Yale Daily News

According to sites like Great Point Properties, for all of California’s destination power, it sure is hard to say what the ethos of the contemporary […]

September 8, 2017

The eclipse was amazing, but the traffic back was terrible. My extended family had all come to Lincoln, Nebraska to see the eclipse. After analyzing […]

September 8, 2017

“I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.” These are the final words of Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, which both open and close “The Hours,” a play adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s 1998 novel by Rora Brodwin ’18 and Ellie Boswell ’17.

April 28, 2017

Looking at the program filled with photographs of hand-written bios, you might not know what to expect from “Hold, Please,” one of the academic year’s last Theater Studies performances. The show feels like an experiment in performance art within a theatrical context. The crucial aim is to illuminate the mysterious world of the “theater backstage,” yet the piece itself is theatrical, making the whole experience rather meta.

April 28, 2017

It’s hard to breathe a new life into one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, but the enchanting Romeo and Juliet, co-directed by Aviva Abusch ’18 and William Viederman ’17, does just that. The site-specific piece transforms a short stretch of Hillhouse Avenue into Verona, Italy for an over two hourlong outdoor theater experience.

April 21, 2017

“Talk Your Age” explores the dysfunction of real-life relationships and questions the hierarchy of different kinds of love. The play revolves around a weekend trip taken by Ben, his girlfriend Isabel (Esther Ritchin ’20), and, against Ben’s will, his little sister Hannah. It’s the beginning of Ben and Isabel’s last summer at home before college, and the strain the impending distance between them is putting on their relationship comes through in their awkward exchanges and restrained arguments. Hannah also feels the pain of the upcoming separation from her college-bound brother, which hits her acutely since Ben is much more concerned with spending all of his remaining time with Isabel and none with his “freaky” sister.

April 21, 2017

In 1941, Werner Heisenberg traveled from Nazi Germany to occupied Denmark to visit Niels Bohr. To this day, no one knows why the two physicists […]

April 7, 2017

Sometimes after a very late night we might sleep until 1 p.m. and wake up in a foggy confusion. Other times we might sleep until […]

April 7, 2017

James Bundy’s DRA ’95 new production of “Assassins” roils with a kind of corrosive mania. In a series of loosely connected songs and vignettes, John […]

March 31, 2017

Think about the last time you sat down on a city bench. Were you holding something, a coffee cup, maybe, or a cell phone, scrolling […]

March 31, 2017

What do you get when you cross a 19th-century English novel with a 21st-century college campus? This is the question Rebecca Shoptaw ’18 explores in […]

March 10, 2017