Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2024 Playlist
Preparing for 2050: The Changing Face of Race
This panel looks at the increasingly diverse and multi-cultural society that the United States is moving toward: 2013 is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 50th...
New Haven and Yale: Dreaming New Worlds Together
John DeStefano Jr., outgoing mayor of New Haven, and Richard Levin, outgoing president of Yale University, reflect on their 20-year partnership to knit together university and city. At the close of...
Shantala Shivalingappa
A classical Indian dancer whose artistic curiosity has spanned contemporary and traditional forms, Shantala Shivalingappa is widely acclaimed for her vivid, brilliantly musical performances....
Good Ideas
Ideas have enormous power. They inspire, they provoke, they delight.
The thinkers, scholars, adventurers, and artists gathered at this year’s Festival are people with ideas to share. Some have taken...
Freewheelers in the Elm City
A Broken Umbrella Theatre, New Haven’s award-winning ensemble theater company presents Freewheelers.
Broken Umbrella is known for creating original, site-specific theater inspired by the rich history...
There is a "Stuck Elevator" at Long Wharf Stage II
Stuck Elevator is a comic-rap-scrap metal musical prompted by the real life experience of a Chinese restaurant delivery man trapped in a Bronx elevator for 81 hours. The musical follows his...
A Midsummer Night's Dream in New Haven
This Video Blog offers a behind the scenes look at a new collaboration from the team behind the Tony Award-winning Broadway & West End hit, WAR HORSE.
Shakespeare’s inexhaustible A Midsummer Night’...
Meet the Chefs that make our Food Experiences unique!
Dive into one featured restaurant to experience something new—or to rediscover an old favorite! Meet the chefs and peek into their kitchens, watch a food demonstration, and sample delicious...
L'Homme Cirque
Acclaimed circus artist David Dimitri will turn the New Haven Green into his own high-flying playground this June, as he pitches his own tent and performs a breathtaking one-man show every day of the...