Annual Twilight Concert
Yale Concert Band
(203) 432-4111
https://bands.yale.edu/events/2026-05-18-yale-concert-band-annual-twilight-concert
Yale songs and celebratory music highlight the Concert Band’s annual performance on the eve of Yale’s Commencement.
May 17, 7:00pm
A Century on Stage: The David Geffen School of Drama
Haas Family Arts Library
(203) 432-2645
https://guides.library.yale.edu/artsAreaExhibitions
A retrospective exhibition documents the first 100 years of Yale’s renowned drama conservatory and explores the programs, roles, and unseen ecosystem of what makes theater—and this school—remarkable.
Through May 31
John Coplans
University Art Gallery
(203) 432-0600
https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/john-coplans
The self-portraits of British photographer John Coplans (1920–2003) never show his face but focus instead on his aging body, challenging the accepted ideals of youth and beauty.
Through June 14
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850
Center for British Art
(203) 432-2800
https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/painters-ports-and-profits-artists-and-east-india-company-1750-1850
More than 100 works, including watercolors, large-scale oil portraits, architectural drafts, and a 37-foot-long scroll, comprise this exhibition that reveals how artists shaped, and were shaped by, the British East India Company’s ventures.
Through June 21