The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will open the national premiere of Marina Keegan's '12 "Utility Monster" on May 25.
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Keegan’s ‘Utility Monster’ to see national premiere

May 23, 2013 • 0
The play will go up at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater in Cape Cod, Mass. a year after Marina Keegan's ’12 death in a car accident.
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‘A Year with 13 Moons’ explores identity in flux

April 24, 2013 • 0
Director Robert Woodruff and actor Bill Camp collaborated on adapting the script for the Yale Repertory Theatre’s final production of the season, “In a Year with 13 Moons,” from the original German film.
In contrast to the more conservative School of Drama, the Yale Cabaret has served as a hotbed for the experimental and collaborative approaches of devised theater.
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UP CLOSE | Devising theater around challenges

April 12, 2013 • 0
Students hoping to pursue nontraditional paths in the professional theater world encounter unique challenges.
A new playwriting prize for Yale College seniors has been established in memory of Marina Keegan ’12.
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Marina Keegan Award honors playwrights

April 4, 2013 • 0
When Marina Keegan ’12 died just a few days after her graduation from Yale College, her parents, friends and professors soon began to wonder how her memory might best be kept alive at the school.
Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94, who stars in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of “Hamlet,” reflected on his acting career in a Monday talk.
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Giamatti addresses hometown audience

April 2, 2013 • 0
Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 had already been applauded twice before speaking his first words at a talk given to a packed University Theatre on Monday afternoon.
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New CPA deadline encourages early planning

April 1, 2013 • 0
For the first time, students seeking funding through CPA awards for projects next fall can secure resources before leaving for the summer.
“Abyss” seeks to enliven the audience’s experience of classical music through story- telling, dance, acting and circus performance.
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In ‘Abyss,’ an ‘Odyssey’ of sight and sound

March 27, 2013 • 0
A new show this weekend asks audiences to imagine the end of the world as part of a journey through classical music.
Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 plays the title role in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of “Hamlet.”
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‘Hamlet’ opens at the Rep

March 25, 2013 • 0
Alas, poor Yorick, who didn’t get a ticket to see “Hamlet” at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
In 1909, five senior members of the Yale Glee Club banded together to form the a capella group, the Whiffenpoofs.
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Women Whiffs? Not this year

March 4, 2013 • 0
This past weekend, one of Yale’s longest-standing musical traditions was challenged.
“Theory of Flight” — a show by the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — explores one human's obsession with flight.
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‘Theory of Flight’ takes off

February 27, 2013 • 0
Almost a year after the launch of The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the interdisciplinary initiative’s first performance venture will take flight this weekend.
The Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards performed for students, workers and professors in the Calhoun dining hall during lunch on Wednesday.
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Grotowski residency comes to Yale

February 21, 2013 • 0
Students, workers and professors in the Calhoun, Branford and Davenport dining halls were serenaded during lunch Wednesday in a series of “interventions” announcing the Yale arrival of the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.
Castor et Pollux
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Undergrad opera breaks new ground with ‘Castor et Pollux’

February 20, 2013 • 0
Nearly 70 Yale College students will come together this week to resurrect a show last performed in America before most of them were born.