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Rep Airs
Here’s a photo of how the Yale Repertory Theatre looked last August. Here’s a photo of how it looks this week. In between, of course, the Yale Rep hosted an entire season of plays and special performance events, not least of them Paul Giamatti as Hamlet. The building is like some freakish cocoon which … Continue reading
The Theater Jerk Guide to New Releases on Netflix
Been a while since I did this, but I like to point out vague theatrical themes in films recently added to the vast repositories of Netflix. These are the types of flicks I personally seek out and plan to watch. Go figure. In no particular order… Carry On Cowboy and Carry on Cleo. A couple … Continue reading
Yalies Rule in California
I’ve sucked so much at blogging regularly here in the last few months, blowing off dozens of potential preview stories, that local readers have every right to be annoyed that I’ve jumped in to mention a show happening in Los Angeles California by some Yale School of Drama alums who graduated three or four years … Continue reading
The Tartuffe Review
Tartuffe Through June 15 at the Yale Summer Cabaret, 217 Park Street, New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org. By Moliere. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Dustin Wills. Scenic Designer: Kate Noll. Costume Designer: Seth Bodie. Lighting Designer: Oliver Wason. Composer: Rob Greenfield. Sound Designer: Steve Brush. Production Manager/Technical Director: James Lanius. Stage Manager: Geoff Boronda. … Continue reading
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
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
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