Music, Dance and Theater

Live Music and Dance

Music venues in the city range from classical to rock and everything in between. Notably, the New Haven Symphony is the fourth-oldest orchestra in the country and the rock nightclub Toad’s Place has been ranked in the top five nightclubs in the United States.

Alliance for Dance at Yale
Another Octave Women's Chorus
BAR Nightclub and Bru Room
Café Nine
College Street Music Hall
Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus
CT Folk Festival
Elm City Dance
Fairfield Theatre Company
Firehouse 12
International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
Neighborhood Music School
New Haven Chorale
New Haven Contra Dancing
Jazz Haven
New Haven Oratorio Choir
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
New Haven Ballet
Orchestra New England
Shubert Theater
Toad's Place
Trinity Men & Boys, Boys & Girls Choirs
Westville Music Bowl
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Yale School of Music
Yale Symphony Orchestra

Theater

New Haven’s a theater town, with well-respected playhouses, each with its own creative niche. The entire region has a long tradition of theater.

In New Haven

Yale Children’s Theater
Yale Cabaret
Yale Repertory Theater
Yale School of Drama
Elm Shakespeare Company
Long Wharf Theater
Lyman Center for the Performing Arts
Shubert Theater
A Broken Umbrella Theatre

In surrounding towns

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Goodspeed Opera House
Ivoryton Playhouse
National Theatre of the Deaf
New London Garde Arts Center
The Toyota Oakdale Theater
Quick Center for the Arts
The Bushnell
Warner Theatre
Westport Country Playhouse

One of the things that makes this job magic is the students. They’re unbelievably smart, the best lawyers you can imagine. But they care so deeply. And what always amazes me is they’re unfailingly modest about what they do.