53 stories by "Donald Brown"
Review of Rose and the Rime, Yale Cabaret It's not every day you encounter a new myth for the change of the seasons. One of the oldest, of course, is the story of Persephone in Hades, and yo…
A lasting impression made by the current production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, directed by Gordon Edelstein, at the Long Wharf is the sheer size of the cast. With 21 speaking roles flesh…
Now previewing Yale Cabaret shows for the rest of the semester and into January"Cab 4 through 10. The Artistic Directors Hugh Farrell, Tyler Kieffer, Will Rucker, and Managing Director Molly…
Review of American Gothic at the Yale Cabaret American Gothic, the third offering by the Yale Cabaret this season, brings together three tales by renowned short story writers: Raymond Carver…
This Wednesday, October 8, previews for the first show of the Long Wharf Theatre's 50th anniversary season begin. And that first show is an American classic: Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Not …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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'…
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…
