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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
Let’s Twist Again
Nice profile of puppeteer extraordinaire Basil Twist in the new (April 15) issue of the New Yorker. The magazine did a “Talk of the Town” bit on Twist just a couple of years ago, but this is a full-blown article by Joan Acocella. Its hook is not a New York-based show Twist is working on … Continue reading
New Haven Theatre Company will be Shipwrecked in May
I ran into playwright Donald Margulies at a Long Wharf Theatre opening night on Tuesday. I was just back from the Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (in Kentucky) and was happy to inform Margulies that his play Dinner With Friends was still among the top two plays immediately mentioned … Continue reading
The Twins Would Like to Say Review
The Twins Would Like to Say Through April 6 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street, New Haven. Final performances tonight at 8:30 and 11 p.m. www.yalecabaret.org By Seth Bockley and Devon de Mayo. Co-Directors: Whitney Dibo and Lauren Dubowski. Dramaturg: Kelly Kerwin. Set Designer: Brian Dudkiewicz. Assistant Set Designer: Samantha Lazar. Costume Designer: Steven … Continue reading
The In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play Review
Two performances remaining: April 6 at 2 & 8 p.m. in the Yale Repertory Theatre, corner of York and Chapel streets, New Haven. By Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Stephen Kaliski. Produced by Jonathan Lian for the Yale Dramatic Association. Set Designer: Jason Sherwood. Lighting Designer: Jessica Greenberg. Sound Designer/Composer: Matt Sherwin. Costume Designer: Summer Lee … Continue reading
The Yale Institute of Music Theatre’s two shows for 2013
The Yale School of Drama’s nifty youth-serving Yale Institute for Music Theatre has chosen the two shows it will develop this summer. Candidates are chosen from young composers currently in, or recently graduated from, university programs in various music theater skills. YIMT gets support from the deepest pockets in new-works development found anywhere in the … Continue reading
Theater Comics Bonanza
Every once in a while on this site I share theater-related comic strips whichI pluck and save from sites I follow religiously. These are all from www.gocomics.com, a service I strongly advise you to subscribe to. Featured strips are Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski; New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis; Tarzan (as drawn … Continue reading
Long Wharf Has a Summer Season Again
f The Long Wharf Theatre, which holds its mainstage season from fall through spring, has tried a lot of different things to use its space in the summertime: workshops, Arts & Ideas festival offerings, touring shows, small-cast comedy staples involving nuns and neurotics… Last summer was all about a multi-million dollar renovation of the mainstage, … Continue reading
Hartford Stage Has a 2013-14 Season
Hartford Stage has figured out its 2013-14 season, one which both brings back familiar faces from the theater’s illustrious past and updates the repertory-company form with which it was associated for much of its history. The first two shows on the slate—the second complete season programmed by the theater’s new artistic director Darko Tresnjak—have exactly … Continue reading
The Lindbergh’s Flight Review
Lindbergh’s Flight By Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett. Contributing Artists (Zie Kollektief): Kate Attwell, Gabe Levey, Brenda Meaney, Mitchell Winter. Costume Designer: Martin Schnellinger. Lighting Designer: Joey Moro. Sound Designer: Tyler Kieffer. Stage Manager: Carolynn Richer. Performed by Zie Kollektief (Scraps, Sass, Cowboy, Austria). If this rare, often ridiculous, revision of Brecht’s lehrstück … Continue reading