Festival Stories

"Gender Moves" Workshops with Janet Brodie and Irwin Krieger to Explore Movement and Gender

Today marks the beginning of Gender Moves, a four week series of workshops exploring movement and gender with Janet Brodie and Irwin Krieger. Come out and move with this fantastic duo as they use...

Get Ready For New Haven Restaurant Week With "Global Flavors: A Conversation With Top Chefs"

New Haven Restaurant Week is only a month away (November 8-13, 2009)!
Get ready by watching the featured video broadcast of Global Flavors: A Conversation with Top ChefsModerated by Bonnie Tandy...

Jim Culleton on upcoming collaborations and projects of Fishamble: The New Play Company

In 2007, Fishamble: The New Play Company premiered Sebastian Barry's play The Pride of Parnell Street in Dublin, and Cathy Edwards and Mary Lou Aleskie invited the production to the International...

Festival Podcast Now Available From iTunes Store

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas videos are now available as a free podcast from iTunes. You can also rate and review either individual podcasts, or the group of videos as a whole.
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New Benefit for Festival Members: Discount on Subscription to The Connecticut Forum

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has just added a new
benefit for all 2009 Members: a 10% discount on a subscription to The Connecticut Forum.
Are you not currently a Member of the...

New York Premiere of "The Pride of Parnell Street"

The Festival has just added a new benefit for all 2009 Members: a 30% discount on tickets to "The Pride of Parnell Street", September 1-6 at 59E59 Theaters. The production runs through October 4 as...

Special Offer for 2009/2010 Festival Members. Join us in Portland, OR at the PICA TBA:09 Festival!

Did you know that Cathy Edwards, the Director of Performance Programs
at the Arts & Ideas Festival, has also been curating a multi-disciplinary
performing arts festival in Portland,
OR? As a 2009/...

Enter to Win a 2010 Membership by Completing Online Survey

We hope you enjoyed the 2009 International Festival of Arts & Ideas - please help us serve you better! An integral part of our ability to improve each Festival is feedback from patrons like you. We...

New Benefit for Festival Members: Discount on Rennie Harris Puremovement at Jacob’s Pillow Dance

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has just added a new
benefit for all 2009 Members: a discount on tickets to Rennie Harris Puremovement at Jacob’s Pillow Dance, August 5-9.

International...

New Haven Register: Gloomy weather fails to dampen Arts & Ideas

Click here to read Arts Editor Donna Doherty's interview with Festival Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie in the New Haven Register.

New Benefit for Festival Members: Discount to Lincoln Center Festival's Emanuel Gat Dance

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has just added a new benefit for all 2009 Members: a 25% discount to Lincoln Center Festival's Emanuel Gat Dance, July 16 and 17 in the Rose Theater.
Known...

New York Times: In Chekhov, a Brutally Normal Midlife Crisis

Click here to read Jason Zinoman's review of the Katona József Theatre Company's production of Ivanov as part of the Lincoln Center Festival in the New York Times. The U.S. premiere of Ivanov took...

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