Thursday, December 8, 2011
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 11:54AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
“When I see the world around me it is very hard, very hard to stand that. It is very hard to live with all these kind(s) of terrible things happening all around me. Can be in the neigh…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:39PMFriday, December 2, 2011
Rafael Franco in Manual for a Desperate Crossing, one of his first shows as a Chicago actor.
Rafa's also a published novelist and short-fiction writer. You can catch him performing some o…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:11PMFriday, November 18, 2011
TCG has been running a series of videos "I am Theatre". Trying to capture pivotal moments in the lives of theatre-makers. Here's one with playwright Nilo Cruz. If you have time, the whole…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:41PMTerri Lopez is the Flamenco Dancer in Lorca in a Green Dress.
Tags: Pic of the Week
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:26PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Minita takes a nap during a break at last years retreat.
Website is fully migrated to our new framework now. Still hanging up some of the decor, but a nap may be in order this weekend.
Ta…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:29PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
I wanted to take a moment to apologize to the folks who follow our blog via RSS. As you may know, we just migrated our site, and I had thought I had turned off the feed during the migration,…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:53PMCreated by the Ensemble
Directed By Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Adams
Halcyon begins its Stargazer Young Audiences Series with our Summer in the Square performance on Sunday July 15th at…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:23PMFriday, November 4, 2011
DeRante Parker and Jessica Jane Childs in Militant Language - Photo by Tom McGrath
In lieu of posting, I decided to break the website... Not really, but a planned upgrade broke the old si…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 06:23PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Wishing a happy opening to the cast and crew of Chinglish on Broadway, as Christine makes her Broadway debut tonight.
Pic from the Goodman Theatre production of Chinglish. (center) Zhao (Chr…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:25AMFriday, October 21, 2011
A very rare stage appearance by me in this years fest. A scene from the Pocahontas play within a play at the "savages" amusement park in The Invaders.
RtoL: Tony Adams, Tony…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:23PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Halcyon Theatre and Caffeine Theatre present a reading of
RETURN TO THE UPRIGHT POSITION,
an online text collaboration which conceived and edited by Caridad Svich…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:59AMFriday, August 19, 2011
Gordon Chow as Robert in Family Devotions.
It's the second time Gordon worked on a character based on the same man this summer. Robert is based on David Henry Hwang's fat…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:49PMThursday, August 18, 2011
When Jenn and I talked at the foundation of halcyon and throughout the strategic planning process five years later, there were several companies that we repeatedly referenced as inspirations…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:22PMWednesday, August 17, 2011
“Think Big. Build Simple. Act Now.”
That’s a saying on a coffee cup I have. Not super fancy, but it’s a pretty good reminder of how to grow. It’s ea…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:24PMFriday, August 5, 2011
Family Devotions (opens Thursday) is set in 1982. Neal posted some of the hits from that year, so in that spirit, I figured it'd be fun to have some video's from that year.
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:34PM(RtoL-Amanda Torres, Arvin Jalandoon, Amanda Bobitt, Rafael Franco)
Last summer, we helped with the development of Coya Paz's The Americans, and presented an "in-progress"…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:36AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
David Henry Hwang is one of America’s greatest living playwrights. Over his thirty-plus year career he has been a three-time Pulitzer finalist and won a Tony Award for M. Butterfly, th…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 06:05PMFriday, July 29, 2011
A couple of fun videos on a Friday afternoon. One thing I've found is that when communicating a vision, especially when we lack a shared vocabulary, is that music, video and other art fo…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:37PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Playwright David Henry Hwang talks with the cast after watching a runthrough of Family Devotions.
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:09PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Some of the Chinglish cast swings by a Family Devotions rehearsal.
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:01PMFriday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Miguel Morales and Aimee Bravo in Cloud Tectonics--photo by Stephanie Rocha
(got a bit off track posting these with the festival, but will return to normal posting.)
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:37PMThursday, May 26, 2011
Minita Gandhi and Alka Nayyar teach Bollywood style dancing at our fundraiser on May 21, 2011.
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:44PM 
