Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
Chautauqua Theater Company Invests In New Play Workshop Development
Olga Sanchez Saltveit to Join as Director of New Work Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the appointment of Olga Sanchez Saltveit as Director of New Work, an inaugural position for the company. Sanchez Saltveit’s hire is the next step in CTC’s initiative to expand New Play Workshop programming and residencies. It also aligns with the overall efforts of Chautauqua Institution to amplify important and diverse American voices...
THE WEDDING BANQUET
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) and running out of time, Min (Han Gi-chan)makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) in exchange for her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Directed by Andrew Ahn (Fire Island). “A modern-day tale with an old-fashioned spirit, a joyous crowd-pleaser with the most romantic of...
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
THE WEDDING BANQUET
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) and running out of time, Min (Han Gi-chan)makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) in exchange for her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Directed by Andrew Ahn (Fire Island). “A modern-day tale with an old-fashioned spirit, a joyous crowd-pleaser with the most romantic of...
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
THE WEDDING BANQUET
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) and running out of time, Min (Han Gi-chan)makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) in exchange for her partner Lee’s (Lily Gladstone) expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Directed by Andrew Ahn (Fire Island). “A modern-day tale with an old-fashioned spirit, a joyous crowd-pleaser with the most romantic of...
Ten Emerging Writers Named Finalists For 2026 Chautauqua Janus Prize
...year’s prize is to be awarded. The winner will be honored at the 2026 Chautauqua Janus Prize Ceremony, set for 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor on the grounds of the Institution. Still in its youth, the prize’s reach and influence have grown beyond the Institution’s gates as the honored emerging writers make their names in the literary world—and the list of accolades for previous winners and finalists is growing. Most recently, the 2018 (and inaugural) Janus Prize winner Nicole Cuffy saw...
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy....
Hassaan Mirza Named Winner of 2026 Chautauqua Janus Prize for ‘Name, Place, Animal, Thing’
...grief, as well as the way such grief taxes sanity and a sense of identity.” As the 2026 prize recipient, Mirza will receive $5,000, plus travel and lodging for a weeklong writing residency at Chautauqua Institution this summer. He will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as part of Chautauqua Institution’s 2026 Summer Assembly. Hassaan Mirza is a writer from Lahore, Pakistan, currently studying and working...