You may already know Macbeth—three witches, a ruthless would-be king, a scheming Lady and murder—but chances are you’ve never seen it performed without a spoken word. That’s what La Fille Du Laitier—a Canadian “theatre delivery service”—brings to the International …
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Red, White and You
As my husband and I walked down Orange Street to the black box theater inside EBM Vintage (map), where the New Haven Theater Company production of White Rabbit Red Rabbit was about to begin, we approached a trim, …
Edge States
Live From the Edge presented by Long Wharf Theatre exists in finely honed edge states: on the shifting precipice of a set not in stone; near the upper limit of artistic virtuosity; and with the sharpened courage required to express …
Sweetness and Light
“Classic rom-com” is the way Yale Repertory Theatre bills The Brightest Thing in the World, a commissioned world premiere by the playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. The play opens in a cheerful Lexington, Kentucky coffee shop called Revival, where a …
Christmas Presented
“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in 2022, this “ghostly little book,” as the author called …
Flight Paths
The final production at Long Wharf Theatre’s longtime home was a play called Flying Bird’s Diary, read last weekend by a cast of 10 behind a tidy arc of music stands. In a scene that ends the play’s …
Choral Issues
As the lights go up on Yale Rep’s Choir Boy and the paneled hall of the Charles R. Drew Preparatory School for Boys—“dedicated to the education of strong, ethical Black men”—Headmaster Marrow regally welcomes the audience to the academy’s 49th …
Playing It Back
In order to understand what happened in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City in August of 1991, you need some context. …
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