THEATER
O'Neill derivations well-acted, proud

In its fifth year, O’Neill at Yale brings an impromptu “Tomorrow &Variations” to Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to preen and perfect itself for […]

April 19, 2002

Talented, experimental 'Breathe' baffles, intrigues

The Yale Dramatic Association’s Spring 2002 Experimental Production, “Breathe,” truly is just what it proclaims to be — an experiment. Just as with any veritable […]

April 19, 2002

'Die Fledermaus' fails to showcase talents of cast

The salient difference between opera and musical theater is their relationship to fantasy. Operas are entirely sung (both the arias and the recitatives) and therefore […]

April 12, 2002

Actors stuck with a 'Lemon' script

With drawn-out, almost excruciating monologues, and a harsh, minimalist set, subtlety is not the word that comes to mind during a decidedly sour performance of […]

April 12, 2002

'Orpheus' ascends to new heights

“I’ll probably be here for at least thee more hours,” Elizabeth Bacon ’03, the scenic designer of Tennessee Williams’ “Orpheus Descending,” whispered into my ear […]

April 12, 2002

'Hamlet' disappoints, especially Hamlet

If you’re going to do Hamlet, the play that defined, to some extent, the modern understanding of the human being, (or, at least, the play […]

April 5, 2002

All-Star 'June' cast rises above mediocre script

“Hell is other people,” said Sartre. Especially loud, obnoxious men, Kurt Vonnegut would add. “Happy Birthday Wanda June,” the first play Vonnegut wrote, features a […]

April 5, 2002

'Frogs' script croaks under banal subject

When I met Valerie Work ’03 just before the dress rehearsal of her play, “Fighting Frogs vs. Victoria Vanderbilt,” she warned me that one of […]

April 5, 2002

Adept 'Slight Ache' painfully perceptive

The pathology of an ordinary couple becomes much more than slight in Raphael Soifer’s adept production of Harold Pinter’s absurd one-act, “A Slight Ache.” The […]

March 29, 2002

Rastogi's 'Dylan' is positively brilliant

Only one word is needed to describe Nina Shen Rastogi’s ’02 production of “Dylan”: brilliant. But the play’s subject, neurotic poet Dylan Thomas, probably describes […]

March 29, 2002

'Money' displays talents of Drama kids

By summer they may be living the lives of starving artists, but on Wednesday night they were on the money. A horny and hungry new […]

March 29, 2002