Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
The Yale Dramatic Association’s executive board voted Tuesday night to retain “The Full Monty” as the fall 2008 main-stage musical, despite a petition drafted by two members of the organization protesting the production’s dearth of female roles. Although board members also voted Tuesday to reject a second demand — for new show-selection criteria — they...
“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself),” written by Yale playwriting professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, is now in production at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. While Margulies’ propensity for tackling modern societal issues is evident in “Shipwrecked!” he chooses to take a...
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has formally recommended that the Yale School of Drama provide training to students handling heavy props and materials following the death of a graduate student at the Yale Repertory Theatre last month. The recommendation to offer more training was contained in OSHA’s report about the accident, which has not been...
Posted Monday 5:30 p.m. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has formally recommended that the Yale School of Drama provide training to students handling heavy props and materials following the death of a graduate student in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre last month. Pierre-André Salim DRA ’09 was killed Nov. 18 after several dozen...
Twenty-four hours is also 1,440 minutes or, to break it down even further, 86,400 seconds. Or, at least for the Yale Drama Coalition, 24 hours is enough time to create theater. During the 24 Hour Theater Festival on Sunday, the YDC will present several 10-minute plays that will be written, staged and performed over the course of exactly 24 hours. The challenge facing...
A dead man in a casket is wearing two different shoes: No one could decide which he would prefer. In a break from reality typical of “Dead City,” he sits up in his coffin, yells about how insane he looks, and is shortly a corpse again. Written by New York playwright Sheila Callaghan, “Dead City” is the manic, intimate profile of the fractured, meekly dissatisfied...
The literary value of “Bérénice” is undeniable; it was written by seventeenth-century playwright Jean Racine, considered by many to be the French Shakespeare. Although well-directed and well-performed, this production of the play could benefit from more visual cues that would make Racine’s classic accessible to non-Francophiles. Fortunately, the program does...
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration report to be released next month will name several safety lapses that may have contributed to the death of a Yale School of Drama student in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre last week, an OSHA official said Monday. The pending report has prompted questions about the University’s culpability in the student’s...
Incessant, quick, confident knocks at the door kick off “Trouble in Mind” at the Yale Repertory Theater. The knock knock knocking reflects the stiletto clad assurance of Wiletta Mayer (Faye Butler); it also reflects the hilarious, fast-paced repartee of the play’s dialogues. What it doesn’t do is prepare the audience for a shaking anti-lynch mob finale: a single...
“Hate and respect are like Siamese twins—you bang one, and the other’s in the bed watching.” This kind of line, funny as a throw-away, is the height of humor and ingenuity in Marshall Pailet ’09’s new play, “Escape Artists.” Lines like this pepper the play, which, after the first few enjoyable scenes, gradually descends into triteness. “Escape...
A man lives alone in a box. His only contact with the outside world are two “caretakers” who are only permitted to ask him a single question: “What are you doing?” Like eerie, futuristic security guards, they watch him on closed-circuit television and supply what he needs by typing commands on a keyboard, which magically delivers whatever he might require —...
A large white rug, a chic black couch and two side tables on a small stage create the intimacy of a hamam, a Turkish bathhouse where women chat and reflect, temporarily free from the presence of men. As each monologue is presented, the other women recline on the couch, occasionally chatting to each other, singing or interjecting in other languages. This setting adds a...
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