Author Archives: Yanan Wang

“This is the day, Nan. We’re going to finally find out what belongs to us.” “Three Days of Rain” at the Calhoun Cabaret tells the story of two architects and their children’s quest to piece together their parents’ legacies. Beginning in a sparse Manhattan studio apartment, siblings Walker (Tommy Bazarian ’15) and Nan (Christine Shaw »

Before I came to Yale, I only knew two vegetarians, and one of them doesn’t even count because she’s pescetarian — also a word I hadn’t heard before I came here. I thought that vegetarians were strange, like curling players or people who don’t have Facebook. But once I got to campus and started eating »

“Whatever time there is in a life is a lifetime.” So declares Matt Friedman (played by Keith Rubin ’12), one of only two characters in “Talley’s Folly,” as he proceeds to explain that the span of a worker bee’s life is a mere 29 days and nights — all spent in continuous labour. But the »

You know how the line goes: behind every great college…is a great dean. Vivacious, intellectual, and bursting at the seams with knowledge about archaic art, Dean Mary Miller’s dazzling image sits fondly in our hearts this Valentine’s Day. Whether she is philosophizing about art history at the Freshman Assembly or putting Harvard in its place, »

Simple, elegant, and spontaneous all at once, the “Theater of Desire” offers a venue for writers and performers alike to experiment with their craft in an open, nonjudgmental environment. It is the brainchild of theater studies professor Deborah Margolin — everyone calls her “Deb” — who conceived of “a space without a critic,” she said. »

At around noon this past Monday, a freshman posted a thread on the “Yale College Class of 2015” Facebook group advertising an event. Although the group was initially created to instigate interaction between eager prefrosh, it has since become a bulletin board for the various events held on campus every day. More often than not, »

Hailed as a bastion of the liberal arts, Yale prides itself as a school where you can learn virtually anything within the realm of your imagination. Students boast an overwhelming amount of choice when it comes to the subject matter they pursue: courses are offered in anything from sexuality studies to immunobiology, global health to »

For most students, the library is a place of work. It is a refuge from the sometimes unduly social atmosphere of a college campus — a haven in which papers and problem sets are completed under the glare of rows of computer screens and fluorescent lights. But what about the library as a maze? As »

“Puss in Boots,” a staged reading put on in the Pierson-Davenport Theater Thursday night, aimed to give their audience a “meta-theatrical” experience through Ludwig Tieck’s adaptation of the popular folktale. With minimal costumes and props, a sparse set comprised of a single lamp and scripts in hand, the production presented a modern experiment into the »

With a plot that involves smuggled marijuana from Canada, a Pokémon-themed restaurant and Fruit by the Foot, “Independents” begins with a nonsensical feel. As the musical progresses, however, its plot takes a more pensive, philosophical turn that is at once entertaining and insightful. “Independents,” an original Yale musical, features a dynamic ensemble cast with an »

Every year, the English department nominates a student to represent Yale in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit. The contest judges accept one entry from each college in Connecticut, and from those nominees, five winners are chosen to participate in a reading series across various colleges in the state. Felicity Sheehy ’14, who was also a finalist »

Amidst a backdrop of familial tension and romantic strife, the cast and crew of “Proof” tackle a novel, audacious concept: the mixing of mathematics and emotion. The play, put on by a team of undergraduates, centers around the tumultuous relationship between a 25-year-old girl, Cathy (Marina Horiates ’15), and her mentally unstable but mathematically prodigious »