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The Yale Cabaret has announced its spring 2013 line-up: Ten shows, each running for five public performances (and one audience limited to the playmakers’ Yale School of Drama classmates) plus one special work-in-progress event. As has been in the case in recent years at the 45-year-old student-run experimental drama venue, some are established scripts, others … Continue reading »

  Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre, has just sent around “An Important Message,” which appears to be a new variant on the short essays he writes for the Long Wharf programs. If you’re on the Long Wharf email list, you’ve gotten it. Basically, it’s an informative promo vehicle for upcoming Long … Continue reading »

Here’s who’s playing all those Irish townsfolk and Hollywood cretins in the Yale Rep production of Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets which runs Jan.25 through Feb. 16 at the Yale Repertory Theatre: • Fred Arsenault. • Euan Morton. That’s it. As is the playwright’s wont, all the dozen-plus roles are played by two male … Continue reading »

Sunday in the Park With George Through Dec. 20 at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. (203) 432-1234. Directed by Ethan Heard. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. Musical Director/Conductor/Orchestrator: Daniel Schlosberg. Scenic designer: Reid Thompson Costume designer: Hunter Kaczorowski. Lighting designer: Oliver Wason. Sound designer: Keri Klick. … Continue reading »

BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new Charles Paris mystery, An Amateur Corpse. Episode Two is still available as a streaming broadcast here until until tomorrow (December 19) when Episode Three appears. The fourth and final episode airs on Boxing Day. (Following its terrestrial broadcast in England, each episode lingers online for a full week … Continue reading »

Dilemma! Through Dec. 8 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org Conceived and directed by Michael Bateman. Created by The Ensemble. Set, projection, and lighting design: Christopher Ash. Costume designer: Seth Bodie. Sound designer: Matt Otto. Technical Director: James Lanius. Dramaturgs: Rachel Carpman. Stage Manager/Producer: Reynaldi Lolong. Moral Guidance: Daniel … Continue reading »

I’ve been asked to create a new monthly storytelling series at Café Nine, debuting December 3 and continuing on the first Monday of every month. So the debut (“Volume One,” as I call it) is 8 p.m. TONIGHT, Monday Dec. 3, at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. I’m very excited by this new … Continue reading »

Cat Club Through Dec. 1 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org Created by Paul Lieber, Timothy Hassler, Benjamin Fainstein, Hansol Jung and Kate Tarker. Music & lyrics by Lieber & Hassler. Directed by Fainstein. Costume Designer: K.J. Kim. Lighting Designer: Solomon Weisbard. Sound Designer: Palmer. Assistant Sound Designer/Mixer: Tyler … Continue reading »

  Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet’s snappy episode of ruthlessness and immorality in a Hollywood producer’s office, opens tonight at UpCrown Studios on Crown Street. It’s a new venue for New Haven Theater Company, the nearly 20-year-old community troupe which was borne at the BAR nightclub and has had several distinct regimes. UpCrown, part of the LoRicco … Continue reading »

  The Yale Cabaret was dark last weekend as scheduled, will present Joshua Conkel’s MilkMilkLemonade Nov. 8-10, again as scheduled. Then the schedule fails. The production of Ionesco’s The Chairs planned for the Nov. 15-17 slot has been cancelled, and back-up plans came to nought, so that will be another dark weekend at 217 Park … Continue reading »