PERFORMING ARTS
LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
“Little White Lies,” a play about racial passing and family legacy, to premiere this week

An original musical and senior thesis by Natalie Brown ’25, the show explores the contemporary and historical legacy of racial passing.

February 28, 2025

ORION KIM & JANE PARK
REVIEW: Faye Webster’s groovy, bedroom-pop captivates College Street Music Hall

Swooning and idiosyncratic, Faye Webster performed at the New Haven music venue on Tuesday, Feb. 25.

February 28, 2025

LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
“Dance on My Grave”: an original play tells myth on death, fate and family

An original written by Yuen Ning Chang ’25, the play explores the fragile yet enduring connections between the living and the dead.

February 20, 2025

CAMERON NYE
This year’s FroShow, “Miss Molly: A Marital Deceit of Honest Intentions,” takes viewers on a gay romp in Victorian England

The Dramat’s annual FroShow runs from Feb. 20-22 in the University Theater, dazzling audiences as they venture through Victorian high society to find their “beards.”

February 19, 2025

GEMARD GUERY
36 years and counting: A history of the Shades of Yale

The Shades of Yale was founded in 1988 as a space that uplifts music and traditions of the African diaspora. The group has performed for the Obamas, Lenny Kravitz and Nelson Mandela since.

February 18, 2025

CAMERON NYE
Filled with foibles and fables, “Pippin” leads you to your own corner of the sky

The revamped Broadway classic will run from Feb. 6-8 in the Black Box Theater.

January 29, 2025

CAMERON NYE
“Side by Side by Side,” the cast of Company to deliver laughs, hard lessons this weekend

The critically acclaimed Broadway show is Yale’s second Sondheim production of the year and is slated to run from Jan. 23 to 25 at the Off Broadway Theater.

January 23, 2025

LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
Yale Rep’s “Eden,” a story of Black love and courage, to premiere this week

Steve Carter’s play, a classic in the theatrical canon, shines a light on the nuances of the Black experience in the United States through a dramatic love story.

January 15, 2025

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN
In Nicole Viloria ’25’s “Paper Dreams,” the line between love and obsession blurs as a friend falls for her best friend

The Yale senior made her film debut with the project, which follows a queerplatonic friendship starring Julia Weston ’28 and Daphne Joyce Wu ’26. It premiered in the Pierson-Davenport Theater on Dec. 3.

December 6, 2024

ISABELLA SANCHEZ
Caryl Churchill’s ‘Top Girls’ to premiere this weekend at the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Black Box

Running from Dec. 5-7, Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls” investigates what it means for women to be successful in the late 1970s.

December 6, 2024

SOFIA GAVIRIA PARTOW
‘Darwin en Patagonia’ takes an unconventional approach to Darwin’s journey, borrows fossils from Peabody

In a collaboration between the Opera Theater of Yale College, the School of Music, Peabody Museum and more, the Spanish-language opera is an amalgamation of student talent and creative forces.

December 6, 2024