It has one of the largest stock repertoires in the world, with 24 full-length ballets that include Swan Lake, Raymonda, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote and La Bayadere.
ALICE WINKLER: That's Lloyd Richards speaking to the Academy of Achievement in 1991, at the Yale School of Drama, where he served as dean and artistic director of the Yale Rep for twelve years.
And I went up to the conference, and I worked on the play, and Lloyd Richards, the director of the conference, later produced the play at his theater, the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.
I remember when we first did Fences, at Yale, at the Rep (the Yale Repertory Theatre). My promotional manager, a wonderful woman, after a run-through—she had come to see a run-through, and so she sat with me afterward.