Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award for her play about a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was tortured.The prize includes a $10,000 award from the David C. Horn Foundation, along with a...
A renowned filmmaker and educator will showcase the work of his countrymen in “Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema at Yale,” a film and discussion series that will take place the first two weeks in April.Independent filmmaker Robert Crusz is the guest host of...
Images of and information about the events that transpire in a remote Andean village during Holy Week will be featured in a new exhibition opening on Monday, March 30, at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).Titled “The Flowering Cross: Holy Week in...
“It Is Daylight,” a collection of poems by Arda Collins that reads as a series of dramatic, private monologues, has been chosen the winner of the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry...
“The Blessing of a Broken Heart,” a play based on a mother’s award-winning memoir about the murder of her son in Israel, will be presented at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.The play was adapted for the stage and...
The Yale Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of a stage production of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s famed novel “Notes from Underground,” a passionate, obsessive and contradictory confession of a tormented soul.The new play, starring Obie Award-...
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 28, for Fenno F. Heath Jr., who began a lifetime of music as a student at the University and later served as director of the Yale Glee Club from 1953 to 1992.Heath died on Dec. 5 at his home in Hamden...
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” an exhibition examining the suburb as a catalyst for new work by artists and architects, will be on view through May 10 at the Yale Architecture Gallery, Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.The American suburbs have been...