Thursday, March 24, 2022
Review of Eliana Pipes’ Dream Hou$e, Long Wharf Theatre The question of heritage gets sounded early in Eliana Pipes’ play Dream Hou$e. Set in the ancestral home of sisters Julia (Darilyn…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:35PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
This Bitter Earth is another good choice of an intimate, well-scripted play for TheaterWorks by Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero, letting audiences experience a meaningful take on the issues o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:18PMMonday, January 24, 2022
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven Connecticut stages a revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, following the same production’s staging at Baltimore Center Stage in Maryland la…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:39AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Last weekend the Yale Summer Cabaret closed its first show, a most various Shakespearean pageant called Midsummer. Now, in the northern hemisphere, is the time of “midsummer,” and the Ro…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:56PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Review of Midsummer at Yale Summer Cabaret One of the plot points of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a “changeling boy” that the fairy realm’s rulers—Oberon and Titani…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:23PMFriday, May 29, 2015
The Yale Summer Cabaret prepares to launch Midsummer In the basement of 217 Park Street, home of the Yale Summer Cabaret, transformation is afoot. First, there is the yearly conversion of th…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 07:54AMSunday, May 24, 2015
Review of Kiss Me, Kate at Hartford Stage Granted, Kiss Me, Kate is, as a play, more silly than shrewd. But then this 1940s’ musical isn’t noted for its Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack,…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:20PMThursday, May 21, 2015
The Cult, the new play by Drew Gray, the resident playwright in the New Haven Theater Company, debuts next week at the troupe’s home theater at the back of the English Building Markets. Gr…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:52PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Review of The Second Mrs. Wilson at Long Wharf Theatre A play about loyalty, love, and deception should strike a few nerves, and when the story unfolds in what are often called “the corrid…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:22PMMonday, May 11, 2015
Tickets on sale now for the Yale Summer Cabaret At the close of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero, a magician and, to many, a stand-in for the playwright, says he will abjure his “roug…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:33PMMonday, April 20, 2015
Erismena at Yale Baroque Opera Project; Opera Triple Bill at Yale School of Music Last month, Heartbeat Opera staged its first full production at the Sheen Center in New York and was hailed …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:31AMSaturday, April 4, 2015
Review of Sister Sandman Please at Yale Cabaret With Jessica Rizzo’s Sister Sandman Please, the Yale Cabaret showcases the kind of experimental work that, in many ways, the basement theate…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:01PMSunday, February 22, 2015
Review of Shiny Objects at Yale Cabaret Shiny Objects, the latest show at the Yale Cabaret, asks us to listen to the stories women tell about themselves. Against our culture’s tendency to …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:28PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Review of Familiar at Yale Repertory Theatre A funny, fun, and intense play about family, Danai Gurira’s Familiar, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, takes place on a lovely set replete with t…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:15AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Review of Don Juan at Yale School of Drama In Don Juan, the life and times of a cad, Molière sought to skewer some of the pieties of his time, presenting Don Juan as a heartless seducer who…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 06:18PMFriday, January 23, 2015
Review of Quartet at the Yale Cabaret Heiner Müller’s Quartet, an adaptation of Laclos’s Les liaisons dangereuses, as staged at the Yale Cabaret, directed by David E. Bruin using Doug L…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 09:34PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
One of the most successful aspects of Darko Tresnjak’s production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, now showing at the Hartford Stage, is how well cast it is. Ken Barnett and Rachel Picku…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 04:59PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
This week the Yale Cabaret returns. The first three shows of the second half of the season have been announced with the others soon to follow. Artistic Directors Hugh Farrell, Tyler Kieffer,…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 08:06PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
The Yale Cabaret's final show of 2014 ran last weekend. For my review of third-year playwright Ryan Campbell's funny and thrilling The Zero Scenario, directed by third-year director Sara Hol…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:57PMFriday, December 12, 2014
Review of A Christmas Carol at Hartford Stage First of all, full disclosure: I’m an A Christmas Carol enthusiast. Annually, “at this festive season of the year,” I watch Scrooge, the 1…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:37AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Second YSD thesis show opens . . . This week the second thesis show of the Yale School of Drama season opens at the Iseman Theater. Third-year MFA candidate in Directing Jessica Holt was co-…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:50PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Review of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Long Wharf Theatre “So, a guy walks into a bar . . .” is a familiar opening of many jokes. In the case of the play currently showing at the Long W…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 12:46AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s War, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz at the Yale Repertory Theatre, is a play more intriguing than satisfying. It sets up a situation where the unreal—a comatose …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:51PMFriday, November 7, 2014
The Yale Cabaret is back this week with a show that certainly puts its cast through its paces. John Kuntz’s The Hotel Nepenthe, directed by Rachel Carpman, is designed to be a daunting sho…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 12:51PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Review of Touch at Yale Cabaret Toni Press-Coffman’s Touch, featured as Cab 5 at the Yale Cabaret, and directed by Elijah Martinez, with a cast of second-year actors in the YSD program, is…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:47PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Review of Rose and the Rime, Yale Cabaret It’s not every day you encounter a new myth for the change of the seasons. One of the oldest, of course, is the story of Persephone in Hades, and …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 04:35PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
A lasting impression made by the current production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Gordon Edelstein, at the Long Wharf is the sheer size of the cast. With 21 speaking roles fle…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:51AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Now previewing Yale Cabaret shows for the rest of the semester and into January—Cab 4 through 10. The Artistic Directors Hugh Farrell, Tyler Kieffer, Will Rucker, and Managing Director Mol…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 05:09PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Review of American Gothic at the Yale Cabaret American Gothic, the third offering by the Yale Cabaret this season, brings together three tales by renowned short story writers: Raymond Carver…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:11PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
This Wednesday, October 8, previews for the first show of the Long Wharf Theatre’s 50th anniversary season begin. And that first show is an American classic: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:37PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
The Yale Cabaret is back, kicking off their new season this weekend with Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the Time, a new play by Emily Zemba, third-year playwrigh…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:48PM 
