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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Actor Elliot Gould talks drama 4.02.09

There were no blinding lights or expensive cameras, but actor Elliot Gould began his Master’s Tea with a line that sounded scripted.

No theatrical limits 3.31.09

Director Robert Woodruff does not care about the praise or criticism of his plays. He just wants the audience to react. Staff reporter Esther Zuckerman reports.

No-judgment theater 3.24.09

“I wasn’t just down there to help drug addicts,” player one said. “I was there to spread the word of God.” And the scene begins.

Student playwrights seek to produce work 3.02.09

Over the weekend, Yalies wanting to see a campus production could choose between the Freshman Show, “Laughing Stock,” and two student-written shows, “An Animorphs Musical” and “With Kings in the Back.” From script to stage, student playwrights can be involved in every aspect of a production.

Margulies: playwright and prof. 3.02.09

Donald Margulies is “recuperating.” In the past five and a half weeks the Yale adjunct professor of English and professor of theater studies has made four round trips with stops in Los Angeles, New York and New Haven.

Inside the Ragged Claw 2.17.09

The show started before you walked inside. As actor and co-director of the Control Group Charles Gariepy ’09, with a waiter’s tray in his hand, asked the audience members walking up to 229 Dwight Street if they had reservations, cast members started walking out of the FOOT house into the backyard.

‘Magic Flute’ sells out 2.17.09

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, more than 4,500 Yalies and New Haven residents flocked to the Shubert Theater for an opera about the triumph of love over greed, darkness and the devious Queen of the Night.

Q&A | Bringing ‘Godot’ to life 1.13.09

Bud Thorpe has spent no shortage of time “Waiting for Godot.” A close collaborator of the late playwright Samuel Beckett, Thorpe has played, at various points in his professional acting career, both of the two leads in anticipation of “Godot.” This Friday, Thorpe stars in “One of the Damned Few,” a play co-written with and directed by professor Toni Dorfman, director of...

Briefly: Long Wharf Theatre closer to Coliseum site move 1.13.09

The Long Wharf Theatre, a local performance place, has issued a Request for Qualifications from architectural firms to design its new building at the site of the former Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the Web site Design New Haven reported this week. The theater is requesting submissions by Jan. 23, and Design New Haven reported that New Haven-based architecture firm Pelli...

Yale Opera performs scenes 11.03.08

The Yale Opera performed its sole campus event of the fall semester on Friday and Saturday nights. Kicking off its 2008-’09 season, the Opera performed its annual Opera Scenes, an event that showcases acts from famous operas.

Online ads for theater 10.31.08

In the age of technology, using posters to advertise theater shows may become a thing of the past.

‘Passion,’ in three parts 9.16.08

Queen Elizabeth is not the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of passion plays — nor is Adolf Hitler, nor capering fish. But Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play,” presented by the Yale Repertory Theater this Friday, transforms this theatrical tradition of many centuries.