Sean Chen MUS ’14 took home the Crystal Medal in the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on June 9, playing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s notoriously challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor as one of his final competition pieces. Though Chen ultimately lost the first prize to Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko, he is the first American since 1997 to »
Six Yalies — including one professor — were honored at the 67th Annual Tony Awards last night, an annual ceremony that recognizes outstanding achievement in theatre. The winners are listed below: School of Drama professor Ming Cho Lee received a lifetime achievement award for his work in scenic design. Christopher Durang DRA ’74 took home the award »
A sneek peek of “True Blood” season 6 shows actor Joe Manganiello snarling at a fellow member of his wolf pack. But Manganiello is taking a break from his role as a werewolf on the popular paranormal soap — to play yet another alpha male. This fall, Manganiello will take the New Haven stage in »
Neil Mulligan DRA ’01, technical director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and a professor at the School of Drama, has been serving the theater community at and outside of Yale for over a decade. He has also been serving his country. This week, Mulligan began his cross country bicycle journey out of Portland, Oregan in »
Twelve current students and recent alumni of the Yale School of Drama have banded together to form Old Sound Room, a new ensemble theater company based in New York City. Their maiden show is “an aggressive adaptation” of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that involves words, “frenzied” movement and original, beat-driven music, according to a press announcement. »