Yale Rep Announces New Performance Schedule for COMPULSION, Starring Mandy Patinkin

As previously reported, Tony and Emmy winner Mandy Patinkin is set to start in Yale Repertory Theatre's COMPULSION, in his Yale Rep debut.  (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director).  Today, the theatre has announced the performance schedule for the production, written by Rinne Groff, directed by Oskar Eustis, and co-produced with The Public Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

The performance schedule has been adjusted so that Mr. Patinkin may fulfill previously scheduled concert engagements with Patti LuPone. COMPULSION will now begin on Friday, January 29 and play through February 28 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street). The new Opening Night is Thursday, February 4.

Additional casting and creative team members will be announced shortly.

Sid Silver (Mandy Patinkin) wants nothing more than to bring Anne Frank's story to an American audience, and he believes he's the right man to translate the young girl's diary and adapt it for the stage. But his passion spirals into a lifelong obsession when a New York publishing house reveals its own plans for what would become one of the most powerful and enduring documents of the 20th century.

Inspired by the story of Meyer Levin, Compulsion marks the Yale Rep debuts of Rinne Groff, whose plays have been praised for their "kaleidoscope style" (The Village Voice), and Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of The Public Theater.

NEW PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

Friday, January 29 8PM
Saturday, January 30 NO PERFORMANCES
Sunday, January 31 7PM
Monday, February 1 8PM All Tickets $10 (Tickets for this performance on sale January 4)
Tuesday, February 2 8PM
Wednesday, February 3 8PM
Thursday, February 4 8PM Opening Night
Friday, February 5 8PM
Saturday, February 6 NO PERFORMANCES
Sunday, February 7 2PM Talk Back
February 8-15 NO PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, February 16 8PM
Wednesday, February 17 2PM Senior Reception
Wednesday, February 17 8PM
Thursday, February 18 8PM Talk Back
Friday, February 19 8PM
Saturday, February 20 2PM Open Captioning / Talk Back
Saturday, February 20 8PM Grad Night
Sunday, February 21 2PM
Tuesday, February 23 8PM
Wednesday, February 24 8PM
Thursday, February 25 8PM
Friday, February 26 8PM
Saturday, February 27 NO PERFORMANCES
Sunday, February 28 2PM Audio Description
Sunday, February 28 7PM

Mandy Patinkin won the Tony Award for his Broadway debut in Evita and was again nominated for Sunday in the Park with George and The Wild Party. He also appeared on Broadway in Trelawny of the ‘Wells', The Shadow Box, The Secret Garden, Falsettos, and his solo concerts Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim, and Mamaloshen. For the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Mandy appeared in Leave It to Beaver Is Dead, The Knife, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV - Part I, Rebel Women, Hamlet, and Dress Casual. Other theatre credits include The Split, Savages, Enemy of the People, and most recently The Tempest at Classic Stage Company. Film appearances include The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior. Television series include Chicago Hope (Emmy Award), Showtime's Dead Like Me, and Criminal Minds. His solo albums include Mandy Patinkin, Mandy Patinkin Dress Casual, and on the Nonesuch label: Experiment, Oscar and Steve, Mamaloshen, Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, and Kidults. Mandy continues to tour his concerts Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim, Mamaloshen, and An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin.

Rinne Groff is the author of the plays The Ruby Sunrise (The Public Theater), What Then (Clubbed Thumb), Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat (PS 122), Orange Lemon Egg Canary: A Trick in Four Parts (Humana Festival of New Plays - Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem (Target Margin Theater), Inky (Women's Project), and The Moliere Impromptu (Trinity Repertory Company), among others; and of the musicals In the Bubble (book and co-lyrics; American Musical Theater Project) and Saved (co-book and lyrics; Playwrights Horizons). Rinne has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Perry Mansfield New Noises Festival, and Chautauqua Theater Company; OBIE Award and NYSCA Individual Artist grants; and a Whiting Writers Award. She wrote for a season of Weeds on Showtime. She is a founding member of Elevator Repair Service; a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild. Rinne received her BA from Yale College and MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.

Oskar Eustis has been the Artistic Director of The Public Theater since 2005. From 1981 through 1986 he was resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director, where he remained until 1994. Mr. Eustis then served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for eleven years. At The Public he has directed the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet, featuring Michael Stuhlbarg and Sam Waterston, and the New York premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. At Trinity Rep he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise; Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director); Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika. He has directed world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado among many others. He commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. He was a professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theatre training. He received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 2001 and currently serves as Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University.

Tickets for COMPULSION start at $35 and are available online at www.yalerep.org, by phone at (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street). All tickets for the performance on Monday, February 1 are $10. (Tickets for that performance only go on sale Monday, January 4.) Student, senior, group rates, and a variety of ticket packages are also available.

 

 

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