“Each year the houses get better and better, and I mean that in all sincerity,” said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, at the dedication of the 2009 house designed and built by the school’s first-year students in the Hill neighborhood of...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St., is rolling out the red carpet on October 23–24 for the 40th birthday of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” the classic movie that teamed American cinema icons Paul Newman and Robert Redford in...
The Yale Opera will present fully staged scenes from eight different operas over two nights at the end of October.On Friday, Oct. 30, Yale Opera will stage one act of three operas: Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” (“The Marriage of Figaro”), Ambroise Thomas...
A space within the Yale University Art Gallery dedicated to the teaching of Yale students has been named in honor of President Richard C. Levin and his wife, Jane.The teaching gallery is located on the fourth floor mezzanine of the 1928 building designed...
The Yale School of Drama will offer a new concentration in “Projection Design” beginning in the fall of 2010. This is the first such course of graduate theater training in the United States.The new course will be led by Wendall Harrington, within the...
A play about life under martial law in Poland that prompted the exile of the troupe that created it will be presented Nov. 5-7 as part of “No Boundaries: A Series of Global Performances.”The series, presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the World...
The English Department’s 14th annual staged reading will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 5:15 p.m. in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.The event is free and open to the public; it will run for about 75 minutes.The play is “A School for...
Love becomes uncontrollable and monstrous in the School of Drama’s next production, Jean Racine’s dramatic tragedy “Phédre.”The play runs Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 27-31, at the University Theatre, 222 York St. It will be directed by third-year drama student...
A group of women struggle to navigate the brutalities of the civil war in Liberia in “Eclipsed,” the second play in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2009-2010 season.Written by Obie Award-winning playwright Danai Gurira, “Eclipsed” is directed by Liesl Tommy...
“I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill,” declared Horace Walpole in January 1750.That villa and the wide-ranging collections it once housed are the focus of “Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill,” a new exhibit on view through Jan. 3...