A single broken heart creates a national emergency in the Yale School of Drama’s adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s “The Robbers,” an epic tale of revenge and madness running Friday-Thursday, Dec. 12-18, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St.In...
The Yale Camerata will offer a performance of the complete “Christmas Oratorio” of J.S. Bach in two concerts this month.In addition, the group will host a pre-concert talk by Markus Rathey, associate professor of music history at Yale and a Bach scholar,...
Dr. Jay Katz, an eminent scholar in reproductive technology law and ethics who served on the Yale Law School faculty for over five decades, died of heart failure on Nov. 17 in New Haven. He was 86 years old.Katz was the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor...
Jesse Levine, a renowned violist and conductor who taught at Yale’s School of Music for 25 years, died at his home on Nov. 11 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.Levine was professor in the practice of viola and chamber music and coordinator of the...
Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
I always thought that after graduating from Yale College, I would head straight to graduate or professional school, teach English overseas or find work in a non-profit organization. I never expected I would still be in New Haven, working in a job that...
The Handsome Dans — a team of Yale affiliates who raised money for prostate cancer research as part of “Movember” — raised just over $2,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Nick Aberle, a postdoctoral fellow, started the team to help out a cause that...
The gift shops in Yale museums can be great sources of unusual gifts for the holidays. The shops at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.) and the Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.) feature a wide assortment of items,...
The Schools of Drama and Music have joined forces to launch the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, a program designed to help nurture gifted young musical theater writers.The artistic director of the program will be Mark Brokaw, whose directing credits...
By the time they complete his mechanical engineering class, Professor John Morrell’s students will have designed and built a hybrid car or a model airplane and entered them in national competitions.During the semester, the Yale undergraduates in his class...