Nicole Villeneuve
Nicole Villeneuve
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Art For Whose Sake?
Art For Whose Sake?
One-dimensional ‘Queen’
Swashbuckling, sword fighting, scurvy scallywag. Sounds more like “Pirates of the Caribbean” than Pinter. But “The Pirate Queen,” which opened April 5 at the Hilton Theater in New York City, attempts to prove that these elements are just as valid in the theater as they are on screen, with mixed success.
‘Marat/Sade’ is crazy for the revolution
Let’s face it: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade” sounds like a daunting reading for your next history seminar. But the play of that title, typically abbreviated Marat/Sade and produced by undergraduates this weekend, offers greater intellectual stimulus than any such article could provide.
This weekend it’s all ‘New’
With student actors bemoaning the dearth of performance spaces and filling out reams of Sudler Fund applications, it seems that Yale is overflowing with University-sponsored theatrical opportunities. But until recently, theater in New Haven rarely stretched beyond the reaches of campus, leaving residents frustrated. When Nicholas Clarey moved to New Haven in 2004, he hunted for community theater opportunities but was perpetually referred to the big three venues: the Long Wharf, the Shubert and
Making sound and sweet love to radio
Families no longer gather around the radio for the latest installment of “The Twilight Zone” or for a fireside chat. But the Yale Cabaret hopes to prove that radio is still living and thriving in “Live Radio/Vintage Suspense” this weekend.
Theater 2006: a classic remix
As Yale’s undergraduate theater scene expands, the once-common tendency to produce shows that are comfortable, “safe” and undeniable crowd-pleasers is diminishing.
Don’t eat the ‘Black Snow’ in the USSR
With a script that has substantial basis in historical fact, it seems strange that Yale Repertory Theatre’s “Black Snow” is so distanced from reality.
Oh string low, sweet cello
Yalie cellists use their four-strings to wreak classic rock and roll havoc
Oh string low, sweet cello
Finley's art stems from sticky politics, condiments
Although she was not nude and slathered in honey, as she has appeared in past performances, Karen Finley's reading of her book 'George and Martha' at Labyrinth Books last night was still controversial. The title of the piece itself is contentious; far...
'Hotel' vibrates beds, vocals
George Bernard Shaw once said, "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life." But in Yale Cabaret's "Hotel," one sees quite the opposite: many individuals' home lives converge in one hotel room. As soon as one enters the...