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Jan 20, 2017 8:58 am
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Dennehy and Cathey.
There’s a pantomime routine at the beginning of Endgame, the Samuel Beckett dramatic masterpiece now playing at the Long Wharf Theatre until Feb. 5, in which a man named Clov — who is physically unable to sit down — checks the state of affairs outside the two high windows in the back of the single room where the play takes place. He needs a ladder to be able to see out the windows. He places the ladder under one of the windows, climbs the ladder with difficulty, checks outside, gets down, starts walking to the next window. Turns and sighs. He has forgotten to bring the ladder with him. He gets the ladder, places it beneath the next window, climbs it with difficulty, checks outside again, gets down. Starts walking away. Turns and sighs, louder. He has forgotten the ladder again.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 21, 2016 9:05 am
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Dennehy and Cathey in rehearsal.
The man in the chair can’t stand up. The man nearby, standing up, can’t sit down. They can’t go outside. There’s nothing there.
In the room with them are two trash cans. None of them leave. Can’t or won’t, it’s unclear. But they don’t.
All they really have are their words. And from the pen of Samuel Beckett, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, novelist, theater director, and poet, what words they are.
Hernandez with Jesus Mazariego inside El Cubano; below, the generator.
Osmany Hernandez had his Predator 8,750 generator cranking on his Sandwiches El Cubano food truck Monday — but thanks to a newly announced $400,000 upgrade of the Long Wharf vending district, he’ll soon be able to save on the gas and the pollution.
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Donald Brown |
Oct 11, 2016 12:20 pm
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Myrin and Brown.
Fans of comic actor, playwright, and humorist Steve Martin will no doubt find something to like in his latest play, now at the Long Wharf after a successful run at the Old Globe in San Diego. Meteor Shower, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, bases its appeal on Martin’s celebrated gift for the non sequitur. There are jibes at the pretensions and insecurities of married couples, moments of uncanny or absurdist humor, ironically erotic scenes, actual pyrotechnics, and gestures toward an all’s‑well-that-ends-well faith in normalcy.
Martin’s approach works when it works, but viewers might find themselves wondering what purpose this walk on the mild side serves, beyond fitful amusement.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 26, 2016 2:27 pm
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Design for the new boathouse.
Henry and Shawn Carey Monday morning slowly lowered a two-ton purple double-epoxy coated rebar form over one of 50 20-foot-tall columns that will support the second floor of Long Wharf’s newest/old attraction, the Canal Dock Boathouse.
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David Yaffe-Bellany |
Jul 6, 2016 2:22 pm
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Sweeney reaches for more condiment.s.
Bob Sweeney could see that something was wrong: A neighboring food truck had placed three water coolers on a rectangular strip of tarmac reserved for cars that drive past the line of vendors every day.
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David Yaffe-Bellany |
Jun 20, 2016 7:20 am
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A table display at Friday’s celebration.
Jajuana Cole, a smiling 13-year-old known to her family by the nickname “Nonnie,” was shot to death outside a Dickerman Street party ten years ago last week.
For her sister, Quanisha Cole, who was 11 years old at the time, the shooting still feels painful and raw.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 6, 2016 1:51 pm
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Last year I went to New Haven’s inaugural food truck festival with my son, Leo, and we proceeded to eat about as much as we could. This year we returned with my sister, Jill, visiting from New York City, to find not just another big crowd walking the length of Long Wharf Drive to sample everything from pulled pork to arepas to Italian pastries, but a first-ever New Haven “dragon boat” regatta in full swing.
Two soldiers who died fighting in the Vietnam War were remembered at New Haven’s Long Wharf Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sunday in a Memorial Day ceremony as examples of what our country needs more of: “real heroes.”
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 14, 2016 7:15 am
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Randy Danson and Martin Moran.
We’re on a patch of sand next to a local highway outside of Lewiston, Idaho. There’s a wonderfully gaudy, yet nearly defunct fireworks stand to the left of us. It’s right before the Fourth of July, but there isn’t a customer in sight.
Nearby, Alice and Connor, two people old enough to be grandparents, are testing some of their supply. It gives off a few sparks, just sputters and fizzles out.
New Haven’s whittled-down parks crews are doing their best to keep up with wrappers, cigarette butts, and other litter. But they can’t do it without citizens changing their ways.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 17, 2016 8:42 am
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Morrison: Whole city benefits.
The Board of Alders green-lights plans to transform parts of Dixwell and Long Wharf for the next generation.
In a unanimous vote, the alders Tuesday nights authorized Mayor Toni Harp to accept the $14.5 million from the state for the long-awaited rebirth of the Dixwell Q House, the beloved settlement house that opened in 1924 and closed in 2003.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jan 5, 2016 2:36 pm
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Even in the animated video to Benjamin Scheur’s song “The Lion,” something deeply emotional happens less than a minute in. It isn’t just the nostalgia of the brown and yellow landscape, on which paper cutouts of animals — giraffes, lions, and their cubs — spring to life, nuzzle, and teach each other. There’s something deeper there too, caught in the just-flinty parts of Scheuer’s voice.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Dec 11, 2015 12:03 am
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Climbing 60 feet in the air is no joke, especially once you realize you’ve climbed about 20 feet too high and have to traverse the jungle of rope course to get back down.
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Dec 10, 2015 1:19 pm
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The Fiasco Theater’s production of Measure for Measure, directed by company members Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld at the Long Wharf Theatre and running until Dec. 20, makes the Bard’s darkest comedy more viewer-friendly. First of all, the characters to keep track of has been shrunk from 21 to a much more manageable 11 (or 12 if you count the unseen Barnardine, a prisoner), and played by a cast of 6. And that means everyone but Andy Grotelueschen as the Duke — who disguises himself for most of the play as a friar — plays two roles.
Plans to reopen a long defunct visitor information center on Long Wharf Drive got a boost from the Board of Alders.
