Yale Daily News

It is rare at Yale to see the “revival” of a play that means just that— a new life for an underperformed work. Most revivals […]

November 6, 2009

The Yale Cabaret’s mission statement this year is “a gauntlet thrown in the face of our future.” But its current production, “The Surrender Tree,” more […]

November 6, 2009

An overly-pensive prince and a tempest-tossed, cross-dressing maiden currently share the stage at the Whitney Theater, but their names are not Hamlet or Viola. Prince […]

November 6, 2009

“America has gone mad about vampires,” Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom complained to his “Art of Reading a Poem” seminar. As if to […]

October 30, 2009

Most people have never heard of Artie Kornfeld. But without a doubt, they’ve experienced the impact he’s had on music in one way or another. […]

October 30, 2009

Phaedra, the title role in Jean Racine’s “Phèdre,” is probably one of the world’s first drama queens. She oscillates between living and dying, sanity and […]

October 30, 2009

A giant melting clock, right out of Dali’s painting “The Persistence of Memory,” sets the stage for “Once Five Years Pass,” a play by Federico […]

October 23, 2009

“He’s just perfect. Literally, everything about him is perfect,” says Gabrielle Karol ’11 with a smile as she flexes her bare foot, glancing at the […]

October 16, 2009

“You two are the first Yale students I’ve ever picked up from that place,” said our cab driver, with laughter in his voice. It was […]

October 9, 2009

“The whole show can fit into an overhead compartment,” director Michael McQuilken says, referring to “A Day in Dignation,” a sketch opening this weekend at […]

October 9, 2009

Thursday, Jan. 19, 1995: On a typically nippy New Haven evening, an eager audience poured into Woolsey Hall for what was to be a heartwarming […]

October 9, 2009