Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Institute draws its faculty from the ART, which performs new American plays, neglected works from the past, and classic texts staged unconventionally. Winner of a special 1986 Tony Award for continued excellence in resident theater, the ART is one of the few companies in the country whose actors perform in rotating repertory, meaning they rehearse several different shows at once...
...only do students study with the theater's actors and specialists, but they also have an opportunity to audition for parts in the ART's productions. Actors like Marty Lodge, who plays a roughnecker working on an oil rig in Gillette, can then practice their lines during class...
Students and faculty at the school say the successful relationship between the Institute and the theater company makes the Institute different from other schools, like the Yale School of Drama, which do not work as closely with professional companies...
...Yale School there was a feeling of separation from the Yale Repertory Theater," says Alvin Epstein, a former Associate Director of the Yale theater who currently teaches an acting class on Shakespeare at the Institute. "There was a gap at Yale," Epstein says. "I don't feel that gap here...
...institute as opposed to a school," says Senior Actor Jeremy Geidt, a founding member of both the Yale Repertory Theater and the ART. "The training can change from year to year to accommodate the company...