Students recite the Bard for 24 hours 4.08.08
At 2:45 on Saturday afternoon, students carried 108 library books by the armful through the halls of the Pierson basement.
At 2:45 on Saturday afternoon, students carried 108 library books by the armful through the halls of the Pierson basement.
The Yale Dramatic Association’s executive board voted Tuesday night to retain “The Full Monty” as the fall 2008 main-stage musical, despite a petition drafted by two members of the organization protesting the production’s dearth of female roles.
Bundy said he chose “A Woman of No Importance” because it satisfied a long-standing desire to direct this “funny, subversive and heartfelt” Wilde play that comments critically on women, men, parents and children.
Two and a half months after a Yale School of Drama student died while unloading a set for an upcoming show at the Yale Repertory Theatre, a committee convened to review safety procedures in school-sponsored productions is still at work.
Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning director of the playwriting programs at Brown University, will join the Yale School of Drama under a five-year contract as adjunct Eugene O’Neill Professor and the chair of the Department of Playwriting, the school announced last week.
The Yale School of Drama’s efforts to increase financial-aid offerings got a boost last week, when administrators announced they have received a donation that will be used to provide scholarships to four students.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has formally recommended that the Yale School of Drama provide training to students handling heavy props and materials following the death of a graduate student at the Yale Repertory Theatre last month.
Posted Monday 5:30 p.m. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has formally recommended that the Yale School of Drama provide training to students handling heavy props and materials following the death of a graduate student in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre last month.
Twenty-four hours is also 1,440 minutes or, to break it down even further, 86,400 seconds. Or, at least for the Yale Drama Coalition, 24 hours is enough time to create theater. During the 24 Hour Theater Festival on Sunday, the YDC will present several 10-minute plays that will be written, staged and performed over the course of exactly 24 hours.
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration report to be released next month will name several safety lapses that may have contributed to the death of a Yale School of Drama student in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre last week, an OSHA official said Monday.
A second-year graduate student at the Yale School of Drama was killed Nov. 18 in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Pierre-Andre Salim DRA ’09, of Jakarta, Indonesia, was injured while unloading materials for an upcoming production from a truck outside the theater, University Spokesman Tom Conroy said. The accident occurred at 8:51 a.m., New Haven police said,...
Updated Tuesday 1:25 p.m. Pierre-André Salim DRA ’09 was killed Sunday morning in an accident at the Yale Repertory Theatre, University officials said.