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It was my daughter’s idea. She had heard of the show from a friend and so had some idea what to expect. Her experience was therefore more extensive than mine, it seems. I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t see all I heard about from her, but at the same time our divergent experiences [...]
Continue Reading →The third and by far the most ambitious of the three plays offered by The Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival has now been added to the line-up. Directed by Artistic Director Devin Brain, the play is called Rose Mark’d Queen, a condensation (and we do mean condensed!) of five plays: Henry V, Henry VI (Part [...]
Continue Reading →A comic Tempest opens the Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival
The Yale Summer Cabaret’s ambitious Shakespeare Festival, brain-child of Devin Brain and Tara Kayton, has launched. The first play in the series, which will run three plays in repertory with a dedicated company of ten actors through August 14, is The Tempest. A late play, [...]
Continue Reading →The Yale Cabaret’s 2010-11 Season ended this weekend with the bang of drums and other percussion.
Michael McQuilken’s The Perks gave a new meaning to the term “musical theater.” Usually that means characters in a play bursting into song-and-dance in an abundance of feeling. At the Cab show, we were treated to musical pieces given [...]
Continue Reading →Theater doesn’t need words. That’s the lesson of Dorian Gray last weekend at the Yale Cabaret. Oscar Wilde’s novel of a young fop who runs afoul of Victorian mores, schooled in the delights of debauchery by Lord Henry, the irrepressible originator of bon mots and apothegms galore, was adapted as a puppet show, staged in [...]
Continue Reading →This season’s second presentation in the Yale Rep and World Performance Project at Yale’s No Boundaries series was The Method Gun, a play/rehearsal-within-a-play written by Kirk Lynn, directed by Shawn Sides, and enacted by an ensemble, including Sides, called Rude Mechs (short for Mechanicals), from Austin, TX.
Staged as a recreation of high points in [...]
Continue Reading →Once upon a time there were three YSD actresses—a third year (the tall one), a first year (the small one), and a second year (the medium-sized one)—and they lived together in a little room with a sink on one side, a toilet on the other, and a bench in between. There was also a little [...]
Continue Reading →The most recent Yale Cabaret offering was inspired by the art theory of Wassily Kandinsky, the modernist painter and Bauhaus instructor who earlier was a founder of the avant-garde group The Blue Rider. If you’re wondering how art theory can supply the basis for drama, you have to imagine a series of dialogues between blue [...]
Continue Reading →August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson has returned to The Yale Rep where it debuted in 1987. The play is part of a cycle of ten plays, one for each decade of the twentieth century, that Wilson wrote to depict African American experience. With that sense of epic reach in mind, one approaches The Piano Lesson [...]
Continue Reading →Yeah, I know, everyone’s having a collective snowgasm in the snowpocalypse, but, should you decide to put your head outside your cave, there are some theatrical events happening this weekend that should make the snowjob of digging out worth your while.
First of all, Thursday night, Jan. 13th, the Yale Cabaret, led by Andrew Kelsey [...]
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