THEATER
The Illusion gets lost in meta-land

The way in which Pridamant (Michael Laskin ’12) cries out, “A light, please, I’m blind” in Tony Kushner’s “The Illusion” is disquieting and desperate. The […]

‘Winter’ of our extreme content

“The Winter’s Tale,” which opened yesterday and runs until Saturday at the Yale Repertory Theater, progresses like the fucked-up dream you had the other night, […]

Actors ‘master’ a weak ‘builder’

There’s a lot of talk about towers in the Yale Repertory Theater’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Master Builder” at the University Theater. Even the […]

Theater this season: the hot 15

1. “A Winter’s Tale” — directed by Cooper Lewis ’11 for the Dramat We all know Cooper Lewis will take some risks with this classic. […]

‘Body’ politic

Befitting a production that condemns a simplistic view of sexuality and gender, “The Student Body” evades classification. It is both performance art and play, both […]

Wet hot American choreography

Alexandra Trow ’09 made me cry like a baby, and I don’t care who knows it. As Alma Winemiller in the Dramat’s production of Tennesse […]

The ‘Turkey’ does not exist

The night before the world premier of “Cold Turkey,” the now infamous original three-man play by Ethan Kuperberg, Matthew George and Will Stephen, premiered, the […]

LaBute // Mamet = Beatz

There’s a ton of Yale theater going up this weekend, and it’s not your typical tried-and-true classics. In the next few days, audiences will witness […]

Faxon gets ‘Real’

Tom Stoppard takes a lot of flak among some theater critics for having all of the words and none of the heart. That said, he […]

Head, shoulders, knees and gender

Yale’s newest theater topic is 300 years old. Michael Leibenluft ’10 sought to change drama at Yale, so he applied for an independent study in […]

Blue takes you to school

There is a growing population within the Yale community who have secretly tried and failed to learn Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance on more than one […]