A play about a violent crime that forever linked the lives of four small-town residents is the 2011 winner of the Yale Drama Series.Shannon Murdoch’s “New Light Shine” is “raw, haunting, richly poetic and deeply emotional,” says judge John Guare.Jackson...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
Last Sunday (Sept. 11) was a stellar day for two Yale School of Music (YSM) composers. Garth Neustadter, a current student of composition at YSM, received an Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary “John Muir in the New World,” and recent alumnus...
An international conference of scholars will discuss the significance of this rare example of an obscure genre, the “schoolboys’ play,” on September 30 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. The conference, which is free and open to the public...