Tobie
Every Brilliant Thing
Dr. Ride's American Beach House
Udo
Marry Me a Little
DRAGARET
Hot and Cold Showers
The International Collaborations Festival
Four Meddling Kids and One Dumb Dog
Tempo & The Master's Tools
There is a Thing at the End of the Loop
PRODUCER
Yale Cabaret Season 55: Parachute
Jason Gray, Executive Artistic Producer
Kayodè Soyemi, Producing Artistic Director
Ashley M. Thomas, Producing Artistic Director
Yale Cabaret 55 is a transition; a space to place your art and watch it transform. We do not suggest that your art begins or ends with us, but it will change with us. We invite our community to take risks with us. Failure is not an option; it is an illusion. Like Pantone Color of the Year: Very Peri, we know that “as we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways.” We seek to be a holding space to explore these changes. Cabaret 55 is a shared experiment of what it means to come back to theater.
In 1968, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale students established a basement performance venue in the former home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at 217 Park Street. Envisioned as an alternative outlet for drama school students’ creativity and experimentation, Yale Cabaret became a forum for our expanded New Haven communities, whom we invite to gather around food, drink, conversation, fellowship, and artistry.
Since its founding, the Cabaret has remained in continuous operation, producing hundreds of plays, old and new, alongside musicals and musical revues, comedy shows, dance, performance art, and genre-defying performance. Artists who spent the early days of their careers at Yale Cabaret include Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Wendy Wasserstein, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Durang, John Turturro, Lynn Nottage, Anna D. Shapiro, Henry Winkler, David Alan Grier, Tony Shalhoub, Paul Giamatti, Liev Schreiber, Trip Cullman, Melissa James Gibson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Lupita Nyong’o, and many hundreds more. Each generation of School of Drama students renews the Cabaret with their talent and energy.
Every year, a new student leadership team curates its season from School of Drama student proposals—uplifting peers’ passions, impulses, and curiosities. With evening and late night performances on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, our basement offers ever-changing, ever-surprising experiences to all who enter.
"Notable among their many accomplishments were the reintroduction of food and beverage service, the championing of community building activities, dynamic fundraising, and, most of all, the curation of an adventurous and provocative season of 11 shows in what remains a deeply challenging environment for theatrical production. Their consistently resourceful and optimistic approaches to their work and their audiences were precious gifts to us all." - Dean James Bundy
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