Photo courtesy of Michael Salerno The University of Rhode Island’s theater department will debut their production “Women and War,” tonight to open the fall 2018 season. “Women and War” consists of two single act Greek plays adapted by Ellen Mclaughlin. “Lysistrata” is a comedy which discusses women who want to obtain peace during the Peloponnesian…
The Wheeler School and the University of Rhode Island will be hosting the “URI Guitar Festival” consisting of discussions, classes and performances from international artists. The festival will be held at the Wheeler school in Providence on Saturday, April 1, and the events on Sunday, April 2 will be held in the Fine Arts Center…
Progressive rock band, The Dear Hunter, played a free show alongside fellow Providence-based bands last Thursday night at The Met in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Progressive pop band, Bored with Four, opened the show. Bored with Four is compiled of two members of The Dear Hunter, Andrew Brown (keyboardist) and Nick Sollecito (bassist), along with…
World-famous singer from Mumbai, Dhanashree Pandit-Rai, merged jazz and Indian music together for a performance at the University of Rhode Island this past Sunday. Pandit-Rai, along with New York-based jazz pianist Richard Bennett and his wife Paula on percussion, performed songs from their record Mumbai Masala at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. Pandit-Rai has…
URI Theatre’s 2015-2016 season officially kicks off on Oct. 15 with a show that is sure to draw plenty of attention just based on its unusual name. The Tony-nominated show entitled “In The Next Room†or (“The Vibrator Playâ€), is written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by URI’s Bryna Wortman. Set in New York in…