Interaction Ritual
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is a film that plays like an experiment and an exploration. It’s the film where, arguably, Bergman discovered something about “film” that he didn’t already know. You watch it...
View ArticleLong Live The King
Last week The Yale Cabaret presented Manuela Infante’s Rey Planta, in English translation by YSD student Alexandra Ripp, directed by Cab Co-Artistic Director Michael Place, a North American debut. We...
View ArticleLadies’ Night
Arthur Kopit’s Chamber Music, the most recent show at The Yale Cabaret, dates from the Sixties and could be called a carnivalization of the women’s movement. The ‘carnival’ aspects are familiar enough...
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What’s The Story?
All the world tells stories. Some for entertainment, some as explanation, some for identification, some for cautionary purposes. Some are called escapist, some are called educational. Some are...
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A Wild Card in The Pack
Advertised as an “urban legend,” while noting that most urban legends take place somewhere rural, Laura Schellhardt’s The K of D, the first of the three plays currently playing in repertory at The Yale...
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Tales from the Basement
According to Mary Zimmerman, author of The Secret in the Wings, the setting for the play is “some strange place balanced between a basement and a forest.” The Yale Cabaret, in other words. The Secret...
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Broadway on York with George
Rarely does Broadway come to York Street, but Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George, the thesis show from YSD directing student Ethan Heard, brings to the University...
View ArticleComing Up at The Cabaret
Yale’s spring semester starts this week, so that means not only are the kids back in town but so is the Cab. The Yale Cabaret has announced its new line-up and the first show of the second half of the...
View ArticleWe Three
The Bird Bath, the latest show at the Yale Cabaret, like the show the previous week, was developed entirely by YSD students and treats the theme of mental illness. Directed by Monique Barbee and...
View ArticleYale Cab Recap
The 45th Season of the Yale Cabaret closed last month, and before this month is out the latest version of the Yale Summer Cabaret—titled “A Summer of Giants”—will open. In the meantime, here is my...
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The Art of Lying
Review of The Liar at Westport Country Playhouse The name David Ives conjures memories of his first huge hit, All in the Timing, which was, but for Shakespeare’s plays, the most produced play in the...
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