Rehearsals Begin for THE NIGHT ALIVE

Chester Theatre Company is thrilled to have James Barry, Joel Ripka, Marielle Young, Justin Campbell return to the Town Hall stage, and we welcome Nick Ullett as rehearsals kick off for the first show of our 30th season, The Night...

London Theatre Tour, Part Two

Company was a marvel. Our discussion of this production traveled across how its reimagining with a woman at the center revitalized the piece, and how well director and Marianne Elliott and designer Bunny Christie (who also collaborated on The Curious...

London Theatre Tour, Part One

Greetings from London, where we’re underway with what we think might be our largest group ever on Chester Theatre Company’s London Theatre Tour! We arrived on Sunday, and settled into our rooms in the lovely Royal Lancaster London–directly across from...

The Promise of Things to Come

Year’s end has always been a time for self-reflection, for “best of” lists, and for revisiting memories from the recent past. While we have much to be thankful for in 2018–including our Berkshire Theatre Award for Outstanding Ensemble Production (for The...

Canada Theatre Tour Part Two: Toronto

If you’ve been following along, you know our Canadian adventure began with three days at the Stratford Festival. Then, on Thursday morning, we boarded our charter bus to Toronto, and the Le Germain Hotel in the heart of the Entertainment...

Canada Theatre Tour Part One: Stratford

What a start we’ve had to this year’s fall tour–our first to Canada. We’re spending time both at the Stratford Festival and in Toronto, seeing plays in both locations. Monday we traveled to Stratford, then settled in for a Canadian...

An Actor Prepares

When Stanislavski’s famous tome, An Actor Prepares, was published in 1936, it would have been unimaginable that an audience could have a window into the creative process via this thing called The Internet. Yet, here we are in 2018, offering...

Celebrating Our First Two Shows!

It is always a grand time at our Opening Night Celebrations with our restaurant partner, Chester Common Table, co-owned by our Production Manager, Erin Patrick. It is a wonderful opportunity for our sponsors, board, cast, staff, and artistic team, to come...

Destination: Canada!

Chester Theatre Company’s summer season is in full swing, and we have some fabulous plans for the fall, too. You’ll want to be a part of them! Grab your passport, pack your bags, and join CTC Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu...

We are known for wonderful surprises here in Chester…

When playwright Mark Leiren-Young came to see Chester Theatre Company’s American Premiere of his play, Bar Mitzvah Boy, he knew he’d be in for some surprises. It had been staged before in his native Canada, but a new production–with a...

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