The school year is winding down, which means there’s a lot of concerts and performances marking the culminations of several years of study. Thespians at the Yale School of Drama stage full productions of new works by their classmates, as …
It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing in…
Theater in a department store. Brazilian dance music in a library. A Prairie Home companion at Southern Connecticut State University. The great outdoors, up against a wall, at the Yale Environmental Film Festival.…
Tolstoy would be proud. There’s a strange mix of war and peace in New Haven this week. There’s a Yale talk on “respect of human life” and a Yale screening of the new Evil Dead. There’s a soldier who …
In with the new! The only dinosaurs this week are at Yale’s Peabody Museum, where they ought to be. Elsewhere, all is fresh and forward-thinking. Young singers, progressive jazzmen and socially conscious artists and visionaries lead the charge. Even the …
It’s an inventive week in New Haven, a city which is constantly reinventing itself. There’s a talk about important contraptions created in this city over the past couple of centuries. There’s a public discussion with a local inventor who’s barely …
The city got clobbered with snow Friday and Saturday, which led to the cancellation of several notable events planned for the weekend. The coming week looks much more benign; nonetheless, it’s a timely reminder for readers to double-check with the venue …
There are festive fantasies of pageantry and a concert honoring a star of the screen and stage. There’s even a costume ball and gala in a castle, a way of dressing up an otherwise dreary and chilly time of year. …
It’s a week of peace, community, religious thought, great journeys and social concerns befitting the legacy of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That includes everything from the “Religion and Film” series at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center to a …
Bob Dylan (in a “theatrical biography” at Lyric Hall), Robert Johnson (whose seminal blues style is feted by guitarist Rocky Lawrence), Radu Lupu (the renowned pianist)…
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