Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy has announced that Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Doug Wright will join the Yale School of Drama faculty as a Lecturer in Playwriting for the fall 2010 semester.Paula Vogel, the Eugene O’Neill Chair...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present a fully staged production of the 17th-century Italian opera “La finta pazza” (“the make-believe madwoman”) by Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) in two performances, on April 23 at 8 p.m. and April 24 at 5 p.m...
The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library together have acquired the Lee Friedlander Archive, which includes 2,000 of the photographer’s master prints as well as negatives, working prints, letters, books and...
The art of Yale alumna and painter Ali Van ‘08 will be featured in the first exhibit of a series being introduced by the Yale-China Association.Titled “The Inauguration,” the exhibit will run April 22-May 30 at the Yale-China Association, 442 Temple St....
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored seven Yale faculty with election as new members: Joseph G. Altonji, Peter Cresswell, Paul Harris Freedman, Alanna Schepartz, Günter P. Wagner, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Craig Milton Wright.They are among...
Yale Law School graduate Ken Chen, currently executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, has won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry prize and is considered one...
An accidental Don Juan, a mysterious household and “Hamlet” in the basement are the subjects of three new plays by emerging playwrights being staged May 7-16 during the Yale School of Drama’s fifth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays.The works — fully...
All over the world pig roasts are held to mark significant occasions. The Yale Sustainable Food Project will roast a 200-pound pig in honor of one of the most important occasions on a college campus: the last day of classes.Now in its third year, the...
“Battle of Black and Dogs,” an African-set thriller about a murder cover-up, will be the next production at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The play by Bernard-Marie Koltès (translated by Michaël Attias) is a tale of psychological warfare that erupts at an...
“Luminous Transportations,” a site-specific installation by artist Jo Yarrington, is on view at Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel from April 5 through April 27. The exhibition is curated by author and architectural historian Judith Dupré, an M.Div....