Rachel Caplan
Rachel Caplan
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The Original
If Wooster Street pizza is the stuff of legend, Pepe’s is its hero. Yet as the family leaves the family business, the pizzeria is struggling to reconcile its unique history with its future.
Profile - The Physician of Folk
Profile - The Physician of Folk
‘Gypsy’ steals the spotlight
The Shubert Theater’s production of “Gypsy” showcases both the strengths and the weaknesses of this classic musical. The star, Kathy Halenda, reaches deep into the psyche of Mama Rose, the stage mother who “started too late” to ever have a career of her own.
Solemn, feminist ‘Electra’
Twenty women in black and red advance one by one into the light, introducing themselves and chanting the names of their mothers, grandmothers, ancestors. The long chains of the women’s names and origins end in the refrain, “I am Electra.” In this hushed and reverential atmosphere, “Electra Speaks” begins.
Orpheus: Opera meets frat
“Orphee aux Enfers,” or “Orpheus in the Underworld,” Jacques Offenbach’s 1858 answer to the solemnity of Greek mythology, is going up this weekend in a new production performed by students in the Yale School of Music’s opera program. The gloomy title of the opera belies its amusing take on the revered gods of Greek legend, and in opera bouffe style, it uses elements of satire and farce to turn the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice into a riotous comic opera of epic proportions.
Double the Anna, double the fun: ‘Sins’
“The Seven Deadly Sins” is at first glance hard to approach. It’s racy, it’s avant-garde, it’s sung in German.
‘Man’ walks, moralizes
Max Lanman ’10 is wearing a cut-off tank top, laceless boots and ragged jeans. On one bicep, he sports a swastika tattoo, and on the other, his castmate Streeter Phillips ’10, sharpies on a slinky, pin-up-style woman.