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Making Connections

Making Connections

After a virtual 2020 and a cautious ’21, the 2022 International Festival of Arts & Ideas seems ready to recapture its normal level of extraordinariness. And after two years contending...

Making Connections

After a virtual 2020 and a cautious ’21, the 2022 International Festival of Arts & Ideas seems ready to recapture its normal level of extraordinariness. And after two years contending...

Choral Issues

Choral Issues

As the lights go up on Yale Rep’s Choir Boy and the paneled hall of the Charles R. Drew Preparatory School for Boys—“dedicated to the education of strong, ethical Black...

Choral Issues

As the lights go up on Yale Rep’s Choir Boy and the paneled hall of the Charles R. Drew Preparatory School for Boys—“dedicated to the education of strong, ethical Black...

Minor Miracles

Minor Miracles

As a kid, the first day of baseball assumed a mythic quality. When that long-awaited game ended after my bedtime, the first thing I asked my mom the next morning...

Minor Miracles

As a kid, the first day of baseball assumed a mythic quality. When that long-awaited game ended after my bedtime, the first thing I asked my mom the next morning...

Band Back Together

Band Back Together

As the sound of strings and woodwinds fade on a recent Monday evening inside Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven, music director Matthew Scinto leans over his stand and says,...

Band Back Together

As the sound of strings and woodwinds fade on a recent Monday evening inside Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven, music director Matthew Scinto leans over his stand and says,...

Encore

Encore

On a recent Saturday in the newly reopened Beinecke Library, Brava! Women Make American Theater was finally getting its time in the spotlight. Directed by curator Melissa Barton, the exhibition...

Encore

On a recent Saturday in the newly reopened Beinecke Library, Brava! Women Make American Theater was finally getting its time in the spotlight. Directed by curator Melissa Barton, the exhibition...

Drawing Interest

Drawing Interest

Merle Nacht grew up in a “notch”: in Erie, Pennsylvania, “up in the northwest little notch” of that state, “on Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo” but closer, as the...

Drawing Interest

Merle Nacht grew up in a “notch”: in Erie, Pennsylvania, “up in the northwest little notch” of that state, “on Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo” but closer, as the...