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REVIEW: Faye Webster’s groovy, bedroom-pop captivates College Street Music Hall

Swooning and idiosyncratic, Faye Webster performed at the New Haven music venue on Tuesday, Feb. 25.

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Breaking up with Strictly Platonic

Among this year’s graduating seniors are members of the beloved Yale student band Strictly Platonic. After four years, two Spring Fling performances and an album, the group spoke to the News about their origins and its members’ future.

REVIEW: In Dramat’s ‘Spelling Bee,’ a comedic yet heartfelt sendoff to seniors

On the 2025 commencement musical’s opening night, spelling took center stage as the actors — joined by Pericles Lewis and other audience volunteers — manifested what they sang: “Unlike idiots, we ideate.”

ISABELLA SANCHEZ

Commencement musical points actors and graduates back to childhood

The commencement musical will run from May 16 to 18 at the University Theatre. In a unique twist, four audience volunteers will be selected each night to be part of the play.

PERFORMING ARTS

Breaking up with Strictly Platonic

REVIEW: In Dramat’s ‘Spelling Bee,’ a comedic yet heartfelt sendoff to seniors

ISABELLA SANCHEZ

Commencement musical points actors and graduates back to childhood

REVIEW: Drag and debt take center stage in Yale Rep’s electrifying season finale

KIVA BANK & OLIVIA CYRUS

Yale Rep loses play grant as Trump slashes arts spending

Breaking up with Strictly Platonic

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN & GEMARD GUERY

Weather delays disrupt Spring Fling

Competition winners Erin Nishi ’25 and Tobias Liu ’26 to perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with YSO

SOFIA GAVIRIA PARTOW

Davenport Pops Orchestra set to defy gravity this weekend

EXHIBITS AND GALLERIES

ISABELLA SANCHEZ

Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition challenges the digital gaze and captures the present through analog

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN

Yale Center for British Art to implement accessibility services

ALEX GELDZAHLER & KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN

After re-opening celebrations, YCBA objects found broken and marked by pen and beverage spillage

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN

Real, fake, stolen? Yale University’s collections under scrutiny

ARTS EVENTS

‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon Ho speaks at Yale

KAMINI PURUSHOTHAMAN & GEMARD GUERY

Weather delays disrupt Spring Fling

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION

KIVA BANK & OLIVIA CYRUS

Yale Rep loses play grant as Trump slashes arts spending

After 23 years of leadership, James Bundy DRA ’95 to step down from David Geffen School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theater

ZEYNA MALIK & ALEX GELDZAHLER

Can you imagine working with your spouse? These two Yale School of Art instructors do

Meet the graduate-level musicians who study full-time at Yale College

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Exhibitions and Galleries

Faculty and Administration

Baye & Asa: a definition-defying duo

Multidisciplinary artist and musician Lonnie Holley improvises a thought-provoking set with Mourning [A] BLKStar.

Guest conductor Rossen Milanov leads Yale Philharmonia in a recital of Smetana, Beethoven and Shostakovich

‘Cleansed’: a story of violence, grief and hope

Opera superstar Renée Fleming dazzles in weekend residency

Over a year since its opening, MINIPNG’s impact grows

Local art store Artist & Craftsman Supply to close

New semester, new shows: Dramat looks toward spring season

Faculty pianist Melvin Chen to explore memory through Medtner, Wu, Schumann and Grieg

‘Photographic Storytelling: Photographs from the Permanent Collection’ installed at the YUAG