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“Office Hour” Stares Down The Barrel Of School Shootings

by Jason Fitzgerald | Jan 30, 2018 1:18 pm | Comments (0)

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Office Hour opens with a short scene that primes the audience to anticipate a terrifying event — a shooting at a university — and then delays that event as long as possible. In playwright Julia Cho’s astute hands, though, that delay becomes the point: It is the trauma we bring to the play, not the fear it invents, that she is asking us to examine.

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Could This Be Long Wharf?

by Markeshia Ricks | Jan 10, 2018 9:04 am | Comments (33)

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Initial rendering unveiled Tuesday night; dream-team designer Fang with participants at meeting (below).

Imagine this day spent on Long Wharf: You take a trolley or bike through the ​“stormwater” park that strategically connects to the Farmington Canal trail to the expanded IKEA ​“village,” where you buy furniture or browse shops and restaurants. Then you jump back on the trail and head to the New Haven Food Terminal to pick up fresh produce and other sundries for a picnic. You take your bike and picnic lunch on a water taxi that ferries you across the Long Island Sound for an afternoon at Lighthouse Park.

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Fireflies Lights Up A November-November Romance

by Brian Slattery | Oct 26, 2017 12:21 pm | Comments (1)

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Arndt and Alexander.

Eleanor Bannister and Abel Brown are at odds again. Abel says he’s looking for work, but has also made it pretty clear that his interest in Eleanor goes beyond the professional. Eleanor can’t decide if he’s a con man or just a man with a complicated life, and can’t deny the feelings she has for him, too. They’re both too smart, and a little too stubborn, to just let it go. Abel makes a last pitch to help Eleanor fix up the rundown cottage at the back of her property, which they both know also means they’ll be seeing a lot more of each other. Or, he says, in a moment of counterfactual argument, he could just burn the old cottage down and be on his way.

“If that’s what you want,” Abel says.

Eleanor lets her guard down. ​“I don’t know what I want, Abel,” she says.

Abel thinks about this. ​“Seems right to tell you, Eleanor, that those are exactly the words every con man wants to hear.”

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Six Characters In Search Of A Teacher

by Donald Brown | Sep 12, 2017 1:03 pm | Comments (0)

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The cast of Small Mouth Sounds

In Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds, six people go to a weekend-long silent spiritual retreat, looking for a chance to change. The idea is that new habits — like not speaking and learning to interact without chatter — will help them foster a different approach to their lives. Their teacher (Orville Mendoza) instructs them by voice-over; his first speech states the rules that will govern the exercise. One participant, Alicia (Brenna Palughi), arrives late and misses out on the instructions. Another, Ned (Ben Beckley), wants desperately to ask for a writing utensil but doesn’t dare.

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Long Wharf Hears The “Sounds” Of Silence

by Brian Slattery | Aug 23, 2017 11:48 am | Comments (0)

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The cast (l. to r.): Brenna Palughi, Connor Barrett, Cherene Snow, Edward Chin-Lyn, Ben Beckley, and Socorro Santiago.

Ned, a 39-year-old man who works for a nonprofit, has suffered a series of calamities, from prolonged hospitalization to marital infidelity to rampant alcoholism, and has joined a weekend-long, mostly silent spiritual retreat in the hope that it will help him put himself back together. He’s sitting in a session with a match in his hand.

“The teacher starts to play the recorder,” playwright Bess Wohl writes. ​“Ned has no idea what he’s supposed to do. He’s slightly worried that he’s supposed to set himself on fire. He half raises his hand, wanting to ask another question. The music stops.”

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Welcome (Back) To Krikko’s New Haven

by Christopher Peak | Jul 31, 2017 2:49 pm | Comments (1)

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Here: Krikko notes Union Station on his New Haven drawing.

Transit-riders heading down escalators to the tracks at Union Station can once again get a glimpse of their final destinations — New York City, Boston and, yes, New Haven — through the famed lead-pencil drawings of Gregory ​“Krikko” Obbott, a local artist whose prints have been sold worldwide.

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Pirelli Building Reopens ... To Art

by Allan Appel | Jul 11, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (10)

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Front door is open again, by appointment.

After being shuttered for decades, Marcel Breuer​‘s famous Brutalist elevated concrete griddle off I‑95 is opening its doors once again.

However, inside they’re not promoting Armstrong Rubber, which commissioned the building in 1968, or Pirelli Tires, or the sofas of IKEA, which still owns the building. Instead, an art show is on display. In the show, New Haven native, ECA graduate, and now distinguished conceptual artist Tom Burr offers art with evocations to New Haven’s recent past, including the 1970 May Day on the Green, Jean Genet’s defense of the Black Panthers, an era of borders and border crossings, and the arrest of Jim Morrison at the New Haven Arena in 1969.

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Older Artists Strut Their Stuff

by Allan Appel | May 23, 2017 12:15 pm | Comments (0)

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“Old Converse,” by John Barnes

This dapper and venerable ​“Old Converse” sneaker practically speaks its own charming welcome, inviting viewers to come look at it. The painting by John Barnes is one of 223 works by 90 artists on view in the fifth edition of ​“The Art Of Aging,” the annual show organized by the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut at its offices at One Long Wharf Drive.

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When The Most Beautiful Room Isn’t

by Brian Slattery | May 18, 2017 3:01 pm | Comments (2)

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The cast.

On the way home from seeing The Most Beautiful Room in New York, my wife Steph actually said this: ​“As a lifelong lover of musicals, I resented this. It is everything that people who hate musicals say they hate about musicals.”

What happens in a good production of a musical when the musical itself isn’t good? Beautiful Room gave us a chance to find out.

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Shops Close On “Day Without Immigrants”

by Christopher Peak | May 1, 2017 4:49 pm | Comments (7)

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ULA’s John Lugo passes out flyers to the workers inside the Santa Apolonia food truck on Long Wharf.

Taste of Brazil closed for Day Without Immigrants.

At least 40 New Haven businesses kept their stores bolted all day Monday to demonstrate the contribution that immigrants make to the region’s economy.

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They Say Trust Can Be Rebuilt

by Markeshia Ricks | Apr 21, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (1)

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Sgt. Renee Dominguez leads a panel on how youth view their community and policing.

Crime is down in New Haven, but several high profile clashes among police officers, ordinary residents and protesters have resown seeds of mistrust between officers and the communities they’re sworn to protect.

How can that trust be regained? By not giving up on the community, the police, or the concept of community policing.

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