PERFORMING ARTS
HANNAH QU & ANIKA ARORA SETH
Senior film majors frustrated by University policy requiring actors to be masked while shooting

Filmmakers at Yale are adding new props to their senior projects this year: masks. Based on University COVID-19 policy, all students participating in short films […]

October 18, 2021

TIFFANY KUNO
Yale Drama Coalition uses outdoor venue to tell the story of finding identity in the marginalized place

From Oct. 14 through Oct. 16, Yale Drama Coalition is staging the play “Shining City” by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.  The play will be performed […]

October 15, 2021

TANIA TSUNIK
Yale Seniors break boundaries of theater with original immersive play ‘Pandemonium’

This weekend, three Yale seniors will present an original interactive play titled “Pandemonium” as their joint theater studies project.  Inspired by J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” […]

October 14, 2021

TANIA TSUNIK
Yale Dramat presents ‘Not About Kyle,’ its first in-person production this year

This weekend, the Yale University Dramatic Association will present “Not About Kyle” — its first in-person theater production this fall –– as a part of […]

October 7, 2021

SARAH COOK
New Music New Haven returns to in-person performances

After over a year of pre-recorded virtual concerts, the New Music New Haven concert series will return to live performances on Oct. 7 at 7:30 […]

October 4, 2021

Sign of New Music New Haven
LUCAS GIMBEL & KEENAN MILLER
Yale Schola Cantorum hosts virtual Evensong performance

On Friday, the Yale Schola Cantorum staged a virtual Evensong performance — its first concert of the 2021-22 season — at the Berkeley Divinity School.  Founded […]

September 27, 2021

Yale
BRYAN VENTURA
Yale Glee Club, YSO, Yale Bands to present Project 14 in support of Black Lives Matter

The project consists of 14 prerecorded pieces, performed by a pool of musicians from the Yale Concert Band, Yale Jazz Ensembles, Yale Precision Marching Band, Yale Glee Club and Yale Symphony Orchestra.

September 16, 2021

MAIA DECKER
Yale dance groups return to in-person auditions after 1.5-year hiatus

As Yale’s social distancing guidelines allow for limited in-person auditions and rehearsals, dance groups and new performers comment on the year to come.

September 14, 2021

The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company
OLIVIA TUCKER
A cappella rush process sees increased interest, COVID-19-related logistical challenges

A surge in interest has presented logistical challenges for recruitment coordinators, who are constrained by pandemic restrictions that some told the News unfairly advantage athletics over performing arts.

September 7, 2021

MARISOL CARTY
Schwarzman Center to open in fall 2021, serve as a center for community life and the arts at Yale

Beyond including several spaces for students to gather together, the Schwarzman Center also plans to be a hub for the arts, offering new art galleries and performance spaces and a dance studio.

May 2, 2021

TANIA TSUNIK
Yale student presents ‘Roll With It!’, an interactive comedy inspired by ‘Dungeons & Dragons’

“Roll With It!” tells the story of a group of friends who meet each week to play “Dungeons & Dragons” together.

April 29, 2021