53 stories by "Donald Brown"
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 Cas…
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…
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 last y…
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 Rough …
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 Titania"battle ove…
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…
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, but…
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. Gray…
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 corridor…
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 "rough ma…
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 …
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 theater …
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 ob…
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 the…
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…
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 Langw…
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 Pickup …
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,…
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…
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 1951 fi…
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-…
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 Wharf…
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 woma…
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 show …
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 a…
