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-...
Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker has announced the alumni recipients of the first grants to advance the cause of music under the “alumniVentures” program.In the inaugural year of what Blocker hopes to be an annual program, alumniVentures received...
Jock Reynolds, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery, today announced the creation of a new curatorial department devoted to Indo-Pacific art, enabled by the generosity of Yale alumnus Thomas Jaffe, Class of `71. Mr. Jaffe has provided...
On March 24, the Yale School of Art will inaugurate a public lecture series with “Unbirthday Present,” a presentation by the renowned French installation- and video-artist Pierre Huyghe.The lecture begins at 8 p.m., in room 204 of the School of Art...
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music have jointly appointed eminent Bach scholar and conductor Masaaki Suzuki as visiting professor of choral conducting and conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum, the University’s acclaimed chamber choir...