The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is making its big season announcement on April 3, some ten weeks before the 2014 fest happens.

If you Google “Arts & Ideas 2014,” however, you’ll realize that one event is already out there. The website for the the New York experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service says the troupe will be bringing its incisive free-speech Supreme Court piece Arguendo to the festival June 18-22. The show involves the deliberations over a 1991 case in which go-go dancers claimed they should be allowed to perform naked due to their constitutional right to artistic expression.

Arguendo was at the New York Public Theater last fall, and is playing in April at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. The show’s run has been extended there, even before it’s opened. Plan for it to be equally popular in New Haven, what with the Yale Law School and the federal courthouse being here and all.

There’s another local angle to Arguendo. One of the consultants on the production was Emily Bazelon, who lives in New Haven, teaches at Yale, and is senior editor of the news site Slate. (She and some of her Slate colleagues did a live taping of their Political Gabfest show for Arts & Ideas in 2012.) Bazelon wrote about her experience with Arguendo here.

The only other info I have about Arts & Ideas right now involves local bands. James Velvet’s playing. So’s Val Ramos.

This year’s festival runs June 14-28. Info at http://artidea.org/