocate for social justice, have released the […]
Analysis: Are Guns a Public Health Problem?
Whether to consider deaths and injuries from guns a public health problem, and therefore to bring to bear the statistical tools of epidemiology, has been a substantial controversy since at […]
Wilbury’s Church: Drinking the Kool-Aid
The goal of a 12-step program is not to get you to climb up high enough to jump and kill yourself, but playwright Young Jean Lee seems to employ that […]
RI Attorney General Plans to Join Multi-State Net Neutrality Lawsuit
“We anticipate signing on to the lawsuit and are awaiting the language of the lawsuit to properly evaluate it,” said Amy Kempe, public information officer for Rhode Island Attorney General […]
Gabriel: Men Being Men and Women Being Men
Men telling women what women want in defiance of their own expressed wishes is a long tradition, eerily echoed in a recent (2003) controversy over whether to dig up and […]