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Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Circus Comes to Williamstown, With Celebrities and Beefcake by Jesse Green and Tony Cenicola

Pamela Anderson, Amber Heard and Tennessee Williams on ice are part of Jeremy O. Harris's big tent at the famous summer festival.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here's How It's Changing. by Michael Paulson and Tony Cenicola

The Berkshires mainstay is trying something different this season: just three weekends, but eight shows, including two Tennessee Williams plays and even ice dancing.

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Friday, September 17, 2021

Driving Ms Margolyes " A hilarious road trip through Europe in lockdown by Lucy Darwin, Noah Anderson, Annabel Kipnis, Elmaz Ekrem, Tony Sage, Phoebe Clothier, Noah Payne-Frank, Joseph Pierce and Charlie Phillips

At the height of Europe's spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she …

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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Theater Review: THE PROJECT(S) (Stage Left Theater, Chicago) by Tony Frankel and Lawrence Bommer

THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It's a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theate…

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Theater Preview: THE MAGIC PARLOUR AT HOME (New Virtual Show by Chicago's Dennis Watkins) by Tony Frankel and Lawrence Bommer

JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can't be explained? Perhaps it's more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There's a presence too: Magic evokes a…

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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Theater Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (National Tour) by Tony Frankel and Lawrence Bommer

THE PLAY ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES WRONG The title of this play is brutally honest " and you can't say you weren't warned. In the style of Monty Python and Michael Frayn's farce No…

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Thursday, May 11, 2017

the tony awards: The Hats That Crowned Broadway by Erik Piepenburg and Tony Cenicola

Does anyone still wear a hat? For designers on Broadway this season, the answer was yes, actually, they do.

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Alan Dossor obituary by Michael Coveney and Antony Sher

Theatre and TV director who oversaw a brilliant five-year period at the Liverpool Everyman in the 70sThe theatre and television director Alan Dossor, who has died of cancer aged 74, supervis…

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Podcast: Lisa Portes by Tony

In this episode, Halcyon Theatre artistic director Tony Adams talks with Lisa Portes. A director and educator, she  serves as the head of MFA Directing program at The Theatre SchoolÂ�…

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Interview with Callie Kimball (audio) by Tony

We're trying out a new longform podcast format for some of our interviews. In this debut episode of Moment to Moment, artistic director Tony Adams talks with Callie Kimball, playwright of ou…

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Friday, September 25, 2015

In Love and Warcraft team on WGN Radio by Tony

In Love and Warcraft director Tlaloc Rivas and cast members Siobhan Marguerite and Kroydell Galima were guests on WGN radio's The Patti Vasquez Show to talk about the play. You can listen…

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Video from December 2014 Ceyx Series by Tony

Check out this video made by Lesley Etherly of the performances at Ceyx on Friday, December 5, 2014, and mark Friday January 9, 2015 in your calendar for the next one.   Tags: Ceyx …

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Arthur Chu On In Love and Warcraft by Tony

A note from the program for Halcyon's production of In Love and Warcraft Whenever I need a funny anecdote to tell people about my personal life, I fall back on the story of how my Dungeons a…

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Special Events for In Love and Warcraft by Tony

Plate and Play Thursdays On Thursday nights beginning August 20, Halcyon is partnering with three neighborhood restaurants for a pre-show meal package for audience members of In Love and War…

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Monday, December 15, 2014

Video from December 2015 Ceyx Series by Tony

Check out this video made by Lesley Etherly of the performances at Ceyx on Friday, December 5, 2014, and mark Friday January 9, 2015 in your calendar for the next one. Tags: Ceyx Ser…

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

CTA Construction Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 by Tony

Just in case you are taking the CTA to the show this weekend, we wanted to give you a heads up that there's brown line construction this weekend. Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17, s…

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The War Zone is My Bed Trailer by Tony

The trailer was written and directed by artist-in-residence Ted James, and features company members Laura Stephenson and Fin Coe. The War Zone is My Bed By Yasmine Beverly Rana D…

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Behind the Joke: Rubberbandits, Tony Law and Marc Lucero on their comedy by Rubberbandits, Tony Law and Marc Lucero

Three acts on where they got the inspiration for their jokes about a dad's best friend, emailing cheese and elephants with accentsReading on mobile? Watch Rubberbandits here Continue reading…

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Friday, February 7, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Things We Love: Keone & Mariel Madrid - "Is This Love" by Tony

This one was shared with me by Victora Tags: Things We Love

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Introducing Alcyone 13 by Tony

We're gearing up for the Alcyone Festival again. This year is a little later in the year than last. It'll open September 7th, instead of in mid-summer as we normally do. I'm pretty excited t…

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Things We Love: Theo Jansen's Strandbeests by Tony

This one's from Fin.  Tags: Things We Love

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Things We Love: Nanda at the Green Show by Tony

The opening number of Nanda on the Green Show stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. (via Kristoffer Diaz' tumbler) Tags: Things We Love

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Things We Love: Mud Brick Spiral by Elín Hansdóttir by Tony

  Exterior installation made from traditional Berber mudbricks (earth, water & hay) in the village of Tassoultante, 14 km from Marrakech City. The structure was realised in collabora…

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Things We Love: Abandoned Walmart is Now America's Largest Library by Tony

There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. With each store taking up enough space for 2.5 football fie…

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Things We Love: The Starter by Tony

The Starter from Old Dead Eye on Vimeo. Tom is an artisan baker (surname also Baker) and uses a wood fired 'Earth Oven' to bake bread. via thosewhomake Tags: Things We Love

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Things We Love: In a Bed of Grass by Tony

In a bed of grass by Michael Mehrhoff In a city near Erfurt Germany in a burned out and abandoned hotel this room sits quiet amongst the bustle of the busy city outside, slowly it is being…

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Video from Panel on Dreaming a New Theatre by Tony

Video from Halcyon Theatre's panel discussion on "Dreaming a New Theatre," on Saturday, August 4, 2012. This free event was part of the Alcyone Festival 2012. Panelists include: Danny Bernar…

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12 Artistic Criteria by Tony

Last week Harvard Business Review posted an intriguing article, "Every Leader is an Artist."  The basic premise is fundamentally flawed, but it's intriguing nonetheless.  O'Malley argu…

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Friday, August 24, 2012

Things We Love: Seven Gates of Jerusalem by Tony

"Seven Gates of Jerusalem" is a performance that premiered on the date of the composer's 75th birthday. Combining classical music, ballet, and animation, the concert proved to be an extraord…

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Things We Love: Once There Was a King by Tony

Once There Was a King from Tytus Majerski on Vimeo. Stop-motion mixed with CG, short film based on a polish lullaby written by Janina PoraziÅ„ska. Author of original music unknown. Perfor…

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Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off