This list of upcoming shows is updated regularly. If you want to add (or remove) your production which is not an undergraduate production, please email the YDC.
Yale Cabaret, Yale School of Drama, Yale Repertory Theatre, Shubert Theater, Long Wharf Theatre
The Schubert Theater Presents:
The Wiz
Performed by the students of Sacred Heart Academy
November 11 & 12, 2011
Presented by Sacred Heart Academy.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
December 2–4, 2011
This joyful musical adaptation of the Dickens' classic features all your favorite Christmas carols.
Rock of Ages
December 9–11, 2011
This area-rock love story is told through 80s hits by Journey, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar and more.
New Haven Ballet presents The Nutcracker
December 16–18, 2011
Performed by the students of New Haven Ballet and featuring principal dancers from Boston Ballet.
The Wizard of Oz
December 29, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Click your heels and be off to see the Wizard and experience this national treasure on stage.
The Color Purple
January 13–15, 2012
With a score that includes jazz, gospel and blues, this landmark musical captures the hearts of young and old.
Così fan tutte
February 10–12, 2012
Yale Opera’s new production of Mozart’s classic opera is performed in Italian with projected English translations.
Romeo and Juliet
February 18, 2012
This exquisite ballet is performed by the dancers of the State Ballet Theatre of Russia.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
March 8–11, 2012
This new production is based on the 2008 Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater Production.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
May 11–13, 2012
Back by Popular Demand following its sold-out 2010 engagement.
In The Heights
June 1–3, 2012
Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, this uplifting new show features thrilling dancing and a dynamic score.
The Yale Cabaret Presents:
Street Scenes
Conceived by Maayan Strauss and Colin Mannex
Created by the Ensemble
November 10th at 8pm
November 11th
November 12th at 8 and 11 pm
Street Scenes is a theatrical investigation about perceptions of crime and community in New Haven. As a starting point, our ensemble has chosen to explore the responses that people have when they open an email from the Yale Chief of Police, Ronnell Higgins.
A Thought In Three Parts
By Wallace Shawn
November 17th at 8pm
November 18th
November 19th at 8 and 11 pm.
What is the relationship of sex and intimacy? What is the relationship of sex and violence? What about intimacy and violence? When we're seeking one of these three, why do we sometimes wind up with one of the others? This controversial play by Wallace Shawn (Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever) – which, due to its explicit nature, has only received one other full production in the United States since its writing in 1976 – explores these questions in the form of three short plays that come together to form a fractured and complex "thought."
The Yale Repertory Theater Presents:
World Premiere
BELLEVILLE
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Anne Kauffman
October 21-November 12, 2011
Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances
ENGAGEMENT FÉMININ:
AN EVENING OF WEST AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Created and performed by Art' Dév/Compagnie Auguste-Bienvenue
November 3-5, 2011
No Boundaries presents the American premiere of two landmark pieces of contemporary African dance—Ecoute Ma Musique and Dans Un S’Y Mettre—performed in a single evening. Drawing from their own experiences, the dancers of Engagement Féminin explore the everyday choices the women of their communities make to face life’s obstacles and achieve their goals. Engagement Féminin is committed to developing a new generation of female choreographic artists in West Africa. Historically under-represented in this genre, young female performers receive training and create and perform their work across the continent in order to affect social change through contemporary African dance.
A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
By Molière
Adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp
Directed by Christopher Bayes
A Co-Production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
November 26-Decemeber 17, 2011
“Playing doctor” takes on a whole new meaning as a marital squabble escalates into comic pandemonium. The spirited Martine exacts revenge on her scoundrel of a husband, Sganarelle, by convincing the town that he’s the best doctor around and that he can cure any ailment. But the trickster turns the tables on his wife—and everyone else—with his own definition of “in sickness and in health.” Bursting with slapstick physical comedy, naughty innuendo, and irreverent hijinks, A Doctor in Spite of Himself marks the return to Yale Rep of Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp, whose The Servant of Two Masters had audiences and critics alike in stitches—including The New York Times, which rejoiced, “Now that’s theatre!”
GOOD GOODS
By Christina Anderson
Directed by Tina Landau
February 3-February 25, 2012
Yale Rep presents the world premiere of Good Goods by Christina Anderson, selected by American Theatre magazine as an up-and-coming artist “whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come.” Acclaimed director Tina Landau, an award-winning ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company who recently staged Superior Donuts on Broadway, makes her Yale Rep debut. Amidst the cluttered shelves of a family-owned general store in a small Black town that doesn’t appear on any map, four lost souls reunite. Partnerships dissolve, alliances shift, and romances ignite as a tragic accident unleashes the town’s mysterious history. Blurring the line between body and spirit, Good Goods is an otherworldly love story of the (dis)possessed.
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances
SPECTRAL SCRIABIN
Eteri Andjaparidze, Piano
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Design
February 10 & 11, 2012
Russian composer Alexander Scriabin caused a sensation in 1915, staging what was most likely the first multimedia concert in history. Designing aclavier à lumière to project colors onto the stage as it was played, Scriabin pioneered ideas relating colors and musical pitch. Nearly a century later, celebrated Georgian pianist Eteri Andjaparidze and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Jennifer Tipton explore the legacy of this late Romantic composer through excerpts from his Poeme Languide in B Major and other works, including Feuillet d’Album in F-sharp Major, Opus Posthumous. This extravaganza of lush music and spectacular lightshow is truly "something unforgettable" (New York Press).
THE WINTER'S TALE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Liz Diamond
March 16-April 7, 2012
Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his own newborn daughter. But callous hearts are redeemed—and broken ones mended—when the abandoned orphan falls in love with a Bohemian prince. The Winter’s Tale leaps from darkest tragedy to lighthearted romance and a truly magical conclusion. OBIE Award-winning Resident Director Liz Diamond, whose recent productions at Yale Rep include the acclaimed American premiere of Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon, delves deep into a trunk of old-fashioned stagecraft to bring to life the Bard’s surprising tale of blinding jealousy and forgiveness.
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances
NEVA
Written and directed by Guillermo Calderón
Performed by Teatro en el Blanco
March 23 & 24, 2012
A politically-charged, haunting interrogation of theatre and the revolutionary impulse, Neva tells the story of Anton Chekhov’s widow, the actress Olga Knipper, who arrives at a dimly lit rehearsal room in St. Petersburg in the winter of 1905. As Olga and two other actors await the rest of the cast, they huddle together, act out scenes from their lives, and muse on their art form and love—while unseen striking workers are being gunned down in the streets by the Tsarist regime. Chilean writer/director Guillermo Calderón savagely examines the relationship between performance and history in this tightly-crafted ensemble work that allows a palpable terror to creep through the theatre walls. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.
World Premiere
THE REALISTIC JONESES
By Will Eno
Directed by Sam Gold
April 20-May 12, 2012
Meet Bob and Jennifer, and their new neighbors John and Pony, two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical homes and the same last name on their mailboxes. Two electrifying artists team up at Yale Rep for the world premiere of The Realistic Joneses. Dubbed “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” by The New York Times, playwright Will Eno burst onto the scene in 2005—picking up a Pulitzer Prize nomination along the way—for his play Thom Pain (based on nothing). His recent Middletown was hailed as “totally engrossing” (Associated Press) and “utterly spellbinding!” (Time Out New York). Director Sam Gold’s recent New York premieres of Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, and Tigers Be Still have secured his place as one of the most insightful and sought-after directors of his generation.
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
Conceived by Richard Maltby Jr. & Murray Horwitz
Created & Originally Directed by Richard Maltby Jr.
Original Choreography & Musical Staging for this production created by Arthur Faria
Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations & Arrangements by Luther Henderson
Mainstage
October 26-November 20, 2011
SPECIAL EVENT!
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
STARRING BRIAN DENNEHY
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Jennifer Tarver
Stage II
November 29-December 18, 2011
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - A LIVE RADIO PLAY
By Joe Landry
Directed by Eric Ting
Mainstage
December 7-31, 2011
MACBETH 1969
A WORLD PREMIERE ADAPTATION
Adapted from William Shakespeare
Conceived and Adapted by Eric Ting
Mainstage
January 18 - February 12, 2012
FEBRUARY HOUSE
A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
Songs and Lyrics by Gabriel Kahane
Libretto by Seth Bockley
Directed by Davis McCallum
Co-Produced with the Public Theater
Stage II
February 15-March 18, 2012
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE
By John Van Druten
Directed by Darko Tresnjak
Co-produced with Hartford Stage
Mainstage
March 7-April 1, 2012
SOPHIE'S CHOICE
A WORLD PREMIERE
A New Play by David Rintels
Based on the novel by William Styron
Directed by Gordon Edelstein
Mainstage
May 2-May 27, 2012