‘A Delicate Balance’: we do what we can
Edward Albee’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winner “A Delicate Balance” has the surface appearance of a polite drawing room play, but quickly turns into one of the writer’s darkest and funniest visions of...
View ArticleA late report on Yale Rep’s gorgeous ‘Winter’s Tale’
You only have until Saturday to catch director Liz Diamond’s sumptuous production of “The Winter’s Tale.” The Shakespeare play is an unusual mixture of drama, romance and comedy, but those elements...
View ArticleThe indescribably brilliant ‘Realistic Joneses’ at Yale Rep
Why are the deeply unhappy quartet of characters in “The Realistic Joneses” so funny? Will Eno’s latest play is what might be described as a very serious comedy. Yes, the laughs are fairly steady in...
View ArticlePaul Giamatti’s Hamlet: a new take on the melancholy Dane
A wonderful aspect of a long lifetime of theatergoing is to see “Hamlet” as many times as possible, done in as many different ways as brave actors and directors can dream up. Shakespeare’s play seems...
View Article‘These Paper Bullets!’ needs more music, less Shakespeare
The new show at Yale Rep — “These Paper Bullets!” — looks like a million bucks. The design elements for this London circa 1964 “ripoff” of “Much Ado About Nothing” are Broadway quality, as you would...
View Article‘The O’Neill’: 50 years of incubating new plays
The 50th anniversary of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford is being marked by the publication of a wonderful, over-sized book, “The O’Neill” (Yale University Press), that combines archival...
View ArticleYale Rep’s ‘Elevada’: cancer & whimsy
Yale Rep is ending its current season with a very well-directed and well-acted romantic comedy “Elevada.” As you might expect from the fact that the Sheila Callaghan play was commissioned by the New...
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