New Haven First Youth Shakespeare Fest Marks Dramatic Success Cast members of Elm Shakespeare Teen Troupe’s production of Henry V burst onto the stage in a rush of sound and energy. “O, for a muse of fire that Brian Slattery 12 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Indie-Folk Favorites Darlingside, Field Guide Bring Solace To Space As the temperature outside dropped to feeling downright wintery, Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday was filled with warmth, as indie-folk favorites Darlingside, with Field Guide opening, created a night Brian Slattery 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “The Truth Is Out There” Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the Brian Slattery 5 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “The Salvagers” Finds Hope In The Cold When we first meet Boseman Salvage Junior (Taylor A. Blackman), he’s shoveling snow, and turns it into a dance. The labor he’s doing can’t take away from Brian Slattery 1 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Tall Juan On Stilts Brings Elevated Guitar-Playing To Cafe 9 Sweeping music from cello and electronics that sounded as huge as the tide. A man on stilts, playing guitar, his hair nearly touching the ceiling. Another man singlehandedly turning the Brian Slattery 30 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven From The Kolkata Brassworks To A New Haven Gallery, Artists Explore The Meaning Of Home The photograph of a brass worker in Kolkata encompasses the weight of history and the immediacy of the present; it’s an image from decades ago, but it’s plausible Brian Slattery 29 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Walls Decked With Photographic Reflections Penrhyn Cook’s series of photographs, Holiday Reflections, are absorbing enough in their own right. Colorful and festive, the images are just askew enough to warrant a closer look. Are Brian Slattery 28 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 4 Bands Converge On 9 Brooklyn’s Silver Liz and Connecticut’s Private Liz, Audio Jane, and Cabins! East poured into a packed Cafe 9 Saturday night — and poured on the energy. Brian Slattery 20 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Put “Everything & Nothing” On View Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for Brian Slattery 17 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Shubert Opens Broadway Season With Hope A bus driver has brought a busload full of stranded airline passengers to a camp in Newfoundland, in the middle of the night. The passengers don’t really know why Brian Slattery 10 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven It’s Gotta Be The Shoes The two men in Cal Bocicault’s painting are, first and foremost, stylish, and they know it. Peering askance at the viewer, colors coordinated with themselves and each other, together Brian Slattery 8 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Something’s Off. Something’s Wrong Collective Consciousness Theatre raises searing questions about race, class, gender, plot, and character in a new production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning Fairview. Brian Slattery 3 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Twist & Hedge A keen sense of play — married to rigorous formal accomplishment — marks both Marjorie Gillette Wolfe’s show, “Hedge,” and sculptor and potter Amanda Duchen’s show, “Clay,” running concurrently at Brian Slattery 2 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven In“After Picasso,” Artists Reckon With A Giant Cynthia Beth Rubin’s collage crackles with energy, as colors vibrate off one another and forms within forms, textures within textures, rub against each other. Keen senses of both aesthetic Brian Slattery 27 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 3 Bands From 3 Zones Mellow Out Habe (NYC), Emmet Kai (upstate NYS) and Miguel (Loor) take turns helping Cafe Nine crowd drift on a Wednesday night. Brian Slattery 26 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Take Over The Reins Of Open Studios Artist Chelsea M. Rowe marries festive colors to a violent act in her art, a contrast that opens up the possibilities for interpretation. There’s no getting away from the Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
