Sir John Falstaff, a British knight just returned from war, slides into the pre-industrial DMs of two wealthy married women, hoping to use their attentions as rungs on the socioeconomic ladder. Instead, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page compare notes and embark on a mission of trickery and tomfoolery to humiliate their duplicitous suitor. It’s not […]
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This Week in New Haven (August 9 – 15)
Four festivals and more performances than there are days rouse this not so sleepy section of summer. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (August 13 – 19)
Academic and personal histories texture a week in which Jazz Age meets Jazz Week and indulgence meets endurance. Monday, August 13 “During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America’s most exclusive beaches”—Connecticut’s—“to minorities and the urban poor.” At 7 p.m., RJ Julia […]