Saturday, 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 playwright …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
Next weekend the Yale Cabaret returns"Cab 47"helmed by Artistic Directors, Hugh Farrell, a dramaturg, Will Rucker, a stage manager, and Tyler Kieffer, a sound designer, and Managing Director…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
Review of Will Eno's Middletown The Yale Summer Cabaret paid tribute to its 40-year existence last night and the festivities included a performance of Will Eno's Middletown, directed by 2014…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:17PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Tonight the Yale Summer Cabaret resumed with Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, formerly known as Southwest Africa, from the German S…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Now that the International Festival of Arts & Ideas has come and gone, and even the Yale Summer Cabaret is on a hiatus until it resumes on the 11th, what is a theater person to do? One p…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
Review of Traces Traces, the production by Les 7 Doigts de la Main at this year's International Festival of Arts & Ideas, presents an varied mix of incredible circus tricks, busy choreog…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 09:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Review of A Map of Virtue Erin Courtney's A Map of Virtue, the second offering of the 40th Anniversary Yale Summer Cabaret this year, is certainly a curiosity. Structured by titled segments"…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 04:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
Review of Arguendo Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, directed by John Collins, is a gutsy idea: take a Supreme Court hearing and turn it into theater. But wait, Supreme Court hearings"like…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:59PM[SHARE]Review of Split Knuckle Theatre's Endurance When is a Hartford insurance company like a ship stuck in ice in the Antarctic? When they're both sinking. Split Knuckle Theatre's Endurance paral…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 12:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Broken Umbrella Theatre's Gilbert the Great harkens to the time of the heroic inventor, impresario, businessman, marketer, and employer that we could call the Golden Age of American busi…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
The Broken Umbrella Theatre is back. After their stint as part of the Arts and Ideas Festival last year"where their show Freewheelers was one of the hottest tickets"BUT has more to live up t…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 04:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2014
The odd thing about Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, now playing at the Long Wharf Theatre, directed by Gordon Edelstein with musical direction by James Sampliner, is that, though i…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:41PM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Yale Summer Cabaret, a theatrical entity separate from Yale Cabaret (or "term time Cabaret"), that began life in 1974. In tribute to the four deca…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
Yale Cabaret Season 46 is now just a memory. So let's test our memories. Surveying the season, I've come up with five top picks in thirteen categories, as I have done for Seasons 45 ('12-'13…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 01:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand, now playing at the Yale Rep, directed by Patricia McGregor, runs the audience through a range of emotions as we watch a household divided agai…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
The final show of the Yale Cabaret's 46th season brings it all back home. The play, The Brothers Size, was written by its prize-winning and celebrated author, Tarell Alvin McCraney, while a …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:42PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
For James Sampliner, musical director for Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, which opens previews May 7 at the Long Wharf, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, taking on th…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 04:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2014
Ryan Campbell, a second-year playwright in YSD, is a ballsy writer. A New Saint for a New World, now playing at the Yale Cabaret, begins with the premise of Joan of Arc returned to earth in …
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
Ensconced in their home at the back of the English Markets, the New Haven Theater Company now have the rights"and the right space"for their production of New Haven resident Donald Margulies'…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 05:31PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
Athol Fugard's The Shadow of the Hummingbird, now in its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre, is a short play that enacts a meditation on a number of things that matter: the nature of r…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 08:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
OMG what an energetic show! The Mystery Boy, currently playing at the Yale Cabaret, is director/actor Chris Bannow's adaptation of a novel by Jacqueline Weaver, his 11 year-old sister, a sho…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 10:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2014
Timothy J. Guillot's We Fight We Die, directed by Jiréh Breon Holder, at the Cab this weekend, can be accused of the old "bait and switch." It begins as what seems to be a mythopoeic render…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 03:30PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Much Ado About Nothing, the comedy by Shakespeare that is the source for These! Paper! Bullets!, a new adaptation"or, in its terms, "modish ripoff""by playwright Rolin Jones and director Jac…
SOURCE: New Haven Review at 11:08PM[SHARE] 
