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Chester Theatre Company is proud to announce a special remount of 2025 production A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy, as part of Summer at the ’62 Center, a seasonal initiative at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance that welcomes artists and audiences to one of the Berkshires’ leading cultural destinations.
Chester Theatre’s 2025 season garnered 5 Berkshire Theater nominations and 2 wins, and 2 productions were named the 10 Best of the Year in the Berkshire Eagle. Hero Marguerite received one of those wins as Outstanding Actress in a Play for A Hundred Words for Snow. Hero will be reprising her role as Rory, with the creative team from 2025 returning as well: Directed by Michelle Ong Hendrick, Scenic Design by Jeremy Winchester, Lighting Design by Margo Caddell, and Sound Design and Composition by Raphael Hendrick-Baker.
“Last summer, the community enthusiastically embraced A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW,” said Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker and Michelle Ong Hendrick. “We’re excited to bring it back for those who didn’t get a chance to see it and for those who told us they want to see it again! We’re looking forward to Williamstown this June!”
The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance is a vibrant venue for performance, learning, and collaboration, supporting theater, dance, student ensembles, visiting artists, and community events throughout the year. During the summer months, the Center continues that tradition by opening its doors to dynamic professional arts programming in the region.
Known for producing bold contemporary plays in the Berkshires, Chester Theatre Company continues its commitment to intimate, impactful storytelling through this remount. The partnership with the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance brings together two organizations dedicated to innovative performance and meaningful audience experiences.
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A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW
By Tatty Hennessy
Directed by Michelle Ong Hendrick
June 23-27, 2026
This production will take place on the CenterStage at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance.
After her father’s unexpected death, 15-year-old Rory discovers that he was planning a trip for the two of them to the North Pole. So, she picks up his ashes, her passport, and her mother’s credit card, and sets out to make good on his plans. Layered, complex and as beautiful as snowfall, Hennessy’s play is an epic Arctic adventure about adolescence, grief, love, and being an explorer in a melting world.
Other 2026 Season productions:
BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE
By D.W. Jacobs
From the life, work and writings of R. Buckminster Fuller
Directed by Barbara Karger
June 19-28, 2026
This production will take place in the Chester Town Hall Theatre.
Futurist, environmentalist, architect, inventor and geodesic dome designer Buckminster Fuller takes us on a wild journey from his childhood in Massachusetts, to meeting Albert Einstein, to his extraordinary inventions, explaining how doing more with less can save both humanity and the planet.
FANNIE (THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER)
By Cheryl L. West
Directed by Gilbert McCauley
July 2-12, 2026
This production will take place in the Chester Town Hall Theatre.
Filled with music, humor and spirituality, this is the impassioned story of American civil rights activist and hero, Fannie Lou Hamer, from her beginnings as the daughter of a sharecropper, to co-founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, to her historic speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention and beyond.
Premiere
AMCHITKA
A New Play by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Julianne Boyd
July 24-Aug 8. 2026
This production will take place in the Chester Town Hall Theatre.
In a monitoring station at Amchitka, a volcanic island 170 miles off the coast of Alaska used for underground nuclear testing in the 1960s, three scientists find themselves cut off from the outside world as an event seems to be underway. But what? A new philosophical thriller by Mark St. Germain, author of Magdalene and Freud’s Last Session.
East Coast Premiere
DEAR ALIEN
By Liz Duffy-Adams
Directed by Michelle Ong Hendrick
Aug 14-23, 2026
This production will take place in the Chester Town Hall Theatre.
In this cheeky existential comedy, a reclusive advice columnist known as “Dear Alien” attempts to finish a book, respond to their readers, help the lovelorn, enlighten the confused, avoid financial ruin, hide from online trolls, escape desolation and explain the nature of human existence. All under a deadline.
