From the Director of Programming

Last week I went to the Baryshnikov Art Center to see the premiere performance of Susan Marshall and Company’s Adamantine, and the company has now traveled north to New Haven to bring the performance to us at Arts & Ideas, opening on Wednesday June 15.  For those not yet familiar with Susan Marshall, she is one of our greatest American contemporary dance artists, a Macarthur Fellowship recipient for her work in dance, and a frequent collaborator with musical greats such as Philip Glass, David Lang and Eighth Blackbird, to name just a few.  It’s a real honor to have Susan’s company with us at...

Five months ago I drove to Boston in the snow to see the first stop on the U.S. tour of the Druid theater company’s “Cripple of Inishmaan”, and it was almost impossible to imagine that come June we would be reuniting in New Haven for the close of the “Cripple” tour.  Over these past months the company has performed at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and all points in between.  And today, they arrive in New Haven and begin loading in to the University Theatre!  We open the production on Wednesday night, June 15, and this is one of the festival’s...

A blog from the road by Director of Performance Programs Cathy Edwards

One of the things I love about attending the Dublin Theatre Festival is the festival tagline: Dublin Loves Drama. Certainly the festival feels like it is everywhere, and posters and signs blanket the city center. I've attended the festival several times over the past few years and it is always a fruitful place for research, discovering work, and meeting with colleagues in order to create plans for touring international theater projects. As in past years, this was an exciting time and a chance to reconnect with Irish...

Cathy Edwards
Director of Programming

May 8, 2009

I went to Sprague Hall this past Sunday, May 3, to hear Concerti Grossi of the Baroque, performed by music students working with Robert Mealy, director of the Yale Collegium. The concert this past Sunday featured music by Vivaldi, Handel and Bach. Robert was a very dynamic and engaged leader of the ensemble, and this was the first time I had seen or heard the "natural horn" (the valveless horn that is the predecessor to today's horn), which was part of the Water Music suite by Handel.

Robert is working with the Festival to put together the...