The relationship between Charles Darwin and his ship captain Robert Fitzroy will be the focus of the English Department’s annual staged reading.This year’s event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for...
The still-resonating influence of a 16th century mason turned architect and philosopher will be explored in a symposium titled “What Modern Times Have Made of Palladio,” to be held Friday-Saturday, Feb. 13-14, by the Yale School of Architecture.Andrea...
Students in the Yale Opera program will perform a new translation of Mozart’s “fairy tale” opera “The Magic Flute” Friday-Sunday, Feb. 13-15, at the Shubert Theater, 247 College St.“The Magic Flute,” Mozart’s last opera, is one of the most widely...
Magic, death, music and transformation will take center stage in the Yale School of Drama’s cabaret-style production of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” a play about the pivotal jazz figure Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) and the African-American experience of his era....
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....
A new Yale gallery that will be devoted to bringing examples of contemporary art from around the world to New Haven formally opened on Jan. 26 with the exhibition “Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs,” featuring recent work in diverse media by artists from...
“Lydia,” a new play by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis about a Mexican immigrant family caught in a web of dark secrets, will be staged Feb. 6-28 at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The production marks the Yale Rep debut for Solis, a playwright and...
An exhibition examining Pablo Picasso’s lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work opened on Jan. 27 at the Yale University Art Gallery.“Picasso and the Allure of Language” comprises some 70 works in all media...
The piano will be the featured instrument when the winners of the 2008-2009 Friends of Music at Yale Undergraduate Recital Competition show off their musical talents in a performance on Sunday, Feb. 8.The free concert will take place at 3 p.m. in Sudler...
Joan Channick, an internationally renowned theater manager and teacher, has been appointed as associate dean of the Yale School of Drama, effective Feb. 1, announced Provost Peter Salovey and Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy. Reporting to the dean...