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“Home” is an art installation about a seemingly humdrum concept — hanging around the house — that happens to have been created by someone with a deep-rooted desire to entertain, enlighten and excite.

“Home,” the last major ticketed event of the 2019 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, happens June 19 to 22 at the Yale University Theatre. More information and tickets for HOME >

During the course of the 90-minute performance, a house is built onstage, then moved into and fully lived in — by actors and musicians who travel with the piece, but also members of the audience. There are also...

There may be couples as meticulous and thorough when considering parenthood as Nir Paldi and George Mann do in their quick-paced performance of “No Kids,” running through Saturday at Iseman Theater as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Yet few do so with as much vim, veracity and imagination as Paldi and Mann.

“No Kids,” a rivetingly seamless piece the couple wrote (and directed, as well), is a physical and artistic achievement for this dynamic duo as they roll out everything but a big brass band to illustrate points and keep the story visually, aurally and intellectually...

The question of if or when to start a family is something many adults ask themselves at some point in their lives.

In a play that's part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, a real-life same-sex couple explore that question.

Personal and professional partners George Mann and Nir Paldi are co-artistic directors of the British theater company Ad Infinitum and creators of the show, No Kids.

Mann said Paldi originally came up with the theatrical idea. “I was terrified of going there," he said. "So my first response was, ‘No! We’re not going to do that!’ And then a few years after that, I...

To parent, or not to parent? That is the question.

That’s also the distillation of “No Kids,” a two-character play running Wednesday through Saturday, June 12-15, at Iseman Theater as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

“It’s about dreams and fantasies, and imagining the joys and difficulties one might experience when having kids,” said Nir Paldi who, with George Mann, wrote, directed and performs in “No Kids.”

“It’s about the process of us trying to decide whether we should have them or not,” Paldi said. “And if so, how?”

Paldi and Mann’s same-sex perspective promises a seldom-...

They are fearless and anything but predictable.

They fly through the air and spring across the stage. They swing from trapezes and dangle from above. They perform extraordinary feats of balance and agility, these three figures — one female and two males — who seem to defy the limits of physical possibility.

And if that isn’t enough, they succeed in turning motion into emotion, drawing their audience into an engrossing world of humanity and feeling.

Australia-based Circa has been called an ensemble company of artists at the forefront of contemporary circus arts. In the past 15 years they have...

Alasdair Neale will officially take over as music director and conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the fourth oldest in the country, July 1, shortly after he is introduced to the community at a free concert on the New Haven Green on June 22. Having led symphonies in California and Sun Valley, Idaho, Neale replaces William Boughton, who ended his 12-year tenure with the orchestra in May.

I sat down with Neale, the 56-year-old, British-born maestro, at a downtown cafe in New Haven — familiar turf for Neale, who spent six years at the Yale School of Music, graduating in 1985 with a...

The sounds of Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq

"It's not for everybody," Tagaq says, but her unique music, a blend of an ancient art form with elements of punk rock, heavy metal and electronica, has been called "transfixing" by Rolling Stone

Chances are you won't be hearing Tanya Tagaq's music at your next dinner party or wafting over the speakers at the mall. She is technically a pop star, but not in the same vein as, say, her fellow Canadians Drake or Arcade Fire, both of whom Tagaq recently beat out to win the country's most prestigious music prize. Hailing from Nunavut, a territory above the...

Kronos Quartet celebrate the music of Pete Seeger in Music for Change: The '60s - The Years that Changed America. Learn More >

Pete Seeger’s contribution to folk music, both in terms of its revival and survival, cannot be overstated.

With the possible exception of Woody Guthrie, Seeger is the greatest influence on folk music of the last century. Born in New York City, he was the son of musicologist Charles Seeger. He took up the banjo in his teens and in 1938, at the age of 19, assisted noted folk archivist and field recorder Alan Lomax on his song-collecting trips through the American South....

‘Home’ can mean different things to different people. For me, home is where the heart, bed and eggs are. But for Geoff Sobelle, the creator and director of HOME (presented at Roslyn Packer Theatre as a part of Sydney Festival) home is a spectacle of ridiculousness, chaos, repetition and deeply odd beauty.

HOME oversees the building of an entire house on stage, with sections and materials brought in variously by actors and stagehands. The performers, Geoff Sobelle, Sophie Bortolussi, Ching Valdes-Aran, Justin Rose, Ayesha Jordan, Luke Whitefield, and Elvis Perkins, live in the house – with...

Composer and current Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) artist-in-residence Spencer Topel will discuss how site-specificity, notably in architecture, is inherently linked to experiential art installations — and how this informs his practice as a sound artist — in a talk on Thursday, Feb. 28.

Titled “Immaterial Waves: Light, Sound, and Architecture,” Topel’s talk will examine recent artistic works and research in relation to the historical emergence of phenomenological art forms in the 1960s and 1970s in the work of Alvin Lucier, Maryanne Amacher, James Turrell, and others. He also will present...

No Kids is much more than a play. It’s an argument, a discussion, a life decision. An exchange between real-life couple Nir Paldi and George Mann, No Kids asks a simple question that hangs over the hour-long performance as it does their relationship: should they have children?

Despite what the title of the play might suggest, the question is not a simple one for this couple to answer. First, as a gay couple, debating whether having a child via a surrogate is ethical dominates the conversation. Then, alternatively, how would an adopted child adapt to having two dads, and no mum? The couple...