The latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, presents an exhibition devoted to the century-long history of what is now David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, a new course on 1900 Vienna, and a roundup of faculty publications that made some "best of 2025" lists. Also in this edition: the Terra String Quartet's recent competition win, findings from the latest Yale Youth Poll, and the release of the second edition of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School's publication, The Notebook.
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'A Century on Stage'
In 1925, Yale enrolled its first students in a "Department of Drama" - what became, 30 years later, a separate professional school. Now known as David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, it has since grown into one of the world's foremost theater conservatories.
"A Century on Stage," an exhibition on view at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, offers an overview of this history - no simple feat, as Catherine Sheehy, a professor of dramaturgy and criticism at Geffen School of Drama, explained at a recent opening reception.
"We teach and toil in an ephemeral art form that, cherishing liveness, seeks to make its home in its audience's memory rather than in stone, on canvas, on paper, or even on film," Sheehy said.
