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Viewing extreme disability produces in most people an intense discomfort. Juvenile joking about “retards” is a symptom of a deep anxiety about those who seem […]

February 13, 2009

The three great D’s of comedic theater grace Mark Twain’s long-lost 1898 play “Is He Dead?”: death, disguise and debauchery. Unpublished and unproduced until 2003, […]

February 13, 2009

Harold Pinter, the playwright renowned for transforming the stage direction “pause” into a moment full of meaning and menace, draws attention after his death for […]

February 6, 2009

“Coming Home,” celebrated playwright Athol Fugard’s latest play, begins in an abandoned one-room house located in rural Nieu Bethesda, part of South Africa’s Karoo region. […]

January 23, 2009

In some ways, “Conversations with my Father” describes the typical immigrant story: A man leaves the old country to fight his way uptown in the […]

January 23, 2009

Robert Marc Friedman’s one true ambition in life was to someday become a playwright. In order to achieve this goal, he followed the most logical […]

January 16, 2009

Ten minutes into the dress rehearsal of the Yale Cabaret’s “Pamela Precious: A Balls-out Love Story,” I thought I might have hit the jackpot, might […]

December 5, 2008

Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” is a study of the way bodies turn away from each other, even as their voices crash together and […]

December 5, 2008

The question of “choice” sparks the brilliant undergraduate production of Stephen Karam’s “Speech and Debate,” playing this weekend at Nick Chapel. Under the sprightly direction […]

December 5, 2008

A tragedy in five acts, Jean Racine’s “Britannicus,” as directed by Max Kahn ’09, is a calculated exercise in silence, movement, sound and lighting. There […]

November 14, 2008

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. In honor of Trans-Awareness Week, I propose a little exercise. It won’t take […]

November 14, 2008