Arts Paper
As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.
Christina Acosta Robinson (Beatrice), Gracy Brown (Antonio), Veda Baldota (Hero) in Elm Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nohting." Isabel Chenoweth Photo.
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Buzz the cat was lost for the umpteenth time. Jimmy, carrying a cat carrier, carefully called his name. It was Christmas, and both of them were in an unfamiliar house. Little did Jimmy know, Buzz was off scratching one of the hosts. When he stumbled into the kitchen, he ran into the other, their conversation cut short when Jimmy’s brother let him know they were leaving.
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Allyse Corbin and Nate Britton Photos, courtesy of Yale Summer Cabaret.
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The company with Director Sarah Bowles (in the sparkly shoes at the front). Claire Armstrong Photo.
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Reg Rogers, Jeremy A. Fuentes, and Phillip Taratula in a scene from Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco, translated by Derek Prouse, adapted by Frank Galati, choreographed by Emily Coates, and directed by Liz Diamond. Yale Repertory Theatre, March 6–28, 2026. Photo © Carol Rosegg.
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Lisa Costello as M'Lynn, Cindy Harris as Truvy, Juliana Vaiuso as Annelle and Kaite Corda as Shelby. Michelle Rocheford Johnston and Dian Erikian are in the background. Photos courtesy Billy DiCrosta.
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Keely Baisden Knudsen and Eric Santagata outside the theater. Legacy Theatre Photo.
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Eric Clinton as Malcolm King, Terrence Riggins as Patriarch William King, and Tenisi Davis as Ennis King. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Jacob G. Padrón in his office at Long Wharf Theatre when the building was still at 222 Sargent Drive. The photo, which he keeps with his, depicts Rev. Jesse Jackson (right) kissing labor leader César Chávez on Aug. 1, 1988, as Chávez withstood his final and longest fast for the United Farm Workers (UFW) in Delano, Calif. Jackson later joined the fast, stepping in for Chávez after he was unable to continue after 36 days with only water. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Kelly Denice Taylor as Jane Seymour in The North American Tour Boleyn Company of SIX. Photo by Joan Marcus, Courtesy of the Shubert Theatre. The third photo, which shows Tasia Jungbauer as Catherine Parr, is also by Joan Marcus.
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Sumiah Gay and Robert "Espo" Esposito on Thursday morning. The two started their day teaching acting to a group of seniors together. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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McKenna Doebrick as Amy March, Denise Wray as Meg March, Heather Bazinet as Marmee March, Allison Bradshaw as Jo March and Lexi Kinniburgh as Beth March in Allan Knee's musical adaptation of Little Women. A production of the WISP Performing Arts Initiative (Wagner Iovanna Studio Performances), it runs Aug. 8-10 at the Old Stone Church in East Haven. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Rethabile Headbush as Noluthando Princess Vavi / #587, Thando Mangcu as Dimakatso Leraba / #723. Richard Lee Photo.
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Ida Cuttler and Georgia Petersen in Save The Cave! Richard Lee Photos.
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Andrew Rincón, Emily Breeze and Matthew Chong. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Top: Antwain “AJ” Johnson with Barnard's Chaz “Mr. C” Carmon and Music Director Sloan Williams. Lucy Gellman Photos. Bottom: Maya Louise Shed introduces the D/EP 2025 plays. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Susan Kulp, Shane Quinn and company in Family Business: (A)Pizza Play. Performances run at CitySeed’s 162 James St. headquarters Fridays through Sundays through June 28. Chris Randall Photos.
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Curtis Brown Photography.
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From left to right: Jason Santacroce and Packy Lillis; Mike DePacale, Sarah Finnegan, Paul Pender, and Seamus Lonergan; Sarah Finnegan, Paul Pender, and Katie Santacroce in Brian Friel’s Translations, directed by Karl Ryan and produced by the Connecticut Irish Theater Troupe. Photos © Karl Ryan.
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Chinna Palmer, Brandon E. Burton, and Elizabeth Stahlmann in a scene from Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector, newly adapted and directed by Yura Kordonsky. Yale Repertory Theatre, March 7-29, 2025. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Skylar Dunn and Lucy Gardner in "The Feminist Theatre Project." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Curtis Brown Photography, courtesy of Long Wharf Theatre.
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Whitney White (foreground) with Ciara Alyse Harris, Holli’ Conway, and Phoenix Best in a scene from Macbeth in Stride written and performed by Whitney White, directed by Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. Yale Repertory Theatre, December 5-14, 2024. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Screenshot via Long Wharf Theatre.
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A scene from falcon girls by Hilary Bettis, directed by May Adrales. Yale Repertory Theatre, October 10–November 2, 2024. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Sora Matta (center) as Ponyboy Curtis in The Outsiders. Bob (Joseph Pallo) and Randy (Cristian Ortiz) are on either side of them. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lisa Wolpe as Richard III in Richard III. The production in Edgerton Park runs Tuesdays through Sundays through September 1. Isabel Chenoweth Photos.
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David Shih, Joyce Meimei Zheng, Destyne Miller and Amy Boratko. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Singleton (in baseball cap) and Ashford at a rehearsal Monday. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Quiala talks about all things Arts & Ideas Festival 2024 at the kickoff reception. Markeshia Ricks Photos.
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Laila Kelly-Walker as Dorothy, Aaron Steed as the Tinman, Jayla Bosley as the Cowardly Lion and Dakarai Langley as the Scarecrow in Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School's production of The Wiz. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ariel (June Lampher) and Prince Eric (Jahlil Coleman) at Thursday's production of The Little Mermaid. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Beauty and the Beast being performed at Legacy Theatre in Branford last year. Photo courtesy Legacy Theatre.
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Anthony McDonald: Let's make sure the Shubert is here to stay. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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The cast during intermission at a recent performance. The school's next show, a junior performance of The Wiz, is set for May 2024. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ale Cruz and Jaylah Jones in the world premiere of Heart. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Artist Kwadwo Adae: “There is gold in each neighborhood. This city is full of kindness. So whatever your favorite thing is, whatever type of organization speaks to you, please patronize those businesses.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Fior Rodriguez as Melosa. Behind her are Rafael Feliciano-Roman (filling in for Joel) and as Gentile as Debra. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Christopher Samuels as Blue. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dramaturg Amy Boratko and Director Sivan Battat (ECA Drama Chair Ingrid Schaeffer is to their right). Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Anita Abdinezhad, Bahar Beihaghi, Shadee Vossoughi, Vaneh Assadourian, and Ava Lalezarzadeh in a scene from Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Sivan Battat. Yale Repertory Theatre, October 5–28, 2023. Photo © Joan Marcus.
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Riggins at Bregamos Community Theater. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ian Alderman, Rachel Alderman, Ryan Gardner, and Ruben Ortiz.
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Noah Brown as Snoopy and Maria Hatje Faggion as Woodstock in Wilbur Cross High School's production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Emily Flamme Photo.
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Daniel Sbriglio as Whizzer and Andy Friedland as Marvin in FUSE Theatre's production of Falsettos. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Marty Tucker, Jenny Schuck, Steve Scarpa, and J Kevin Smith at EBM Vintage Sunday evening. While White Rabbit Red Rabbit does not have rehearsals, actors are flexing their cold reading muscles with works from NHTC's Listen Here series. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Patricio Sosa III (in foreground). From the moment he stepped onstage, he mastered the language and the timing of Shakespeare. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Manny Camacho and Catherine Wicks as Hamlet(s). Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dalontrez Galberth, who plays Wes, and Destinique James, who plays Roxana. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The 2019 Broadway Revival Company of A Soldier's Play. Joan Marcus Photo.
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Michele Selene Ang and Katherine Romans in a scene from The Brightest Thing In The World by Leah Nanako Winkler, directed by Margot Bordelon. The show runs at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Dec. 17. Joan Marcus Photos.
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Gold (Sharmont "Influence" Little) with Red (Stephen King) and Green (Jason Phenix Hall). Photo courtesy of the West Side YMCA and M.A.D. Content.
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Joan Henry, DeLanna Studi, and Allison Hudson Hicks in a reading of Flying Bird's Diary at Long Wharf Theatre. Jeremy Daniel Photos.
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Top: LWT Associate Artistic Director Rachel Alderman and Assistant to Artistic and Managing Directors Jessica Durdock Moreno. Carter Marberry and Mistina Hanscom Photos. Bottom: Members of artistic leadership and the artistic ensemble on the Claire Tow Stage. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Frankie Douglass and Lou Mangini. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Riley Arenberg, Abigail Paige and Andrew James Bleidner at rehearsal for Lost Girl. The show runs July 22 and 23 at Gateway Christian Fellowship, 129 Bull Hill Ln. in West Haven. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Fifth grader Julian McGregor and Ella the Elephant. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Anthony Brown as Jamal Green and Jhulenty Delossantos as Dougie Cordova in Steve Driffin's Jamal. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Images from the film. Yerba Bruja runs through June 25. The show’s production team includes Agosto, set designer and spirit guide Mercury, choreographer and spirit guide Jeanika Browne-Springer, videographer Nivia Easterling, photographer Maza Monteiro Rey, and sound designer Mashario Brown.
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Three of the guiding principles demonstrated in the theatre skit, "You don't worry alone, give permission to feel, and be kind to ourselves and others". Screenshot via Zoom.
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A screenshot via Zoom of Keith Hamilton Cobb's 2018 performance of American Moore at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
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Orlando Hernández performed a tap dance at the first garage on Cottage Street as part of East Rock Halloween Project's production of Boitatá. Arturo Pineda Photos.
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Remsen Welsh: “It’s a thing where I get transported. There’s a part of her I think I can breathe new life into.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Steffon Sampson as Usnavi in Arts In CT's production of In The Heights . The show runs this Friday and Saturday at Wilbur Cross High School.
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The cast of Hamlet , performances for which run on the Guilford Green through Sunday. Judith L. Barbosa Photo.
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Ian Eaton as Bottom, Saluda Camp as Titania and Fairies in Connecticut Free Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream five years ago . Judith Barbosa Photo.
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Remaining performances of Cabaret run July 6-8 and 13-15 at Lyric Hall, 827 Whalley Ave. in New Haven's Westville neighborhood. For tickets and more information, click here .Karen Marks Photo.
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Actor Kelley Knight: . Karen Marks Photos
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“You don’t know how strong you are until you have no choice to be strong,” Bri Lachappelle tells the audience at the beginning of the show. Karen Marks Photos.
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Moses Ingram as Ellei the Butterfly, a character in Allison Miranda's Lost Siblings . Lucy Gellman Photo.
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“I grew up around a generation of people who I, wrongly, thought of as permanent,” Ain Gordon said during an audience talkback Tuesday night. “I just thought they were always going to be there. Many of them also had been … had been seminal in some way, or seemed to be a big deal. And then slowly they were not a big deal. And then slowly, they were no deal.” Paula Court Photo Courtesy International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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“This has gotten us as an organization to thinking—well, obviously it’s not who we want to be, and what do we have to do to change that?” Thomas Breen Photo.
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"In Africa, we dance for nothing!" Joseph Kazadi exclaimed at one point in the show, ushering in dancing to Shakira's "Waka Waka." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Sara Hope Hill: “When a couple of eggs break, you lay some new ones and you really put your heart into it.” Leah Andelsmith Photos.
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After opening last weekend, Neil Simon's Rumors runs this Thursday through Saturday at EBM Vintage downtown. More information on the New Haven Theater Company's website . Photo Courtesy New Haven Theater Company (NHTC).
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" 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.
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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.
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Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The transformation, in process. From Daniel Eugene's 2017 NHV Drag .
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Lana Lesley in FIELD GUIDE created by Rude Mechs. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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Remsen Welsh: “It’s a thing where I get transported. There’s a part of her I think I can breathe new life into.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Earlier this week, we watched as a once-heralded artistic director was accused of sexual misconduct and swiftly fired from his organization. We watched as a champion of gender equity and fact-finding missions took charge, calculating the organization’s next steps and guiding it through an opening night performance and continued community programming.
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It began with allegations, made over several years, of sexual misconduct in the workplace. It ended with the swift firing of a once-celebrated artistic director. Now Long Wharf Theatre is asking: What does the next chapter look like? What are the institution’s collective steps forward? And how great or small will they be?
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JJ McGlone and Ciara McMillian as P.K. Whylde and Glory “Z” Zico. Yale Cabaret Photos.
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Briana Bellinger-Dawson and Denise Cox role play a customer being followed by a security guard. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Max Wolkowitz and George Guidall. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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Francesca Fernandez McKenzie and James Udom in the foreground, Sohina Sidhu behind them. Setariki Wainiqolo, Curtis Williams and Sean Boyce Johnson are in the background. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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Jerod Haynes and Jason Bowen in Native Son by Nambi E. Kelley, adapted from the novel by Richard Wright, directed by Seret Scott. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017.
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Cunningham as Callie and Byron as Sara. SCSU Photo.
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Veronica and J.D. are getting a little lovey dovey. In the middle of a high school hallway—lockers to one side, classrooms ostensibly to another—the two link hands and sing, staring into each other’s eyes.
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The cast and crew jump into their session at Baobab Tree Studios. ITC Photo.
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Riggins, as Lincoln, and Davis as Booth. The play runs weekends through Nov. 19. Mike Franzman for I Love New Haven Photos.
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Judith Ivey and Jane Alexander. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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"The queen with no pants" performs at Partners Cafe. Daniel Eugene Photo.
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A still from last year's season at CCT. Courtesy CCT.
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Rendering for Brainwashed . Courtesy Artspace and Zeph Farmby.
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Banks performing at Dragapalooza earlier this year. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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The candidates in place. Christopher Peak for the New Haven Independent.
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Jamison and Johnson as the titular characters in The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet . Mike Franzman Photo.
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On Thursday night, Elm Shakespeare will open its signature summer show in Edgerton Park, bringing William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to life for thousands of New Haveners.
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Abduladhim Al-Ani, with Vivian Smith and Herb Mermelstein. Lucy Gellman photos.
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