THEATER
Creating a Title for Women

Bunny asks: “What did I know about the women’s suffrage movement? What do you know? Nothing. That’s okay.” And you do feel that it’s okay. […]

An Earthquake of Emotions

The Yale Dramatic Association’s First-Year Show, “Quake,” covers distance geographically and romantically and demands that you decide early just to go along with it. The […]

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Isabel

Reading the classic guide to pregnancy would not prepare you for “Expecting Isabel” by Lisa Loomer, which tackles personhood, not just parenthood. The production reaches […]

The Cacophony of Memory

As the set of “Prelude to Everything Else” remains static, the music, dance, and video throughout the play remove the confines of the walls and […]

We Need a Hero

During the era of the ancient Greeks and Romans, epic poetry was memorized in full and related by word of mouth by early poets to […]

I’m Not Getting Married Today!

“Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company!” says Bobby’s good and crazy married friends. Thus marks Bobby’s 35th birthday, another year of bachelorhood and loneliness […]

Please, Sit Down

“What has led you to this place? Not your sex. Not your race. Not your class. YOUR OWN ACTIONS. And you’re angry.” Spanning multiple months […]

The Height of Performance

“Lights up on Washington Heights,” Alejandro Campillo ’21 raps as Usnavi de la Vega in the opening number of this weekend’s staging of “In the […]

Rocking the Boat

“Men on Boats,” written by Jaclyn Backhaus, is described as a “true(ish)” account of an 1869 expedition to chart the Colorado River. The expedition group […]

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Bathroom Confessions

Written by Rachel Calnek-Sugin ’19, Flush is a play set in the bathroom of a New York City public school and consists of a series […]

Commandment XI: Thou shall not know

The first 10 minutes of “The Christians” made me feel trapped. A church altar served as the entire stage, and the audience took the place […]