In the front room at Lyric Hall Antiques and Conservation, a 400-year-old mirror is undergoing surgery. Whole passages of its gilt frame—florid segments that cross the mirror like vines—are missing and have to be carefully recreated, then gilded to match. …
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One Night Only

Escapade: An Unusual Experience, a dancing, singing (or at least lip syncing) drag show that …
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 …
This Week in New Haven (July 16 – 22)

Women of special note open and close a week filled with insights into both nature and humanity. …
This Week in New Haven (May 21 – 27)

Magic is both learned and hereditary; vision is both musical and constitutional; and pink is both historical and vehicular this week in New Haven. …
This Week in New Haven (March 19 – 25)

A wet and wild winter officially meets its end, outlived by New Haven’s unique blend of thinking, giving and pleasure-seeking. …