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“From an organizational perspective, the transition was pretty seamless but more importantly our employees had a much wider range of options from which to choose than ever before.”

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“The employees at Pilgrim Screw made the decision to obtain health coverage through HealthSource RI because we saved enough money on the premiums to fund our health savings accounts.”

Peter Mello Managing Director WATERFIRE PROVIDENCE

Geoff Grove President & CEO PILGRIM SCREW

28 BoTTlES & canS & juST claP youR handS _ B y lo u Pa P in E a u

Our beers, ourselves: a mini-manifesto; plus, bring on the half-pint; Foolproof heads to Vermont; Newport Storm’s R.hode I.sland P.umpkin returns.

32 hoMEgRown PRoducT _ B y chRiS con Ti

Free fun: the lowdown on Fusionworks Dance Company’s FuSion FEST and the West Broadway Neighborhood Association/Narragansett Beer’s nEighBoR dayS Block PaRTy.

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The Gamm’s gRoundEd, and Trinity Rep’s ivanov.

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Phil Papoojian, President & COO, Managing Director MERECO

“Short Takes” on land ho! and ThE dRoP.

fall arts!

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Winnahs and losahs: sweeping up after the primary election | Manchild in the promised land: a farewell to Marvin Barnes

7 4 jEn SoREnSEn

6 ThiS juST in 10 With the primary election over,

Buddy steps in | A new day — and an ominous mood — at the ProJo | Steampunk at Slater Park

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Summer’s over, the students are back, and everyone’s getting ready for the new season ahead. that doesn’t mean things need to mellow out, though — fall is when things happen around here and, to celebrate, we have our annual guide to the best in music, art, theater, tv, dance, and more. rake it all in.

The Pawtucket Arts Festival | Brian Posehn at Fête | Suicideyear, Hil Holla and more | Magic Lantern Cinema | The 11th Annual Providence Improv Fest

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Phillipe + Jorge’s Cool, Cool World

winnahs and losahs sweeping up after the primary election; farewell, marvin barnes As champagne sprays are still

being mopped up and janitors f are sweeping away the confetti and

discarded campaign banners at Election Day sites around the state, here is Phillipe and Jorge’s Instamatic — or is it Instagram these days? — of the primary results.

Governor: Clay Pell shouldn’t wait for a Christmas card from Angel Taveras to arrive this December. Clay’s bizarre entry into the field stripped away any number of “progressive” votes from Angel while leaving the Democratic center to victor Gina Raimondo, who may have won a head-to-head battle with La Prov’s mayor anyhow. P&J can somewhat confidently invest our hope in the idea that Ms. Raimondo will do a solid job, since we believe her to be honest, smart, and ambitious on behalf of the state as a whole. However we’re not so sure about her record of investing our dollars with the hedge fund managers and investment bankers with whom she is a bit too chummy for our taste. Another concern is how she can play hardball with the General Assembly leadership, but Gina has shown enough toughness thus far that we’re optimistic she fears no one. The saddest part of Taveras’s defeat is that Providence will lose a damn good mayor. As for Pell, this defeat should simply give Clayman the opportunity to search more extensively for his Prius. Meanwhile, the Republicans evidently “just want to have Fung.” But it will take an “October surprise” of enormous magnitude to get the Cranston mayor into the governor’s seat at the State House, and we don’t see anything on the horizon from the Raimondo camp, unless she says she had an affair with Gordon Gekko. Lieutenant Governor: Although

your superior correspondents were rooting for State Rep Frank Ferri (D-Warwick) in the Democratic primary for Looey Gee, Cumberland Mayor Dan McKee is a “pretty good” candidate. But now we can at least bowl a few strings with Frank over at his alley (he owns Town Hall Lanes in Johnston), and Chazz Palminteri impersonator Ralph Mollis is free to audition for the lead role in Theater by the Sea’s summer production of A Bronx Tale. P&J already tipped you off to the strength of GOP candidate Catherine Taylor and her very good shot to win the whole shebang in November. Her Republican primary race against Kara Russo Young was apples versus bananas, if you get our drift.

Secretary of State: Our Nellie

ran a hell of a race, and Ms. Gorbea is a smart, upbeat, Energizer Bunny who could shake things up in a good way, as much as any SoS possibly can. Hard luck for Guillaume De Ramel, who P&J believe would have also done a good job had he been elected, and we hope he stays involved in Little Rhody politics in the future. Gorbea’s opponents will be . . . uh . . . er . . . we forgot. It won’t matter anyway.

treaSurer: The only thing more shocking than Dem insider Frank Caprio’s full-face closeup final campaign ad, which looked like a hybrid hostage tape/Sopranos dream sequence/sci-fi aliens taking over all TV frequencies to broadcast news that Earth has been conquered, was the fact he conceded to newcomer Seth Magaziner only 16 minutes after polls closed at 8 pm — less time than it took for some of Mike Tyson’s

jen SorenSen

early patsies to hit the canvas. Oh, well. P&J have always thought Independent Ernie Almonte would be Seth’s toughest test, when he faces him in the general election. But 16 minutes? Bada-boom, bada-bing! Show some pride, fer crissakes, Frank. People are watching.

Vo Dilunduh outside the walls of your studios, gives a shit who “called it first” in the election results. Get over yourselves and get back to doing what you do best: coiffing your hair and putting on your makeup in front of your vanity mirrors.

Providence Mayor: It’s quite

Manchild in the ProMised land

evident that the Phoenix’s astute endorsement of Jorge Elorza won the Dem primary for him. But Jorge is cresting the hill only to see the real battlefield: GOP candidate Daniel Harrop and some guy named Cianci awaiting with light sabers drawn. Jorge will bring a lot more spice than the clapped-out Mike Solomon to mano-a-mano combat with the Bud-I, and Harrop might do well to wait until the blood rises above Elorza and Cianci’s shoe tops before stealing a march. Oh, and a note to all local TV stations: Neither P&J, nor one

Flags are at half-staff at Casa Diablo over the death of Vo Dilun legend Marvin Barnes, former Providence College basketball star and amazing individual. Barnes was arguably the greatest basketball player ever produced in Rhode Island, and, if you exclude St. Ernie of DiGregorio, another hoops illuminati who played alongside Marvin, there is no debate. But P&J always find it a bit crass and cheapening to judge an athlete solely by the feats they achieved on the sites of the Sweaty Sciences. Nonetheless, a synopsis: Marvin

was an All Stater and multiple state high school champion at Providence’s Central High who went on to become an All American at PC, where the Friars would have doubtless played UCLA for the national title in 1973 had Barnes not suffered a knee injury with PC in the lead in the semifinals against Memphis State. He was later the second overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft, right after some guy named Bill Walton. Marvin was Rookie of the Year in the American Basketball Association, for which he spurned the NBA to play for the St. Louis Spirits, and showed up to sign his $2.5 million contract — an ungodly sum for a hoopster at the time — wearing a construction helmet. Oh, those antics. Funny to be sure, but either totally off the wall, misguided, or both. In perhaps the most famed tale, he was arrested in high school with his friends for robbing a Providence bus while wearing a Central High basketball jacket with “Marvin B.” embroidered on it. There was also the time he hit a PC teammate with a tire iron outside the college cafeteria because he had taken an elbow to the mouth during practice. Despite overwhelming early success in the pros, Marvin squandered his talent and washed out of pro basketball by 1980, due to wild and crazy behavior and serious drug abuse. But as for street cred, his former rival at UMass and later URI and Boston College coach Al Skinner said, “[Marvin] could have been one of the top 50 players in NBA history if he had the discipline all great players need to have.” When illustrious teammates like Ernie D. and others recall Marvin, it's always a story that features his upbeat, always-smiling personality and what a joyous person he was as a friend or just to be around. Throughout his career and rocky later life, he retained what came across as a naïveté and innocence, whatever rough edges were eventually exposed. He was talented and rich beyond dreams, but still a manchild. There is plenty of room for a statue outside the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, which the ’73 PC team helped light up like a Christmas tree and christen a prestige college hoops arena when it was called the Providence Civic Center. Marvin would look good as part of it along with St. Ernie and their coach Dave Gavitt, who was one of the most important figures in basketball history. Many folks would get an eternal chuckle if he were depicted wearing that Central High basketball jacket. ^

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“As this campaign goes on, you’ll see that it’s not about personality.”

This Just In

_buddy cianci

Politics

As The ProJo Turns

With the primary election over, Buddy steps in

A new dAy — And An ominous mood — on fountAin street

MEET THE PRESS Buddy at his campaign HQ. “As this campaign goes on, you’ll see that this is not about personality,” says the man with the most distinct and divisive personality in Providence history. It’s Wednesday morning, September 10, and 73-year-old Buddy Cianci is standing at a podium (and on a wooden box that makes him about six inches taller) inside his campaign headquarters on Broad Street. To his right, on the other side of a glass door, is parked a red SUV emblazoned with a wrap-around, largerthan-life image of the man, next to “LEADERSHIP! Vote BUDDY Cianci” printed in extralarge letters. In the next room, the building’s foyer is essentially a Buddy Cianci Museum. The walls are lined with dozens of artifacts: an old bronze sign reading “Mayor’s Office Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.”; photos of Cianci with Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Billy Joel; a Warhol-style grid painting with Cianci’s face repeated nine times; a Providence Monthly cover featuring Cianci dressed as Santa Claus; a 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award plaque from the RI Cape Verdean Cultural Exchange and Education Project. Today is the first press conference of the Buddy 3.0 era — or, to put it another way, “my first Buddy Cianci news conference in, what, 12, 13 years?” as Rhode Island Public Radio Political reporter Ian Donnis tweeted. Last night, after a $1000-a-head fundraiser with a few dozen supporters at the ProvidenceG building’s rooftop bar, the former mayor made his way down to the more crowded, $25-per-person primary election-watching party in the basement G Pub, where he worked the room as the evening’s developments were announced on TVs lining the walls. (At one point, Cianci declined to sign a supporter’s copy of former ProJo reporter Mike Stanton’s book, The Prince of Providence, and signed a piece of paper instead.) Around 9:50 pm, as General Treasurer Gina Raimondo was giving her victory speech for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on TV, Cianci stepped up to deliver a fiery speech that began with him bellowing, “My name is Buddy Cianci. I’m running for mayor of Providence. I’m optimistic about our future, and I’m ready

to go to work,” before the screams of the crowd drowned him out. Today’s press conference was called so Cianci could introduce his team: campaign co-chairs Leah Williams Metts (a community activist who rallied against the closure of the Davey Lopes pool) and veteran Providence city councilman Kevin Jackson; chairman and treasurer Charles Mansolillo (a former state rep and city councilman described in a press release as a “longtime friend and associate of Cianci”); campaign manager Cyd McKenna (a former policy staffer from Cianci’s time at City Hall); finance chair Deedee Witman (a prominent East Sider who has previously served as finance chair for campaigns of Richard Licht and Joe Paolino); and campaign press officer Beryl Kenyon (a member of Cianci’s press office from 1992 to 2002). It’s also a chance for the press to pepper the former mayor with questions about whether he’s a polarizing figure (“Really?” delivered with a smile), his health (“Perfect”), his past (“I’m the most vetted candidate, probably, in America”), and tax policy, which has already emerged as a battleground in the brand-new general election race. (Earlier in the day, Cianci told News Radio 920’s Ron St. Pierre, “My opponent . . . proposes a municipal income tax.” Newly-crowned Democratic nominee Jorge Elorza quickly fired back in an email to the Phoenix, “I have no plans to make any new taxes part of my agenda as mayor. On the other hand, my opponent — in his own book — said the first thing a new mayor should do is raise taxes and then ‘blame it on the previous administration.’ ”) Team Cianci says they’ll be releasing policy papers on public safety, education, economic development, and arts and culture over the next few weeks. Which leaves us, for now, to simply ponder the contradictions the campaign presents. Aside from the “this is not about personality” claim from a man who still sells his own brand of marinara sauce, Cianci has proclaimed his “humility,” yet he rides around town in the aforementioned BuddyMobile. He has talked of his “contrition,” yet repeatedly touts that he was acquitted of all but one of his felony charges. He often says his campaign is about the future, yet perhaps the loudest cheers and “Buddy . . . Buddy” chants on primary night came when he yelled, “We’ll get it done again and raise this city to the heights that it achieved back in 2002.” Earlier that evening, we asked him how, as he so often proclaims, he is going to lift the self-esteem of a city that’s more than a decade removed from his last day in office. “Very simple,” he said. “We did it before. We’ll do it again . . . times don’t make a difference.”

_Philip Eil

The completion of the sale of The Providence Journal to the newspaper mega-conglomerate GateHouse Media — officially announced in the paper on Wednesday, September 3 — felt less like a Buckingham Palace change of the guard and more like a tornado had touched down on Fountain Street. According to veteran Journal reporter and longtime Providence Newspaper Guild President John Hill, 22 employees were not re-hired by the Journal — laid off, in other words — in the Belo-to-GateHouse transition. The most notable of them was beloved ProJo columnist Bob Kerr, whose dismissal brought howls of anger and dismay. On Twitter he was hailed as “one of American journalism’s treasures” (WGBH News senior editor Peter Kadzis), “our own RI Woody Guthrie of journalism” (local artist/writer Jessica Rosner), and “the voice of RI and a model of human decency” (Brown University professor of biostatistics Joe Hogan). Boston Globe reporter and Journal alum Mark Arsenault tweeted, “Why not just visit every reader individually, and slap them in the face when they open the door?” There were other changes, too. Head to the Editorial Board’s page on providencejournal.com and you’ll find the ranks trimmed from five members to four. Gone are stalwarts Irving Sheldon and David Brussat (both reportedly let go), with interim publisher Bernard Szachara, in their place. (It should be noted that the board remains strikingly middle-aged, male, and white.) And then there are the promises and premonitions. The good news is — if you believe anything Gatehouse publicly says, that is — according to an interview Szachara granted to the Journal, the paper will ultimately hire enough new staffers to bring the paper to 98 percent of its presale, 350-employee total. The paper will also be bolstering its investigative reporting staff, Szachara said. According to the September 3 edition of the Providence Newspaper Guild’s newsletter, The Guild Leader, though, Gatehouse “officials said they intend to outsource ad makeup work by the pre-pub department in January [2015] and the work of the copy desk in February, which could mean as many as 30 more layoffs over those two months.” “These are good jobs,” Hill told us in a phone interview. “People can feed a family with these jobs. They can own a home with these jobs. And they’re gonna be gone.” So, what’s the mood like inside ProJo HQ? It depends whom you ask. In a September 7 column that conspicuously parroted Szachara’s promises of new

hires and increased investigative reporting while whitewashing both the disastrous Belo era and the anguish of recent days, longtime columnist Mark Patinkin — who did not lose his job in the change in ownership — wrote, “despite transition pains and the loss of a few beloved colleagues, I’m reporting today from the inside that the mood is pretty good.” He called the change “a historic transition.” John Hill, meanwhile, sees things differently. “As somebody who has talked to people in the newsroom, people in the advertising department, people in the photography department . . . people are very upset with the way this is going,” he tells us. Given indications the paper may lose up to 50 jobs over the course of the GateHouse-ProJo absorption process, “I don’t see how anyone would feel reasonably good about that,” he says. In response to that potential for further layoffs and the general de-Rhode Island-ization of the Ocean State’s revered news organization, the September 3 Guild newsletter promised, “We will be doing actions in the building to demonstrate the seriousness of our concerns and we will be taking our story out into the state at large, so readers and advertisers know what is at stake here.” Over the phone, Hill tempered those words slightly. “The first and best way to resolve these things is at the bargaining table,” he told us. “We have some very strong concerns, but at the same time there is a process, and it’s served us well over the decades, and we will see if it serves us well here.” He expressed confidence that the Guild will be sitting down for negotiations with the new ownership “fairly soon,” and he also added, “When this is all over, we have to live with these guys.” We at the Phoenix will be certain to keep you updated on those developments. But in the mean time, we’ll note our agreement with Mark Patinkin on at least one point: the GateHouse acquisition of the Journal is, indeed, historic. Local media observers will note Tuesday, September 2, 2014, as the day The Providence Journal cut loose the man Mark Arsenault calls “the conscience of the newspaper.” As Bob Kerr told Rhode Island Public Radio, “After 43 years-plus, I was out of there in about 10 minutes.” To listen to Kerr’s farewell column — graciously aired by Rhode Island Public Radio during “Morning Edition” on Friday, September 5 — go to ripr.org/post/ bob-kerrs-final-column. For the latest updates from the Providence Newspaper Guild, go to riguild.org.

‘We will be doing actions in the building to demonstrate the seriousness of our concerns and we will be taking our story out into the state at large.’

_Philip Eil

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The Festival Circuit

At slAter mill, steAmpunk, beer, And ‘rAttlesnAke rock’ “If it’s giant clockwork robots, it’s Steampunk. If it’s giant engine-powered, Nazi robots, it’s Dieselpunk,” Melissa Honig explains between bites of her picnic sandwich. Honig’s look is part 19th-century frontier explorer and part mad scientist. A magnifying glass hangs around her neck; two test tubes are holstered at her side; skeleton keys dangle from her waist. She wears a white blouse topped by a brown vest that almost matches her breeches. Completing the outfit are a safari hat and a parasol. She is Steampunk. It’s Saturday, September 6, and Honig, who lives in Waltham, has traveled to Pawtucket’s Slater Mill for the first annual Slater’s Ar(t)chitecture and Manufacture Festival, or SAMFEST. SAMFEST, produced by Slater Mill and part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival’s month-long list of events, has a Steampunk theme and today there is a Steampunk picnic. Later in the evening there will be a Steampunk Soiree, featuring live “Balkaninfluenced” rock from Alec K. Redfeam & the Eyesores, a band with a French horn, accordion, and standup bass. The 1920s-inspired dance troupe, the Chifferobe TropiGals, will also perform, though they’re actually a bit modern to be considered Steampunk. But that’s okay. SAMFEST is more than just Steampunk. The two-day event is filled with makers, musicians, and artists. A large tent housing a stage, dance floor, and rows of foldout chairs covers the majority of the lawn behind Slater Mill, and serves as a hub for the festival. By Sunday at 4 pm, eight bands and one poet have performed on the stage. To one side of the tent is the Blackstone River; to the other, a smattering of smaller tents with an eclectic mix of vendors, artists, and craftspeople. The Pawtucket Rotary Club sells locally brewed beer at one; the Rhode Island Spinners Guild offers demonstrations of pre-industrial spinning and weaving techniques at another. A Slater Mill haunted house tent (the “Paranor-Mill” tent) is up briefly, but inexplicably collapses. The demonologist/ghost expert underneath is taken to the hospital with a minor concussion. Of the day’s theme, Peter Johnson, who has traveled from Plainville, Connecticut with his family, says, “Everybody has a different definition of it. It’s almost easier to say what is not Steampunk.” It’s certainly not digital, or related to the combustion engine.

But like other subcultures — punk or goth, and all culture, for that matter — there’s no all-encompassing way to describe it. Common Steampunk influences include the Victorian Age, H.G. Wells, the Wild West, Jules Verne and, of course, steam power. Honig praises the films Wild Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for capturing the style of Steampunk, though, “they’re not necessarily great movies,” she adds. Like Steampunk, SAMFEST is difficult to peg, with a wide array of aesthetics from various times, places, and peoples on display. The Bosch Ensemble trucks in a 10-foot-long hurdy-gurdy (a wooden, crank-turned string instrument) for their set, women sit under the Spinners Guild tent operating pedal powered spinning wheels, and food trucks abound. The LM Vintage Instruments tent has a bass guitar signed by Aerosmith’s Tom Hamiliton for sale and James Lentz from Providence’s DIY arts/technical training center, the Steel Yard, describes the process of aluminum casting. There’s an “old school” meets “new school” flavor to the whole thing, which somehow creates its own school, elusive yet distinct. Things almost come into focus sometime around 1:30 pm on Saturday afternoon, when the second musical act, Nightmom, a two-man guitar-and-drums duo, takes the stage. They’re introduced as the very first “Rattlesnake Rock” band, and guitarist Travis Lloyd points out what nobody is thinking: it’s an amazing coincidence that the very first Rattlesnake Rock band was asked to play at the very first SAMFEST. “But you never know what’s going to happen in this life,” he says. Like everything else about the festival, Nightmom is an unusual fusion of genres (electric low-fi with tinges of metal, psychedelic rock, surf guitar riffs, and jam band). In theory, everyone in the crowd is equally unaccustomed to Rattlesnake Rock, but the older members of the audience receive the band’s music with blank, expressionless faces. It’s not a problem. The very next day, the same faces are smiling for Michelle Cruz and her 18-piece big band’s spot-on impersonation of Natalie and Nat King Cole’s jazz. At SAMFEST there is something for everybody, just don’t spend too much time trying to figure out what it is.

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g n i h c a stories d l o t e b o t theater

Swift on Grounded; and a Sneak peek at the SeaSon

_BY Bill RodRi guez

whAt wAs your response when you first encountered the plAy? It’s high time

someone wrote a compelling play about this extraordinary shift in wartime strategy and the accompanying “rules of engagement.” I immediately was drawn into a game of intellectual leapfrog. Shouldn’t you have to show up at the O.K. Corral? Is it possible for war to be fair? Should fairness even enter the equation? Is war a social contract of sorts? Why not kill from the safety of your Barcalounger?

hAve you seen it stAged? No, and I much

prefer to direct plays I have never seen before. It is far more interesting to enter a world with a blank canvas.

whAt does hAving the drone pilot be A womAn rAther thAn A mAn Add to the drAmAtic possibilities? I suppose it does add a

dash of anticipated feminism to the dramatic brew, but the playwright creates a series of events that could evolve as easily with a male if we substitute pregnancy for another benign reason for grounding a pilot. The female gendered behavior of the husband adds fascinating layers to the interplay between the war room and the bedroom. I suppose those with a women-have-no-place-inwarfare bent will see the pilot’s challenges as female weakness when the truth is that men experience the same trauma post their warrior high. One hopes any human would.

brAnt hAs tinkered with the plAy over the pAst couple of yeArs, such As expAnding on the relAtionship between the pilot And her husbAnd. Anything new for your production? I have stayed

away from any reviews of previous productions so I couldn’t really say in any detail. However, I just learned a bit in passing the other day about an earlier staging that surprised me and I can say that this production is 180 degrees from that earlier incarnation. Sure, productions can be better or worse, but most often they are just different in vision and expression of same. Our team worked to tell the story in a vivid

presented by the wilbury group: Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis’s tHIs beautIful CIty examines the growth of the evangelical movement in Colorado Springs (September 18-October 12). Next is Lucas Hnath’s

way that we believe is true to the playwright’s intent even if it is outside the boundaries of what he envisioned as he wrote Grounded. Brant gives us language that pours forth like a flash flood forming an arroyo. You have to work hard to keep your head above water. Fortunately, Liz Hayes, who plays the pilot, is wildly up to the task.

a PublIC readInG of an unProduCed sCreenPlay about tHe deatH of Walt dIsney (November 6-23), a

As A director, whAt were the most chAllenging And interesting Aspects of the plAy to work with? The structure of the story is one that leaps off the page, just aching to be told. It is essentially a 40-page monologue that should take you on a ride like up to the taSk Hayes in the Gamm’s Grounded. a flyover with the Blue Angels. So pace and action rests on one set of shoulders. I love the At 2nd story theAtre in Warren, an challenge as do the rest of the production encore production of A.R. Gurney’s sylvIa team. It’s also a close look at issues that is reprising the tale of the dog of the hit us as headlines everyday. Civil wars in title comically complicating a marriage the Middle East are destabilizing the global (through September 14). For a thrilling community. Drones are the war toy du jour change of pace, the crime drama enron, while we sell F-16s to our past and inevitaby Lucy Prebble, is based on a true story bly present enemies. This play defies anyof corruption by a ruthless CEO at a major body to ignore the ethics of warfare all the oil company (October 3-November 2). while making the concept laughable. Overlapping at the downstairs theater, Lee I love it when someone hands me a Blessing’s eleemosynary follows a dedicatscript that is like a 3-D puzzle with images ed young girl determined to win a national akin to an Escher lithograph. Directing spelling bee (October 24-November 23). Grounded is just that experience. oceAn stAte theAtre has a varied fall season. Starting things off pleasantly is The Gamm will continues its 30th the Lerner and Loewe musical my faIr season with a pre-suffrage examination lady (September 24-October 19), as Henry of women’s plight, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Higgins once again turns a flower pedGabler, directed by Tony Estrella (October dler into a passable aristocrat. The mood shifts with Frederick Knott’s dIal m for 23-November 30). trinity repertory compAny opens murder (October 29-November 16), as an its 51st season with a couple of classics. evil husband who has already maimed his Artistic director Curt Columbus has transwife for insurance money now intends to lated Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov for its murder her for the same reason. Finally, the musical comedy meet me In st. louIs, current production (through October 5), directed by Brian McEleney. In this early based on the 1944 Judy Garland movie, work of the playwright, the title character takes the stage December 3-28. is troubled and alienated from the world epic theAtre compAny’s ComPleat around him, a Russian Hamlet. On a female staGe beauty, by Jeffrey Hatcher, lighter note, the season continues with is presenting 17th-century actors examinNeil Simon’s romantic comedy barefoot ing the appropriateness of only men playing female roles (through September 20). A In tHe Park (November 20-December 21). dark romance develops in Diana Son’s stoP It will be a fantastic fall at the providence performing Arts center kIss, when a couple are assaulted on the — as in fantasy, anyway. Theatergoers street after their first kiss (October 10-26). who can’t take reality these days are And Melissa James Gibson’s tHe busy invited to dream along with CInderella World Is HusHed deals with the Episcopal (October 10-18); JosePH and tHe amazInG Church and its fraught relationship with its gay membership (November 7-23). teCHnIColor dreamCoat (November 4-9); A New England premiere is being and Camelot (December 9-14). peter GoldberG

The fall theater season is bustling with promising productions, from a drama that’s known as Russia’s Hamlet to a dark comedy about a town hired to murder a millionairess’s former lover. But perhaps the most intriguing play is Grounded, by George Brant, which the sAndrA feinstein-gAmm theAtre is staging through September 28. It’s an intense one-woman drama about a scrappy fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy lands her behind a desk, remotely controlling terrorist-hunting drones in Afghanistan from the comfort of an air-conditioned trailer near Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, workday tensions and attitudes bleed into her family life. Some questions put to its director at Gamm, Judith Swift, proved illuminating.

darkly comic portrait and exploration of the man behind the legend. Public readings from Wilbury’s New Works program will take place on October 7 and November 18, and a yet-tobe titled New Works performance/dance piece still in development will be staged December 11-21.

contemporAry theAter compAny has a couple

of especially ambitious productions coming up. Adapted by Kevin Broccoli from the Friedrich Durrenmatt play, tHe vIsIt has a woman promising citizens $1 million each if they will murder her former lover (October 17-November 9). And the hilarious mrs. bob CratCHIt’s WHIte CHrIstmas bInGe, by Christopher Durang, says it all in the title (December 5-21). At brown university theAtre, Sock & Buskin is going from a twisted classic to two alumni-written plays. The Sondheim musical sWeeney todd starts the season (September 25-October 5), followed by Dominic Taylor’s HyPe Hero (October 30-November 9) and HeIst Play, by Skylar Fox (December 4-7). At roger williAms university theAtre, the classic comedy of manners sHe stooPs to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith, (October 10-18) is followed by two short plays, Eugene O’Neill’s tHIrst and no, by Colin Gallagher (October 24-25). And in Sarah Ruhl’s dead man’s Cell PHone, answering a dead man’s phone leads to an entertaining existential crisis (November 14-22). At providence college theAtre, Molière’s tHe ImaGInary InvalId draws humor from hypochondria (October 31-November 9), followed by the independent student production fully CommItted, by Becky Mode (November 14-16). At the university of rhode islAnd theAtre, Theresa Rebeck’s semInar will humorously explore the world of art and commerce (October 9-19), followed by the adventures of 11 puppet characters and three 20something humans adjusting to life in New York, in the musical avenue q (November 13-23). And on a date to be announced, Daydream Theatre will stage tHe man WHo saW snooPy, written and directed by Lenny Schwartz. ^

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music

! p u n e t lis

local favorites and sounds from all over the world

_By Chris Conti

Apparently summer ain’t done just yet (hey, we’re not complaining), but our annual fall live music preview is ready to rock, with plenty of local and national acts on tap to check out. It should make for another awesome autumn for Lil Rhody’s live music scene, so let’s get after it! Festival season remains in full swing around these parts (hot damn are we spoiled with countless budget-friendly fests), topped off with two free-of-charge fests happening on September 13. Head to PVD’s west side for the 4th annual neiGhBoR dayS Block PaRty, benefiting the West Broadway Neighborhood Association. You can’t go wrong with the lineup and locale, wedged between the E&O Tap and the Avery (and acclaimed dining nook north — oh, those Dan Dan Noodles!). And 75orLess Records, the East Bay imprint founded by Six Star General singer/bassist Mark “Slick” MacDougall, has lined up another killer roster for the 6th annual fuSion feSt, to be held in Burr’s Hill Park in Warren, overlooking the town beach; proceeds will benefit local non-profit Fusionworks Dance Company. Both events kick off around noontime, and did we mention both are 100 percent free? For more info on both festivals, check out our feature in this week’s “Homegrown Product” column. Artists’ Exchange (50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston, 401.490.9475, artists-exchange.org) will showcase its diverse and stimulating offerings at the very family-friendly 7th

Paint, haRd niPS, downtown BoyS, and GymShoRtS.

annual fall out of SummeR aRtS feStival

on September 21 from 11 am-5 pm (rain date: the 28th). There will be music by Steve Allain, Peacewise, Sheez Late, Red Ed & the Undead, Antonio Forte, and Chris McCormack, plus a street art contest, food trucks, a beer and wine garden, and a delightful sensory overload! 75orLess alums Black Oil Incinerator are lining up bands for fuZZ feSt on September 27 at Dusk (301 Harris Ave, Providence, 401.714.0444, duskprovidence. com), hands-down my favorite live dive in RI. Co-owners Rick Sunderland and Pat Butler have developed this small corner bar into a multi-genre live venue offering weekly events (Metal Night, Goth/Fetish night, etc.) and quality, wallet-friendly shows ranging from folk to hip-hop. On September 19 it’s thee faBulouS itchieS’ 20th anniversary reunion show with special guests, and head right back there the following afternoon for the acouStic Rock & Roll flea maRket, with live performances by cactuS attack, 7 yeaR Plan, maRk linSkey, and many more. We also salute local label midday RecoRdS (shoutout to stellar RI music ambassador and Satellites Fall guitarist Davey Moore) and their steady slate of shows, including a king-sized (and allages) album release party at Fête (103 Dike St, Providence, 401.383.1113, fetemusic. com) on September 20 starting around 5 pm and featuring special guest opening act the can’t notS plus plenty of new

The Columbus Theatre (270 Broadway, columbustheatre.com) has its usual marvelous mixed bag of offerings, from mount eeRie with the aSSemBly of liGht choiR (September 20) to comedian tiG notaRo (September 28) to The Daily Show wRiteRS StanduP touR (October 11) to mike douGhty’S woRld-Renowned,

awaRd-winninG queStion JaR Show

shaKinG the BlocK Mastodon will be at Lupo’s on october 30. tunes from the Sweet ReleaSe, BRotheR GhoSt, the JeSSica Pouty Band, the newly recalibrated Sexcoffee, and more, all for just $10 at the door. I’d lay my loot down on TJ Kelly and the SilkS as Next In Line for that big break; they’ll return home from yet another cross-country tour with friends Smith & weeden and townShiP opening at Fête on September 27 (a wellspent $8 for sure). Also at Fête, indie-rap fans rejoice for a trio of acclaimed national artists, starting September 12 when Boston-based rapper (and actor) Slaine blows through with his new album, King of Everything; the next night, rhymer extraordinaire immoRtal technique returns; and an early heads-up for underground crew cunnylinGuiStS with J-live making a stop in Olneyville on November 11. The Parlour (1119 North Main St, Providence, 401.383.5858) is another live hotspot, thanks to bossman (and old Living Room fixture) Aaron Jaehnig. They’ll host a full weekend of local artists performing for a great cause October 2-5, including allySen calleRy, Billy moRetti (Denver Boot), keith mccuRdy (Vudu Sister), aBle thouGht, noRtheaSt tRaffic, dylan Sevey, Bad motheRfuckeR, and a whole bunch more. There’s a $6-$10 requested donation at the door, and proceeds will help out the Trudeau Center’s Children Rec Program, which provides services for children with developmental disabilities. The aforementioned Dylan Sevey & the Gentlemen and Vudu Sister will open for the mallett BRotheRS at the Met

(1005 Main St, Pawtucket, themetri.com, 401.729.1005) on September 18. Booking guru Mike D. has a wide variety of killer shows on deck there, including jam-band vets max cReek (October 3), the aiRBoRne toxic event (October 5), dRive By tRuckeRS with the Silks (October 21), and the thuRSton mooRe Band on October 24. The Met’s big Downcity brother luPo’S heaRtBReak hotel (79 Washington St, Providence, 401.331.5876, lupos.com) is the only place you will see and hear longtime hometown faves Zox, back for a one-night stand with neo nouveau and the SuGaR honey iced tea on October 11. Big national acts on the horizon include Jimmy eat woRld’s Futures 10-year anniversary tour on October 18; “The Smokers Club Tour” led by rap (and reefer) legends method man and Redman, along with Cypress Hill’s B-Real (also known to get hiiiigh, soooo hiiigh); and maStodon will shake the entire block on October 30. At AS220 (115 Empire St, Providence, 401.831.9327, as220.org), the house that PVD renaissance man Bert Crenca built, you can catch atlantic thRillS and Ravi Shavi on September 13 (this one should be bananas); the thalia Zedek Band, mecca noRmal, motheR tonGue, and 75 dollaR Bill on September 25; heatheR RoSe in cloveR with guests the RuPeRt Selection, kaRma & the tRuth, and nymPhidelS on September 27; BloodPheaSant (yes!), haRRiS hawk, and Sweet JeSuS visit October 4; and prepare for eardrum annihilation on October 15 courtesy of whoRe

(November 12). The Providence Performing Arts Center (220 Weybosset St, 401.421.2787, ppacri. org) has hosted some legendary shows over the last 80 or so years, and this November PPAC ushers in a pair of big concert events: BoB dylan & hiS Band perform on November 15, and five-time Grammywinning jazz-pop vocalist/pianist diana kRall visits November 30. The Narrows Center For the Arts (16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA, 508.324.1926, narrowscenter.org) is gearing up for a jampacked autumn; highlights include guitar maestro leo kottke on September 19; the tuneful snark of the tuBeS on October 21; and a stellar night with maRty StuaRt & hiS faBulouS SuPeRlativeS on December 5 (get your Nudie suit dry cleaned). Jazz and blues fans will be heading north regularly to Chan’s (267 Main St, Woonsocket, 401.765,1900, chanseggrolls andjazz.com). The fall slate includes a CD release party for dan moRetti & the hammond BoyS with duke RoBillaRd on September 20; BaRRence whitfield & the GRitS and GRoceRy oRcheStRa on October 17; and a special Halloween show with maRia muldauR. The coffeehouses and folk/trad/ roots rooms get all warmed up when fall arrives. Stone Soup Coffeehouse is returning to Slater Mill (67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket, stonesoupcoffeehouse.com) and will kick off its 34th season on October 4 with Geoff muldauR; on December 6, maRk eRelli will celebrate the release of Milltowns, his tribute to the late Bill Morrissey. The Blackstone River Theatre (549 Broad St, Cumberland, 401.725.9272, riverfolk.org) hosts an array of world-class string-driven ensembles, including the alt, with John Doyle, Nuala Kennedy, and Eamon O’Leary on September 20; tannahill weaveRS on October 11; and väSen on October 25. The Common Fence Music series (at the Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Rd, Portsmouth, commonfencemusic.org) opens with cheRyl wheeleR on September 20 and puts the spotlight on local talent on November 22 with the hoRn of Plenty muSic event, featuring Bob Kendall, Will Houlihan & Haunt the House, the Rusty Pickup String Band, and EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks. And the Sandywoods Center For the Arts (43 Muse Way, Tiverton, 401.241.7349, sandywoodsmusic. com) encourages you to get up close and personal with vance GilBeRt (September 28), fRanciSco PaiS (October 25), and the Battlefield Band (November 8). ^

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DANCE

g N i h C t E str s E i r A D N thE bou soaring with strange fruit, and a full slate of bold moves

_bY Johne tte rodri guez

As surely as leaves turn in autumn and students turn pages, this season brings forth many turns and turnings in the Rhode Island dance community. With a half-dozen resident companies presenting fulllength programs, college dance companies bringing in guest performers, and FirstWorks stretching the boundaries of what Rhode Islanders get to experience in the world of dance, the opportunities are numerous and wide-ranging. Firstworks (firstworks.org) celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a free street festival, Urban Carnevale, on September 20. One of the featured groups, from Melbourne, Australia, is strangE Fruit, which does movement and mime above the heads of their audiences, on poles that the performers skillfully sway and swivel. Because their wordless motions express abstract ideas and convey basic human emotions, their performances also have elements of theater and the circus. Having performed around the world, including at the Sochi Olympic Games last winter, float on FirstWorks’ Urban Carnevale will present Strange Fruit on September 20. they’ll be at the Providence Rink with a piece called Spheres ( 7:30 and 9:30 pm). The performers now they will play Providence (8 pm at the princess from Swan Lake in an actual lake. not only stand on bendable poles but inside Providence Rink). The evening will also offer a chance to and atop giant fabric spheres. Or, rather, watch a rehearsal in the Black Box Studio, Other dance offerings in Rhode Island that is the illusion. First they shimmy up and wine and food will be served. this fall: the poles, pull the spheres up around them, FBP’s chatterBOXtheatre will present EvErEtt DancE thEatrE (now officially and then they lean out the top opening or Peter and the Wolf on November 9 and 16. Everett CompanyStageSchool, everettri. collapse inside or push their bodies so high Their ever-popular in-studio series, “Up org) is in its second year of developing a on a perch on the pole that they appear to Close On Hope,” runs November 1, 7, 8, new touring piece, titled Freedom Project, be on top of the spheres. 14,15, and 21 (with other stints in February drawn from many of the “Brain Cafes” They describe this piece as taking a and April). And FBP’s annual staging of The which Everett sponsors (watch for them “whimsical look at physics, the miracle of this fall). The popular family-welcoming Nutcracker will be at PPAC December 19-21. birth, and humanity’s existential relation- improv series, Friday Night Live, returned In its 27th year, Fusionworks DancE ship to our planet.” The orbs are illumilast week and continues through June. comPany (fusionworksdance.org) will hold nated within and without in ever-changFNL combines improv with dance, music, its annual Fusion Fest at Burr’s Hill Park ing colors and the accompanying music is performance pieces, and lots of laughs. in Warren on September 13, with bands, a also otherworldly. On-the-spot musicals bring together beer garden, an array of food trucks, and Another international group at Urban Everett artists, up-and-coming performlots of dancing. Their fall concert will be Carnevale will be canzoniErE grEcanico ers, and guitarist/composer Bertrand on October 24 at Rhode Island College’s Laurence in a hilarious creative mix. Sapinsley Hall. As the state’s only modern salEntino, a seven-piece band which On October 5, FEstival BallEt dance repertory company and led by artisplays the frantic and frenzied dance called pizzica tarantata (among many other ProviDEncE (festivalballet.com) will pres- tic director Deb Meunier, Fusionworks presents dance numbers from guest choregenres from ancient Italian folk music). ent “Collaborations,” a benefit event for This is a healing trance dance to six-beat the company that combines the talents of ographers, choreographer/dancers within the company, and Meunier herself. The rhythms, originally intended to cure the dancer Vilia Putrius and photographer A. bite of the tarantula, performed here Cemal Ekin in a gallery show of 24 photos pieces always range widely in theme, style, mood, and tempo. by Silvio Perrone. Londoners and New featuring a classical ballet character in Rhode Island’s second Nutcracker-maker Yorkers have raved about this group, and a “natural” setting, such as the swan

and Newport’s long-standing contemporary ballet company, islanD moving co. (islandmovingco.org ) will present the Newport Nutcracker November 28-30 and December 2-5 at Rosecliff, moving audiences and dancers through several rooms of the mansion (it sells out early, so don’t put off ticket-buying). On October 10, IMC will present a full program at Rhode Island College, with artistic director Miki Ohlsen leading her company through a diverse batch of dances choreographed by associate artistic director Spencer Gavin Hering: the lighthearted Levitations; Scott Putman’s complex and epic Land of a Thousand Reflections; and pieces by Stephanie Martinez and Andrea Dawn Shelley.

JumP! DancE comPany

(jumpdancecompany. org), a group of young dancers under the direction of Mary Paula Hunter who learn to perform original choreography, will have their moment at FirstWorks’ Urban Carnevale — they will be part of FirstWorks’ Rising Stars showcase on September 20. Jump!’s 14th annual presentation of Scenes from The Polar Express, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg, will take place December 20 and 21. Hunter will present Paula Hunter Away from Home on November 7 and 8 at the Church of the Redeemer in Providence. Her pieces are always eccentric, funny, and cutting edge, but they also cut close to the bone. At Providence College (providence.edu/ theatre/), the BlackFriars DancE concErt will take place in the Smith Center for the Arts on November 21 and 22, with guest choreographers Betsy Miller (Providence); Andrea Dawn Shelley (Newport); Andrea Higgins, Ali Kenner Brodsky and Kathleen Nasti (Boston area). At rogEr williams univErsity (departments.rwu.edu/dance), the Dance Department’s “Basement Series Performances” will feature two guest choreographer/performers in collaboration with the RWU Dance Theatre. On October 4, New York-based Jen Rosenbilt will present “A Natural Dance,” which premiered in May at the Kitchen; and on November 8, Somerville-based Nicole Pierce brings her company EgoArt to Bristol. ^

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television

h c t a w o t e k i we l a demon hunter, a virgin, and a bad judge are ready (or not ?) for prime time

_by jesse papin eau

Every autumn, we all struggle to return to our normal routines. Whether it’s going back to school, dieting again, or actually working a full five-day week, resuming the grind can be difficult. However, one routine that’s never hard to fall back into — because, if you’re like me, you never got out of it — is plopping down on the couch and taking in some of the new television season’s offerings. This year we have what’s become the standard smattering of new shows: comic book adaptations, murder mysteries, Scandal clones, and soon-to-be-cancelled NBC comedies. Let’s get to it!

PulP fictions

GotHaM | FOX | Mondays @ 8 [premieres September 22] | When Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. proved last year that superheroes could work on the small screen — and within a small budget — Fox decided it was time to take a get in the game by taking a chance on the Caped Crusader. Marketed as a Batman prequel, Gotham seems more like the origin story of future Commissioner Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), who begins the series by investigating the murder of young Bruce Wayne’s parents with his partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue). The show introduces us to a slew of recognizable Batman villains in their early years including Catwoman, the Riddler, and the Penguin, plus season one big bad Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith). The producers have also stated that the Joker will be a major part of the show, but have been cagey about who is playing him — keep an eye out for hints and clues as they’re sure to drop them throughout the first season. tHe FlaSH | CW | Tuesdays @ 8 [premieres

October 7] | This highly anticipated spinoff of the CW’s well-regarded Arrow stars Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, a forensic investigator who gets struck by lightning after a particle accelerator explodes, leaving him with superhuman speed. As other “metahumans” begin popping up following the explosion, Allen becomes the Flash, vowing to use his speed to help protect Central City. Gustin’s Allen was well-received by fans after being introduced in the second half of Arrow’s last season, so expect more crossovers and Easter eggs to come. And this show should last as it’s produced by David Nutter, known in the industry as the “pilot whisperer” for his amazing track record of getting pilots ordered to series; The Flash is the 20th debut episode he’s directed.

conStantine | NBC | Friday @ 10 [premieres October 24] | Following the modest successes of the genre shows Hannibal and Grimm, NBC is taking another chance here with Constantine, an adaptation that will reportedly be more faithful to the DC Comics source material Hellblazer than the 2005 film that starred Keanu Reeves. Welsh newcomer Matt Ryan stars as the titular John Constantine, a con man and demon hunter who defends the world against “dark forces from beyond,” alongside the show’s most recognizable face, Lost’s Har-

baCKstory The cast of Gotham. old Perrineau, who plays Manny, an angel who guides John through his supernatural quest. At least give the pilot a shot, as it was directed by Game of Thrones vet Neil Marshall, the man responsible for two of the series’ most action-packed, visually stunning episodes.

GettinG dramatic

MadaM Secretary | CBS | Sundays @ 8 [premieres September 21] | We’re plenty used to the Law & Orders of the world using ripped-from-the-headlines stories as plots for single episodes. But with Madam Secretary, CBS used Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi hearings as a launching point for their more mature answer to Scandal. Tea Leoni returns to the small screen as Elizabeth “Hillary” McCord, a former CIA analyst who is appointed Secretary of State after an accident claims the life of her predecessor. With veteran producers Morgan Freeman — who, inexplicably, does not have a role in the show — and Lori McCreary at the helm, a proven lead actress, and a flexible, albeit formu-

laic, plot, this show has the CBS DNA that should make it a fixture on Sunday nights for years to come.

How to Get away witH Murder | ABC |

Thursdays @ 10 [premieres September 25] | Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes apparently doesn’t have to do much to sell a show these days, including coming up with a halfway decent title. Rhimes’s latest entry stars Central Falls native Viola Davis as a lawyer and professor whose students will stop at nothing — including, like, actually murdering people — for a chance to join her firm. The tagline promises “sex, lies and murder,” which is pretty much par for the course for Rhimes, who now produces ABC’s entire Thursday night prime time block.

Gracepoint | FOX | Thursdays @ 9 [pre-

mieres October 2] | After the outstanding True Detective and Fargo wowed critics and viewers alike, Fox is trying its hand at bringing a cable-quality mini-series to broadcast with Gracepoint, a faithful adap-

tation of the BBC hit Broadchurch. The show examines the tumultuous aftermath of a young boy’s murder after his body is found on the beach of a small California town, and the media frenzy that comes with it. Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn stars alongside David Tennant, who played the lead role in the British original.

Jane tHe VirGin | THE CW | Mondays @ 9 [premieres October 13] | While their shows are not usually my cup of tea — or most people over 16 — the CW may have found a winner here with this wholly original, quirky dramedy. Critics are fawning over relative newcomer Gina Rodriguez, who plays the titular Jane, a young Latina who was saving herself for marriage until her gynecologist accidentally artificially inseminates her. Whoops! In reality, this would end in a lawsuit. But this is the CW, so Jane soon finds out the donor is her boss and high school crush, which causes issues between her and her betrothed as she struggles to decide whether or not to keep the baby. It’s a pretty heavy premise wrapped

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Whodunit? Tennant and Gunn in Gracepoint. up in a lighthearted telenovela-style presentation that should appeal to people from all walks of life.

nBc’s constant comedy reset and a millennial SeinFeld

With Parks and Recreation bowing out after its seventh season next spring and the perennially on-the-bubble Community finally taking its talents elsewhere (new episodes coming to Yahoo! Screen in 2015!), NBC has had to reshuffle their deck once again. Only time — and Nielsen ratings — will tell which of these three will make it to next year, and which will end up like last year’s non-world-beaters, The Michael J. Fox Show and Sean Saves the World.

Marry Me | NBC | Tuesdays @ 9 [premieres

October 14] | The premise — two lovebirds (Ken Marino and Casey Wilson) know they want to be together forever, but keep awkwardly bungling their various marriage proposals — seems like it would be barely sustainable for a 90-minute romcom, nevermind a weekly sitcom. But I’m giving this show the benefit of the doubt because Marino has been hilarious in everything he’s done (Party Down, Role Models). And it’s in good hands with writer David Caspe, who also created the clever but cancelled Happy Endings.

a to Z | NBC | Thursdays @ 9:30 [premieres October 2] | A lighthearted romantic comedy in the vein of How I Met Your Mother, A to Z follows the blossoming love story of Andrew (Mad Men’s Ben Feldman) and

Zelda (Cristin Milioti, AKA the Mother) from first date to nuptials. Hopefully Milioti doesn’t die in this one, too. The full pilot is streaming at NBC.com.

Bad JudGe | NBC | Thursdays @ 9 [premieres October 2] | From executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay comes Bad Judge, which chronicles the life of the honorable Rebecca Wright (Kate Walsh), a hard-ass arbiter who balances her reckless, carefree lifestyle by doling out strict sentences. However, Wright gains some perspective when she meets an eight-year-old boy whose parents she sent to jail, and he’s just as quick to judge as she is. Mulaney | FOX | Sundays @ 9:30 [premieres

October 5] | Recently ousted Fox chairman Kevin Reilly deemed this show the “Seinfeld for a new generation” at May’s network upfronts, and it’s easy to see why. Former SNL writer and standup John Mulaney plays himself, a New York comic (check) whose two best friends (check) and wacky neighbor (check!) are constantly butting into his life. While Elliott Gould as a 21stcentury Kramer might be a little too on the nose, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about this show. Standup should be a big part of it, as Mulaney showed in his latest DVD special New In Town that he is as good at delivering jokes as he is writing them. And, to further separate itself from the nihilistic Seinfeld, Mulaney follows the titular character’s journey to become a good person, even if he ultimately finds it pointless. ^

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k r o w f bodies o art

human forms and alternative figures

_By GreG Cook

This fall, Providence museums and galleries offer queer prints, funk paintings, wisecracking signs, and contemplations of our bodies and women today. Plus candy for you to actually eat!

and flowers as a bulwark against sorrows all around us. | October 1-31 | University of Rhode Island’s Feinstein Campus Gallery, 80 Washington St, Providence | uri.edu/prov/arts/currentgallery.html

“What nerve! alternative figures in ameriCan art, 1960 to the Present” |

Prints by 29 LGBTQ-identified artists range from agitation to quietly poetic contemplations of identity. | September 21October 3 | 186 Carpenter, 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter.tumblr.com

A history of art since 1960 focused on funky outsiders, rascals, and punks from Chicago, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, and Providence (Forcefield!). Rarely seen in museums because they scrawled too many comics, tattoos, monsters, wisecracks, and sexy things for the usual gatekeepers to stomach. | September 19-January 4 | RISD Museum, 20 North Main St, Providence | risdmuseum.org

“solamente tamara: Colorful soul” | A social worker and artist, Tamara Diaz’s rainbow bright, graffiti-style paintings are populated with people and hearts

“Queer Communities in Print Portfolio” |

“embodied: the figure in Paint” | Identity, social narrative, and physical materiality are probed by six artists as they paint and mediate on our human bodies. | October 4-25 | Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister lisa Perez | Wood and canvas cut into

swarms of bubbles or curious rectangles that have gone wobbly. Perez paints them

©GeorGe CoNDo. imAGe CourteSy SkArSteDt GAllery

Wild Women George Condo’s The Banker’s Wife, from “SHe” at Bell Gallery. on the front, of course, but also the back, so that hidden hues reflect off walls becoming halos. Everything feels charmingly handmade and a bit funny and delicately magical. | October 4-25 | AS220 Project Space, 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220.org

nafis White and garCía sinClair: “mile high, red hot” | Jars filled with candies

from around the world (you can eat ’em) are the centerpiece for the artists’ exhibition exploring “desire, consumption, the ephemeral, and the individual versus collective memory.” | October 9-November 16 | Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St, Providence | yellowperilgallery.com

“layers” | New work from two abstract artists — Masha Ryskin, whose paintings can bring to mind fissured rocks, and Allison Paschke, whose mix of gold, porcelain, and translucent resin evokes the treasures unearthed in ancient tombs. | October 24-November 22 | Candita Clayton Gallery, 999 Main St, Pawtucket | canditaclaytonstudio.com

figure studY Ann Gale’s Portrait With Gold, from “embodied” at Bannister Gallery

Pat falCo: “great aCCePtations” | Falco makes paintings that you hang on walls and stuff — funny paintings with funny

captions, executed in a sort of half-assed manner. Which just equals funnier. Then he takes his razor-sharp humor into the world by painting next to one of those “dig safe” warnings on the pavement: “Dig Far/Dig Wide/Dig like/Nobody is watching.” Or chalking on the back of a colonial gravestone, “Oops.” | October 16-November 15 | GRIN, 60 Valley St, Providence | grinprovidence.com

“she: PiCturing Women at the turn of the 21st Century” | This exhibition

looks at what boldfaced-named artists have to say about women today. As far as I can tell, top artists seem to think that the ladies are sort of weird, kind of sexy, sometimes psychedelic, and have bodies. | October 25-December 21 | Brown University’s Bell Gallery, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/campus-life/arts/ bell-gallery

William allen | Allen is a poet who paints pithy lists of words. Consider an excerpt from his Little Rhody: “Providence Place/ Ladd Observatory/Easy-Bake Oven/Bannister House.” | November 8-December 18 | Cade Tompkins Projects, 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com

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Pawtucket Arts Festival

16th Annual

SEPT. 5 - SEPT. 28 Most Events are Free unless otherwise indicated and Outdoor Events are Rain or Shine unless indicated. Saturday and Sunday

SEPTEMBER

20 th & 21st

11:00 am~~-5:00 pm Music • Food • Activities • Arts & Crafts 16th Annual Pawtucket Arts Festival Presents

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over 50 artists in one location

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Music, Demonstrations, Food & Beverages

SPONSORED BY: Friends of Pawtucket Library, Pet Food Experts, Webster Bank, TD Bank, Bristol County Savings Bank, RI Textile, Ocean State Printers, City of Pawtucket, Pawtucket Arts Panel, Pawtucket Teachers Alliance Design by John Hunter Housley

SATURDAY FREE CONCERT RI PHILHARMONIC POPS IN THE PARK AT 5:30 FOLLOWED BY FIREWORKS

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FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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15th Annual Pawtucket Film Festival

Fine Art & Contemporary Craft

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Music, Food, Drinks, Short Films, Features, and a T-Shirt ALL for $10 (per scheduled time)

Armory Art Center 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket artsmarketplacepawtucket.com Schedule of Events Most Events are Free unless otherwise indicated and Outdoor Events are Rain or Shine unless indicated.

Louisiana Night September 12th • 5 p.m. - 11 p.m. Pawtucket Town Landing (Taft Street) Admission $20 pre-sale, $30 the day of Tavares, JJ Caillier & Zydeco Knockouts, Slippery Sneakers Forget-Me-Not Gallery* & The Samaritans presents “Reflections of Africa” September 12th • 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 67 Park Place • Free Admission Rhode Island Watercolor Society Fall Art Experience* September 13th & 14th 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Slater Park • Free Admission Slater Park Fall Festival September 13th & 14th 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Slater Memorial Park • Free Admission 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. • Slater Park Ramble presented by Stone Soup* Pawtucket Teachers’ Alliance presents “Pops In The Park” with the RI Philharmonic Orchestra September 13th (Rain date Sept. 14) • 5:30 p.m. Fireworks to follow • Slater Memorial Park • Free Admission

Third Annual James McNally Wilson 15th Annual Irish Music Festival Pawtucket Film Festival September 13th • 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. September 26th - 28th Murphy’s Law Irish Pub • Free Visitor Center • $10 (Includes T-Shirt, Admission Music, Food & Beverages) Arts MarketPlace* September 20th & 21st City of Pawtucket 15th Annual 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Photo Contest Awards* 172 Exchange St • Free Admission • September 28th • 4 pm Music by The Rossonians Visitor Center • Free Admission XOS -Exchange Street Open Studios* * Sponsored by September 20th & 21st The Pawtucket Arts Review Panel 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Five Mills in the Armory District • Free Admission For More Details: Central Falls Bright Future Festival September 20th 12 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Jenks Park • Free Admission www.PawtucketArtsFestival.org Aurea Presents*: Not About Heroes September 21st • 7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Slater Mill • Free Admission Mixed Magic Theater* September 24th - 25th 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Slater Mill • Free Admission Boys & Girls Club - Day for Kids September 27th • 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. One Moeller Place • Free Admission

Pawtucket Arts Festival is Sponsored By 16th Annual

Donald R. Grebien, Mayor

www.PawtucketArtsFestival.org

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Juan José barboza-gubo | New work from a maker of hyper-real, freaky, dreamy sculptures — like a deer licking the belly of a naked dude standing atop a tombstone. | November 20-December 17 | | Wheeler School’s Chazan Gallery, 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org

Jr uretsky | Uretsky is the sort of artist

who sneaks into your house (with permission), wraps herself in random fabric, foam, and tape, and wanders around while someone videotapes her. The results

are weird, funny, kind of endearing. The experts consider her one of the hottest emerging artists in New England. | November 10-December 15 | 186 Carpenter, 186 Carpenter St, Providence | 186carpenter. tumblr.com

alan metniCk: “roadnotes” | Cannons

aimed at the sea, road signs, and other photographic visions from Metnick’s wanderings across Spain, Poland, Israel, and the US over the past couple decades. | November 20-December 13 | Studio Z, 25 Eagle St, Providence | galleryzprov.com ^

turning Point Alan metnick’s Crossroad, at Gallery Z.

URI Feinstein Providence Campus Arts and Culture Program presents September 2 - 26

October 23, 7:30pm

BRINGING GUANTÁNAMO HOME - GUANTÁNAMO PUBLIC MEMORY PROJECT An international traveling

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

exhibit, with works by local photographers, students, and Cuban detainees at GTMO from the Brown University Center for Public Humanities. Sept. 11, 6pm Opening Reception and Film at 6:45pm Guantánamo Circus

Sept. 18 Gallery Night Providence 5-9pm Sept. 25, 7pm Panel Discussion Who is a Refugee? What makes a Refuge? Rhode Island Stories of Immigrants and Refugees.

October 1 - 31 SOLAMENTE TAMARA: COLORFUL SOUL A solo exhibit of visual art by local

artist and therapist, Tamara Diaz an active member of the latino community presented in celebration of Latino history month and the NALAC Conference.

Gallery Night Reception October 16 5-9pm

October 2 - 5 PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

performance from SOAR – Overcoming Domestic Violence.

November 3 - December 12 ART AND HEALING: CHRISTIANE CORBAT – THE LEGACY CONTINUES An exhibit for area healing artists, art therapists and rehabilitative arts representing the use of art in healing, inspiration, transforming and overcoming illnesses. Includes work from Smoking Cessation. Nov. 20 Gallery Night Reception 5-9pm with Tenderloin Opera gallery performance and artist sharings.

November 15, 7:30pm & November 16, 3pm OH FREEDOM OVER ME a musical tribute by Cheryl Albright and Thomas Reed Jones about five African American Women and how their music healed the nation and the artists themselves.

URI Feinstein Providence Campus - 80 Washington St, Providence, RI 02903 Hours: Mon. – Thurs. 9-9, Fri. & Sat. 9-4, Closed Sundays (evening and weekend summer hours may vary) For information call 401-277-5206 uri.artsandculture@gmail.com or visit uri.edu/prov/arts Follow us on twitter @URIprovarts. All events are free and open to the public.

RISD MuSeuM What Nerve!

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present sep 19, 2014–jan 4, 2015

Design the Night Celebration sep 18, 5–9 pm, free What Nerve! is supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Support for Summer at the Museum is provided by the Providence Tourism Council and the City of Providence.

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Installation view of Forcefield’s Third Annual Roggabogga, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002. Copyright Hisham Bharoocha. Photo by Hisham Bharoocha.

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sEPT 20 + 21 | FiRsTWORKs PREsENTs THE LEGEND OF THE FAIRY MELUSINE, an opera in five acts by

FEsTiVal PREsENTs “auREa: NOT aBOuT HEROEs, a presen-

tation of the play by Stephen MacDonald about the World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. The production by the Aurea Ensemble features actors Nigel Gore and Rudy Sanda, with period music of Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith performed live with violist Consuelo Sherba, plus World War I tunes and improvisations performed by harmonica virtuoso Chris Turner | 7:30 pm | Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org

OcT 5 | THE RHODE islaND cOllEGE cHamBER ORcHEsTRa aND small ENsEmBlEs | 7:30 pm |

PHilHaRmONic ORcHEsTRa

with pianist Jon Nakamatsu performing works by Shostakovich,

sEPT 20 | cHERYl WHEElER +

Beethoven, and Rimsky-Korsakov | 8 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $35-$150 | 401.248.7000 | riphil.org OcT 25 + 26 | BROWN uNiVERsiTY

Chris Trapper | 8 pm | Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth | $35 | 401.683.5085 | commonfencemusic. org sEPT 20 | THE miDDaY RElEasE PaRTY with the Sweet Release + SexCoffee Bros. + the Quins + Brother Ghost + the Can’t Nots + the Jessica Prouty Band | 4 pm | Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence | $10 | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic.com sEPT 20 | cHRis YOuNG | 7 pm | Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf | $39.50-$59.50 | 4.1.846.1600 | newportwaterfrontevents.com sEPT 20 | DaN mORETTi & DuKE

cHORus FamilY WEEKEND cONcERTs featuring Fire Songs of Morten

Lauridsen, and Water Night of Eric Whitacre and works of Stanford, Elgar, and Monteverdi | Oct 25 8 pm @ RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Walkway, Providence + Oct 26 2 pm @ Sayles Hall at Brown University, Waterman and George sts, Providence | $10, $3 students + seniors | 401.863.3234 | brown.edu/music/ events OcT 25 | EasTERN cONNEcTicuT sYmPHONY ORcHEsTRa with pianist Henry Kramer performing works by Rachmaninov, Thomas, Kancheli, and Tchaikovsky | 8 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $TBA | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org OcT 29 | “DiVa TRiPlE PlaY,” with soprano Lori Phillips, mezzosoprano Mary Phillips, and pianist Judith Lynn Stillman | 1 + 7:30 pm | Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | Suggested donation $10 | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu

NOV 8 | QuiRKORia ii: THE REmaTcH, a piano duel with Bill

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NOV 14 | cONNEcTicuT lYRic OPERa PERFORms sTRauss’s DER ROSENKAVALIER | 7:30 pm |

Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $50 + $56 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

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NOV 15 | THE RHODE islaND PHilHaRmONic ORcHEsTRa with

violinist Jennifer Koh performing works by Rossoni, Vivaldi, and Beethoven | 8 pm | The Vets, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence | $35$150 | 401.248.7000 | riphil.org NOV 16 | THE RHODE islaND cOl-

lEGE cHamBER ORcHEsTRa aND small ENsEmBlEs | See listing

for Oct 5

NOV 17 | THE muiR sTRiNG QuaRTET, with clarinetist Alexander

Feuerstein, will perform a new clarinet quintet by composer/musician Chris Brubeck, son of late jazz great Dave Brubeck, plus Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade and Claude Debussy’s String Quartet | 7:30 pm | Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $35, $30 seniors, $15 students | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu/pfa NOV 22 + 23 | THE PROViDENcE siNGERs will perform three motets by Johann Sebastian Bach (Komm, Jesu, Komm; Lobet Den Herrn; Jesu, Meine Freude) and Dan Forrest’s 2013 Requiem for the Living | Nov 22 8 pm @ Central Congregational Church, 296 Angell St, Providence + Nov 23 3 pm @ St. Mary’s Church, 330 Wood St, Bristol | $28, $5 students | 401.751.5700 | providencesingers.org NOV 22 | EasTERN cONNEcTicuT sYmPHONY ORcHEsTRa with

DEc 5 | THE RHODE islaND cOllEGE WiND ENsEmBlE will per-

POP music The address and contact info appears in the first appearance of each venue.

sEPT 19 | aZTEc TWO-sTEP | 8

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| The Spot Underground, 101 Richmond St, Providence | 401.383.7133 | thespotprovidence.com sEPT 19 | WiNDHaND + all THEm

WiTcHEs + ilsa + BlacK aciD PROPHEcY | AS220, 115 Empire St,

Providence | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

Nuala KENNEDY, aND EamON O’lEaRY] | 8 pm | Blackstone River

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dence | $10 advance, $12 day of show

sEPT 25-28 | THE PaWTucKET Film & music FEsTiVal | Part of

the Pawtucket Arts Festival | See website for complete details | Pawtucket Visitor Center, 175 Main St | thepff.com sEPT 25 | TauK + FORmula 5 +

THE JauNTEE + cOsmal & ali laZ

sEPT 26 + 27 | 8TH aNNual PKD music FEsTiVal | Sept 26, Young

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OcT 1 | a GREaT BiG PilE OF lEaVEs + DiamOND YOuTH + PRaWN + FiElD mOusE | 8 pm |

THE sTORY sO FaR + mODERN BasEBall + GNaRWOlVEs | 7 pm

| Lupo’s

OcT 3 | THE WailERs: 30TH aNNiVERsaRY OF lEGEND TOuR | 8 pm | Park Theatre | $27 + $37

OcT 4 | aNTHONY GOmEs | 8 pm |

Chan’s | $20 OcT 4 | GEOFF mulDauR | 8 pm | Stone Soup Coffeehouse @ Slater Mill, 67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket | $20 | 401.248.4692 | stonesoup coffeehouse.com OcT 4 | JO DEE mEssiNa | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre | $36-$51 OcT 4 | maGNOlia caJuN BaND | 7:30 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts | $12 advance, $15 door [BYOB + food] OcT 4 | POlaRis + NONPaRiEls + BiRD & HORsE | 8:30 pm | The Met | $15 advance, $20 day of show OcT 4 | maRcO BENEVENTO | 9 pm

EXPaNsiONs: THE DaVE liEBmaN GROuP | 8 pm | Narrows Center For

Kevin Devine, at Fête on October 10

OcT 11 | ZOX + THE suGaR HONEY icED TEa + NEO NOuVEau | 6:30

GREY cuRTaiN + WilD suRFacEs + BaD DREams | Manchester 65 |

Jones + sasha Dobson + catherine Popper | The Met | $22.50 advance,

THE GRiTs & GROcERY ORcHEsTRa | 8 pm | Chan’s | $12 OcT 17 | BONEY JamEs aND sTaNlEY JORDaN | 8 pm | Park Theatre |

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OcT 19 | NaRROWs BluEs BRuNcH WiTH JOHNNY HOY & THE BluEFisH | 8 pm | Narrows

Center For the Arts | $4o advance

OcT 21 | DRiVE BY TRucKERs + THE silKs | 9 pm | The Met | $22.50

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Sat. Sept. 13 • 8p $10 Rick Russell & the

Cadillac Horns - Blues/ R&B Sun. Sept. 14 • 2p $25 Bob Burt Benefit

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The Wild Cats featuring Kevin Crandall, Raynor Roberts, Bobby Christina and Jim Correira. The Hoolios, Johnny and The East Coast Rockers. .............................................................................................................................................................................................. Fri. Sept. 19 • 9p $10

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| 7:30 pm | Providence Performing Arts Center | $35-$75 NOV 28 | ORNamENT [TRaNs-

siBERiaN ORcHEsTRa TRiBuTE | 8 pm | Stadium Theatre | $21 + $26 NOV 28 | QuiNN sulliVaN | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts | $22 advance, $25 day of show NOV 28 | THROuGH THE DOORs | 8 pm | Chan’s | $15 NOV 29 | aBBEY RHODE [BEaTlEs TRiBuTE] | Sandywoods Center For the Arts | $TBA NOV 28 | THE BRiaN sETZER ORcHEsTRa | 8 pm | Grand Theater at Foxwoods | $20 + $40 NOV 29 | BRT HOmEcOmiNG cONcERT aND silENT aucTiON | 7;30 pm | Blackstone River Theatre | $15 NOV 29 | DaRlENE lOVE: lOVE FOR THE HOliDaYs | 8 pm | The Zeiterion | $30-$45 NOV 29 | PEacHEaTERs | 8 pm | Chan’s | $12 NOV 29 | RED EYE FliGHT | 8 pm | 8 pm | Common Fence Point Community Hall | $15 advance, $18 door NOV 29 | saRaH BORGEs BaND | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts | $20 advance, $23 day of show NOV 29 | sTaDium THEaTRE cHRisTmas with the Night Life Big Band | 7:30 pm | Stadium Theatre | $21 NOV 30 | DiaNa KRall | 7 pm | Providence Performing Arts Center | $45-$125 DEc 3 | a sERaPHic FiRE cHRisTmas presents “Carols by Candle-

| 6:30 pm | Providence Performing Arts Center | $29.50 + $39.50 DEc 5 | cElTic TWiliGHT cHRisT-

mas FEaTuRiNG PHil cOulTER aND aNDY cOONEY | 8 pm | Park

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WiTH FEliX caValiERE’s Rascals | 8 pm | Park Theatre | $35-$55 DEc 13 | saVOY BROWN | 8 pm |

cOmEDY sEPT 19 + 20 | TOm cOTTER | Com-

sEPT 27 | cOliN mOcHRiE & BRaD sHERWOOD: TWO-maN GROuP | Fox

sEPT 28 | BOBcaT GOlDTHWaiT

| Orpheum Theatre, 1 School St, Foxboro, MA | $25 | 508.543.2787 | baycolonyproductions.com

Comedy Connection | $15

OcT 10 | NicK sWaRDsON | Fox

Theater at Foxwoods Casino | $30-$60

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OcT 11 | THE DAILY SHOW WRiTERs sTaNDuP TOuR | Columbus Theatre

OcT 16 | THE JOKEs ON YOu cOmEDY TOuR with Bob Nelson + Artie

NOV 1 | micK FOlEY | Comedy Connection | $27

NOV 1 | RalPHiE maY | Fox Theater

DEc 5 | DiRTY, sEXY, FuNNY FEaTuRiNG JENNY mccaRTHY aND FRiENDs | Zeiterion Performing Arts Center | $35-$45

DEc 13 | Jim GaFFiGaN | The Grand Theater at Foxwoods | $40-$60

DaNcE OcT 10 | islaND mOViNG cO. | 7:30 pm | Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $15 | 401.456.8144 | islandmovingco.org

OcT 24 | Ric DaNcE cOmPaNY WiTH FusiONWORKs DaNcE cOmPaNY | 7:30 pm | Sapinsley Hall

at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $15 | 401.456.8144 | fusionworksdance.org

NOV 9 | FEsTiVal BallET PROViDENcE presents a chatterBOXtheatre production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf | 1 + 4 pm | Black Box Theater, 825 Hope St, Providence | $25, $15 children | 401.353.1129 | festivalballet.com

OcT 3 + 4 | cHRis DisTEFaNO | Comedy Connection | $15 OcT 3 | BRiaN REGaN | The Grand Theater at Foxwoods, 350 Trolley Line Blvd, Mashantucket, CT | $30$50 | 866.646.0050 | foxwoods.com

NOV 15 | maRTHa GRaHam DaNcE cOmPaNY | 8 pm | Zeiterion

Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $10 | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu

OcT 4 | cOmEDY ROasT OF FRaNK O’DONNEll | The Vets, 1 Avenue of

Theater, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $27-$47 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org

DEc 5 + 6 | THE RHODE islaND cOllEGE DaNcE cOmPaNY | 7:30 pm |

DEc 7 | iRisH DaNcE cHRisTmas

Dec 13 1:30 + 7 pm + Dec 14 1:30 pm | Garde Arts Center, 325 State St, New London, CT | $40 + $48 | 860.444.7373 | gardearts.org

EVENTs sEPT 20 | FiRsTWORKs uRBaN caRNEValE, with performances by

Strange Fruit, a theater, dance, and circus troupe from Australia; Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, a folk music group from southern Italy; Morocco’s Ribab Fusion; Sidy Maiga & AfriManding with Michelle Cruz & the Brown University African Dance Troupe; RI-Sounding Voices, a statewide chorus; plus visual arts from the Avenue Concept; a collaboration with Tape Art and the Providence Peace Flags Project; and FirstWorks’ Rising Stars, young virtuosos performing their cultural traditions | Events @ the Providence Rink and City Center | Free | 401.421.4278 | first-works.org sEPT 20 | THE PaWTucKET aRTs

FEsTiVal PREsENTs THE aRTs maRKETPlacE, a fine art and

FEsTiVal THE XOs EXcHaNGE sTREET OPEN sTuDiOs, with more

than 50 artists and designers in four renovated mill buildings in the of Exchange Street neighborhood | See website for complete details | 10 am4 pm | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org sEPT 20 | POP uP iN PaWTucKET featuring works by Daniel Koterbay, Beck Lane, Carl Dimitri, Christopher DeRosa, Julie McHoul DeRosa, Rafael Cuello, and Christopher Priority | Pawtucket Arts Collaborative at the Mill Gallery, 560 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket | pawtucketartscollaborative.org sEPT 21 | 7TH aNNual Fall OuT OF summER aRTs FEsTiVal with music by Peacewise [11 am] + Sheez Late [noon] + Steve Allain [1 pm] + Antonio Forte [2 pm] + Red Ed & the Undead [3:15 pm] + the Closers [4:30 pm] + the Carolyn Dutra Dancers [2:40 pm] + a beer and wine garden + a street art contest + carnival games + pumpkin painting + raffles and a scavenger hunt + food trucks + more | 11 am-5 pm [rain date Sept 28] | Artists’ Exchange, 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | $1, free under 13 | 401.490.9475 | artists-exchange.org sEPT 28 | THaYER sTREET aRT FEsTiVal | Thayer St, Providence | Free | festivalfete.com sEPT 28 | THE PaWTucKET aRTs FEsTiVal PREsENTs the winners of the 16th Annual Pawtucket Photo Contest | Pawtucket Visitor Center, 175 Main St | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org

OcT 4 | WaKEFiElD aRT FEsTiVal

NOV 1 + 2 | RHODE islaND cOmic cON with artists + writers + new

and old comics + celebrity panels + appearances by William Shatner + George Takei + Walter Koening + Nichelle Nichols + Jim Beaver + Tommy Flanagan + Karen Allen + John Rhys-Davies + Michael Rooker

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+ Eliza Dushku + Joey Lauren Adams + Lou Ferrigno + John Wesley Shipp + Peter Mayhew + Mick Foley + many more TBA | Nov 1 10 am-7 pm [afterparty @ 8 pm] + Nov 2 10 am-5 pm | Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence | $27 advance, $20 day of show | ricomiccon.com NOV 5 | TOmÁs KuBÍNEK: cERTi-

These listings contain info for future productions. For current shows, see the lisitngs on page 40.

BROWN uNiVERsiTY TEHEaTRE

FiED luNaTic aND masTER OF THE imPOssiBlE, a show that

encompasses comedy, clowning, mime, magic, acrobatics, music, and vaudeville | The Auditorium in Roberts Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | $35, $30 seniors, $15 students | 401.456.8144 | ric.edu/pfa

Film sEPT 25-28 | THE PaWTucKET aRTs FEsTiVal PREsENTs THE 15TH aNNual PaWTucKET Film FEsTiVal | Check website for up-

OcT 2-5 | PROViDENcE laTiN amERicaN Film FEsTiVal | See

website for complete details | plaff. org OcT 20-26 | 15TH aNNual RHODE

islaND iNTERNaTiONal HORROR Film FEsTiVal | See website for

liT EVENTs BROWN uNiVERsiTY liTERaRY EVENTs | At the McCormack Fam-

ily Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence [except where noted] | Free | 401.863.3260 | brown.edu/cw Sept 19 + 29 @ 7:30 pm, “Panic Cure: Poetry From Spain,” a bilingual festival featuring Pilar Fraile Amador, Marcos Canteli, Benito del Pliego, and Esther Ramón Sept 23 @ 7:30 pm, Bradford Morrow and Fanny Howe will read from their fiction Sept 25 @ 2:30 pm, Jesse Ball will read from his fiction Oct 1 @ 7:30 pm, The International Writers Project presents bilingual readings by poets Xue Di and Tran Khai Thanh Thuy Oct 7 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by poet Edward Pavlic Oct 16 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by fiction writer Lucy Corin Oct 28 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by poet Lisa Robertson Oct 30 @ 7:30 pm, a conversation with playwright and screenwriter Donald Marguiles Nov 6 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by poet Daniel Tiffany Nov 7 @ 7:30 pm, a reading by poet Suzanne Doppelt Nov 18 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by fiction writer Meredith Steinbach Dec 2 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by poet Sandra Doller Dec 11 @ 2:30 pm, a reading by poet Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi PROViDENcE POETRY slam | Sept 18 + Oct 2 + Oct 16 + more dates to be confirmed @ 8 pm | At AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org sEPT 20 | JOHN BuTZiGER will read from, discuss, and sign his new book, The Second Tree | 1 pm | Symposium Books, 1000 Division St., East Greenwich | Free | 401.560.0877 | symposiumbooks.com sEPT 20 | JOHN PORcElliNO will

Art, 1960 to the Present” | Nov 28Apr 26: “In Diverse Estimations Little Moscow,” works by Turkish artist Aslı Çavusoglu

screen Root Hog or Die, a documentary about his life and career, and sign his new book, The Hospital Suite | 2 pm | Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence | 401.573.2980 | ada-books.com

GallERiEs These listings contain info for future exhibits. For current shows, see the listings on page 40.

BaNNisTER GallERY aT RHODE islaND cOllEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm

| Oct 2-24: “Embodied: The Figure in Paint,” work by Susanna Coffey, Bob Collins, Ann Gale, Catherine Kehoe, Francoise McAree, Patrice Sullivan | Oct 30-Nov 21: “Qigu Jiang: Contemporary Ink,” an exhibit of works on paper | Dec 4-19: “New Art for a New Facility: Annual Faculty Exhibition” caDE TOmPKiNs PROJEcTs | 401.751.4888 | 198 Hope St, Providence | cadetompkins.com | Sat 10 am-6 pm + by appointment | Nov-Dec: new paintings by William Allen cHaZaN GallERY | 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazan gallery.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 2-4 pm | Oct 16-Nov 5: works by Michelle Benoit, Susan Doyle, and Joan Wyand | Nov 20-Dec 17: works by Juan José Barboza-Gubo DaViD WiNTON BEll GallERY | 401 863.2932 | List Art Center,

Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/campus-life/ arts/bell-gallery | Mon-Fri 11 am- 4

pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Oct 25-Dec 21: “SHE: Picturing Women At the Turn of the 21st Century,” featuring work by Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, Candice Brietz, Lisa Yuskavage, John Currin, Rebecca Warren, Glenn Brown, George Condo, Yayoi Kusama, Chris Ofill, Urs Fischer, and Jeff Koons DEBlOis GallERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Oct 4-28: works by Gail Carpenter, Peter Dickison, and Nina Pfanstiehl | Nov 1-23: ”Small Works Open Show” | Nov 29-Dec 24: “Holiday Invitational Arts & Artisans” DEDEE sHaTTucK GallERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Oct 1-Nov 9: works by Gail Fredell and Jean-Pierre Hébert | Nov 15-Dec 21: “Small Works” GRiN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Oct 16-Nov 15: “Great Acceptations,” by Pat Falco | Opening Nov 20: “SWELL,” a flat file/installation HERa GallERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Oct 18-Nov 15: ““Forty Years Interpreting Tradition,” the Saunderstown Weaving School’s 40th anniversary exhibition

imaGO FOuNDaTiON FOR THE aRTs | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St, Warren | imagofoundation4art.org |

Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Oct 17-Nov 8: “Multiplicities: New Directions In Fiber,” the ninth anual open juried exhibit | Nov 13-Dec 20: works by featured member Eileen Mayhew and guest artists John Irwin, Bill McLane, Kathy Kittell, and Elizabeth O’Connell

NaRROWs cENTER FOR THE aRTs GallERY | 508.324.1926 |

16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5 pm

ists’ Exchange, 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | outloudtheatre.org | Sept 22-Oct 4:

RHODE islaND WaTERcOlOR sOciETY GallERY | 401.726.1876 |

Metamorphoses, by Mary Zimmerman | Oct 24-Nov 1: Gruesome Playground Injuries, by Rajiv Joseph | Nov 14-30: Celebration of New Works THE PlaYERs | At the Barker Play-

Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Oct 5-23: “RIWS Member Group Show,” featuring work by Jerry Aissis, Denise Cornwall, Allen Halle, Donna Kenny-Kirwan, and Ben Macomber | Oct 25-Nov 20: “RIWS 2014 Northeast Regional Watermedia” | Nov 23-Dec 20: “Art Inspired by Song,” an open juried show

10-19: Guys and Dolls, book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser | Dec 5-14: Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward PROViDENcE cOllEGE THEaTRE | providence.edu | At Angell Blackfriars Theater, 549 River Ave | Oct 31-November 9: The Imaginary Invalid, by Molière | Nov 14-16: Fully Committed, by Becky Mode

| Nov 7-Dec 27: “Modern Spin: Contemporary Textiles in an Historic Mill,” a juried exhibition

Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeisland watercolorsociety.wildapricot.org |

sOuTH cOuNTY aRT assOciaTiON

uRi PROViDENcE camPus GallERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington

St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9

pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Oct 1-31: “Solamente Tamara: Colorful Soul,” works by Tamara Diaz | Nov 3-Dec 12: “Art and Healing: Christiane Corbat — The Legacy Continues” WOODs-GERRY GallERY | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Sept 26-Oct 5: “RISD In Rome: European Honors Program” | Oct 10-26: “Photography Departmental Exhibition” | Oct 31-Nov 16: “Printmaking Departmental Exhibition” | Nov 21-Dec 7: “Sculptuere Departmental Exhibition” YEllOW PERil GallERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Oct 9-Nov 16: “Mile High, Red Hot,” a mixed media exhibition by García Sinclair and Nafis White

musEums RisD musEum | 401.454.6500 |

224 Benefit St, Providence | risd museum.org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm

[Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am1 pm | Sept 19-Jan 4: “What Nerve! Alternative Figures In American

house, 400 Benefit St, Providence | 401.273.0590 | playersri.org | Oct

PROViDENcE PERFORmiNG aRTs cENTER | 401.421.ARTS | ppacri.org |

220 Weybosset St | Oct 10-18: Cinderella | Nov 4-9: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Dec 9-14: Camelot

RHODE islaND cOllEGE THEaTRE

| At Sapinsley Hall, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | Sept 24-28: Tartuffe, by Molière, translated by Christopher Hampton | Nov 12-16: The Little Foxes, by Lillian Hellman

RHODE islaND sTaGE ENsEmBlE | At Theatre Works, 142 Clinton St, Woonsocket | Nov 7 + 8: Superheroes

TRiNiTY REPERTORY cOmPaNY

At the Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad St, Providence | Nov 6-23: A

Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, by Lucas Hnath | Dec 11-21: a New Works performance/dance piece

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friday 12 the bucket’s full!

The Pawtucket arts festival kicks off its second week with louisiana night, at the Town Landing on Taft Street. J.J. Caillier & the Zydeco Knockouts and Slippery Sneakers will bring the southern grooves, but the headliner is from our corner of the world: recent Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame inductees Tavares (5-11 pm, $20 advance, $30 day of show). On Saturday and Sunday, the slater Park fall festival combines kids’ stuff, car shows, dance performances, music (the Spirit Family Reunion, the RI Philharmonic Pops, the Superchief Trio), and many more diversions (11 am-5 pm, free). And on Saturday, Murphy’s Law (2 George St) will host the JMW Irish Music Festival and 5K Run/Walk (10 am11 pm). Get all the details at pawtucketartsfestival.org

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brian Posehn wears a lot

of hats: you’ve seen him on TV (Mr. Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, Just Shoot Me) and films (Super High Me, Nerdcore Rising); heard him on record (Nerd Rage) and as a voiceover guy; he’s cowritten comic books, done three comedy albums and a DVD (The Fartist), and did a book with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross (Hollywood Said No). And he does standup. A few years ago he said, “A lot of my material comes from things that actually happen. Whether it’s my dog licking my wife’s vagina or my wife farting in a car and blaming me, things just happen and become jokes.” You can hear what else has happened around him lately at 9 pm at Fête, 103 Dike St, Providence | $20 advance, $22.50 day of show, $12 standing room | 401.383.1112 | fetemusic. com

wednesday 17 on the beat

Life moves fast these days, so it’s no surprise that there’s already a genre dubbed post-EDM. A prominent practitioner is suicideyear (nee James Prudhomme), a red-hot mixologist who was tagged as a “producer to watch” by The Fader, which admires his

friday | brian posehn @ Fête “sadly warped trap beats.” In that profile, James told the mag that his work sounds “a lot like what I think a noseblood would, or being 15 years old in December.” Suicideyear tops a MadStarBase bill that also features Philly’s grandeMarshall, ben PraMuk (who has a great Twitter handle: Heaven In Stereo), and locals hil holla (check the tracks from Providence: City of Lost Dreams at soundcloud.com/hilholla) and where’s nasty, whose U Remind Me of Summer mix (@ wheresnasty.com) is an instant party-starter. They’ll team up at the Fête Lounge, 103 Dike St, Providence. Doors are at 8:30 pm | $10 advance, $12 day of show | 401.383.1112 | fete music.com

thursday 18 Mixing Pixels

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Decay: Meditation/Disintegration, in which video frames are saved in incrementally lower file formats hundreds of times; and Carla Gannis’s Non-Facial Recognition Program, which “challenges surveillance software through a playful digital manipulation of social media profile images.” “Click Click Click” is at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence, at 7 pm | $5 | magiclantern cinema.com

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Saturday (the 13th), with all-day (and family-friendly) action from some of RI’s finest musical acts. Warrenbased label 75orLess Records fills the Fusion Fest 2014 bill with a hometown throwdown, while the capital city’s West End gets ready WEAVING THEIR SPELLS the sugar honey iced tea. to rock Narragansett Beer’s Neighbor Days Block Party. Both events kick off around noontime with Downeast Cider House, Foolproof, Two absolutely no cover charge all day! Roads, and more. Plenty of free parking Take Route 114 to Burr’s Hill Park for the and activities for the kids, too. 6th Annual Fusion Fest. This is the fourth Proceeds will benefit Fusionworks year Mark MacDougall has curated the muDance Company, Rhode Island’s only sical lineup via his label (75orlessrecords. modern repertory troupe. com). And Fusion Fest ’14 marks the first year at the new-and-improved location — Hi neighbor, let’s rage! The West “no more battling the wind and playing on Broadway Neighborhood Association clam shells” as they did at Blount’s Clam and Narragansett Beer present the 4th Shack, as MacDougall noted. annual Neighbor Days Block Party, held “We now have a large bandshell behind in Luongo Square between hipster/beardo us and a giant stage.” he said. “Getting havens the Avery and E & O Tap. This the sound right will be more of a chalyear’s lineup is particularly diverse, from lenge, but should be much better than the blue-eyed soul of Young Pandas (“born previous years.” And the scenic view overby the soul of Prince and Bill Withers and looks the town beach, so pull up a chair or wrapped up in the overtones of Passion Pit blanket and rock out with a wide variety and Phoenix”) to the Irish-inspired punk of 75orLess reps, ranging from roots-rock of Lucky United and Less Than a Felony. newcomers Foul Weather Friend to singerAnd I would bet that 2014 WBRU Rock songwriter icon Mark Cutler, slated to perHunt champs the Rare Occasions will win form an acoustic set. Be sure to get there over even more followers. This year’s Feelearly for our old friend and Galvanize singers EP showed major growth from the PVD er/guitarist Bill Keough, playing a solo set foursome; “Dysphoric” has an antsy Arctic of material from his forthcoming 75orLess Monkeys vibe. We haven’t heard much album, The Slow Get Up. SwampBirds feafrom (75orLess alums) Sweet Love lately, tures members of Cardboard Cannons and but the 2012 debut platter Motor is a sludgy the Assembly of Light Choir. Warren’s and stoned beast (like the first Queens favorite mail carrier Jeff Davies — aka Jeff album) beamed in from the 1970s (T. Rex). the Postman, who released an album on Some excellent singer-songwriters will 75orLess last year — will perform poetry take the ’Gansett stage, namely Brian throughout the day with musician friend McKenzie (formerly of Kilgore Smudge), Prescott Cronin (of Boston-based ’80s the sultry jazz of Miss Wensday & the punk band Chain Link Fence) backing him Cotillions, and acclaimed quartet the on guitar. One of my all-time favorite Sugar Honey Iced Tea, which just released Rhody rock bands, Coma Coma, will folits debut LP, Silver Spells. And expect a big low (around 2:30 pm); singer/bassist Eric reception for Smith & Weeden, riding Sampson, guitarist Steve Demers, and high behind the self-titled debut released drummer Dan Ulmschneider surely will earlier this year. Jesse Emmanuel Smith bust out more new tracks from the loooongand Seamus Weeden have been kicking awaited follow-up to 2010’s Chateau Rex. up barroom rock-and-roll with countryThe trio is also known for blistering, spotfried, whiskey-soaked harmonies since on covers from indie greats like Pavement, 2007, alongside bassist Ollie Williams and Dinosaur Jr, and Sparklehorse. And buy a the multi-talented Dylan Sevey on drums beer or three for Ulmschneider, who will (who also serves as lead vocalist and guipull off his first onstage triple-play behind tarist for the Gentlemen). the kit for the There will be mighty Six Star raffles and asGeneral followed sorted outdoor fun by his debut with and games, plus a Fusion Fest headwide selection of liner Bob Kendall mobile eats from & the Crisis CelNoble Knots, Juebration Band. lian’s Omnibus, There will and Tricycle Ice be food trucks Cream — and, of (including the course, plenty of Blount Clam Shack ’Gansett brew for Express) and an purchase. All proexpanded beer garceeds will assist POWER TRIO coma coma. den serving BBC, the WBNA. ^

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short story writer isn’t one of his strongest. Nevertheless, in a new translation by artistic director Curt Columbus, Trinity Repertory Company is bravely opening its season with it (through October 5), in an especially energetic production, directed by Brian McEleney. Both fortunately and oddly, it’s a comedy. Fortunately, for the obvious reason of keeping us entertained and distracted from the play’s weaknesses, and oddly because the namesake is as extremely unfunny as a character can be without kicking puppies. Despite all the skill and heart-wrenching that Stephen Thorne brings to enlivening Nikolai Ivanov, and despite the character having been described as the Russian Hamlet, he is an empty suit, a one-note, self-described whiner. Although the prescient existential anomie of the man could have made modern audiences identify with him, Ivanov is incessantly belaboring his one complaint: a happy, productive person a year before, he now finds himself bereft of hope and vitality, a state that baffles him since his hovering black cloud popped up out of the blue. He’d been madly in love with his wife Anna, but after five years that passion has evaporated. “The flowers come back every spring,” Anna observes. “Can’t happiness ever come back?” No such luck. And he’s broke, having neglected his estate, not able to pay a workman until the next rents come in. He married a Jewish wife, and everyone thinks that he

did so because her parents were rich, not expecting that they would disown her for converting. His doctor and seeming friend, Yevgeny (Richard Williams), accuses him of “soulless egotism,” although he has the character flaw of preening self-righteousness, unfailingly citing his virtue when those around him prove less saintly. (We know who eventually turns hypocrite, don’t we?) Ivanov’s social circle is equally dispirited, though not despondent: someone observes how bored they are more frequently than kids in the backseat on a long trip. Did I mention that this is a comedy? Really. The opening ensemble entrance and many of the musical interludes burst with festivity. Ivanov’s estate manager, Misha (Joe Wilson, Jr.), is a joyful sort from the first scene, and the life of a later dull party from the moment he enters. He’s also above-and-beyond loyal to his boss, offering to marry an ugly local rich widow and split the dowry. That widow is Martha Babakina, and Angela Brazil is unrecognizably horsey with a buck-teeth rig — and very funny, playing her like a giddy schoolgirl whenever Ivanov’s fun-loving uncle, Count Matvey Shabelsky (Fred Sullivan, Jr.), jokingly flirts with her. One of the people that Ivanov owes money to is Zinaida Lebedev (Anne Scurria), who is such a cheapskate that at a get-together she’s holding she grabs up all the vodka bottles as soon as guests leave the room for a minute. She is the wealthy wife of an influential man in the community, Pasha (Timothy Crowe), the president of the county council. Crowe has a delightfully anguished and embarrassed scene when at the insistence of his wife he has to beg Ivanov to start repaying her. In a Russian version of young women being attracted to bad boys, the lovely Sasha Lebedev (Marina Shay), half the age of Ivanov, reveals that she has been “out of my mind with love” for the depressed, insight-free, ersatz Hamlet. (Well, he does call himself a “commonplace psychopath.” A point for that.) Sasha offers to run away to America with him on the spot. That manages to bring joy back to the man; but the next day, he’s back to brooding. By this time, half the audience must have wanted to leap onto the stage and throttle him, and the other half would have cheered. Toward the end Ivanov says, “I am like a shadow walking among real people.” While the real people in this play — and the animated actors in this ironically joyful production — add up to a convincing depiction of the milieu, the central character remains a cipher. Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a burgeoning font of illuminating observations. Chekhov’s is a bore. ^

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Band + Garda + the Amadans + the Auld Locals + Brian Twohey + Jordon Tirrell-Wysocki + Band Ireland + Poor Richard + the JMW Irish Festival 5K Road Race @ 10 am | 10 am-11 pm | Murphy’s Law, 2 George St, Pawtucket | 401.724.5522 | pawtucket artsfestival.org

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raffles + vendors + music by the Rare Occasions + Young Pandas + Brian McKenzie + the Sugar Honey Iced Tea + Miss Wensday & the Cotillions + Jeff Byrd & Dirty Finch + Less Than a Felony + the Quahogs + Sweet Love + Smith & Weeden & Friends + Papa Squash + the Chislers | 12-6 pm | Free | wherevent.com/detail/M-I-N-P-OP-U-P-S-H-O-P-narragansett-beersneighbor-days-block-party 6TH ANNUAL FUSION FEST with the Bob Kendall Crisis Celebration Band + Mark Cutler + Six Star General + Prescott Cronin/Jeff the Postman + SwampBirds + Coma Coma + Bill Keough + Outlaw in Peru + Foul Weather Friend | 12-7 pm | Free admission, proceeds benefit Fusionworks Dance Company | facebook. com/events/1530550847163802

4TH ANNUAL LOCAL BREW FIDDLE N FOLK FESTIVAL with fiddle

workshops and jams at 9:30 am + storytellers Len Cabral and fridnds + music on the Main Stage starting at 11 am with Pendragon + the Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island + the Sunday Night Jammers + Golden Bantams (featuring EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks) + Bay Spring Folk + Magnolia (with Michelle Kaminsky

and Alan Bradbury) + Mister Whodo + Andy Grover + the Bluegrass Invitation Band + John Fuzek + the Jobe Trio + Barry Brown + food trucks + local artisans | Haines Memorial State Park, Haines Park Rd, Barrington | bsccri.org/event/4th-annual-localbrew-fiddle-n-folk-festival

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THE BASKETHOUSE WITH G.W. MERCURE | 8 pm | Cafe Zog,

FRIDAY 12

RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC SUMMER POPS CONCERT with

the Spirit Family Reunion | 3 pm | Slater Memorial Park, Newport Ave & Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | Free | 401.248.7000 | pawtucketarts festival.org ROY BOOK BINDER + Michael Tarbox | 7:30 pm | Lily Pads, 27 North Rd, Peace Dale | $18 | musicatlilypads.org THE AL KEITH COLLECTIVE | 7:30 pm | Courthouse Center For the Arts, 3481 Kingstown Rd, West Kingston | $10 | 401.782.1018 | courthousearts.org TOM RUSH | 8 pm | Narrows Center For the Arts, Fall River, MA | $40 BRET MICHAELS | 2 pm | Indian Ranch, 200 Gore Rd, Webster, MA | $32-$49.50 | 508.943.3871 | indian ranch.com

SUNDAY 14

BEACH BOYS TRIBUTE BY THE DRIFTWOODS | 2 pm | Stadium The-

atre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | $21 + $29 | 401.762.4545 | stadium theatre.com

CASSIE & MAGGIE MACDONALD + THE BRENDAN CAREY BLOCK BAND | 7 pm | Blackstone River

Theatre, 549 Broad St, Cumberland | $15 | 401.725.9272 | riverfolk.org CHRIS ISAAK + the Mystix | 8 pm | Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA | $45-$65 | 508.994.2900 | zeiterion.org PRONK! FAMILY FUN DAY with mask-making + costumes + instrument-making + muisc by the Extraordinary Rendition Band + Avenue Concept youth DJs + snacks + more | 10 am-1 pm | The Avenue Concept Gallery, 304 Lockwood St, Providence | $10-$20 family donation [to feed + transport Pronk! musicians] | 401.490.0929 | facebook. com/events/251921628339837 SARAH MCQUAID | 7 pm | Sandywoods Center For the Arts, Tiverton | $15 advance, $20 door [BYOB + food] THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND | 2 pm | Indian Ranch, Webster, MA | $31-$48.50

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16TH ANNUAL PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL | At various venues city-wide | See website for details | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketarts festival.org

THURSDAY 11

44TH ANNUAL NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW with

FRIDAY 12

ANNUAL FOLK ART QUILT SHOW with more than 100 quilts by New England artists | 10 am-4 pm | South County Museum, Strathmore St, Narragansett | $8 | 401.783.5400 | southcountymuseum.org MISQUAMICUT FALL FEST with a midway + petting zoo + classic car shows + an international food court + music on Sept 12 by Haunt the House + the Savage Brothers + Who Are You: A Celebration of the Who + the Automatics + Justin Harris + on Sept 13 by Tumblin’ Dice + the Whole Facade + Spirit Shaker + Roger Ceresi’s All Starz + the Beach Band + Elliot Lewis of Hall & Oates + Weekend Wilburys + on Sept 14 by the Steamuhs + Freddy & the Yettis + Black & White with Erik Narwhal + Pinnacle Wrestling Entertainment [Sept 13 @ 8 pm] + more | Sept 12 5-11 pm + Sept 13 11 am-11 pm + Sept 14 11 am-5 pm | Misquamicut State Beach, Atlantic Ave, Westerly | $7, free under 4 | misquamicutfestival.org

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SATURDAY 13

STEPHANE WREMBEL & HIS BAND | 8 pm | The Narrows, Fall River, MA | $20 advance, $23 day of show

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PROJECT 401 PRESENTS “ON THE FLOOR,” a dance extravaganza

44TH ANNUAL NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW | See list-

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PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE SLATER PARK FALL FESTIVAL | Saturday high-

lights include music by Spirit Family Reunion [3 pm] and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Pops [5:30 pm]; a classic car cruise; and a performance by the RI Dance Alliance | Sunday highlights: music by the Superchief Trio [noon] and Magnolia [2 pm]; and a sneak peek of the Haunted Tunnel | See website for complete details | 11 am-5 pm | Slater Memorial Park, Newport Ave & Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | Free | 401.724.5200 | pawtucketartsfestival.org PROVIDENCE ROLLER DERBY with the Old Money Honeys vs. the Sakonnet River Roller Rats [raindate Sept 14] | 7 pm | Bank of America Skating Center, 2 Kennedy Pl, Providence | $10 advance, $15 gate, $5 ages 5-12, free under 5 | providence rollerderby.com THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER | 8 pm | Twin River Event Center, 100 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | $20-$35 | 877.82RIVER | twinriver.com

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SUNDAY 14

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with mask-making + costumes + instrument-making + muisc by the Extraordinary Rendition Band + Avenue Concept youth DJs + snacks + more | 10 am-1 pm | The Avenue Concept Gallery, 304 Lockwood St, Providence | $10-$20 family donation [to feed + transport Pronk! musicians] | 401.490.0929 | facebook. com/events/251921628339837

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THURSDAY 18

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The Goonies [9.11] and O Brother, Where Art Thou?[9.18] | Movies On the Block, Westminster and Union sts, Providence | Free | indowncity.com

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MAGIC LANTERN CINEMA presents “Click Click Click,” a screening of GIFs and videos | 7 pm | Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St, Providence | $5 | magiclanterncinema. com

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FRIDAY 12

DERRICK BROWN AND CRISTIN O’KEEFE APTOWICZ will perform

their poetry | 9 pm | Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway, Providence | $10 advance, $12 day of show | columbus theatre.com

SUNDAY 14

MONDAY 15

ANA ARELYS CRUZ CABRERA will present her new bilingual poetry collection, Inspiration of the Soul/Inspiración del Alma | 5:30 pm | Cranston Public Library, 140 Sockanosset Cross Rd, Cranston | Free | 401.943.9080 | cranstonlibrary.org WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ will discuss and sign his new book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite | 6 pm | Brown University McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | Free | brown.edu/ campus-life/support/bookstore/ events

TUESDAY 16

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and sign his new book, The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community | 6 pm | Brown Bookstore, 244 Thayer St, Providence | 401.863.3168 | brown.edu/campuslife/support/bookstore/events

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GREG FLEMMING will discuss and sign his new book, At the Point of Cutlass, which pieces together the story of a man thrust into the violent world of a pirate ship and his daring survival and escape | 6:30 pm | Providence Public Library | Free | 401.455.8000 | provlib.org PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM | 8 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence | $4 | 401.831.9327 | as220.org

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“NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GUANTÁNAMO: ART, ACTIVISM, AND ADVOCACY,” a conference with legal

scholars, historians, and activists | 8:30 am | Brown University’s Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence | Free, but registration is required; see website for details | 401.863.2809 | brown.edu/academics/ public-humanities/events/newperspectives-guantanamo-artactivism-and-advocacy

TUESDAY 16

“SYRIA AND IRAQ: HOLY WARS AGAIN?” | A talk by George Kassis

sponsored by the East Bay Citizens For Peace | 7 pm | Barrington Library, 281 County Rd | 401.2471920 x 312 | barringtonlibrary.org

THURSDAY 18

“LANDSCAPE AS URBANISM,” a

talk by Charles Waldheim, the John E. Irving professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University | Part of the Landscape Architecture Lecture Series | 7 pm | Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal Institute Building at the University of Rhode Island, Greenhouse Rd, Kingston | Free | 401.874.2983

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10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “A Change of Seasons,” works by John Fast and Nina Briggs ARTISTS’ EXCHANGE | 401.490.9475 | 50 Rolfe Sq, Cranston | artistsexchange.org | Through Sept 13: “Convergence,” an exhibit by artist and curator Reed McLaren, the third installment in her Integrated Exhibitions series, which will highlight work from Resources for Human Development RI, Flying Shuttles Studio, and (gallerie ellipsis) ARTPROV GALLERY | 401.641.5182 | 150 Chestnut St, Providence | art providence.com | Through Sept 11: “Patterns & Perspectives,” works by Marjorie Hellman, Nick Paciorek, Jeff Schneider, and Nina Weiss | Sept 16-Oct 10: “Earthen Elements,” abstract paintings by Vibha Nanda AS220 | 401.831.9327 | 115 Empire St, Providence | as220.org | WedFri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm + by appointment | Through Sept 28: “Weirdo Stuff” by Steve Mardo | “Night Photography” by Kevin Reardon | “Stasis: New Work,” by David Fischer | “Fences: New Work,” by Lindsey Whelan AS220 PROJECT SPACE | 401.831.9327 | 93 Mathewson St, Providence | as220. org | Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 12-5 pm +

by appointment | Through Sept 28: “Safe Space,” a collaborative drawing project by Delia Kovac and Marissa Paternoster | “Welcome Home: A Sweet and Sour Quilt,” an installation by Brooke Erin Goldstein

BANNISTER GALLERY AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE | 401.456.9765 |

600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence | ric.edu/bannister | Tues-Fri 12-8 pm

| Through Sept 26: “Graphic Design from Konkuk University,” “where traditional Korean culture melds with Western communication media, featuring posters, package designs, book designs, advertisements, and website designs” BERT GALLERY | 401.751.2628 | 24 Bridge St, Providence | bertgallery.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat 12-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “Summer Tides,” paintings celebrating the end of the summer season

BROWN UNIVERSITY’S WATSON INSTITUTE | 111 Thayer St, Providence

| Through Oct 31: photographs of Rio de Janeiro by Cesar Barreto CHARLESTOWN GALLERY | 401.364.0120 | 5000 South County Tr, Charlestown | charlestowngalleryri.com | Daily 10 am-5:30 pm | Through Sept 16: “Diamonds & Rust,” paintings by Amy Goodwin and Mark Freedman

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| 401.421.9230 | 228 Angell St, Providence | chazangallery.org | Tues-Sat 11

COURTHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | 401.782.1018 | 3481 Kingstown

Rd, West Kingston | courthousearts. org | Opening Sept 12: “The 2014 Fall Art Exhibit,” with new work by Eileen Lee Singer, Donna Caster, and A.J. Greenwood

DAVID WINTON BELL GALLERY |

401 863.2932 | List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence | brown.edu/Facilities/ David_Winton_Bell_Gallery | Mon-

Fri 11 am- 4 pm; Sat + Sun 1-4 pm | Through Oct 12: “Audible Spaces,” sound installations by Zarouhie Abdalian and [The User] and at the Cohen Gallery at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts [154 Angell St] by Tristan Perich DEBLOIS GALLERY | 401.847.9977 | 134 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown | debloisgallery.com | Tues-Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “Uncommon Women,” works by Izabella Casselman, Judi Israel, and Karen Nash DEDEE SHATTUCK GALLERY | 508.636.4177 | 1 Partners Ln, Westport, MA | dedeeshattuckgallery. com | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 12-5 pm | Through Sept 28: paintings by Richard Whitten and painted wood works by Emi Ozawa GALLERY NIGHT PROVIDENCE | 401.490.2042 | 1 Regency Plaza, Providence | gallerynight.info | Sept 18 5-9 pm: Gallery Night Providence | Tours of 21 galleries, museums, and historic sites | This month’s celebrity guides are collector Linda Kushner; artist and art educator Kerry Murphy; and Jason Tranchida, graphic design and publisher of Headmaster magazine GRIN | 60 Valley St #3, Providence | grinprovidence.com | Sat 12-5 pm | Through Sept 13: “tttrip.,” a group exhibit of installation and sculpture by Claudia O’Steen, Garret Gould, and Sophia Sobers | Sept 18-Oct 11: “Making/Unmaking,” new work by Charlie Smith HERA GALLERY | 401.789.1488 | 10 High St, Wakefield | heragallery. org | Wed-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Oct 11: “New Visions,” works by Iris Donnelly, Connie Greene, Elizabeth Lind, Jill McLaughlin, Mara Trachtenberg, and M.J. Yeager

HOXIE GALLERY AT THE WESTERLY LIBRARY | 401.596.2877 | 44

Broad St, Westerly | westerlylibrary. org | Through Sept 26: “Recent and

Retro Works,” by Suzanne Dickson Albert and Susanne Riette

IMAGO FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | 401.245.0173 | 36 Market St,

Warren | imagofoundation4art.org

| Thurs 4-8 pm, Fri + Sat 12-8 pm | Through Oct 12: works by Lisa Legato, the Globalheart Project, and Christiane Corbat, plus a wood-fired kiln event featuring Rose EssonDawson, Seth Rainville, Hollis Engley, Kimberly Sheerin Medeiros, Ron Mello, Elizabeth Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Michael Scriven, and Howard Windham, plus student artists Melissa Cruz, Jennifer Norton, Sarah Springer, and Jessica Tranvo JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER | 401.560.0979 | 18 Valley St | jamestown artcenter.org | Wed-Sat 10 am-2 pm | Sept 13-Oct 17: “Second Home,” works by Alice O’Neill, Colgate Searle, and Dan O’Neill

NARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY | 508.324.1926 |

16 Anawan St, Fall River, MA | narrowscenter.org | Wed-Sat 12-5 pm

| Through Oct 25: “Third Annual Poster Exhibition,” with works by Ghost-Town, Doe Eyed, Land Land, LeDouxville, and Little Friends of Printmaking PROVIDENCE ART CLUB | 401.331.1114 | 11 Thomas St | providence artclub.org | Mon-Fri 12-4 pm; SatSun 2-4 pm | Through Sept 26: “New Work: Memories In Glass,” by Alice Benvie Gebhart PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | 401.455.8000 | 150 Empire St | provlib. org | Mon + Thurs 12-8 pm; Tues + Wed 10 am-6 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am5:30 pm | Through Oct 30: “Protecting Providence: Three Centuries of Policing In Rhode Island’s Capital”

RHODE ISLAND WATERCOLOR SOCIETY GALLERY | 401.726.1876 | Slater Memorial Park, Armistice Blvd, Pawtucket | rhodeisland watercolorsociety.wildapricot.org |

Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through Oct 2: “The Artist Travels,” an open juried show

SOUTH COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION

URI PROVIDENCE CAMPUS GALLERY | 401.277.5206 | 80 Washington

St | uri.edu/prov | Mon-Thurs 9 am-9 pm; Fri + Sat 9 am-4 pm | Through Sept 30: “Bringing Guantánamo Home: Guantánamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, images, and documents from before 9/11 and after, co-curated by Brown and 11 other US universities. In Providence, the exhibit will feature newsletters written by detainees at Guantánamo, plus works by Mary Beth Meehan, Chris Simms, and students at the International Charter School in Pawtucket, to connect the themes of migration, security, refuge, and human rights with our communities

WICKFORD ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 401.294.6840 | 36 Beach

St, North Kingstown | wickfordart. org | Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm; Sun 12-3

pm | Through Sept 14: “Members’ Invitational” WOODS-GERRY HOUSE | 401.454.6141 | 62 Prospect St, Providence | risd.edu/About/Galleries_ Exhibitions/Woods_Gerry | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Sept 21: “Art.Write.Now.Tour,” a selection of works from the 2014 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards YELLOW PERIL GALLERY | 401.861.1535 | 60 Valley St #5, Providence | yellowperilmedia.com/ gallery | Wed-Fri 3-8 pm; other days by appointment | Through Oct 5: “ShrineBeast,” a mixed media exhibition about alternate realities and the transformative nature of love by Andrew Paul Woolbright

MUSEUMS BRISTOL ART MUSEUM |

401.253.4400 | 10 Wardwell St | bristol artmuseum.org | Wed-Sun 1-4 pm |

Sept 12-Oct 19: “Objects For Work, Objects For Play, and Objects To Cherish,” with fine art jewelry by Kelly Jean Conroy, interdisciplinary works by Candis Dixon, pencils by Dalton Ghetti, paintings by Dan Golden, miniature sugar carvings

by Judith G. Klausner, photography by Dan McManus, and drawings by David Shapleigh

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION | 401.851.8949 |

492 Bellevue Ave, Newport | american illustration.org | Sat + Sun 11 am-5 pm

[guided tours Fri 3 pm] | Through Oct 30: “Paul Szep: Famous Fames” an exhibit of caricatures NEWPORT ART MUSEUM | 401.848.8200 | 76 Bellevue Ave | newportartmuseum.org | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm | Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under | Through Sept 14: “Very Simple Charm: The Early Life and Work of Richard Morris Hunt In Newport” | Through Jan 4: “Palate to Plate: Prints & Recipes From Members of the Boston Printmakers” | Through Jan 11: “Solemnities,” works by Claudia Flynn RISD MUSEUM | 401.454.6500 | 224 Benefit St, Providence | risd museum.org | Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm [Thurs until 9 pm] | Admission $12; $10 seniors; $5 college students, $3 ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am-1 pm | Through Nov 16: “UuDam Tran Nguyen: Waltz of the Machine Equestrians,” a video installation | Through Feb 22: “Circus,” with 40 circus-themed paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and posters from 1850-1960

THEATER ENCORE REPERTORY COMPANY | 401.762.4545 | stadiumtheatre.com | At the Stadium Theatre, 28 Monument Sq, Woonsocket | Sept 12-13 8 pm: Rumors, by Neil Simon | $21 EPIC THEATRE COMPANY | Theatre 82, 82 Rolfe St, Cranston | Through Sept 20: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, by Jeffrey Hatcher, a “witty, lush, and fascinating look at the most famous actor to ever play female roles in Shakespeare’s plays, and what happened when actual women were allowed to take his place” | Fri + Sat 8 pm | $15, $12 students + seniors GAMM THEATRE | 401.723.4266 | gammtheatre.org | 172 Exchange St, Pawtucket | Through Sept 28: Grounded, by George Brant | A one-woman play “about a hot-rod fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Reassigned to fly remote-controlled drones in Afghanistan from a windowless, airconditioned trailer near Vegas, ‘The Pilot’ hunts terrorists by day and goes home to her family at night. But what happens the boundaries blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols?” | This week: Sept 11 + 17 + 18 7 pm + Sept 12 + 13 8 pm + Sept 14 2 + 7 pm | $41 + $49 GRANITE THEATRE | 401.596.2341 | granitetheatre.com | 1 Granite St, Westerly | Through Sept 28: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie | Thurs-Sat 8 pm + Sun 2 pm | $20, $17 seniors, $12 under 13 2ND STORY THEATRE | 401.247.4200 | 2ndstorytheatre.com | 28 Market St, Warren | Through Sept 14: Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney, Jr. | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm + Sun 2:30 pm | $30, $21 under 21

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In this engaging, low-key character study, two lonely old guys from Kentucky pair up for a tour of Iceland, where their friendship deepens even as their prospects for romantic adventure diminish. Paul Eenhoorn, a quiet, sober Australian actor best known for the moving This Is Martin Bonner (2013), plays Colin, a grieving widower whose ill-considered second marriage has just blown up in his face; Earl Lynn Nelson, a relative newcomer, nearly upstages Eenhoorn as Colin’s brotherin-law, Mitch, an impetuous, pot-smoking good ol’ boy whose party-monster shtick is belied by the fact that he used to be a surgeon. The movie was cowritten and codirected by Aaron Katz (Dance Party USA) and Martha Stephens, two young indie talents who shouldn’t understand the wisdom and acceptance of old age as well as they obviously do. _J.R. Jones

James Gandolfini, in his last movie role, plays the mobbed-up owner of a Brooklyn workingman’s bar, but the more impressive performance here comes from Tom Hardy as his younger cousin, a guileless soul who tends bar and worries that they’ve gotten themselves in too deep. Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam, making his US debut after the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), reprises the earlier film’s seedy look and murky morality, though this time around he has a much better screenplay, the first by novelist Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island). Lehane’s climactic plot twist is all the more laudable because it springs directly from complexity of character; you realize the truth has been obscured not through a writer’s trickery but through your own simple reading of the action. With Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Ann Dowd. _J.R. Jones

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| 2014 | This adaptation of a John le Carré novel works smashingly as a suspense film, a mood piece, and a vehicle for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing a world-weary German spy who gets more than he bargained for when he investigates a suspicious Chechen immigrant.

Director Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) seems to have modeled the film’s somber look and muted drama on such paranoid ’70s thrillers as The Conversation and All the President’s Men; the most suspenseful passages tend to be the quieter, more cerebral ones. Corbijn employs wide-screen framing to striking dramatic effect, using it to emphasize the characters’ confinement in tight spaces and their vulnerability in open ones. It’s very entertaining, though as an assessment of post-9/11 surveillance culture it’s cynical, not sophisticated. With Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, and Homayoun Ershadi. | 121m |

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Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom reunite for this sequel to their indie favorite The Trip (2011), with the stars embarking once again on a restaurant-reviewing tour that guarantees plenty of food porn and literate table talk. The most remarked-up scene in the original was a hilarious sequence in which the two master mimics debate how best to impersonate Michael Caine; it’s reprised endlessly here, with quick takes on Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, and Gore Vidal.

Despite these moments, some spectacular seaside vistas, and numerous quotations from Byron, the movie soon grows tedious; Coogan’s irritation with his traveling partner has diminished significantly, and the laughs along with it. | 106m |

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TALL | 2014 | Playing both sides against the middle, this fact-based drama about high school football coach Bob Ladouceur and his De La Salle Spartans makes a commendable effort to invest the inspirational sports movie with some deeper meaning but simultaneously labors to keep all the genre cliches firmly in place. Ladouceur led the Concord, California, team through a record 151-game winning streak from 1992 through 2004; the movie chronicles the string of defeats that followed before the Spartans roar back with their hard-fought 2001 victory against Long Beach Polytechnic. (Yeah, I know that’s achronological, but I told you it’s fact-based.) Along the way the jocks learn that teamwork is more important than individual glory and sports is about building character, not muscles. Of course, what really builds character is losing, something the Spartans seldom did. Thomas Carter directed; with Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, and Laura Dern. | 115m |

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