CTC’s Mass Appeal
Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer appeared on Mass Appeal this morning. Thanks to Patrick Berry for featuring Chester@Hancock on the show! (Click on link to watch.)
News
CTC Featured on WAMC
WAMC has highlighted Chester Theatre Company in a thoughtful story about the upcoming theatre season and the focus on BIPOC voices. We’ve included excerpts below. To listen or read the full article, click here. Summer Theater In 2021 Gives Voice...
Our 2021 Lineup of Productions is Here
Mark your calendars, and get ready for the season we’ve all been waiting for! “After a year in which we and our audience were kept apart from each other, I’m beyond excited that we can offer this season,” says Daniel...
Chester Theatre Company Elects New Board Members
CTC is pleased to welcome three new board members to its roster. To read more about Alaina M.T. Macaulay, Nnamdi Pole, and Emily Wojcik, please visit the press release, found here.
Exciting Summer News!
Announcing Chester@Hancock! Exciting plans for Summer 2021 We are thrilled to announce that CTC is partnering with Hancock Shaker Village for the 2021 summer season under the name Chester@Hancock. We will be staging a three-show season outdoors under a tent on the grounds of...
CTC Receives Economic Recovery Grant
CTC has been awarded a $94,000 Cultural Organization Economic Recovery Grant from the Mass Cultural Council, in partnership with the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development. This highly competitive, state-wide program received 424 applications, and awarded 183 grants totaling nearly $10 million. Grants...
A Talkback Treat!
Please join us for our first Virtual Talkback of the Fall! In the month of tricks and treats, this one is definitely a treat! We have chosen a glittering version of Twelfth Night, this one an “original practices” staging from Shakespeare’s...
The Story of King Lear
TO WATCH, BEGINNING ON AUGUST 27 at 7:00pm eastern on AUGUST 27, CLICK THIS LINK. We are thrilled to bring you our first virtual performance,The Story of King Lear, a 50-minute telling of the Shakespeare classic adapted and directed...
What makes a play a “Chester” play?
Recently, our Producing Artistic Director, Daniel Elihu Kramer, sat down (virtually, of course) with Jeffrey Borak of The Berkshire Eagle and with our friends from OLLI to discuss theatre in our region, theatre in Chester, and the state of the...
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. George Floyd Breonna Taylor Ahmaud Arbery Tony McDade James Scurlock These are only a few of the names. Too many names. Too many lives taken. We stand together—with Black colleagues, artists, partners, friends, fellow citizens. We stand...