When Tina Lu, head of Pauli Murray College, first commissioned an artistic work to commemorate the residential college’s namesake, she had three requirements: She wanted something “monumental,” “enduring,” and “challenging.”
This week, at an unveiling of...
More than century ago, a teenager named Helen Hagan arrived on the Yale campus as a student at the Yale School of Music (which then offered undergraduate degrees). But she already had plenty of experience performing before audiences in New Haven.
Hagan...
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...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we delve into the 18th-century correspondence of Alethea Stiles, the young cousin of a future Yale president whose letters offer a window into women’s education in...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...
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...
Three Yale alumni have won 2021 Pulitzer Prizes in recognition of their contributions in journalism, and five other alumni were finalists for the prestigious honor in either journalism or the arts.
Yale alumnus Wesley Morris ’97, critic-at-large for The...
As part of the premiere of the multimedia production “The Wandering” at Yale, the creative team workshopped the show with a group of 13 Yale undergraduate and graduate students to help perfect the various elements of the piece prior to its April 15 launch...
Imagine a world where queerness, or, for that matter, any kind of difference is not seen or judged as something strange but instead as something beautiful and wondrous.
Such is the world of “The Wandering,” an immersive theatrical experience created by a...
Recent Yale College graduate Jordan Lampo ’20 experienced a life-defining moment on a Yale stage before she was ever a student on campus.
As a rising senior at New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School, she was called up to the stage of Yale’s Sprague Memorial...