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 Choices
Now 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
EXHIBITIONYale Rep at 50: Daring Artists, Bold Choices
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.