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Monday, March 19, 2012

Things We Love: The Music Stopped by Tony

The music stopped by Marcel Wetterhahn Full size photo can be found here Check out more of his work at 500px.com/MarcelWetterhahn Tags: Things We Love

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM
Friday, March 16, 2012

Things We Love: Sam Vanallemeersch by Tony

Antwerp based Illustrator Sam Vanallemeersch. See more via Grain Edit, Or on Vanallemeersch's Flickr page. Tags: Things We Love

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM

Theatre Class for Preschoolers! by Tony

Harnessing the Power of Pretend! Using a child’s natural ability to pretend to begin exploring the basics of theatre. Your child will have a great time, strengthen their imagination, and …

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:34AM
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Things We Love: Alice in WaterLand by Tony

Looking Glass by underwater photographer Elena Kalis. Part of the series Alice in WaterLand. Check out the entire awesome series here Find out more about Kalis and see more of her works her…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM

Pic of the Week: March 15, 2012 by Tony

RubyYo! at The Ceyx Series, February 6, 2012 Photo by Rafael Franco Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 09:00AM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Tear Down These Walls by Tony

I've had some ideas on a new way to frame how we think about structuring arts organizations.  I sketched them out and they're posted over at 2amtheatre.com A teaser: read the rest at 2am…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:51PM

Things We Love: Neil DeGrasse Tyson + historic NASA footage by Tony

via swissmiss Tags: Things We Love

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:17PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Kevin Gladish on Growing Up Catholic in Cleveland by Tony

From the January Ceyx Series Tags: Ceyx Series

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:55PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Milta Ortiz at the January Ceyx Series by Tony

See more performances from January's Ceyx Series here.

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:04AM
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Pic of the Week: February 9, 2012 by Tony

What Jenn looks like when I begin speaking. :)   From Monday's Ceyx Series. Photo by Rafael Franco Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:05PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Landscapes and Plays by Tony

Following up on Jenn's blog about bread making and theatre, I thought I'd post the quote we were talking about from Caridad. (full text is here, subscription required) Much has been written …

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:48PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Pic of the Week: February 3, 2012 by Tony

Barb Anderson in Bounty of Lace. Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:18AM
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Ginkas on Mamet by Tony

I was rereading Provoking Theatre: Kama Ginkas Directs, and I happened to read a section of it that talks of Mamet, just around the time I was watching Race. Ginkas points his finger on a l…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:55PM
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Pic of the Week: January 26, 2012 by Tony

From The Other Shore.   Photo by Tom McGrath Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:46PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

A Fresh Start by Tony

What would you do if you had to restart from scratch? If there were no commonly accepted practices? If there were no silos, no ruts, no precedents? If there was only an open stream ahead of …

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:11PM
Friday, January 20, 2012

A Beacon, Lost by Tony

In the beginning, there was Jane. Her work, along with others along the way, has been a major inspiration for most of my work. Just as she was careful not to call it her "life's work" I try …

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:00PM
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Pic of the Week: January 19, 2012 by Tony

Mark Shallow and Mark Pracht in The Runner Stumbles

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:27PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Larry's Goattee by Tony

I had a baseball coach way back in the day. He was my older brother's baseball coach as well.  I saw him probably 50 or so times a year for about five years. Larry had a goatee. Not the pse…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:18PM
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Pic of the Week: January 12, 2012 by Tony

Company Member Warren Lavon at the first readthrough of Trickster.  You can catch him next in Urban Theatre's F**king A .   Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:25PM
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I AM THEATRE: Ben Cameron by Tony

Ben Cameron talks about Cornerstone Theater Company, one of the companies whose work has greatly inspired us.  Tags: video

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:39AM
Friday, January 6, 2012

Draft of Reading List for Nest by Tony

Ok all, I'd love your feedback. On of the things we'll be doing as part of our upcoming Nest workshop is reading a play a week. I've been trying to put together a list of works that we shoul…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:33AM
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Pic of the Week: January 5, 2012 by Tony

Dana Omar and Isabel Quintero in Sarita. Photo by Anna Bahow Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 09:55PM
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Rafael Franco-Steeves Performs at the Ceyx Series December 5, 2011 by Tony

Rafael Franco-Steeves Performs at the Ceyx Series December 5, 2011 from Halcyon Theatre on Vimeo. Rafael Franco is a Puerto Rican author who has made Chicago his home for the past four years…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:56PM
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Bringing Submissions Out of the Cave by Tony

When I was a kid there was a friend of one of my uncles, I’ll call him D. D had a rough go of it. He was out of work for as long as I could remember. A lot of people were, all the work had…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:31PM
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Pic of the Week: December 29, 2011 by Tony

Olivia Douglas and Riso Straley in Fucking Parasites Hope Y'all have a safe and Happy New Years Tags: Pic of the WeekParasites

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:39PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Looking Back at 2011 by Tony

When we began the year, Halcyon was in a fairly precarious position. We were in-between stages of growth and had several organizational challenges to address. “Think Big. Build Simple. Ac…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:57AM
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Diana Performs at the December '11 Ceyx Series by Tony

Diana Performs at the Ceyx Series December 5, 2011 from Halcyon Theatre on Vimeo. Diana is dancing a Zambra Mora choreographed by Diana and Karen Stelling to the music of Saeta (Andalusian F…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:17AM
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Pic of the Week: December 14, 2011 by Tony

Julie Mitre, Goli Rahimi and Riso Straley at Trickster First Readthrough Photo by Ed Kuffert Tags: Pic of the Week

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:10PM
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Chicago #newplay Peeps, We're Taking Applications for Our Nest Writing Lab by Tony

The Nest workshop is a free, intensive weekly workshop, working to expand and strengthen a writers voice and aesthetic muscles. Federico García Lorca once said, “A play is a poem standi…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:57PM
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Marketing Director for the Alcyone Festival 2012 Opportunity by Tony

Now in its fifth year, our annual Alcyone Festival celebrates female playwrights. Women writers are horribly represented on stages across America, so we created the Alcyone Festival to comb…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:54AM

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