Angelique Kidjo is a Visionary Leader, Sez Arts & Ideas
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which likes to keep the excitement up year-round, though its main event lasts for a fortnight in June, bestows a “Visionary Leadership Award” […]
Arguendo & Ideas: A&I posts its First Amendment discussion
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has posted a YouTube video of the panel discussion on “The First Amendment in the Spotlight” it held last summer. The talk, held […]
Leaps and Bounds: The 2015 No Boundaries Season is Announced
The Yale Rep recently announced its No Boundaries Series for 2014-15. The three shows chosen are in the best tradition of the series, which, in its own press-release words, “explores […]
You Can Take It With Yale
I was corresponding recently with a friend who’d worked at the Yale Rep in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. He’d had the same reaction I did to the […]
The Arcadia Review
Arcadia Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre, through Oct. 25 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. (203) 432-1234, http://www.yalerep.org By Tom Stoppard. Directed by James Bundy. […]
Arcadia Camera
Looking through the press photo choices for the Yale Rep’s production of Arcadia, I was disappointed but not surprised to see that there were no pictures that showed off the […]
“So, Tom…”
I covered Tom Stoppard’s talk at Yale Monday evening for the New Haven Independent, here. It’s a lengthy piece, greatly enhanced by the photography of Phil Rosenthal (whose photos also […]
Cab 1, Cab 2, Cab 3… Cab 47
It’s a new school year, which means a new artistic director team at the Yale Cabaret. Continuing with a recent tradition, the new folks are announcing the first three shows […]
Do the Math: Yale Rep’s Arcadia Cast (and Tom Stoppard Lecture!) Announced
Yale Rep’s announced the cast for its season-opening Arcadia, to be directed by the theater’s artistic director of the past dozen years, James Bundy. The cast list is truly a […]
A Gentleman’s Guide to Regional Theater Victory
Lots of fine footage of Hartford Stage staffers and fans going nuts last night when it was announced that A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder won the Tony for […]