Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
Jesús Valles, an educator, performer, poet, and playwright, has been named the winner of the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious awards for emerging playwrights, for their new play “Bathhouse.pptx.”
Valles’s play,...