PERFORMING ARTS
LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
“Songs for a New World” emboldens viewers to chase after bright, unknown futures

Viewers can watch Yale’s adaptation of the award-winning musical, written by Jason Robert Brown, from April 10 to 12 at the Saybrook Underbrook.

April 10, 2025

CAMERON NYE
REVIEW: Dramat’s spring mainstage “Intimate Apparel” masterfully stitched together themes of love and longing

The Dramat took audiences on an intimate journey through the eyes of a seamstress, delivering a production brimming with emotional precision.

April 8, 2025

LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
Something wicked this way comes. Enter: “Macbeth”

Shakespeare’s striking tale of love, murder and ambition takes the stage this weekend at the Davenport-Pierson Auditorium.

April 4, 2025

CAMERON NYE
Lace up your frat shoes and lay out the hay: “Fuck the Goat” to open this weekend

Running from March 27 to 29, “Fuck the Goat,” written by Chesed Chap ’25, explores young men’s desperation to find belonging.

March 28, 2025

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