When Giorgio Angelini was working on a master’s in architecture in the midst of the 2008 housing market crash, he read an article about an abandoned development project in the Inland Empire, a densely populated
Many-pointed paper stars perched on shelves and hanging from the ceiling in bold primary colors and dreamy opalescent swirls of blue and green. A fluttering string of jewel-bright paper cranes clambering up the side of
Dominique Hill believes in angel numbers and signs from the universe. The costume designer for Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Animals Out of Paper has a sign outside her house with two arrows pointing in
Scout Davis was raised by theater. The directing fellow for Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2022 season was introduced to stage lights and swooping curtains by their parents at a young age. Their aunt was a scenic
Maria Tatar is thinking about darkness and light, the void of nighttime and crackling campfires, and the stories we tell ourselves and each other to make sense of it all. “We are the storytelling animal,”
Seth Gunawardena, the conservatory actor in Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Animals Out of Paper, was anticipating coming to Chautauqua like a kid waiting for summer camp to start. With a riotous sprawl of curls
The Stars of the Peking Acrobats will return to Chautauqua’s Family Entertainment Series with a fresh, new show. The troupe recently joined forces with the Shanghai Circus to create a program that Cynthia Hughes of
Breezy Leigh and Luis Vega, the guest actors in Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph, had not heard of the play prior to their involvement with this summer’s season.
Lamar Perry, the director of Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Animals Out of Paper, closes out his bio on his website by proclaiming, “This is totally a Whitney Elizabeth Houston stan account.” Perry shares a
Rob Reiner said that probably the most important thing about his late father, Carl Reiner, is that he was double-jointed. When he was a boy, teachers at school would steward Carl around to other classrooms,
Multidisciplinary artist and storyteller David Gonzalez is a former class clown who has found his way back to his silly roots. “As a musician, I’m a little more introspective, and as a storyteller, I’m an
It was one of the hottest days of the summer, and the patio umbrella outside Afterwords Café was no match for the beating sun. Three Homies, as members of Homeboy Industries are called — Steve
After day four of his rehearsal for the Chautauqua Theater Company’s New Play Workshop of Black Like Me, writer-director Monty Cole’s head was abuzz. That day, he sat in a circle and got to know
Challenging. Discomfiting. Fascinating. Healing. All of the above form the mosaic of reactions that the conservatory actors of Chautauqua Theater Company’s New Play Workshop Black Like Me have had to the material — and such
Teachers and professors across the nation sing an oft-repeated refrain: students cannot cite Wikipedia as a source. Andrew Lih is very aware of that tendency, and pointed out in his lecture that the same holds
Donnie Woodard, Chautauqua Theater Company’s scenic design fellow for the 2022 season, always uses keywords as points of reference for his designs. For the New Play Workshop of Y York’s eco-drama Through the Eyes of