Tag Archives: University Theatre

This Week in New Haven (February 3 – 9)

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Words speak with power and promise this week in New Haven. …

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This Week in New Haven (December 16 – 22)

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Christmas is coming, but Hanukkah comes first as preparations, diversions and celebrations deck the week ahead. …

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This Week in New Haven (November 4 – 10)

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Clocks have fallen back. Temperatures too. But New Haven moves ever forward, thanks to affordable fine dining, a municipal election and pop-up retail therapy. …

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What a Night

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“What country, friends, is this?” …

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This Week in New Haven (March 18 – 24)

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Spring begins Wednesday, but the arts are already flowering. …

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Oh the Humanity

Enrico Colantoni (foreground) and the cast of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by James Bundy. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017.

Fake news. Groupthink. Entrenched party politics. Distrust in science. The bitter struggle between elites and everymen. …

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This Week in New Haven (October 9 – 15)

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A harvest dance, a visual arts bonanza, kids in costumes and other local October staples highlight a week that’s busy and dynamic even by New Haven standards. …

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This Week in New Haven (June 19 – 25)

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As a major local-global festival approaches the finish line, new beginnings emerge both on and off the course. …

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Big Shots

The cast of ASSASSINS, book by John Weidman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, directed by James Bundy. Photo by Carol Rosegg, 2017.

If violence against presidents is a kind of fringe religion in our country’s history, as Yale Repertory’s current production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (1990) argues, then John Wilkes Booth is its patron saint. …

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This Week in New Haven (January 30 – February 5)

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Transgressive theater meets transcendent speech and a whole lot more, including the most-watched television event in America. …

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