Author Archives: Christopher Arnott
The Lucky Me Review
Lucky Me By Sachi Parker and Frederick Stroppel. Directed by Douglas Moser. Produced by Joanna Keylock. Production design by Andrew Rubenoff. Costumes by Deighna DeRiu. Through June 9 at the Off Broadway Theatre at Yale, New Haven. (203) 305-7762. Certainly I’ve had many friends and acquaintances who feel they had difficult childhoods due to … Continue reading
Script for “Advertising Space,” presented last night at Get to the Point!
Hosted another of my monthly Get to the Point! storytelling revues last night at Cafe Nine here in New Haven. There’s a pronounced theatrical element to some of them. Case in point: in searching for a decent off-copyright translation of a story from one of my favorite books of all time, August Villiers de L’isle-Adam’s … Continue reading
Lieber/Stoller Jukebox Standard Comes to Long Wharf on tour in July
The Long Wharf Theatre has a tour of Smokey Joe’s Café coming July 10-28. Pretty active summer for the Long Wharf, which just hosted a tour of the McCourt Bros. two-hander A Couple of Blaguards (while the mainstage season was concluding with Clybourne Park), has their annual gala—anchored by a performance of Mandy Patinkin’s … Continue reading
How’s Donald Margulies Doing?
New Haven-based Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies is the featured guest on the latest “AT OffScript” podcast produced by American Theatre magazine. The series marks a milestone in the magazine’s history: 150 complete play scripts have been published in American Theatre since it was founded in 1983. Two of those 150 scripts are by Margulies, which … Continue reading
Eric Ting Won a Obie When an Obie Still Had a Voice
Long Wharf Theatre Associate Director Eric Ting who directed the theater’s current production of Clybourne Park as well as the world premiere of Laura Jacqmin’s January Joiner in Long Wharf Stage II back in January, has won an Obie Award for one of his non-Long Wharf projects, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s drama We Are Proud to … Continue reading
WW2 Letters to be Sung in Middletown This Weekend
Good luck getting a ticket, but it’s worth noting that The Greater Middletown Chorus’ world premiere of the “dramatic oratorio” Letter from Italy, 1944 is this weekend at Middletown High School’s Performing Arts Center (220 Larosa Lane, Middletown). The show’s sole regular performance, April 28 at 4 p.m., has been sold out for weeks. A … Continue reading
Next Play in a Day: Tuesday, April 16, 2 to 5 p.m. at Never Ending Books
I’m doing another of my “Play in a Day” children’s theater activities Tuesday, April 16 from 2-5 p.m. at Never Ending Books, 810 State Street, New Haven. In the space of three hours, we adapt a classic piece of theater, rehearse it, and (when parents come to pick up the kids) perform it. The usual … Continue reading
Theater comics theater comics theater comics!
My kids are on school break. Great time for another theater-themed comics round-up. Some of the strips below have been stored in files on my laptop for ages. As ever, I’m indebted to gocomics.com and dailyink.com, supreme comics sites to which I’ve happily subscribed for many years.
The Cabaret Changes Hands—2013-14 team announced
The end of a Yale Cabaret season—20 shows, now all done!—means that one team of artistic and managing directors is moving on (and in most cases are als0 graduating for the Yale School of Drama) and next year’s team has been anointed. This weekend, in the chatty “fire speech” period before performances of the season-closing … Continue reading
The Ugly One Review
The Ugly One Through April 13 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street, New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org By Marius von Mayenburg. Translated by Maja Zade. Director: Cole Lewis. Dramaturg: Sarah Krasnow. Scenic Designer: Reid Thompson. Costume Designer: Soule Golden. Lighting Designer: Benjamin Ehrenreich. Composer: Steve Brush. Sound Designers: Steve Brush and Tyler Kiefer. Projection … Continue reading