So far, Upcoming at the Egg!
Thus far, at the Egg, these will be happening! Re opening Festival is on June 7th from 1-5 – please come and dance and play with us! Events as of April 19: Mystic Paper Beasts have been rehearsing at the Egg, and Marya has performed in New London, Branford, and around Boston several timesSandy Laub […]
Past Life Journey
Past Life Journey (Intro Experience) A Guided Hypnosis Experience : Explore Your Soul Story Sun May 31 3-4:30PM & Sun May 31 3-5:30PM The Dragons Egg – 401 Shewville Rd, Ledyard, CT ONLINE: Sun May 3 12-1:30PM Cost: $50 Description: In this guided group hypnosis session, you’ll be gently led into a relaxed state where […]
Ecstatic Dance at the Egg
May 3rd: 4pm-5:30pm“Ecstatic dance is a form of movement meditation where participants are invited to dance in a judgement free zone. This practice invites us to ask the body what it needs, and to release what is stuck in a joyful uninhibited space. No prior dance experience is required. The class will begin with […]
Marya Yoga Returns
Hi! I am recommencing my yoga class at the egg, beginning on Wednesday 5/13 at 4:30 pm.I look forward to seeing you!! Two sessions coming up: “Spring”5/13, 20, 276/3, 10, 17, 24= 7 classes for $90 And “Summer”7/8, 15, 22 (not 29)8/5, 12, 19, 26= 7 classes for $90 Single classes: $15.Cheque or cash are […]
The Hygienic Egg – “Chekhov’s Gun” – went off!
The Hygienic Egg – Wow – it was fabulous!!! thank you to all the artists involved, and to the audience, and to the Hygienic! kudos and love Walk in peace
Hygienic Egg is March 8th
Hi! Our annual Hygienic Egg will be at 12:30 pm on Sunday, March 8th, at the galleries of the Hygienic Galleries at 79 Bank Street in New London. This is an event in which a number of Dragon’s Egg performing artists create a riff on a theme, and then perform these in a sequence […]
Egg ReOpening!!!
Greetings! on this February 21, 2026. I am thrilled to let you know that we had a final inspection/approval this morning at the Dragon’s Egg. I am told, officially, that we can re open!soooo, I am hoping for dancers and actors, puppeteers and musicians and writers, dreamers and spiritual seekers, – to again grace […]
almost
Still awaiting our certificate of occupancy – pant! Soooooon… I shall keep you apprised. Meanwhile, enjoy the bright crisp light of the snow! The lunar new year of the Fire Horse (bing wu , pinyin, bin ngo) approaches! The horse appears every 12 years and the five elements cycle through each sign, so the Firehorse […]
Not yet, but soon….
The Dragon’s Egg, thanks to Patco, is looking great, with a few changes, but still bright and shimmering with possibility! No, we are not yet open. We need to have an inspection and get a Certificate of Occupancy, but – the front door finally arrived, and was hung on 12/24, 25. We have insurance. […]
Reopening? Not yet!
I know, I know, it was in my annual membership letter that we would celebrate a re opening of the Egg on Sunday, December 7th, but – as these things happen, we do not as yet have a front door. Lacking that, we cannot have a certificate of occupancy. There are more details, and insurance […]
Fall of Freedom! On zoom
And – it was wonderful!! Hi! It is coming – and we are going to put on our Fall of Freedom/poetry of protest –this Saturday, November 22nd, at 4:30 pm.,On Zoom! This is a part of the Fall for Freedom project. We shall have poetry, dance, hooping, song..Join us!Thank you!And please share this below. xo marya Artists participating […]
Tellabration at – gasp – the Egg!!
Tellabration 2025 at the Dragon’s Egg went great, and was well attended – it was our first return to the Dragon’s Egg since the fire of March, 2024. What a great way to re invite energy into the space (which is not yet complete). I thank the tellers all, for their unique ways of telling […]
Living Room Playreading Series
Our next informal Living Room Playreading, sponsored by the Mystic Paper Beasts, will be on Sunday afternoon, November 23, from 2-5 pm, at 8 Hancox, in Stonington. We shall be reading She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith.Bring a copy of the play!There is a free version on the Project Gutenberg site online, and Dover has inexpensive copies. I […]
Tellabration – at the EGG!!
Tellabration! 11/16 at 1 pm at the Dragon’s Egg!! Tellabration is an annual, state wide celebration of Storytelling in which the Mystic Paper Beasts/Dragon’s Egg have participated for many years. It is organized by the wonderful Ct. Storytelling Center, in New London.ctstorytelling234@gmail.com We are very excited to announce that we shall meet again at […]
Dragon’s Egg Presented and Yay
Dragon’s Egg Presents Presented!! At University Settlement in NYC yesterday – Saturday, Sept. 20th! The program was varied and moved from quiet to dramatic to comedic, reflecting, as this concert does, the wide variety of work that is dreamt and developed at the Dragon’s Egg. It was a fine afternoon for all, […]
Bios for Dragon’s Egg Presents, 9/20/2025
Here are the bios for Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement at 2 pm on Saturday, September 20th, 2025. They are arranged in the order of the performers. Enjoy! Xo marya The Celestials Clare Byrne is a dance educator, choreographer, writer, and musician. Her work in song and dance has been performed across […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement!
Dragon’s Egg Presents!at 2 pm on September 20, 2025at University Settlement, Speyer Hall, 184 Eldridge Street, NYC, NY 10002All of the performers have been artists in residence at the Dragon’s Egg in the past years. We thank you for being here, for completing the circle of creative endeavor. May we all walk in peace […]
Membership Letter
Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre Company8 Hancox Street, Stonington, Connecticut 06378http://www.dragonseggstudio.org; marya: 860 444 7247mybeasts@aol.com; dragonseggstudio@gmail.com Board of Directors: Mystic Paper BeastsDavid Jaffe, president David Dorfman Co-Producer: Dan PotterKato McNickle, vice president Ara Fitzgerald Co-Artistic Director: Marya Marya Ursin, secretary Jessica Cerullo Daniel Potter, treasurer Shannon Sexton Potter Dragon’s EggExec.Director: Marya Ursin Greetings! August…. and […]
Livingroom Playreading Series Continues
Continuing our Living Room informal playreading series – an almost monthly reading chez nous at 8 Hancox Street in Stonington, Ct. The Way of the World, by Congrevewill be on Sunday, October 12th, from 2-5. I serve tea, minimal snacks – we are here to read the play!! Do please join us – it is […]
George White has died.
George White, the founder of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre, died yesterday. What a gift he has been to the theatre community, to blessing young or new playwrights with creative support, with extending theatre beyond our borders in so many ways. I met George and Betsy in 1972, when I taught their younger son and […]
Beasts are about
The Beasts have been popping up out and about. Upcoming on Saturday, August 9th, at 2 pm, is a brief vignette by Marya, at MOAF – the performance portion of the Mystic art fair. It is a great event, with alot of variety of very fine performers throughout the day (rain or shine) in […]
Dragon’s Egg is…
The Dragon’s Egg is under reconstruction, or, we hope, about to be! After the fire on May 24, 2024, which caused such grievous damage. PatCo is in the permitting phase, which is quite a long drawn out complicated exciting process. So. We hope that the Egg will re open this year. Meanwhile, the Hygienic Egg […]
Living Room Playreading Series
We shall continue with our (nearly) monthly Living Room Playreading, in which we gather together, a group of unpracticed readers, to read a play together. We have so far read Dead Man’s Cellphone, Cloud 9, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Importance of Being Ernest. This time we shall read “Blithe Spirit” by Noel […]
Stonington has announced: Christie Williams
Christie Williams will be the First (!!) Poet Laureate of Stonington! He has graced many an event as an actor, as a viewer, as a poet, as a generous participant, at the Egg, and at Egg events, as well as out and about more widely. He will be our poet laureate for two […]
