New Haven A View, From The Harbor Long Wharf Theatre’s current offering of A View from the Bridge takes audiences to the Canal Dock Boathouse on Long Wharf Drive, to let its sweeping view of the Donald Brown 20 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Resilience & Collective Cultural Heritage On Display Shaunda Holloway’s Nature’s Children greets viewers as soon as they enter the second floor of the gallery at Creative Arts Workshop. Over the shoulder of that piece, Aisha Brian Slattery 16 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Embroidery Resistance” Meets Atticus On the walls of Atticus on Chapel Street, just above diners’ heads, is a row of mixed-media artworks that brighten and enrich the space, making it feel both more vibrant Brian Slattery 14 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Guyanese-Born Artists Consider Revival, History, & The Body It’s not just the large paintings covering the walls that suffuse the gallery with color, though they go a long way toward transforming the space around them by themselves. Brian Slattery 13 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven James Ivory Pays A Visit Friday night’s installment of Yale Film Archive’s The World of James Ivory series offered another type of double feature: a viewing of the 1965 film Shakespeare Wallah, followed Karen Ponzio 12 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Opera Plays Its Cards Right At Shubert A member of the stage crew was doing some last-minute cleanup of the set at the Shubert, in preparation for a rehearsal of Yale Opera’s The Rake’s Progress, Brian Slattery 9 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Americana Keeps The Room Warm Cafe Nine on Wednesday night was the scene for delicate ballads, bright harmonies, and gritty rhythms as three bands — Pyramid Rose, Dallas Ugly, and the Split Coils — played sets with Brian Slattery 8 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Open Mic Takes Off Performers and audience members arrived at Cantean on Whitney Avenue in Hamden en masse Tuesday evening before the posted start time of 6 p.m., quickly filling the space and Brian Slattery 7 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven City Gallery Keeps It In The Family WIlliam Frucht’s photograph from Coney Island combines rigor and humor to make for an engrossing image. On the rigorous side, there’s the strict geometry of the workout equipment, Brian Slattery 6 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Checkmate, Black History Month How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the Karen Ponzio 5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven 3 New (Haven) Albums “Unity in the Community” begins with a classic hymn-like statement from Warren Byrd’s piano, carried aloft by a chorus of voices, bubbling bass and percussion, and horns passing a Brian Slattery 1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking Brian Slattery 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Owed To A Poet Laureate New Year’s/Inauguration Day Twenty Twenty-Four Boring speeches Left us snoring Like captives wilting In the auditorium For an hour. Plus an hour Then Influence stepped up And spit Paul Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Theater “Cleansed” The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971 – 99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School Donald Brown 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Blue Velvet Suitcase Blue Velvet Suitcase is simple: a wooden chair, a small suitcase, a shirt from a uniform, neatly folded. It’s unassuming enough that it almost — almost — invites the viewer to Brian Slattery 24 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three Bands Keep The Fun In The Weird Sounds like nature. Sounds like video games. Choirs of unearthly voices and raspy tones from a saxophone. And people listening hard to build sounds together. All of this awaited the Brian Slattery 23 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
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