In a Friday evening ceremony held in the Saybrook College library, Nicole Davis ’13 was awarded the inaugural Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting. The award was established in memory of Marina Keegan ’12, the prolific playwright who authored “Independents” and “Utility Monster” at Yale and passed away in a car accident shortly after graduation. »
Almost a year after Marina Keegan ’12 died in a car accident just days after her graduation from Yale, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (W.H.A.T.) will be putting up the first professional production of her play “Utility Monster,” which was first staged as a Dramat Spring Experimental Production in 2011. Dan Lombardo, Artistic Director of »
Staying in New Haven for June? The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, taking place June 15-29, announced this year’s lineup at a reception in The Study Hotel earlier today. The annual event brings together a plethora of thinkers and performers to the Elm City for 15 days in June and is loosely tied together with »
Former Design Department Chair for the Yale School of Drama Ming Cho Lee will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 67th annual Tony Awards this June. The 82-year-old long-time Yale professor has been with the School of Drama since 1969 and is the current Donald M. Oenslager Professor of Design. In addition »
Students bummed about not getting tickets to see “Hamlet” with Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 (the show starts tonight, but all 15,000 tickets are currently sold out) can now look ahead to more celebrity-infused Shakespeare coming next March. The Yale Repertory Theatre has just announced its 2013-’14 season, which will include two world premieres, including »