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Yaledancers Spring Show
Three words describe the Yaledancers spring show: sharp, graceful and dangerous.
In recording, photographer Arbus delivers lecture
On Wednesday night, the Yale University Art Gallery hosted “A Slideshow and Talk by Diane Arbus” in its MacNeil Lecture Hall.
Millicent Marcus: Cineaste, Polymath, Cognoscenti of Italian Culture
Professor Millicent Marcus (PhD '74) is a professor in the Yale Italian department, who focuses on Italian culture through literature, history and film. She is also the curator of the 7th Italian Film Festival, which is running from March 29th – April 1st at the Whitney Humanities Center. WEEKEND sat down with Prof. Marcus to discuss the upcoming festival, Italian film, and the importance of local roots.
Rubamba opens on High Street
A new Latin American restaurant, Rubamba, opened on High Street location on March 14.
A “Chamber” of hilarious insanity
Eight insane women walk into a boardroom. All expectations to the contrary, this is not the start of a bad bar joke. Rather, it is the central premise of Arthur Kopit's "Chamber Music" a one-act absurdist play directed by Katie McGerr DRA '14.
“Dracula” brings the absurd to the Yale Cabaret
Dim red stage lights and candlelit tables turn the Yale Cabaret into a smoky barroom for the play “Dracula,” written by Mac Wellman and directed by Jack Tamburri DRA ‘13. The hazy, bizarre and slightly seedy impression given by the lighting is more than fitting, because Wellman’s “Dracula” speeds past descriptions such as “strange” and “baffling” without a second glance, ending up somewhere on the border between “disturbing” and “incomprehensible.”
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ listens for sounds and silences
The Calhoun cabaret theater is small and bare, and on this particular occasion the set is surprisingly prosaic: a bed, a sofa, a cabinet and a few chairs are the only furnishings used throughout the two-and-a-half-hour show. But even if the performance took place in a bare concrete cell, it would make little difference, because this is Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and it is dominated by sound — and by silence.