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Gilbert Cast in a Trunk; photo by Lisa Daly and Dana Astmann

Reinventions

For most people, having a non-functioning umbrella is an excuse to consign it to the trash can. Not so for the founding members of New Haven’s A Broken Umbrella Theatre,...

Reinventions

For most people, having a non-functioning umbrella is an excuse to consign it to the trash can. Not so for the founding members of New Haven’s A Broken Umbrella Theatre,...

"Doll-Like" exhibit item

Doll House

Dolls occupy a huge variety of spaces within the human psyche. Sometimes they’re playthings or sources of comfort. Other times they’re deeply creepy, a fact innumerable horror stories have exploited....

Doll House

Dolls occupy a huge variety of spaces within the human psyche. Sometimes they’re playthings or sources of comfort. Other times they’re deeply creepy, a fact innumerable horror stories have exploited....

Keyboard at Yale Collection of Musical Instruments

Time Signatures

By the time Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night posited music as the “food of love” in the early 1600s, some elements of the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments (YCMI) already existed....

Time Signatures

By the time Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night posited music as the “food of love” in the early 1600s, some elements of the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments (YCMI) already existed....

The Orange Players

Cast and Crew

The website of The Orange Players—a theatrical troupe founded in Orange, Connecticut, in 1974—says it’s “the oldest continuously active community theatre group” in the state. And it still feels very...

Cast and Crew

The website of The Orange Players—a theatrical troupe founded in Orange, Connecticut, in 1974—says it’s “the oldest continuously active community theatre group” in the state. And it still feels very...

"Audubon Would Knot Approve"

Meet the Challenge

If Leonardo da Vinci were alive now, he would’ve blown out 562 candles earlier this month, probably using some elegant, ingenious contraption to do it. Instead, every year around this...

Meet the Challenge

If Leonardo da Vinci were alive now, he would’ve blown out 562 candles earlier this month, probably using some elegant, ingenious contraption to do it. Instead, every year around this...

Elm City Dance Collective

Local Movement

Smooth or textured, stark or emotive, decorative or purposeful, finely crafted porcelain has been prized for its beauty in many places and many times. It’s like dance that way, and...

Local Movement

Smooth or textured, stark or emotive, decorative or purposeful, finely crafted porcelain has been prized for its beauty in many places and many times. It’s like dance that way, and...