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David M. Wax, who has been serving as acting executive director of the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre since June, took on the position permanently effective Nov. 30.
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By PBN Staff
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The Rhode Island Film Collaborative and The Anthony Quinn Foundation have announced the 2012 Anthony Quinn Award winner as Anne Mulhall, founder of LDI Casting, a Providence casting agency.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Most Rhode Islanders knows that “Dumb and Dumber,” the 1994 movie by brothers Peter and Bob Farrelly, was partially filmed in the Ocean State thanks to shots of The Big Blue Bug and the Providence skyline. The same could be said for a few other films, including “The Great Gatsby,” released in 1974 and shot at the Rosecliff and Marble House mansions in Newport.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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PROVIDENCE – The Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts Museum will close for more than year beginning May 20 for a comprehensive inventory, the university announced Monday.
The museum will …
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Picture this: You’re a Providence-area artist – like ceramicist Anna Rae Fleischer – seeking studio space to rent near your neighborhood. Or maybe you’re a developer looking to open a studio or gallery where others could make and display their work.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Columbus Theatre, the historic downtown theater shuttered in August 2009 for a number of building and fire code violations, will reopen next month with an all-ages celebration.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Strike a pose: the sixth StyleWeek fashion event in Providence, StyleWeek Northeast, is here.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Trinity Repertory Company will be one of 22 Theatre Communication Group theater members to participate in the newly launched Blue Star Theatres program, which – in partnership with Blue Star Families – provides free or discounted ticket programs to military families.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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WaterFire Providence and Community MusicWorks, a musicians-in-residence based educational nonprofit in the city’s West End, have been awarded grants from ArtPlace, a philanthropic collaboration of high-profile foundations in partnership with the National Endowment of the Arts.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, an association of art schools in the United States and Canada, has relocated to Providence from San Francisco, Calif. and named Deborah Obalil as its new executive director.
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By Rebecca Keister |