June 3, 2021
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With a generous gift, Donald R. Ware ’71 has endowed the top leadership position at Yale School of Drama and named it in memory of his mother, Elizabeth Parker Ware. The gift marks a seminal moment for the School of Drama, ensuring that every dean beginning with the current dean, James Bundy ’95 MFA will have permanent support to realize their vision for the school and its community, Yale leaders said.
“The excellence of the School of Drama depends on our ability to recruit transformative faculty leaders who define their fields,” said Yale President Peter Salovey. “By establishing the Elizabeth Parker Ware Deanship, Don Ware is helping to secure the eminence of a drama school that is already among the finest in the nation, and it allows us to honor the exceptional and long service of Dean James Bundy. I am profoundly grateful.”
Slave Play broke the record set by
Angels in America for Tony nominations for a non-musical play last year. (We still don t know how many it s won as the 2020 Tony Awards are somehow
still pending.)
Harris met Breslin at the Yale School of Drama, when the two became roommates and then very, very fast friends. A lot of our friendship was based around our mutual obsessions with, like, sort of high and low, quote, unquote, forms of art and our aesthetic relationship to experimental theatre and film, Harris told me over the phone this past weekend. And Yale school drama was more leaning towards mainstream or classical forms of theatre and film. So a lot of our late-night conversations were always gripes about the limits of the program at preparing us for the type of work we wanted to be doing and also pondering what was the point of studying this in this way if we weren t going to be able, inside of the structures there, to really push ourselves pedagogically, right? So we
Jonathan Majors is one of Hollywood’s fastest rising stars with roles in the movies “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and “Da 5 Bloods” and the series “Lovecraft Country.” On Monday, June 7 at 1:00pm ET, Majors joins Washington Post opinions writer Jonathan Capehart to discuss how his performances have portrayed Black masculinity, the role of culture in reckoning with race and history, and his latest projects.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand play reading of the comedy, “The Savannah Disputation,” filmed on the Playhouse stage and broadcast virtually, premiering Monday, June 14, at 7 p.m., and streaming on-demand from Tuesday, June 15 through Sunday, June 20.