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The stage of Katie Kirk ’17 and Susannah Hyde’s ’17 production of “As You Like It” is empty except for two tall trees.

December 2, 2016

Center stage, a pink-wigged mannequin head greets audience members, waiting with them for the lights to go down.

November 11, 2016

F*cking Decent is a chimera of a play: The head a borderline neurotic woman talking of her long-dead mother, the body a cynical, depressed man waiting for a miracle from God.

November 11, 2016

An uncle and his niece. Dark basements and back roads at night. The opening scene sets the stage well enough: Li’l Bit and Uncle Peck sit in a quiet car; it’s a full moon out; firm hands slip up a thin blouse.

November 4, 2016

Between scenes, John Coltrane’s discordant “Ascension” echoes throughout the theatre. It is a fitting choice for this cast. They wrench and squeeze, from a flawed text, a world of undeniable emotion. The humanity of the characters fleshes out beyond the cardboard caricatures Quiara Alegría Hudes created.

November 4, 2016

As the stage goes dark during the first act, and all one can see is shadows moving the sets, the theater fills with the sounds […]

October 28, 2016

Entering the otherworldly realm of Hallowoads stone-cold sober with a blown-up Donald Trump mask is probably not the best start to a night, but it’s […]

October 28, 2016

It was 431 B.C.E.! A relatively young, talented playwright named (somewhat unfortunately) Euripides had finally scrimped and saved enough to buy him a one-way ticket […]

October 14, 2016

George Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum” begins on the Celebrity Slaveship, amidst the flickering projections of antebellum and early-20th-century photographs and newspapers. Little is discernible, but […]

October 14, 2016

Lin Bo, the Chinese artist whose gallery talk begins “Caught,” declares himself a practitioner of “imaginary art.” State-sponsored galleries in China now exhibit subversive art […]

October 7, 2016

It would be easy to mistake Scenes From Court Life, or The Whipping Boy And His Prince, Sarah Ruhl’s new play at the Yale Repertory […]

October 7, 2016