Great Art, Big Ideas Podcast
Festival 2025 Playlist
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...
Music of the People: Artists Talk About Music Inspiring Change
Siddharta Mitter, noted cultural critic, is joined by artists from the bands Noori, Red Baraat, and Asphalt Orchestra for a conversation about music as a tool for radical transformation in today's...
Ant Hampton: The Quiet Volume
In this video Ant Hampton, one of the creators of The Quiet Volume, shares his insights and observations about the show and tells us how he thinks this production at the Beineke Rare Book &...
An Exciting Announcement
Video Blog: May 2, 2013
Festival Director, Mary Lou Aleskie, shares some exciting news.
Tamar Gendler: Five Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness
TAMAR GENDLER is professor of philosophy at Yale University and chair of the university’s philosophy department. From 2006 to 2010, she served as chair of Yale’s cognitive science program. During the...