Tag Archives: Elm Shakespeare Company

Situational Comedy

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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)

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Four festivals and more performances than there are days rouse this not so sleepy section of summer. (more…)

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Adjustment Period

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The word “pivot” may bring to mind an iconic scene from Friends, in which Ross, Rachel and Chandler attempt to (more…)

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Broader Way

Writer & Performer
Keith Hamilton Cobb

Director
Kim Weild

“Talk with me. We got so much to talk about,” says the man on the stage. (more…)

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That’s the Spirit!

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Public health warnings to “keep a distance” are a nightmare for kids on Halloween. “Door to door trick or treating is not recommended” this year, a New Haven Health Department flyer warns. But New Haveners are adapting. (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (August 26 – September 1)

Canal Dock Boathouse

Students around the city return to school this week. But summer’s not over, and we’ve got the outdoor fun to prove it.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (August 12 – 18)

Shakespeare in the Park, in the past

This week’s menu includes breakfast on a summit, dinner in a park and drinks on a roof.  (more…)

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Love’s Labours

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For the past 23 years, New Haveners have unfolded their lawn chairs and blankets in Edgerton Park to watch the sun set and the lights go up (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (August 27 – September 2)

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As a new school year begins at local colleges and city schools, blasts from the past come in drinkable, danceable, watchable and edible forms.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (August 13 – 19)

Free the Beaches

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 […]

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