Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
The word “opera” generally does not evoke images of homeless people, drug addiction, mental illness and the US health care system. And “opera singer” usually does not refer to the Flower Lady at the corner of Elm and York.
At the Yale Cabaret’s “Sidewalk Opera,” directed by Patricia McGregor DRA ’09, opera is all about...
Among Yale students, the only university that’s more fun to ridicule than Harvard is, of course, Yale. “The Yale Show,” a musical comedy that pokes fun at Yale archetypes, opens tonight in the Off Broadway Theater. It marks the first anniversary of a tradition that started last spring when then-seniors David Chernicoff ’07, Eli Clark ’07, Eric March ’07...
“Men should be what they seem,” Iago says in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and in the audience we feel we could prematurely strangle him for saying so. He is, after all, one of the great deceivers of dramatic literature — a man nothing like what he seems. With little more than the precision of his irony, he engenders lust, wrath and murder. And that’s before he...
“One day, fat families and skinny families alike will read my poetry,” predicts Max Stravinsky (Bryce Pinkham DRA ’08), the lead canine character in the Yale Cabaret’s “Max Out Loud.” “Max” was adapted for the stage by Mattie Brickman DRA ’09 from three children’s books written by Maira Kalman, a famous New Yorker cover illustrator. Because it copies...
Only a handful of plays have ever been produced outdoors at Yale. This week, Erin Cawley ’08 brings Yale undergraduate theatre back to the open air with “Dancing at Lughnasa,” an Irish tale that will be showing in Davenport’s lower courtyard. “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a semi-autobiographical play by Brian Friel, presents the story of an Irish family near the...
“I usually say, ‘Fuck the truth,’ but mostly the truth fucks you,” says Prior Walter, a homosexual with AIDS in the mid-1980’s. His observation is right on the mark: The Dramat’s “Angels in America: Part 1=Millenium Approaches,” directed by Jonathan Silverstein, is the drama of people trying desperately to say “Fuck the truth,” but who get fucked by...
Who ever thought of Antarctica for a honeymoon? Or poetry that really comes alive? Or a love song that dares to tell the unfiltered truth? Apparently, experimental playwright André Gregory did. Directed by Paul Carey DRA ’08, Gregory’s unique and unnerving, yet strangely accessible “Bone Songs” is at once a love story and a psychoanalysis of human emotion...
Sperm, narcissism, and puppy love — it’s just another day in high school in Marshall Pailet’s ’09 original musical “Where It’s At.” Chock full of flippant asides, internet pop-culture, blatant sexual innuendo, and even an over-achieving egoist whose single goal in life is to get into the College of Cambridge (or C.O.C.—draw your own conclusions), “Where...
If variety is, as they say, the spice of life, be prepared for a flavorful experience at the Yaledancers’ Spring Show. These muses of the dance floor mesmerize viewers with masterful choreography, fluid motion and sprightly music. Yaledancers, the oldest Yale dance organization dating back to 1973, has challenged the traditional concept of a dance recital. No longer...
In Hollywood, actors try to sell themselves as triple threats: singing, dancing and acting. While Rhythmic Blue does not sing, they certainly show Hollywood what it means to dance and act in their Spring Show. In “Director’s Cut,” RB is back in action performs at the Off-Broadway Theater. The theme for Yale’s premier hip-hop and contemporary dance group is “A...
Before even going to “Esdras,” you should know it’s something very special. It is one of those rare things — a play produced, written and performed by students. Even rarer still, most of these students are freshmen. But you wouldn’t know it. Haunting the Ezra Stiles Little Theatre this weekend are the stories of eleven damned women performed by a trio of...