We are thrilled to announce that David W. Goldman's short story, "The Axiom of Choice," which appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the New Haven Review, is a finalist for a Nebula award for best short story of 2011. Congratulations to David and to all the other nominees.
You know something hardly anyone ever talks about? Lighting design. At the Yale Cab’s recent run of Mac Wellman’s Dracula, directed by third year director Jack Tamburri, Masha Tsimring’s lighting was a joy to behold. Consider that there were five different areas of the Cab in which actors performed, not to mention wandering areas in [...]
Good Goods, new playwright Christina Anderson’s Yale Rep debut currently onstage, is an old-fashioned play, with a plot that turns upon realizations that alter the status quo for each of the five main characters. As such it’s classic drama, and much of its success depends upon the audience making realizations with the characters. They talk [...]
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Something's been missing of late. We're five weeks into the spring semester and there have only been two shows at The Yale Cabaret thus far. But never fear: the Spring 2012 Yale Cabaret is now ready to offer seven more weeks of experimental theater.
Regulars know it’s been a challenging season thus far, [...]
Continue Reading →Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the story of a Scottish nobleman’s ambition leading to his downfall; the play follows the transformation of a war hero into a murderous villain and traitor, with, to explain such an extreme change, the influence of baleful supernatural forces in the form of three witches, or “weird sisters.” The power of the [...]
Continue Reading →The movie Ocean's Twelve, which came out in 2004, is one of my favorite movies of the last ten years. (Make of that what you will.) I don't know how many times I've watched it -- certainly a dozen, which seems right and just. Part of my affection for the movie stems from a little [...]
Continue Reading →The final thesis show of the Yale School of Drama’s 2011-12 season finds director Alex Mihail wrestling with Anton Chekhov’s classic comedy The Seagull, much as Jacob wrestled with the Angel: I will not let thee go except thou bless me. What might Chekhov’s blessing look like? I found myself wondering about this very question [...]
Continue Reading →When I first heard Neutral Milk Hotel it was 2000 and my daughter brought the CD of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea home from college. By then, the album had been out for about two years and its composer/singer Jeff Mangum was already passing into legend as a young, quirky genius who had produced [...]
Continue Reading →In the playbill for reWilding, now showing through Saturday night at the Yale Cabaret, YSD playwrighting student Martyna Majok writes of “a rural community in North Carolina that lives in the wild.” The people she describes have their reasons for living on the edges of what most of us recognize as “civilization.” What she wants [...]
Continue Reading →A dog is a man’s best friend, they say. But what do you do when a dog marks you as an enemy? Here, Jonathan Kiefer ponders this problem with some help from Edward Albee’s play The Zoo Story.
My neighbor’s dog reminds me of Edward Albee. Not the man himself, but one of his [...]
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