by Allan Appel | December 7, 2008 10:48 AM

Amy Barry was so moved by the music and the mission of Tina Lee Hadari's Music Haven that right after cookies and coffee she embraced her and offered the support of her small family foundation. Full story here.

by Allan Appel | November 25, 2008 8:11 AM

A new downtown show poses the question: How is a pigeon like a graffiti artist? Full story here.

by Allan Appel | November 19, 2008 9:45 AM

The titles of these two mixed media works by Yosiell Lorenzo are "I am the Worm Keeper" and "Wormed Down Skatedeck." Do we sense a pattern? Full story here.

by Allan Appel | September 11, 2008 7:01 PM

Large scale prints from the Renaissance to 1630 will be on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through November 30th. Don't miss a triumphal arch by Nuremberg master Albrecht Durer. It's so large the curators have mounted it on the floor!
Click here for the university's press release.

by Allan Appel | August 29, 2008 9:21 AM

Election season is underway: Should the stage on the Green be transformed into a huge nomadic tent this winter , covered in colorful ribbons? Should three bell towers arise on the Green? Or should 9,000 lights on nine cubes evoke the Nine Squares? Click here for the full story.

by Allan Appel | August 11, 2008 2:00 PM

"It made us feel proud, it was beautifully performed, and it was true." Such was the dream review that Luz Santiago (left), Delia Vega and 15 other residents of Casa Otonal gave to "Migrants," a bilingual cantata celebrating the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in America.

Continue reading "Immigrants Celebrated in Fair Haven Cantata"

by Paul Bass | July 3, 2008 9:10 AM

David Bromberg doesn't know what songs he'll play when he takes the Little Theater stage Sunday. But if he plays Mr. Bojangles, you can predict what notes he'll play -- including the solo.

Continue reading "A Picking Virtuoso Returns"

by Paul Bass | July 1, 2008 2:48 PM

The hottest ticket in town is free, with one non-monetary cost: It asks you to ditch romantic notions about the "madman" who painted Starry Night. Click here, and on play arrow, for the full story.

by christopher grobe | June 25, 2008 2:01 AM

Early in The Pride of Parnell Street -- a gorgeous new monologue-play by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry brought to New Haven courtesy of the Festival of Arts & Ideas -- a lower-class Dublin woman tells about those heady days during the 1990 World Cup. Ireland's national soccer team strung together a series of unexpected victories and came as close to the championship as they've ever come. Dublin went mad, "happy mayhem" ruled, and this depressed, terror-wracked, still-developing nation felt something rare. Janet -- that's this storyteller's name -- doesn't try to shoehorn this oceanic feeling into one word, but surely the nearest word would be "pride."

Continue reading "Dear, Dirty Dublin"

by Allan Appel | June 24, 2008 9:30 AM

That's neither a natural tunnel in the Southwest nor a new museum in Montivideo but a gelatin silver print called "Open Dictionary" by the contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell. Full story here.