Next up: Indecent Hello, Friends! We hope you will join us for the third installment of our Spring play reading series. (We plan to pick back up after the summer season!) We will be discussing Paula Vogel’s Indecent. If the title sounds...

We are fresh off our first play reading discussion, and it was wonderful! On Monday, a group gathered to talk about Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West. We shared a rich discussion about a remarkable piece that we wish we could have seen...

Chester Theatre Company (CTC) can’t wait to turn on the lights at the Town Hall Theatre for the 2022 season! We’ve lined up a full complement of four productions that includes a World Premiere Commission and a fresh restaging of...

Dear friends, I am grateful for having gathered with so many of you this summer under our tent. Artists and audiences together, we made that tent a theatre: a shared space to gather and imagine other lives–simultaneously like our own...

Chester Theatre Company pleased to announce the receipt of a gift of $25,000 from Richard and Carol Seltzer to support the company’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Karen and Chuck Schader have joined the Seltzers in making a $5000 donation to support important steps....

Due to popular demand, we have added a new performance of The Niceties on Saturday, July 24 at 3pm. Don’t miss your chance to see this performance that the Westfield News called a “shocker in the best sense” and “a theatrical explosion.” There are VERY...

ArtsBeat host Mark Auerbach featured an hour of Chester Theatre Company on a recent broadcast. Tune in here to get some great insight into the coming season! The interview features Daniel Elihu Kramer, Tara Franklin, Angela Combest, James Barry and...

UPDATE: Video of this event is available here. Chester Theatre Company Announces Panel on the COVID-19 Theatre Think-Tank with Founder Matt Ross along with Penny Daulton and Beverly Jenkins August 6 Discussion Will Focus on Theatre Re-openings and the Future...