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Angels in America: The Great Work Returns

Angels in America: The Great Work Returns

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer June 12, 2018

There’s a reason why playwright Tony Kushner’s 1993 masterwork Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is known as The Great Work. It’s exactly that: great. All seven and a half...

A Chorus Line 101

“A Chorus Line” 101

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer November 9, 2017

A Chorus Line is one of the most well-known, well-loved and successful American musicals of all time. Winner of nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1976, A Chorus Line set a precedent for...

Theater Club Promoted to Gold Status

Theater Club Promoted to Gold Status

Nelson VanDenburgh, Staff Writer October 30, 2017

The University of New Haven Theater Club has just been promoted to a gold status organization on campus, meaning they are fully funded and recognized by the university. The club “aims to incorporate...

Theater Club Holds Short Play Festival

Theater Club Holds Short Play Festival

Christina Genovese, Community Engagement Editor October 17, 2017

The Theater Club paid tribute to Anton Chekov, a Russian playwright and short story writer, with their Short Play Festival, on October 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Bucknall Theater. The members of the Theater...

The Book of Mormon says “Hello!” to New Haven

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer October 1, 2017

Since opening on Broadway in 2011, The Book of Mormon has played over 2,700 performances on the Great White Way. A production in London opened in 2013, and two national tours have launched; one wrapped...

Local Fall Theater Preview

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer September 28, 2017

Connecticut has an extremely rich theater scene, partly because of its proximity to New York City and the bright lights of Broadway. Broadway national tours tend to make stops somewhere in the central...

Two for the Price of One: A Twist of Lemmon

Two for the Price of One: A Twist of Lemmon

Sarah Costello, Contributing Writer September 19, 2017

A memoir can tell about the life of an individual, but might not get the image across clearly. A stage performance can provide incredible flare, but requires a strong base of meaning to make it worthwhile....

Summer Theater Roundup

Summer Theater Roundup

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer August 22, 2017

Being a native New Yorker, coming home for summer meant a chance to do one of my favorite things: seeing Broadway and off-Broadway shows. I used this summer as a chance to catch up on shows I hadn’t...

University Theater Department Performs How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

University Theater Department Performs How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Francesca Fontanez, Contributing Writer April 24, 2017

University of New Haven’s production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” kept Bucknall Theatre bustling from April 19 through 22. Audience members came anticipating a light-hearted,...

Theater Department to Perform How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Theater Department to Perform “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”

Karina Krul, Student Life Editor April 18, 2017

The University of New Haven Theater Department is bringing back the “Golden Age” of musicals, with their production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The production will run from...

World Famous Opera Singer Holds Master Class for Music Students

World Famous Opera Singer Holds Master Class for Music Students

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer April 6, 2017

On Tuesday April 4, internationally renowned opera baritone George Gagnidze held a workshop and master class at the University of New Haven. The first part of his visit was dedicated to music and...

Spring Broadway Preview

Spring Broadway Preview

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer February 9, 2017

From February until May each year, the Broadway community gears up for a full calendar of spring openings. In the spring half of this season, Broadway will welcome 13 new plays and musicals, and nine revival...

BroadwayCon Brings Community Together

BroadwayCon Brings Community Together

Angela Tricarico, Staff Writer February 1, 2017

“There’s a place for us / Somewhere, a place for us…” In 2016, these lyrics, written in 1956 by musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim, became the tagline for the first ever BroadwayCon....

This image released by Lionsgate shows Ryan Gosling, right, and Emma Stone in a scene from, La La Land. Nominees for the 89th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (Dale Robinette/Lionsgate via AP)

Share a Dance With “La La Land”

January 25, 2017

In a city of stars, La La Land shines bright; brighter than the other movies of 2016, perhaps. Damian Chazelle (Whiplash) delivered one of the most eccentric, retro, whirlwind movies of the year, and it...

UNH Theater Puts on Our Town

UNH Theater Puts on “Our Town”

Angela Tricarico November 28, 2016

One of the great American plays, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, opened at the University of New Haven on November 16. The theater program put on the production, directed by a theater professor at...

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