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Step into the rehearsal room of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, a dark comedy by William Shakespeare, featuring Jonathan Cake, Cara Ricketts, and Thomas Jay Ryan, and directed by Simon Godwin

“The written information is so potent and so artfully constructed that it opens up a tremendous world of the imagination for any actor who’s willing to find the freedom within the form.” View scenes from HAPPY DAYS as actors Dianne…

“A GREAT PERFORMANCE…Extraordinary…Dianne Wiest is radiant…heartbreaking…she shows us what a deeply womanly role Beckett has written, albeit one whose tragedy is refracted through a distorting comic lens… Ms. Wiest has called it a ‘Hamlet’ for women.” – Jesse Green, The New…

“A powerful performance…a deeply unsettling production.” – Edward Rothstein, The Wall Street Journal CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL REVIEW

Academy Award-winning actress Dianne Wiest and Yale Rep Artistic Director James Bundy join us to discuss their production of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” Wiest stars as Winnie, a woman living in a waist-high mound of dirt, who carries out a daily routine while talking to…

Movement coach Jessica Wolf explains the behind-the-scenes techniques used by Dianne Wiest as she becomes Winnie in HAPPY DAYS. Read the full piece in American Theatre Magazine here.

“HEARTFELT…VALIANT…MOVING…RESONANT…exceedingly whimsical and disturbingly familiar…with an air of ramshackle spontaneity…a celebratory glow pervades this millennia-spanning portrait of a single family’s survival against the odds.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times  CLICK HERE to read the full review.