Discover the best events, activities and things to do in and around Newport this week.

Monday, October 3

4:30 p.m. – Don’t Think Twice at Jane Pickens Theater

7:30 p.m. – Captain Fantastic at Jane Pickens Theater

Tuesday, October 4

4:30 p.m. – Don’t Think Twice at Jane Pickens Theater

6 p.m. – 4th Annual Midtown Pig Roast & Beer Dinner at Midtown Oyster Bar

6:30 p.m. – Newport First Ward City Council Free Public Forum at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center

7:30 p.m. – Captain Fantastic at Jane Pickens Theater

Wednesday, October 5

12 p.m. – “Before Jutland: The Shock of the New Technologies at the Start of the First World War at Sea,” by James Goldrick at Seaman’s Church Institute.

4:30 p.m. – Don’t Think Twice at Jane Pickens Theater

5:30 p.m. – Focus The Sexy, Secret, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers with Michael Gross at Redwood Library

5:30 p.m. – Tails on the Trail at Newport Vineyards

7:30 p.m. – What’sUpNewp Presents The Blues Brothers and live music with Big Cat Blues at Jane Pickens Theater

Thursday, October 6

The 2016 Rogue Island Comedy Festival!

2 p.m. – National Theater: The Deep Blues Sea at Jane Pickens Theater

5:30 p.m. – Paradise: A Cultural Landscape at Norman Bird Sanctuary

5:30 p.m. – Paradise Valley Lecture Series – Paradise: A Cultural Landscape at 583 Third Beach Rd.

5:30 p.m. – And One for the Pot, Tea & Treason: A Living History Talk at Newport Historical Society

5:30 p.m. – Don’t Think Twice at Jane Pickens Theater

6 p.m. – Rock The Mansion 2016 at OceanCliff

6:30 p.m. – Haunted New England with Jeff Belanger at Newport Public Library

7:30 p.m. – Captain Fantastic at Jane Pickens Theater

Friday, October 7

The 2016 Rogue Island Comedy Festival!

4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. – Birth Of A Nation at Jane Pickens Theater

8 p.m. – Live improv comedy with The Bit Players at The Firehouse Theater

Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan...