TROUBLE IN MIND

MARCH 12-29

By Alice Childress

Directed by Jenny Nelson

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Set during rehearsals for a major Broadway production, Trouble in Mind illuminates the inner life of a Black actress struggling with her career. Alice Childress's 1955 play – which finally premiered on Broadway in 2021 – is a funny, moving and heartbreaking look at racism, identity and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre.

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Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, Gem of the Ocean begins at the home of Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old spiritual healer and former slave believed to carry the memory of the African diaspora. When Citizen Barlow, a newcomer from the South, arrives haunted by guilt, Aunt Ester sends him on a spiritual journey to the mythical City of Bones to confront his past and ancestry. As the community wrestles with protest, injustice, and the cost of resistance, Citizen must choose the legacy he’ll carry forward. The first in The American Century Cycle, Gem of the Ocean is a lyrical story of reckoning and the path to freedom. 

When: Thursday, December 18th, 2025
6–8 p.m.
Where: New Haven People’s Center
Address: 37 Howe Street, New Haven, CT

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Stories of those buried at Blake Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

Shubert Theatre June 12 - 15, 2025

Mara Vélez Meléndez she/her is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico

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March 26, 2025 | 7:30pm–9pm | 

March 27, 2025 | 7:30pm–9pm | 

The Dome
https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/SchwarzmanCenter/rsvp_boot?id=2294973

LAMENTATION

& HEALING

REMEMBERING LUCY AND LOIS TRITTON

Day One: Saturday, March 1, 2025

Register Here for Day 1

The Campaign School at Yale will examine the ins and outs of developing and running a campaign, featuring a national panel of elected officials. This session will provide a foundation and skillset for launch as community leaders.

AGENDA

10:00 a.m.: WELCOME! 

• Ron Thomas, CCM

10:15 a.m.:  Session I:  Making the Decision to Run, Run a Campaign, Lead in your Community. 

• Patti Russo, Executive Director

11:30 a.m.:  Session II:  Finding Your Voice, Making it Matter,

• Gilda Bonnano, TCSYale faculty

12:30 p.m.:  Session III:  Effective Networking Techniques,

• Patti Russo, Executive Director

1:00 p.m.:  Session IV:  How TCSYale Transformed my life:  Hear from TCSYale alumnae leading locally as they share their individual political paths, and how TCSYale skewed them for success.

• Moderated by Patti Russo, Executive Director
• Panelists:
  • YT Bell, Councilwoman, City of Clarkston, GA
  • Jacqueline Cabrera, Zoning Board Commissioner, City of Danbury, CT
  • Gabriela Koc, Board of Education member, City of Stamford, CT
  • Jason Nova, Special Assistant to Mayor Roberto Alves of Danbury, CT
  • Wendy Tyson Wood, President, NAACP of Greater Waterbury, CT

1:45 p.m.:  Session V: Wrap Up/Next Steps:  Where do I go from here? 

• Patti Russo, Executive Director

Day Two: Saturday, March 8, 2025

Register Here for Day 2

Day Two includes presentations from and conversations with individuals with varying state and local government backgrounds.

 AGENDA

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Welcome 

• Joe Delong, CEO of CCM 
• Patrice McCarthy, Executive Director, CABE
• Thea Montanez, Senior Advisor, Office of Governor Ned Lamont

10:15 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.: Why Representation Matters in Local Government

• Secretary of the State of CT, Stephanie Thomas

11:05 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.: Break

11:10 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.: Getting Involved in Politics and Seeking Elective Office

• Moderated by Patrice McCarthy, Executive Director, CABE
• Darrell Harris, Easton Republican Town Committee Chair
• Tijal Ballam, Rocky Hill Democratic Town Committee Chair

11:40 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.: Poet Laureate Performance

• Manchester Poet Laureate, Nadia Sims

11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.: Lunch Break

12:10 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Municipal Governance 101

• Roberto Alves, Mayor of Danbury
• Danielle Wong, Mayor of Bloomfield

1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.: 50/50 Campaign, Best Practice Sharing to Ensure Gender Equity and Racial Diversity on Local Boards and Commissions

• Tiffany Young, YWCA Hartford Region

1:20 p.m. – 1:25 p.m.: Break

1:25 p.m. –2:45 p.m.: Panel of Seasoned Local Experts Sharing Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Leadership

• Moderated by Melvette Hill, Executive Director of the CT Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity
• Panelists:
  • Aidee Nieves, Council President, Bridgeport
  • Nuchette Black-Burke, Mayor of Windsor
  • Rose Reyes, Councilmember, Windham
  • Caroline Tanbee Smith, Alder Ward 9, New Haven
  • Leonard Lockhart, Board of Education Member, Windsor
  • Jarrell Hargraves, Councilmember, New Britain

2:45 p.m. –3 p.m.: CCM Closing Remarks

Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church’s belief.
 
A big-little play about faith in America 

This award-winning play masterfully examines the price of conviction and the complexities of changing one’s mind. Lucas Hnath's works include A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2 and HILLARY AND CLINTON which were produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre.

"A smart, stimulating play…Mr. Hnath grants his characters the dignity of sincere belief, even as his play raises probing questions. Mr. Hnath is quickly emerging as one of the brightest new voices of his generation.”
— New York Times

This is the company's second production of a Lucas Hnath play. In 2017 NHTC mounted a critically acclaimed production of Hnath's A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY.

 THE CHRISTIANS is directed by Deena Nicol-Blifford, who appeared in the NHTC hit production of CRY IT OUT last season and whose prior directing credits with the company include Conor McPherson’s THE SEAFARER. The cast includes company members Susan Kulp, Margaret Mann, Marty Tucker, and J. Kevin Smith, and visiting artist Gavin Whelan. 

​​Performances for THE CHRISTIANS will take place on the NHTC Stage in the back of EBM Vintage, 839 Chapel Street, New Haven. Performance dates are February 27 and March 6 at 7:30 p.m., and February 28, and March 1, 7, and 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.
https://www.newhaventheatercompany.com/

From Music Director Perry So:
“Finally after almost a century this great work is starting to receive its due. The Ordering of Moses was never forgotten – church choirs, community groups and others have kept the piece in our ears – but the first performance at Carnegie was only in 2014, and the British premiere in 2022. What remarkable sound worlds are contained in the piece: lush late-Romanticism with echoes of Wagner and Elgar, but as a context for the immediacy of the African-American spiritual that sounds stark and timeless. The sound of actual chains being pulled emanate from the orchestra against harmonies that dissolve into suggestions of near-Eastern scales. All in the service of the story and the emotion contained at the core of the work – a young Moses discovering his calling to lead his people out of slavery, perhaps the most eloquent musical cry against oppression in the American tradition.”

Jessie Kindig, Senior Editor for Humanities @ Yale University Press

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Emily Rock
Senior Clinical Fellow, Medical-Legal Partnership

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