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June 18, 2013
Big week ahead with Stuck Elevator, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Compagnie Käfig.
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a 15-day extravaganza of performing arts, lectures, and conversations that takes over theaters and open spaces in New Haven, Connecticut each June. More than 80% of Festival events are completely free!

Featured events

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Bristol Old Vic in assoc. with Handspring Puppet Company

From the creators of WAR HORSE comes a new vision of Shakespeare's inexhaustible comedy.

Theater

Calexico & Susana Baca

Calexico headlines an evening with opening performer Susana Baca.

Music Free

Compagnie Käfig

Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne

Hip-hop that is high energy and high thrill: this Brazilian-French dance troupe performs an evening of two works, Agwa and Correria.

Dance Family

Stuck Elevator

A musical by Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis

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.

Theater

Sequence 8

Les 7 doigts de la main (7 Fingers)

An acrobatic dance and theater piece from Montreal's acclaimed Les 7 doights de la main (7 Fingers).

Circus Dance Family Theater