Li’l Shubert On The Way
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| May 28, 2013 1:20 pm |With a quarter-million grant from the Community Foundation, the Shubert Theater is closer to bringing “Little Shubert” into the world.
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| May 28, 2013 1:20 pm |With a quarter-million grant from the Community Foundation, the Shubert Theater is closer to bringing “Little Shubert” into the world.
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| May 27, 2013 11:42 am |Actor Jalrath Conroy took a bite of his turkey club and a sip of his chardonnay. “God is good,” he intoned, “but the Devil himself isn’t too bad.”
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| May 20, 2013 3:22 pm |Lillian Brown listened intently to a scene from a play about white flight in a mythical American town in 1959.
It didn’t take the 95-year-old veteran Newhallville political activist long to add some lines of painful autobiographical fact to the compelling fiction she’d just heard: “When we came in [to Division Street] to purchase our house [60 years ago], the white families all put their houses up for sale.”
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| May 17, 2013 12:03 pm |Fifty years after white flight, a white couple has returned to build a home in a newly gentrifying neighborhood — and lands in a tense scene with neighbors. “It’s race,” the husband blurts out. “Isn’t it?”
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| May 17, 2013 12:01 pm |Clybourne Park makes you laugh, think, laugh again, cringe. Then it rips a super-glued Band-Aid off of liberal white skin, exposing all the raw, tribal bias white people prefer to think they don’t possess.
If that doesn’t sound like fun, you’re wrong.
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| May 14, 2013 11:47 am |On a Thursday afternoon, world-renowned playwright Athol Fugard sent Gordon Edelstein his new play. Edelstein read the play and called Fugard.
“There’s only one actor who can play this part,” said Edelstein to Fugard.
“Who? Sam Waterston?” said Fugard.
“No, dummy. You!”
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| May 9, 2013 3:19 pm |Motha Earth checks out Wisdom Warrior and his girlfriend Patti in the new booth at Uncle Kang’s Diner. That stuff she’s dabbing on her zits? It was intended to be a magical potion to take Wisdom’s mind off other girls. Turns out it works even better as acne cream.
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| May 6, 2013 12:16 pm |The man with the maroon vest seems like an average, pleasant middle-aged guy. Then his cell phone goes off. The ring tone is the catchy “I have a little dreidel” Hanukkah tune.
“Is he in pain?” comes the question to his telephonic interlocutor.
A heartfelt conversation ensues about terminal illness, pain, and end of life care. It turns out the speaker is a rabbi. But he’s not talking to a suffering congregant. He’s talking to his wife — about the fate of their elderly cat Sam, who soon has to be put down.
The empty stage and classrooms of Fair Haven’s abandoned Strong School may come to life with dance and theater, according to a plan in the works by a coalition of arts groups.
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| May 1, 2013 8:38 am |Johanna Delgado comes from a strict Pentecostal family. When her character St. Thomas says, mouth dripping in street-style derision, “Personally Judas is a bit of a jerk-off … Actually he’s a dick,” she wonders what her grandmother, who will be in the audience, might think.
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| Apr 17, 2013 1:30 pm |It’s fitting that Stuck Elevator, before arriving back in New Haven for a grand summer unveiling, is having its world premiere in San Francisco. It’s a city with a strong tradition of political theater, and New Haven’s Aaron Jafferis, who wrote the libretto, has spent his career riveted on using language, from hip-hop poetry to drama, for social change.
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After nearly two decades with an ownership stake in the Shubert, the city took a step Monday night toward handing the theater off to new owners.
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| Apr 15, 2013 11:15 am |It’s not every day that high school art and design students get a commission to create a sculpture guaranteed to be seen by 12,000 people and a billboard that will be viewed by hundreds of thousands driving along I‑95.
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| Apr 9, 2013 2:50 pm |Jack Kennedy died for his sins. That’s one of the messages of Ride the Tiger, an entertaining behind-the-scenes take on Kennedy’s affair with Judith Exner, playing at Long Wharf Theater through April 21.
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| Apr 4, 2013 2:04 pm |New Haven playwright and spoken-word artist Aaron Jafferis’ hip-hop musical will take center stage at his hometown arts festival.
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| Mar 24, 2013 10:31 am |Paul Giamatti came home to ravish the stage he plundered as a wunderkind to tackle the Mount Vesuvius of acting roles, Hamlet.
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‘Hamlet In Converse:
Giamatti Rises To Challenge’
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| Mar 15, 2013 4:14 pm |Co-op High drummer Jeremiah Cherry got a chance to jam with a pro on Friday and discovered a new path to a career in music, from “Kind Of Blue” to Blue Man Group.
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| Mar 14, 2013 12:00 pm |Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but everything’s wonderful in the village of Westville.
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| Mar 13, 2013 12:12 pm |Christina Lind will change dresses often as she brings Judith Exner to life on a New Haven stage. She also aims to change how history views the mistress of both JFK and the don of the Chicago mob — to get beyond the wardrobe and the good looks.
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| Feb 28, 2013 12:46 pm |Jennifer Frechette couldn’t imagine her daughter going off to high school where a drama club didn’t exist. Then her daughter went off to Wilbur Cross High School, which last staged a student production, Grease four years ago.
This week, thanks to Frechette, Wilbur Cross theater is back.
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| Feb 25, 2013 9:10 am |New Haven’s most celebrated guerrilla street artist got his start in New Haven dodging Yale security as he painted illegally on university property. On Saturday, he made a surprise cameo appearance as an invited guest to a high-profile event with Yale’s name on it.
True to form, he was conspicuous by his absence.
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| Feb 22, 2013 1:13 pm |Why would Long Wharf revive Sam Shepard’s 35-year-old “Curse of the Starving Class” now?
Could it be irresistible irony about the real estate bubble?
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| Feb 22, 2013 12:25 pm |All This Noise, a one-man, one-act play at the Yale Cabaret this weekend, tells an empathic story about a young man’s mental illness and a family’s struggle to cope. The audience is immediately and effectively drawn in to the ordeal.
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| Feb 19, 2013 12:30 pm |The star of the new play at Long Wharf just might turn out to be this three-week old Connecticut-born lamb named Edie.
And in an exclusive interview, she gave the Independent the scoop.