Yale Rep to Host Exhibition, Starry Panel to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 07, 2016
Yale Repertory Theatre announces a series of special free public events on the Yale campus, in New Haven, and in New York City, to celebrate its 50th Anniversary Season.
In addition, Yale Rep has released a new video commemorating many of the landmark productions of new plays and classics that have thrilled audiences and critics over the last half-century - check it out below!
EXHIBITION
Yale Rep at 50: Daring Artists, Bold ChoicesNow through October 9 Aisling Gallery at The Study at Yale
1157 Chapel Street, New Haven Nineteen iconic images, representing the exhilarating artistry that has defined the work on the Yale Rep stage since 1966, grace the intimate Aisling Gallery inside The Study at Yale, on view now through October 9. PANEL DISCUSSION50 Years of Yale Rep: A Conversation with Theatre Makers Present at the Creation, Along the Way, and Today
Friday, October 7, 3-4:30PM
222 York Street, New Haven Panelists include founding Artistic Director Robert Brustein (1966-1979), current Artistic Director James Bundy (2002-present), original Yale Rep company member Carmen De Lavallade, multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor Jane Kaczmarek, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, Tony Award nominated actor Kimberly Scott, Resident Dramaturg Catherine Sheehy, former Artistic Director Stan Wojewodski, Jr. (1991-2002), and Tony Award-winning Resident Set Designer Michael Yeargan. Moderated by playwright and novelist James Magruder. EXHIBITIONYale Rep at 50: Daring Artists, Bold Choices
January 10-April 8, 2017 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York A dynamic collection of more than 70 production photographs featuring some of the American theatre's most distinguished actors-including Angela Bassett, Colleen Dewhurst, Charles S. Dutton, Paul Giamatti, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand, Lupita Nyong'o, Jason Robards, Meryl Streep, Courtney B. Vance, and Dianne Wiest-Yale Rep at 50: Daring Artists, Bold Choices celebrates the exhilarating scope of imagination that has marked the theatre for its entire 50 years, and which will carry it-and the American theatre-into the future. Photographers represented include WilLiam Baker, T. Charles Erickson, Gerry Goodstein, Joan Marcus, and Carol Rosegg, among others.
January 12-March 31, 2017 Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Lower Level
180 York Street, New Haven Designed to complement the photography exhibitions at The Study at Yale and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, this unique exhibit will feature materials from the Yale Rep archives that provide some historical context for the production photos: programs, advertising materials, props lists, production prompt books, and more.
Yale Repertory Theatre, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres-including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists. Twelve Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
Established in 2008, Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre has distinguished itself as one of the nation's most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 24 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country-including this season's Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince by Sarah Ruhl, Imogen Says Nothing by Aditi Brennan Kapil, and Mary Jane by Amy Herzog.Videos
