Thirteen-year-old Zak “Zippy” Huot aspires to perform on Broadway one day. So last summer he was thrilled when, over a Zoom meeting, he learned that some Broadway actors would perform songs for a musical for which he wrote the lyrics. Zak could barely...
The Yale community this week is celebrating the work and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in a range of all-virtual events, including a conversation about the role of race, place, and spirituality in achieving environmental justice; a poetry slam;...
Yale sophomore Sanya Nair was awestruck as she watched the unveiling of a new mural on an exterior wall of the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) last month to celebrate the center’s 40th year in existence.
Spanning several stories of one side of the...
It was near dusk on a recent evening when 20 Yale student singers and five instrumentalists performed “Glimpse Elation,” a piece by composer Derrick Skye, for the final time in the inner courtyard of Pauli Murray College.
The group had been practicing the...
Five Yale alumni took home Tony Awards on Sept. 26 in the categories of acting, directing, scenic design, and costume design.
The Tony Awards celebrate the best of Broadway theater. Yale-trained actors and theater professionals were also well represented...
For more than two centuries, The Yale Review has published works by some of the most notable writers and poets of their times, from Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann to Louise Glück and Cathy Park Hong. But until recently the journal has not done what many...
As the director of theater safety and occupational health at Yale School of Drama, Anna Glover helps students who are developing and designing theater productions make smart safety decisions for the stage crew and their audiences. When designers and...
Four years ago, while grieving the deaths of two close friends in separate accidents, Yale senior Mary Yap began asking herself some deep questions about life and her own place in it.
“It was a really rough year, and a reminder that life is short,” said...
After the quarantine deprived her of the opportunity to dance with her peers in the Afrobeat dance group Dzana last spring, Yale senior Joan Agoh relished the chance to connect and create with them again this fall — even if it was over Zoom.
But this wasn...
Yale junior Kelsey Tamakloe had never felt a strong “spark of emotion,” when she looked at the portraits lining the walls of the dining hall in her residential college, Saybrook College. That recently changed when she saw a new portrait of Yale alumnus...