Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed '14 from Karachi, Pakistan, covers the drama beat for the News, and is also a beat reporter for WEEKEND.
Recent Stories
Drama School nets largest-ever donation
At tonight’s premiere of “The Realistic Joneses” at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Yale School of Drama will announce that it has received its largest donation ever.
UP CLOSE | For thespians, Yale degree not enough
Yale’s promise to students of a liberal arts education is very different from what aspiring actors might receive at more career-focused conservatory programs.
Whose YCC is it anyway?
Cameras rolled, questions were fired out and stock phrases — “conversation with the administration,” “high-impact changes,” “real leadership is critical” — were bandied around like colorful sunglasses in the hands of Spring Fling revelers.
In theater scene, few lighting enthusiasts
Laurel German ’15, a lighting designer in Yale’s undergraduate theater community, was involved in tech weeks for six productions in February. But there aren’t even six weeks in February, she noted.
Music School profits from free tuition
The School of Music has been tuition-free since 2006, but other factors are coming into consideration as admitted students decide whether to enroll.
Pride@Yale, past and present
Pride@Yale 2012 organizer and LGBTQ Co-op president Hilary O'Connell and past organizer and president Ryan Mendías ’13 weigh in on Gaypril and what it means to Yale as a campus.
Senior director brings race issues to the stage
"The Shipment," which is this year’s mainstage production by the Heritage Theatre Ensemble, a student organization that promotes black theater on campus, centers around the way blackness is depicted, how expectations are made on the basis of race and issues of privilege, director Timmia Hearn Feldman '12 said.
Yale Working Group sets its own course
When Sophie Nethercut '14 arrived at the now-infamous Occupy Morgan Stanley protest on November 16 last semester, the chants had already started.
Securing a toehold for ballet at Yale
A year-old group called the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company is reaching out to ballet enthusiasts interested in an ensemble dedicated to the traditional style.
Aspiring actors get career advice
With help from alumni like Maria-Christina Oliveras '01, a slew of Yale theater students are seeking to discover what makes for a functional acting career in New York City.