Happy birthday to Frances McDormand, one of our greatest actors and one of my father’s favorite students of all. He raved about Franny to me when she studied w him at Yale School of Drama and her success brought him such joy!
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ARTS | The Yale Opera will perform “The Rake’s Progress,” returning to the Shubert Theatre after four years without appearing on its mainstage.
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Yale has committed to developing a landmark theatrical arts building that will bring faculty, staff, students, and guest artists under one roof and further establish downtown New Haven as a lively center for education, performance, and culture. #Yale https://t.co/eTHLoa0HxG
The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale’s production of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya is played before the theater’s stadium seating, but the viewers positioned on risers in the wings of the stage will feel themselves in the midst of the action. https://t.co/oiDAaqfdph
ARTS | The musical 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Coment of 1812,' a senior thesis for two Theater and Performance Studies majors, debuted last night after months of rehearsal.
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Oscar-Winning Writer Of "Moonlight" And "Choir Boys" Named Geffen Playhouse's Artistic Director: "An ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company," Tarell Alvin McCraney "is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama
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“For more than three decades at Yale School of Drama, Dick Gilman exhorted his students to find their own voices, to take their own leaps, to make drama, and make it “matter…as a source of consciousness.”
Catherine Sheehy
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The Windham-Campbell Prize Festival runs this year from September 19-22 and features a keynote by legendary music writer Greil Marcus! Festival schedule will be live on our website on August 15. All events are free and open to everyone.
📣 WRITERS 📣
Submissions are now open for the Yale Drama Series 2024 competition, for emerging playwrights worldwide.
The winner will be selected by the brilliant @jeremyoharris with a $10k prize and publication by Yale University Press.
More info here: https://t.co/cLtRxs0Ett
Great review of Introduction to Speechwork for Actors, a much-needed textbook "providing actors with a sense of agency over their natural way of speech and honoring the “lineage of communities” reflected in their accents."
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