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Arts & Ideas, Here & Beyond
Where are they now? Some of the key acts from the International Festival of Arts & Ideas are still in the country, making other stops on the culture-fest circuit. TheNational Theatre of Scotland’s pub-set Prudentia Hart is in Chicago. The Carolina Chocolate Drops played Fairfield University last week. Another of the big Green attractions, Roseanne … Continue reading
Letts Albee Civilized
New Haven audiences saw Tracy Letts as the intransigent, debilitated husband in the world premiere of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses at the Yale Repertory Theatre last spring. For Letts, that role followed stints as a middle-aged married man of decidedly different temperament, namely George in a revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia … Continue reading
The Speech of Fire
I have attended literally hundreds of performances at the Yale Cabaret over the past quarter century, so that’s how many times I’ve heard the venue’s famous “fire speech.” Here, I can do it by heart: In the unlikely event of a fire, you have three options. You can go (in an orderly fashion) out this … Continue reading
Three Squares a Year: The Square One Theatre Company’s 2012-13 Season
Still catching up on season announcements and such. (Not to mention the theater calendar page—patience, folks, patience!) One of the more intriguing small-theater slates in the offing comes from the nearly quarter-century-old Square One Theatre Company in Stratford. The company’s had good luck with mysteries in the past, and is leading off its 23rd season … Continue reading
The Obama/Romney Debate Review
BBC Radio Four’s Today Show described last night’s Presidential debate in terms of “the body language, the appearance, the theater…,” and of course I’m inclined to agree. I’m also inclined to think that anyone who fell for Mitt Romney’s wily-eyed Jack Lemmon impersonation is a sucker. Romney’s performance was straight out of one of those … Continue reading
The This. Review
This. Through September 29 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park Street, New Haven. (203) 432-1566, www.yalecabaret.org. Conceived and created by Margot Bordelon, Mary Laws and Alexandra Ripp. Script by Mary Laws. Director: Margot Bordelon. Playwright: Mary Laws. Dramaturg: Alexandra Ripp. Producer: Whitney Dibo. Stage Manager: Kristin Hodges. Set Designer: Reid Thompson. Costume Designer: Hunter Kaczorowski. … Continue reading
The American Night Review
American Night—The Ballad of Juan Jose Through October 13. Presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre at the Yale University Theater, 222 York St., New Haven. (203) 432-1234, www.yalerep.org By Richard Montoya. Developed by Culture Clash and Jo Bonney. Directed by Shana Cooper. Choreographer: Ken Roht. Scenic Designer: Kristen Robinson. Costume Designer: Martin T. Schnellinger. Lighting … Continue reading
A Toast to the Goodspeed, Midseason
The Goodspeed Opera House’s production of Carousel closes this week—the final performance of the Rodgers & Hammerstein hit is September 29. I regret that I didn’t get a chance to review the show. I did get a chance to SEE it, but at a preview performance so early in the run that it would have … Continue reading
The Return of the NHTJ Comics Section: Dance Extravaganza
Haven’t posted my theater-themed comic strips finds in a while—so long, in fact, that I could break out a bunch of them under the common theme of dance and creative movement. They are, in order: Cornered by Mike Baldwin, Brooke McEldowney’s enchanting serial strip 9 Chickweed Lane, conservative political cartoonist Jerry Holbert, two episodes from … Continue reading
The Fatal Eggs Review
The Fatal Eggs Through September 29 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. (203) 432-1566. Director/adapter/puppetry: Dustin Wills. Adapter: Ilya Khodosh. Producer: Melissa Zimmerman. Stage Manager: Alyssa K. Howard. Scenic Designers: Kate Noll, Carmen Martinez. Lighting Designer: Meredith Ries. Costume Designer: Nikki Delhomme. Projection Designer: Solomon Weisbard. Co-Sound Designers: Joel Abbott, Matt Otto. … Continue reading