Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The matinee film series on Henry Fonda presented by Barrington librarian Doug Swiszcz continues Wednesday with one of John Ford's westerns.
Join librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda on Wednesday at 2 pm at the Barrington Public Library. The film Swiszcz features this week is My Darling Clementine. “John Ford, one of the great directors of westerns, imbues the movie with his usual mythic sense of Americana, eschewing factual accuracy for a kind of cinematic poetry,” said Swiszcz. “Fonda plays Wyatt Earp, who agrees to be marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, after one of his brothers is killed by the cattle-rustling Clanton gang. Victor Mature is the self-loathing, consumptive Doc Holliday, who joins forces with Earp and his brothers at the famous shootout at the O.K. Corral against the Clantons.” “Linda Darnell is …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Barrington High School drama club performs three shows next week, complete with special effects found at haunted houses.
Washington Irving’s haunting tale of ghosts and revenge comes to the stage at Barrington High School this week. It will be complete with special effects found and used in haunted-house attractions around New England. The Stagemasters perform three shows of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, March 21, 22, and 23. The shows start at 7 pm. “What makes this show so different,” said director Stephanie Spaziano, drama teacher at the high school, “is the use of special effects we observed on field trips.” Spaziano said she has taken the students on field trips to Spooky World in New Hampshire, Trails of Terror in Wakefield, and the Dark Manor in Connecticut to “expose them to this different type of theater…
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The band, with Barrington roots, is one of three bands with local ties to make the semi-finals of the WBRU battle of the bands; they play tomorrow.
The Rare Occasions, a band with deep Barrington roots, competes Friday, March 15, in the annual 95.5 WBRU Rock Hunt semi-finals, which kicks off this weekend. The band is one of three groups with Barrington ties in the 11-band competition; the other two are Torn Shorts and The Mighty Good Boys, according to the Barrington Times. The competition on Friday takes place at JR’s Bourbon St. Rock House in Cranston – a venue that is 21 and older. That puts Rare Occasions at a disadvantage because their college-age friends can’t attend, according to the band. The band is made up of Brian McLaughlin and Luke Imbusch of Barrington and two other band mates from Tufts University and Berklee School of Music, where Brian and Luke go to college, …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The Bay View Academy Chamber Choir is led by Christine Kavanaugh of Barrington and includes local singers and a percussionist.
The Bay View Academy Chamber Choir, with several Barrington members, and led by Christine D. Kavanagh of Barrington and accompanied by Diane Gualtieri of Warwick and percussionist Karen Mellor of Barrington performed as part of an evening reception on March 3 for attendees at the New England Catholic School Principals and Administrators Conference. The performance took place at Salve Regina University’s Ochre Court and got several standing ovations. Bay View President Vittoria Pacifico-DeBenedictis said: “I couldn’t be more proud of these young ladies. I’m very grateful to them and to Christine Kavanagh, Diane Gualtieri and Karen Mellor, for taking the time to come to this conference and entertain us all with their gift of song.” PHOTO: …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Barrington librarian Doug Swiszcz airs the second film, 'The Lady Eve,' in his five-part series on Henry Fonda on Wednesday afternoons.
Join Barrington librarian and film enthusiast Doug Swiszcz for the second film in his five-movie series, Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda. “The Lady Eve” will air Wednesday, March 13, at 2 pm in the Barrington Public Library auditorium. The matinee series runs for four more weeks. Swiszcz describes the film as “a delightful screwball comedy directed by Preston Sturges, it casts Fonda as Charles Pike, the gullible heir to his family’s ale brewing fortune who falls—literally—for card sharp Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck).” “Her plan is to bilk him out of his money by seducing him, but she ends up falling in love with him,” he said. “The plot takes a labyrinthine turn when Pike learns of Jean’s ruse, and rejects …
Friday, March 8, 2013
A cast of 40 Barrington Middle School students will perform this weekend in four shows of Arts Alive!'s production of 'Once Upon a Mattress'.
Arts Alive! presents four performances of "Once Upon a Mattress" -- its first-ever Barrington Middle School production -- this weekend. The Rogers & Hammerstein production debuts tonight at 7 and then continues Saturday at 1 and 7 pm and Sunday, March 10 at 1 pm. More than 40 sixth- through eighth-grade students make up the cast described by director Dena Davis as very talented. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. All performances are in the Barrington Middle School auditorium. "The play is set in Medieval England in the Royal Court," said Davis, one of the founders of Arts Alive! in Barrington. "In this hilarious tweaking of the fairy tale, 'The Princess and the Pea', Queen Aggravain has ruled that throughout the …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Barrington librarian Doug Swiszcz hosts a Wednesday matinee film series, 'Fond of Fonda', in the library auditorium; it starts tomorrow afternoon.
Tired of movies at your local cinema that are filled with explicit gore, violence, sexuality and computer-generated special effects aimed at the under-21 crowd? Do you long for the days of classic Hollywood cinema, when narrative and character were the chief means of telling a story? So does Barrington librarian and film buff Doug Swiszcz. You can join him Wednesday afternoons at 2 for Fond of Fonda: A Movie Lecture Series Saluting Henry Fonda. Starting tomorrow, March 6, it will run for five consecutive weeks at the Barrington Public Library auditorium. The matinee series opens Wednesday with The Grapes of Wrath (1940), director John Ford’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning realist novel of the previous year, said …
Monday, March 4, 2013
The 'Late Winter Festival' merged performers and performing arts groups for an afternoon of entertainment Sunday in the Barrington library auditorium.
The "Late Winter Festival" brought a rather unique celebration of Barrington's performing arts community to the library auditorium Sunday afternoon. Professional singers Pat McGee and Pat McAloon and the Local Brew Coffeehouse quintet, Bay Spring Folk, performed in two shows along with children performers from both of the town's youth performing arts groups, the Barrington Community Theater and Arts Alive! A 1:30 pm show packed the 105-seat auditorium; a 3:30 pm show filled most of the seats. The shows were free.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
The 'Late Winter Festival' on Sunday afternoon in Barrington library merges some of the town's top performers and entertainers in two shows.
A historic celebration of the performing arts takes place in Barrington on Sunday afternoon -- twice. And both shows are free. The "Late Winter Festival" is merging several of Barrington's top performers and arts groups -- for the first time ever, perhaps -- in the library auditorium for two 90-minute shows -- at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm. Overflow crowds are anticipated, said Larson Gunness, who is producing the festival along with the team that creates Barrington's Local Brew Coffeehouse events. "I just hope we can accommodate everyone," Gunness said. "That's why we went to two shows." The Bay Spring Community Center in West Barrington is the usual venue for the Local Brew events. But that venue right now -- limited to the tiny first floor of …
A reception at the Temple Habonim art gallery on Sunday afternoon opens a show of aerial kite photography created by Dr. Ivan Wolfson.
A show of unusual aerial kite photography starts Sunday, March 3, at the Temple Habonim art gallery in Barrington. The show will feature the work of Dr. Ivan Wolfson. It opens with a reception from 1 to 3 pm at the temple at 165 New Meadow Road. Wolfson attaches a small digital camera with a few metal brackets to the line of a kite to create his photographs. “I choose the angle at which the camera sits and choose location, timing and conditions,” he said. “The camera is programmed to take a photo usually between five and 10 seconds.” The camera also is set to rotate a few degrees every 10 seconds, Wolfson said. “The randomness makes the process more interesting for me and gives the photographs, especially the ones with people, a candid …
Ned Cronin
6:45 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Barrington Stagemasters always put on a great show. Can't wait to see this! more ›