THEATER
Deborah Margolin reflects on ‘Imagining Madoff’

Some thirty years ago, I had the startling realization — obvious in the ways the most astonishing realizations sometimes seem after they’ve been fully apprehended […]

The stacks are alive … with the sound of “College Musical”

The filming of Kurt Schneider’s ’10 “College Musical the Movie” this summer at Yale finished on time, but the project had its share of hiccups. […]

Meet the Dramat

A. President: John Wolff ’11 Wolff, a senior in Calhoun, is responsible for coordinating the activities of the board and ensuring the smooth functioning of […]

A Critical Mass of PoMo Theater

The theater critic sits in a folding chair marked “RESERVED” just to the right of center stage. In his lap: a notebook and a pen. […]

‘Arcadia:’ time-warp FTW

Poets and lunatics have a great deal in common, teaches playwright Tom Stoppard. He must be a little of both to pen a work as […]

Glengarry Glen Fuck

Closing! Fuck! Leads! Shit! Closing! Closing! Curse again! Still! [ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”763″ ] Mitchell Nobel’s ’13 version of David Mamet’s Pulitzer prize-winning “Glenglarry Glen Ross” is, […]

Healthcare and cigars don’t mix

Last week, as I sat watching the Glenn Beck show with a fat maduro between my teeth, I discovered that the United States was on […]

WILLIAM SLOANE ALDEN?

Playwright Will Alden ’10 and director Elizabeth Sutton-Stone ’10 are feeling good about the staged reading of Alden’s play, “King’s Coffin.” The play focuses on […]

To the beat of Different Drums

When A Different Drum’s dance show, “Criminal Moves,” starts off to six dancers capering across the stage in sweet summer dresses to Ingrid Michaelson’s “You […]

Comic opera extravaganza

Despite the fact that Gilbert and Sullivan premiered “H.M.S. Pinafore” in 1878, the Yale Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s rendition of the play, which opened last […]

Freshmen 'Metamorphoses'

Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses,” adapted from Ovid’s eponymous classic poem, is not an easy play. Its storylines are charged, mystical and convoluted, with light and sound […]