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Antigone Popular

In the wake of the power struggle between his late nephews, Creon is left to fill the vacant throne of Thebes and establish order in a nation tainted by its former king's transgressions and ravaged by civil war. As his first act, he decrees that only one ...

Category:2010
AuthorJean Anouilh
SeasonFall 2010
TypeExperimental Production

Arcadia Popular

Arcadia

Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house, in the years 1809-1812 and 1993, juxtaposing the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. In 1809, Thomasina ...

Category:2010
AuthorTom Stoppard
SeasonSpring 2010
TypeMainstage Production
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

"Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. In its sweep and imagination, it defines the collapse of a moral universe during the Reagan years in an unforgettable way ...

Category:2008
AuthorTony Kushner
SeasonSpring 2008
TypeMainstage Production
A Midsummer Night's Dream

The main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into the play's fairyland w ...

Category:2007
SeasonFall 2007
TypeExperimental Production
A Little Night Music

In turn-of-the-century Sweden, middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his 18-year-old bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Soon enough, Fredrik and Desiree resume their romance, incurring the wrath of Desiree ...

Category:2007
SeasonSpring 2007
TypeCommencement Musical

Assassins Popular

Assassins

Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written. This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate ...

Category:2005
SeasonFall 2005
TypeMainstage Production
A Bright Room Called Day

"listen to your nightmares" A Bright Room Called Day is the haunting story of a group of artists struggling to preserve themselves in 1930s Berlin as the Weimar Republic falls to its knees. The play transcends historical drama as we witness the outpour ...

Category:2004
AuthorTony Kushner
SeasonFall 2004
TypeMainstage Production

Category:1994
SeasonSpring 1994
TypeCommencement Musical
A Prayer for Owen Meany

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian b ...

Category:2012
SeasonSpring 2012
TypeFreshman Show

October 4 through October 6 at 8pm October 6 at 2pm Yale Repertory Theater A Lie of the Mind is Sam Shepard’s poetic and emotionally complex portrayal of love, family dysfunction, betrayal, and the nature of memory and identity. Set in the American ...

Category:2012
AuthorSam Shepard
SeasonFall 2012
TypeExperimental Production
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