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The Yale Cabaret’s Season 44 ended last month and a number of its practitioners will be graduating from the Yale School of Drama this month. The work the YSD students do at the Cab doesn’t count as part of their work toward graduation—it’s done for love of theater and for the joy of working together [...]
Continue Reading →This year, the 7th Annual Carlotta Festival at the Yale School of Drama, a showcase developed by Paula Vogel, Pulitzer-winning playwright and Chair of the YSD Playwriting Department, for the school’s graduating playwrights, features three plays that explore the vicissitudes of that oft-misunderstood creature, the human male.
In Fox Play, which begins the festival on [...]
Continue Reading →This week’s show at The Yale Cabaret, the penultimate of the 44th Season, features the penultimate directorial offering by Co-Artistic Director Lileana Blain-Cruz before she graduates from the Yale School of Drama this spring. And her last Cab show, like her first Cab show at the end of the 2010 season, is something to behold.
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Continue Reading →Gertrude Stein’s Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights began life as a libretto for an opera, never scored. It’s now a theater-piece that invites avant enthusiasts to try their hand at staging its signal interplays for voice and chorus. Robert Wilson did it, in 1992, and this week YSD directing student Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a dream [...]
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Thursday, 10/20 till Saturday, 10/22, The Yale Cabaret offers a student-generated theater piece, Creation 2011, that asks its performers to revisit and re-enact events or experiences that inspired their desire to work in [...]
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Thursday night the Yale Cabaret will open its doors for its new season. Regulars will find, even before they get through the doors into the performance space, that the aura of the Cab has changed once again. The box office and waiting area now feels like a somewhat seedy, somewhat creepy hotel (it immediately [...]
Continue Reading →The Yale Cabaret 2010-11 Season ended in April, and today a cohort of talents graduated from the Yale School of Drama, where most Cab participants are students, so I’d like to take a moment to commend some highpoints of the Cab's recent season, citing the work of some who have taken their final bow there, [...]
Continue Reading →Vaska Vaska, Glöm, the third show of the Yale Cabaret’s season was written by an acting student, Stéphanie Hayes, and directed by second year directing student Lileana Blain-Cruz. Blain-Cruz directed last year’s Cab show Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play, and I’m beginning to wonder if she has a thing about fish.
In Salome, [...]
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