Tag Archives: Yale Summer Cabaret

This Week in New Haven (July 6 – 12)

A still from The Goonies

City government—joined by a couple of music clubs, an indie bookstore, an experimental playhouse, a restaurant and an art gallery—is stepping up to help us make the most of…

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Feeling Puckish

Shaunette Wilson as Puck

You know things are bad when the mythical mischief-maker and riddle-speaker Puck has had enough of mischief and riddles. Draped in skins, bearing ritualistic markings and skewed horns, the wily sprite, crouched on a shelf…

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This Week in New Haven (July 28 – August 3)

The Grand Budapest Hotel

This week in New Haven has us seeing double: two pie contests, a double-feature bundling 20+ local short films, a couple strong jazz shows and several pairs of deep soulful canine eyes…

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This Week in New Haven (July 7 – 13)

Catherine Wolko of The Humble Bee Honey Company

This week, talk is cheap—and valuable, with several free and interesting speaking events happening in and around the city. First we hear from an entrepreneur who helps institutions of learning…

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Dinner and a Show

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A 40-year anniversary is nothing to sneeze at, especially when live theater’s going on a few feet away.

The Yale Summer Cabaret got going so many summers ago, in 1974. Recessed into the east…

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This Week in New Haven (June 2 – 8)

Neil Gaiman photographed by Kimberly Butler

Creative people, you included, create lots of scenes, stirs and commotions this week in New Haven. In addition to a handful of well-known creators making stops in the area, there’s a…

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This Week in New Haven (July 22 – 28)

Pop & Op at Artspace

Magical comedy, disco nostalgia, mandolin modernists, a Tennessee Williams play set in Tokyo, bonsai trees at a literacy event… we’ve entered the fantastical netherworld of July in New Haven. Anything can happen, from read-ins to art installations (including Pop &

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Team Players

Yale Summer Cabaret 2013

In 1974, when the Yale Summer Cabaret began, there were still summer theaters throughout Connecticut, and the United States, with this well-established format: a company of actors doing five or six plays back to back, switching up roles and scripts …

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This Week in New Haven (May 27 – June 2)

Dave Douglas

“There’s a place for us, a time and place for us…” Those places, this week in New Haven, include New York’s Upper West Side (as in the classic musical West Side Story), the historic Pardee-Morris House…

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This Week in New Haven (August 13 – 19)

Robert Adams: The Place We Live

Theater and more theater. Art, both photographic (in a gallery) and text-related (in a library). Concerts outdoors, indoors, and reaching into the punk past. All ending with the start of a big racket in sports.…

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