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Dapper, drowsy, dancing.

Theater // Hayley Byrnes

THE DRAMAT’S SUGAR FIX

THE ELECTIONS ARE OVER, BUT NOT FOR THESE GUYS.

Theater // Yuval Ben-David

‘Body Politic’ engages mind too

This cool cat wrote "8."

Theater // Kathryn Crandall

“8” makes its New Haven debut

The leader of the free world in a moment of levity. CHEESIN.

Theater // Jackson McHenry

The Incumbent: An Exclusive Interview with our Nation’s Leader in “Richard 2012”

Innovative lighting and elaborate set design give the cast of "Spring Awakening" an exciting stage to work on, but the show's script cramps their style.

Theater // Yuval Ben-David

“Spring Awakening” shines — intermittently

The clear failure of all the relationships in Chekhov's "The Seagull" is almost too much to handle.

Theater // Lara Panah-Izadi

Chekhov’s contradictions come to life in “The Seagull”

The whole cast of “tick, tick … Boom!” — Jack O’Reilly ’13, Kyle Picha ’14 and Ari Fernandez '15 — basically stood for the entirety of the musical. Ouch.

Theater // Julia Zorthian

90s rock booms in Calhoun Cabaret

Pain isn’t just an emotion in this Dramat production — it’s expressed physically, violently, as well.

Theater // Liz Rodriguez-Florido

Americana, painfully

Theater // Robert Peck

Fugly drugged out people lose it

“Lost in Yonkers” — Neil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning play — takes a circumcision-scalpel to the pathologies of a Jewish-American family.

Theater // Yuval Ben-David

Lost in Yonkers, Found in New Haven

Theater // Joy Shan

‘This.’ is who we are

Measure for Measure

Theater // Josephine Massey

When Justice Flees and Dystopia Takes Over: Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’