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Lyric Hall goes with the Flow

Lyric Hall goes with the Flow
by Nora Grace-Flood and Maya McFadden | Feb 18, 2022 | New Haven Independent

Restoration is in full swing at Westville Village’s hub of reinvention. The work was taking place inside Lyric Hall, the circa 1913 vaudeville theater at 827 Whalley Ave. that John Cavaliere has revived and repurposed for the past 15 years. more

Old West

Old West
BY Kathy Leonard Czepiel | June 5, 2020 | Daily Nutmeg

The small business district of Westville Village, which came of age in the second half of the 19th century, is special in part because its long history as a center of industry and commerce is still visible today more

Black & Ugly & Here

Black & Ugly & Here
BY Lucy Gellman | February 21, 2019 | Arts Paper

We are standing in a waterpark with Porsha Olayiwola and her lover. The sun is high overhead, warming their skin. It’s one of those exposed shoulder days, those thigh touching thigh days. One of those bathing suits are on and joy is permitted kind of days. And then, on the fourth waterslide, the attendant asks Olayiwola to get on a scale. more

“Cabaret” by The Harpers

“Cabaret” by The Harpers
BY Noah Golden | Jul 6, 2018 | Onstage Blog
Bracingly original, astonishingly resourceful and daringly theatrical. These are phrases I often associate with artists like John Doyle, Ivo Van Hoe or Michael Arden, directors who reinvent and reinvigorate everything they touch. These aren’t phrases, however, I often associate with the local theater scene.  …read more

Chilling Cabaret Demands Attention

Chilling Cabaret Demands Attention
BY E.A. MCMULLAN | Jul 2, 2018 | New Haven Independent
Sam Plattus, director of Cabaret — playing now at Lyric Hall in Westville until July 15 — met us, his guests, with warmth and enthusiasm on our way into the auditorium. We found the stage filled with the cast in their attire, quiet chatter and knowing smirks abounding as they managed their preparations. Just after a hush settled over the whole room, Plattus walked to the foot of the apron. read more

The Other Guys

The Other Guys
By Robert DiGioia | January 11, 2018 | New Haven Register
Hopkins School alum and New Haven native Thomas Halvorsen, 19, is taking a break from his studies at the University of St. Andrews to tour the East Coast and Toronto…Read More

Dream Train Podcast

Dream Train: A Radio Play

After a sold out run at Lyric Hall, it was decided to take “Dream Train” to the airwaves!  It is a poignant, thought provoking musical radio play that can be described as The Polar Express meets A Christmas Carol, with a modern twist.  The show is appropriate for listeners age 5-105!

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Lyric Hall Makes Noise For Toys

Lyric Hall Makes Noise For Toys
BY Alessanrdo Powell | November 19, 2015 | New Haven Independent
“Can you remember the best Christmas ever?” asked Mike Miglietta, aka noise artist Parlay Droner. “How about the worst?” Noise for Toys, an outgrowth of Drink Deeply’s Elm City Noise Festival, is set to ring in the Yuletide spirit on Friday at Lyric Hall in Westville, where the festival’s proud parents, Margaret Milano and Miglietta, celebrated their engagement …read more

Collector Communities & the Magnetism of Obsolete Media

Collector Communities & the Magnetism of Obsolete Media
BY nemmcoalition | January 17, 2016 | NEMMC
The rush. There’s a rush you get when you’re rifling through boxes and crates of VHS tapes hoping to stumble upon that rare gem you’ve been looking for since high school. These boxes seem to always have a similar scent, that faintly familiar smell of a basement closet or a relative’s apartment (and that relative is always a heavy smoker.) The hunt is something I know all too well about. Since middle school I’ve obsessed over horror films and have spent (and continue to spend) hours researching, hunting for, and collecting movies on a variety of (mainly now obsolete) formats: laserdisc, betamax, VHS, ...read more

Be Dazzled

Be Dazzled
BY Dan Mims | January 22, 2016 | The Daily Nutmeg
New Haven >> A superb playlist. Whimsical lighting. Eye-popping outfits. Everybody dancing. Those are the makings of a legendary party. And that’s a good way to describe what’s happening for the next two nights at Lyric Hall, where Escapade: An Unusual Experience gets three stagings. “Legendary party” is a good description, yes, but it’s not complete. …read more

Radical Shakespeare in ‘Wretched State’ at Lyric Hall Saturday

Radical Shakespeare in ‘Wretched State’ at Lyric Hall Saturday
BY Register Staff | April 20, 2016 | The New Haven Register
NEW HAVEN >> Billed as “A night of radical Shakespeare: Films, Music, Art Performance,” a city-based art collaborative called Art Secession Cabal will present “O Wretched State! O Bosom Black as Death!” Saturday at Lyric Hall Theater on Whalley Avenue. The 8 p.m. show is timed to the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and will include artists, filmmakers and artwork, some of which will explore the tragic, supernatural and magical…more….

Tet Offensive Breaks New Ground

Tet Offensive Breaks New Ground
BY Lucy Gellman | Sept 12, 2016 | New Haven Independent
New Haven>> It was the end of the world and Brian Robinson, bouncing up and down in a flower-dotted yellow dress on the cusp on his 41st birthday, knew it. Behind him, a string quartet played on, rap-tap-tapping drums carrying its members toward a big finale. Before him, a a packed Lyric Hall was rising to its feet, audience members old and young bobbing to R.E.M. as he jumped off the stage and into a frenzied…READ MORE

Recently Restored Lyric Theatre in New Haven Presents Evening of Plays by Connecticut Playwrights

Recently Restored Lyric Theatre in New Haven Presents Evening of Plays by Connecticut Playwrights
BY  BWW News Desk | Sept. 14, 2016 | Broadway World
New Haven>>Long-time professional acting duo, Allan Zeller and Kimberly Squires of Milford, will perform their two-person show: “Zeller & Squires – Delightful Differences: An Evening of One-Act Plays” at the historical and beautiful Lyric Hall in New Haven, CT. Opening weekend is Oct. 14 & 15 at 8pm,which will be followed by two weekends…read more

Zeller & Squires ready ‘Delightful Differences’ one-acts Oct. 14 at Lyric Hall

Zeller & Squires ready ‘Delightful Differences’ one-acts Oct. 14 at Lyric Hall
BY E. Kyle Minor | Oct 7, 2016 | New Haven Register
NEW HAVEN >> Milford actors Allan Zeller and Kimberly Squires believe that, if they want something done, they should do it themselves. This brings us to “Zeller & Squires — Delightful Differences: An Evening of One-Act Plays,” the couple’s homegrown showcase opening Oct. 14 at New Haven’s Lyric Hall. “One reason we’re putting this together is that… read more

Where He Is, Music Intervenes

Where He Is, Music Intervenes
BY Lucy Gellman | AUG 3, 2015 | New Haven Independent
A high school student who had ever only thought of New Haven as a rough place. A teenager whose voice had been stifled by adversity for years, but had a “rip your face off” kind of quality to it when she opened her mouth and sang. An Afghan war veteran who …read more

Intervention, the musical version, at Lyric Hall in New Haven Friday

Intervention, the musical version, at Lyric Hall in New Haven Friday
BY Joe Amarante | July 7, 2015 | New Haven Register
NEW HAVEN >> Adam Christoferson’s Friday night music show at Lyric Hall should be a moving event — for all involved. The therapist/songwriter’s new LLC organization, Musical Intervention, scored a grant from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven to showcase songs written and performed by youth, veterans and others who have had difficult-but-inspiring life stories.  New Haven-raised Christoferson, 31, originally … read more

Professor B and the Army of Love VIDEO

Professor B and the Army of Love – Tough Times video shot on location at Lyric Hall
The new album release Tough Times on HMG records is a beautiful mixture of positive vibes about life that will warm your heart. A signature vintage sound, with across the board influences of rock, rhythm and blues, country, jazz, and gospel, unleashed on a roots reggae vibe. From an inspiring story, this artist takes his music over the top, and succeeds in capturing your conscious. (BMI)   Music Makes a Difference ….. shot on Location @ Lyric Hall 2015 Watch the video!

 

Wine & Fun May Mix In Westville, Not On Grand

Wine & Fun May Mix In Westville, Not On Grand
BY Aliyya Swaby | DEC 10, 2014 | New Haven Independent
Westville’s Lyric Hall will now have permission to sell beer and wine at its shows, while a Grand Avenue restaurant may serve, too—minus the live entertainment. That is the upshot of decisions made Tuesday night by the Board of Zoning Appeals. The board unanimously approved licenses allowing Lyric Hall and Grand Avenue restaurant La Cabana to serve beer and wine. But community complaints led the board to nix the part of La Cabana’s … read more

Macbeth, The Murder Ballad

Macbeth, The Murder Ballad
BY Brian Slattery | DEC 9, 2014 | New Haven Independent
MacCoy is a small-time drug dealer somewhere in Appalachia. Little Lady is the mother of his unborn child. They’re hot for each other and desperate to improve their lives. MacCoy’s uncle has a better thing going. So early in the play, Little Lady convinces “Mac” that they have to kill him and take over. Sound familiar? …read more

New Haven’s Lyric Hall gets tavern license

New Haven’s Lyric Hall gets tavern license
BY Mary E. O’Leary | DEC 9, 2014 | New Haven Register
Westville neighbors couldn’t say enough good things about their neighbor John Cavaliere and his loving restoration of Lyric Hall. Whatever he needs to allow the community performance space in Westville Village to thrive was OK with them. The Board of Zoning Appeals took their advice Tuesday and allowed Cavaliere to seek a tavern license to serve wine and beer at the musical, theater and movie programs at Lyric…. read more

 

Adoption Journeys Celebrated

Adoption Journeys Celebrated
BY David Sepulveda | NOV 18, 2014 | New Haven Independent
Event sponsors insisted it was not a workshop or seminar, but it had all the hallmarks of one. Flip charts with prompts scrawled in magic marker lined the walls of the hall. On tables sat programs to go along with bright-red information packets. November is National Adoption Awareness Month and invited speakers drove shards of awareness into every heart present. …read more

A “One City” Jam

A “One City” Jam
BY Paul Bass | JUN 12, 2013 | New Haven Independent
The ghost of Miles Davis haunted an old Vaudeville theater—and racked up some coins for a modern-day mayoral campaign. A jazz quartet summoned Davis’s classic cool-jazz composition “All Blues” at a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez. The musicians performed Tuesday night from the stage of the restored Lyric Hall, a one-time Vaudeville hall in Westville village… read more

 

LYRIC HALL: A MAGICAL NEW HAVEN LANDMARK

LYRIC HALL: A MAGICAL NEW HAVEN LANDMARK
By Sarah Cristiteillo Heneghan for GROOVE Magazine
How do you describe a place when it leaves you speechless? As you enter the enchanting world of Lyric Hall it has a funny way of taking your breath away. However, when you finally do catch your breath you may agree with theater goers and critics alike in saying that this place is welcoming, homey and intimate… read more

Clinic Blooms As Communities Unite

Clinic Blooms As Communities Unite
BY David Sepulveda | New Haven Independent | FEB 26, 2013
A spirit of giving and fellowship enveloped a crowd of supporters who came to Westville’s Lyric Hall Friday, with the common purpose of raising funds for a modest health clinic in Ejemekwuru, Imo State, Nigeria. The project, sponsored by New Haven’s MaryCare organization, brought… read more

It’s a Long Story

It’s a Long Story 
January 22, 2013 | Written for The Daily Nutmeg by Christopher Arnott
Bob Dylan—or at least a reasonable facsimile of him—is back in town. Quebec-based writer/producer Peter Landecker portrays the music legend in the “theatrical biography”Long Time Gone: Words & Music by Bob Dylan. The Dylan character read more

Mission0 Video shot at Lyric Hall

Mission 0 shoots their new video at Lyric Hall
Mission 0 chose the haunting environment of Lyric Hall Theatre for their new single “Disappear.” The video features Megan Chenot on vocals and the other band members, Joel Melendez and  Chrissy Gardner, make their appearances as characters in the video. Stacey Kigner of Soviet Bloc Party adds mood with her acrobatics.