Yale Daily News

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January 30, 2015

Last week, the reopening of a historic music venue was announced — one that borders on Yale’s campus and looks to put New Haven on the touring map. Formerly the Palace, the rebranded, renovated College Street Music Hall will open this spring. However, its capacity to give Yale musicians their much-needed space seems less than probable.

January 30, 2015

A sense of being trapped in one’s own body is the predicament articulated so well in Yale Cabaret’s startling one-man play “50:13,” written by Jiréh Breon Holder’s and directed by Jonathan Majors. The audience is seated so as to surround a prison cell which has been placed in the middle of the Cabaret’s small venue, and its members are forced into the uncomfortable position of watching Fowler through bars.

January 16, 2015

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” feels like a Steve Martin stand-up routine grafted onto a fun, if flimsy, plot: a pair of twenty-something no-names — a painter and a physicist — meet at a Paris bar in 1903. One is called Picasso and the other is named Einstein, and they spend the night exchanging jokes, competing for women’s attention and announcing their plans to revolutionize the 20th century.

December 5, 2014

A Monday afternoon protest on Cross Campus against the no-indictment in the shooting death of Michael Brown turned into a rousing call to students to fight for justice in the city that lies beyond Yale’s gates.

December 1, 2014

Parmesh Shahani had a two-fold epiphany in 2009.

October 29, 2014

How many shows can you say are imaginative, warm, beautiful, heartbreaking? Those are adjectives I am reluctant to throw around, but “Our Town” demands that you give in to its all-embracing humanity, brought alive and writ large in this big-hearted production at the Long Wharf Theatre.

October 17, 2014

Despite his admiration of Steve Jobs, Kanye’s real forerunner is Oscar Wilde.

October 10, 2014

My ears are really happy. I don’t think that’s how The New York Times critic would have phrased it, but it’s probably how he would have felt. “New Music New Haven,” held at Sprague Hall on Thursday night, featured four strange, beautiful and wildly divergent compositions — three by current School of Music students and a finale by guest composer Paul Dresher.

October 3, 2014

The exhibit is on display through November 15, 2014, in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery on Level L2 of the Lillian Goldman Law Library (127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT).

September 26, 2014

“Look up, Speak nicely, and Don’t Twiddle your fingers all the time” runs twice tonight and twice tomorrow night. If you’re thinking of seeing the show, and you’ve read whatever headline is up there or seen the photo they ran, then you already know too much! Stop while you’re behind, and see the thing. I recommend it. That’s all you need to know.

September 19, 2014