171 stories 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…
From The Other Shore.
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Photo by Tom McGrath
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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 …
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 …
Mark Shallow and Mark Pracht in The Runner Stumbles
I had a baseball coach way back in the day. He was my older brother's baseball coach as well. Â I saw him probably 50 or so times a year for about five years. Larry had a goatee. Not the p…
Company Member Warren Lavon at the first readthrough of Trickster.Â
You can catch him next in Urban Theatre's F**king AÂ .
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Ben Cameron talks about Cornerstone Theater Company, one of the companies whose work has greatly inspired us.Â
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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…
Dana Omar and Isabel Quintero in Sarita.
Photo by Anna Bahow
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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…
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 l…
Olivia Douglas and Riso Straley in Fucking Parasites
Hope Y'all have a safe and Happy New Years
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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. Act …
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…
Julie Mitre, Goli Rahimi and Riso Straley at Trickster First Readthrough Photo by Ed Kuffert
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The Nest workshop is a free, intensive weekly workshop, working to expand and strengthen a writers voice and aesthetic muscles. Federico GarcÃa Lorca once said, "A play is a poem st…
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 co…
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"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…
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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…
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 w…
Terri Lopez is the Flamenco Dancer in Lorca in a Green Dress.
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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.
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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,…
