THEATER
You’ll Really Like It

RuPaul. Prince. Adrienne Rich. Audre Lorde. The Yale School of Drama (YSD) production “shakespeare’s as u like it” turns up the amps and sheds glitter […]

T. Charles Erickson
T. Charles Erickson
P-A-N-D-E-M-O-N-I-U-M in Putnam County

Rona Lisa Peretti approaches the microphone, intimidating and confident. Her black pumps clack against the ground, coming to an abrupt halt when a voice from […]

Nina Goodheart
Nina Goodheart
Making memories disappear: “El Huracán” at the Rep

A woman in a blue satin swing dress stands on a raised circular stage. Her assistant, a man in classic coattails, emerges from her roadcase, […]

The Poetics and Politics of Memory: A Review of “Filling Basins”

“Filling Basins” reclaims the domestic space as a site of elastic revolutionary potential where the socioeconomically disenfranchised washer-women of Georgia ask: Who gets to demand […]

Andrew Schmidt
Labor Lovely Chaos

“Love’s Labour’s Lost” is not the deepest of Shakespeare’s plays; it is a comedy, and though it features the King of Navarre (Martin Lewis) and […]

From Pre-K to College: Three Tales of Self-Worth

“I need to completely apply myself to be a good fit for this school,” says Reginald on his first day of preschool at The Exceptional […]

The Emotional Nosedives of Parenthood

Growing up, my mother always told me a parent should never have to bury her child; a somber adage, yet one that carries particular weight […]

danielzhao
Womanhood, Literature, and the Path to Tenure

“Friendship and reading take time, but I tend to be pushy with both … I blaze through books in single sittings, and similarly, crave those […]

“TD is Where All the Serial Killers Go”

“I don’t normally do stuff like this,” says 1 to 2. 2 agrees. Finding herself in Timothy Dwight college, 2 has just spent the night […]

Sexism? Shrew That

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break,” Kate (Ryan Benson ’21) delivers fiercely through clenched […]

Shakesqueer: Tybalt and Mercutio Fall in Love in Verona

Step aside, Romeo and Juliet—there’s another star-crossed couple in Verona. On the fringes of a most iconic love story, another hidden romance blooms between the […]