Culture
Women’s Capoeira weekend in Connecticut fuses art and struggle
September 20, 2016Community members in New Haven were introduced to the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira during a women's weekend with Brazilian Mestra Tisza Coelho.
Read moreThis week in history: New Smithsonian African American Museum opens
September 19, 2016Efforts to erect such a museum go back as far as 1915, when it was originally proposed by African-American Civil War veterans.
Read more“Bridget Jones’s Baby”: Good fun for women and men
September 19, 2016The story has lots of laughs generated by sight gags, broad slapstick, witty dialogue and many mature references (minus snickering) to sex, body functions, body parts and paternity.
Read moreArthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”
September 15, 2016The show is a Greek-style tragedy covering diverse issues including homoeroticism in a hyper-masculine proletariat.
Read more“Arcadia”: Tom Stoppard’s complex Byronic drama to the manor born
September 14, 2016This two-acter is so complex that the playbill actually includes a "character map" which, like a genealogical diagram, traces who is who in a series of linked boxes.
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