From the monthly archives: August 2010

On Friday night, your correspondent went to the opening night of , a new bookstore at 71 Orange Street supported through the city of New Haven's and curated by Alexis Zanghi of . Detritus aims to be a bookstore that reflects [...]

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You’ll be glad to know that writer-director Todd Solondz is not finished rummaging through the inner lives of depressive perverts. That puts it more cruelly than Solondz would, which is part of his charm.

With Life During Wartime, a quasi-sequel, as he has called it, to his 1998 film Happiness (i.e. “the one about the [...]

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So we beat on . . .

On August 5, 2010 By Donald Brown

muse, the final show of the Yale Summer Cabaret 2010 season, is an original dance-theater piece, a two-character drama that presents the story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald from the point of view of the afterlife.

Brenna Palughi conceived the idea, scripted it in collaboration with her production team, Danny Binstock, Walter Chon, and Adina [...]

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Strange Love in NYC

On August 2, 2010 By Donald Brown

When it debuted in Yale Cabaret's 2009/10 Season, Janyia Antrum's campy sci-fi musical Strange Love in Outer Space was the success story of The Dwight/Edgewood Project (see my review here).  Now its success continues with the play's debut in New York in the eclectic and exciting New York Fringe Festival, Aug. 14, 17, 19, [...]

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