THEATER
'Crumbs': Like Hansel and Gretel, but trippier

From the start, Yale Cabaret’s “Crumbs” is different. I entered the black box of 217 Park St. to find not a stage or actors but […]

October 8, 2010

Strindberg's 'Sonata' sings slightly off key

One could hardly call August Strindberg a family man. “Family”, he once wrote, “[is] the home of all social evil.” In his 1907 play, “The […]

October 8, 2010

Dramat Fall Ex: A Phantom of an Impact

Rabbits beckon to her. Her mother upbraids her. Her changing identity confounds her. Alice is, above all, a victim in “Phantomwise,” the Yale University Dramatic […]

October 8, 2010

Antigone is fresh to death

The power of the Dramat’s (Yale Dramatic Association’s) production of Jean Anouilh’s “Antigone” lies in its freshness. And this freshness begins with the cast, two-thirds […]

October 1, 2010

Time stands still on a cow farm

If the idea of seeing “Cow Play” conjures up memories of frightening middle-school renditions of “Oklahoma,” rest assured this bovine fancy written by Matthew George […]

October 1, 2010

Footlights go wild on their U.S. tour, hit the Have the ’Have running

Damn the Brits. Or, to be more specific, damn the Cambridge Footlights, a sketchy comedy group from across the pond who, in case you missed […]

October 1, 2010

Another show about nothing?

I enter the theater to the sound of giggling from the stage. Sam Bolen ’11, Matthew George ’11 and Kiki Fehling ’11 are hopping about […]

September 24, 2010

Questions, Hats and Death: an Existential Coming of Age

Children who ask too many difficult questions of adults are often lied to. And after sitting through a 35-minute performance of Caryl Churchill’s “Far Away” […]

September 24, 2010

Student-written drama in the bedroom? Nah, on the stage

There’s never been so much student drama at Yale, at least according to five student playwrights interviewed on campus. No, not the catty, reality-show kind […]

September 24, 2010

Prof. Murray Biggs on Alex Timbers

I knew Alex well at Yale. He took my lecture course in modern American drama, acted in my production of Frank McGuinness’s “Dolly West’s Kitchen” […]

September 10, 2010

A bloody, bloody interview with Alex Timbers ’01

“Doing an emo rock musical on Andrew Jackson kind of sounds like the worst idea ever,” writer and director Alex Timbers ’01 said of his […]

September 10, 2010