Arts at Work III: Jocelyn Prince

Arts & Culture  |  Arts at Work  |  Theater Elizabeth Nearing | May 11th, 2018

" I started off in theater as a lot of people do, as an actor. I went to undergrad initially on an acting scholarship. And then I realized that I was the type of actor who was always in my head, always thinking and focusing on the background story of the character. " Above, members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018. Prince recently worked on the show.

Take Her To Church

Arts & Culture  |  Babz Rawls-Ivy  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music  |  New Haven  |  Religion & Spirituality  |  Theater Lucy Gellman | May 9th, 2018

The cast of Crowns. In an interview with the Arts Paper and the Inner City News earlier this year, playwright Regina Taylor said of the work: "I do find this piece defiant. I do find this piece political. You have an African-American woman at the center of it, and she is being questioned. I see myself as being questioned from the moment that I took my first breath. Sometimes just being is a statement of defiance. Being in this mind and being in this body. Where you stand ... it is a defiant act to breathe, to be, to have your own mind. It is political. " T. Charles Erickson Photo.

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

Arts & Culture  |  New Haven  |  Refugees  |  Syria  |  Theater  |  Yale Rep Theatre m. imani west | May 7th, 2018

Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

“Capillary Waves” Sweep Co-Op Out To Sea

Arts & Culture  |  Co-Op High School  |  New Haven  |  Theater Lucy Gellman | April 11th, 2018

Ophelia pushes Hamlet into a lake, and a fish springs up from between the rows of chairs in a school auditorium. King Hamlet explores purgatory on the sprawling, matte floor of a gymnasium, with basketball hoops in the background. Polonius storms locker-lined hallways with a fizzy intercom spewing words above him. Through it all, a troupe of half-muzzled dancers leads the way, transforming school staircases into Elsinore Castle.

“Father Comes Home” Strikes A Local Chord

Arts & Culture  |  Suzan Lori-Parks  |  Theater  |  Tracey Massey Lucy Gellman | April 6th, 2018

Members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

Satellite Festival Takes Off

Arts & Culture  |  Theater Lucy Gellman | March 30th, 2018

The Revolution Will Not Be Historicized

Arts & Culture  |  Collective Consciousness Theatre  |  Dominique Morisseau  |  Erector Square  |  Fair Haven  |  New Haven  |  Politics  |  Sunset Baby  |  Theater Lucy Gellman | February 21st, 2018

Terrence Riggins as Kenyatta Shakur and Tamika Pettway as Nina in Sunset Baby. The show runs Feb. 22, 23 and 25, March 1-3 and 8-11 at Collective Consciousness Theatre. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Connecticut Queens Drag Themselves To Yale

Arts & Culture  |  Drag  |  Dragaret  |  Greater New Haven  |  Queen Of The Week  |  Theater  |  Yale Cabaret Lucy Gellman | February 13th, 2018

The transformation, in process. From Daniel Eugene's 2017 NHV Drag .

Crystal Palace or Bouncy Castle?

Arts & Culture  |  Downtown  |  Fyodor Dostoyevsky  |  New Haven  |  Rude Mechs  |  Theater  |  Yale Rep Theatre Stephen Urchick | February 2nd, 2018

Lana Lesley in FIELD GUIDE created by Rude Mechs. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.