THEATER
Thou Shalt Be H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

MTV’s “Real World” slogan reads: “when people stop being polite and start getting real.” And while the characters in “Commandments,” written by Matthew George ’11, […]

February 19, 2010

Anne Frank on strings

When the lights come up on an eerily-lit Anne Frank marionette dictating from her diary on a bare stage, we knows we’re in trouble. What […]

February 5, 2010

‘Wuthering’ weathers well

When it was first published in 1847, “Wuthering Heights” was scathed by the critics as “savage,” “animal-like” and “clumsy in construction.” Since then, “Wuthering Heights” […]

January 29, 2010

Get history with the “boys”

Danielle Tomson’s ’12 production of “The History Boys” defies definition just as the idea of history itself defies definition in Alan Bennett’s Tony Award winning […]

January 22, 2010

Sartre and Sudler

Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” (known to many a French student as “L’Huis Clos”) is notoriously complicated to read and even more so to stage. […]

January 22, 2010

“Passion” has good fashion, bad sex

“Singing Yalies caught in a bad romance.” That’s the subheading on the Facebook event page for “PASSION,” a student production of the famous James Lapine […]

January 22, 2010

Broadway no way!

Yeah, I saw Lion King once. It fuckin’ sucked. I took my little cousins, Maria Clara, Maria Rose and Little Tony. I picked ’em up […]

December 4, 2009

Broadway all the way

The Broadway musical. It’s a truly American art form, like jazz, or apple pie. Or NASCAR. Since the beginning of the last century, hundreds of […]

December 4, 2009

Bogosian and Kushner sexify the Bard at the Cabaret

Rarely do Shakespearean sonnets remind us that the Bard too must have screwed, shat and pissed. This week’s Yale Cabaret production, “By Ill Be Cured,” […]

November 13, 2009

This ain’t your usual “Chorus Line”

If there’s one takeaway from “A Chorus Line,” it is best summed up by Cassie when she describes her fellow dancers to their director, exclaiming, […]

November 13, 2009

Burrows improvises her latest

A few months ago, a student production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was only the tiny seed of an idea in the […]

November 13, 2009