The plays of 10 local middle school students who are learning about theater and playwriting from Yale School of Drama students will be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, June 18 and 19, in the Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway.Admission is free...
The jewelry and bookbinding of artist Romilly Saumarez Smith will be the focus of a small exhibition this summer at the Yale Center for British Art.“Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry of Romilly Saumarez Smith” opens Thursday, June 24, and is...
An exhibition that aims to raise relief funds for the victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake is now on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), 409 Prospect St.“Haiti Rising: Selections from the Stanley Popiel and Ingrid Feddersen Collection...
Coffee — after water, the most popular beverage on the planet — is the focus of an exhibition opening on Saturday, May 29, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.More than 500 billion cups of coffee are served worldwide each year, and the United...
Posters created for one of the most ambitious publicity campaigns in history — the push to encourage Londoners to use public transportation — will be featured in a new exhibition opening on Thursday, May 27, at the Yale Center for British Art.Titled “Art...
A private collection of 14th- through 17th-century Italian masterpieces will be on view along with the Yale University Art Gallery’s own renowned collection of works from that era in a new exhibition opening on Friday, May 28.“Italian Paintings from the...
An exhibit of New Yorker covers devoted to musical subjects will open at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments on Wednesday, May 12.Titled “The Lighter Side of Music: New Yorker Covers (1931-2010),” the show features the works of 23 New...
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...