Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
Despite members being afflicted by illness and horrific physical injuries, A Different Drum’s spring show will have you jumpin’ an ’a-jivin’ in your seats. With the number of injuries inflicted upon the lovely performers (including Michelle Coquelin ’10, who popped her knee at Wednesday night’s dress rehearsal) now at five, it is surprising there even is a...
After a bitter storm, Louis de Rougemont (Michael Countryman) finds himself marooned on a remote island. Miles away from everything he has ever known, Louis wanders the desolate beach when suddenly a flash catches his eye. He stops, scooping up a jar filled with pearls — the very treasure that he had been hunting when the storm hit, worth so much then and so little now...
Descending the stairs into the Yale Cabaret, one settles into a quiet performance space reflective of the New Haven night scene, hidden and imbued with a sense of charm. A lit kitchen island stands in the center dressed with 25 bottles of wine. Pans hang amidst iron skillets and exposed piping, lit left and right with spotlights by designer Jesse Belsky DRA ’09. Ten...
A production that defies every sort of convention and lives to tell the tale is a very rare thing. Perhaps even rarer are those, such as this, that slavishly conform and limply flounder. Loosely adapted from the recent experiences of TV personality Katie Couric, “perk/pussy/pathos” is the story of a morning news anchor Jennifer Huckabee (Erica Sullivan DRA ’09)...
Despite the heavy risk of being bulldozed by monstrously large eighteen-wheelers in the middle of the bustling food terminal that the Long Wharf Theater calls home, life-threatening stumbles into the parking lot prove to be a small price to pay for the treasure of a performance waiting inside. Appropriately, “prices” like these are meticulously, hilariously, and...
There are several things that denote a mediocre production within its first few scenes — a missed cue, a monotonal voice or an actor’s sudden fall into the front row. I’ve noticed another lately: the phrase “I’m going to Iraq.” The first few scenes of “Prayer for My Enemy,” the Longwharf Theater’s fall opener, are rapid, clean bits of bright and edgy...
So you know how ever since the age of six, you’ve been fascinated by the glitz, glamour and hairdos of the rich and famous? Remember sighing over the red carpets and shameless shopping sprees that are all part of the glittering lives of admired celebrities? Or maybe not. In any case, you won’t find any of that stuff in “Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood,” playing tonight...
Gas masks, paint, wooden houses, owls and more paint. If these images don’t immediately come to mind when you hear “Summer Heat,” the name of the Undergraduate Art Exhibition at the School of Art, the show may come as a surprise. Yet the surprise is exhilarating and pleasant — a viable alternative for vacationing in the Bahamas in October. The exhibition, which...
While perusing the sordid tales of Edgar Allen Poe in high school English, you probably thought they’d only come to life in your then-disturbed and reeling head. You were wrong. In a senior project for the theater studies major, Molly Fox ’08 resurrects Poe’s 1839 “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Replete with hints of incest, decorated by romance and...
Everyone at some point loses something — whether it’s a toothbrush, a box of cookies, a job, a spouse, one’s virginity, one’s sense of humor or one’s sanity in general. For Susan, a character in The Civilians’ “Gone Missing,” which played Wednesday night at the Whitney Humanities Center as part of The World Performance Project at Yale, the biggest loss was...