Now the Fun Starts
In less than a month, many of you will be stepping through the doors of the Town Hall Theatre to take part in our 28th Season, graciously sponsored by Richard and Carol Seltzer. Our interns have begun arriving, final designs...
News & Blog
Should a Playwright Ban Post-show Discussions?
Here at Chester Theatre Company, many of our audience value the range of post-show discussions we offer. Each play we produce has four performances followed by a discussion with the audience, two followed by a conversation with the cast, and...
Announcing Casting for I AND YOU and FOLK
There was a buzz of excitement around the Chester Theatre offices when we turned the page on the calendar to May – CTC’s 28th season at Town Hall begins next month! The first performance of the summer, the preview of I and...
All Good Things Must End (even the 2017 London Tour)
This final blog entry from the 2017 London Tour is being written back in snowy Chester, but what a marvelous time (and what marvelous weather) we had. Our last days went in a blur of activity. Friday morning we gathered...
A day in South Bank!
Have any travelers to London been blessed with such glorious weather so many days in a row? We are all feeling quite fortunate on that front. Not an umbrella has been opened…so far. Seeing Amadeus at the National Theatre last...
Technology, the Movies, and Theatre: More London!
Wednesday morning we met after breakfast for our second full Talkback, to discuss Simon McBurney’s stage adaptation of the Robert Evans Hollywood memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture, at the Royal Court Theatre. In keeping with the topic of...
A Talkback! More plays! Museums! The London tour continues.
On Tuesday morning, we gathered for the first Talkback of our tour, to discuss the previous night’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic. The first London production of the play took place on...
The London Theatre Tour Begins!
It’s always a treat to send word back from our theatre tours. We arrived in London on Sunday, and after some hearty walks (& equally hearty naps after our flight), and a few museum trips by some of our hardiest...
The Excitement of Announcing a Season
It’s a particularly exciting moment exciting when we get to share the news of our coming season. Behind the scenes we’ve been reading plays, talking with playwrights and agents and actors and directors and designers. But we’ve also been keeping...
2017 Season Announcement
Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer is proud to announce Chester Theatre Company’s 2017 Summer Season, which will feature an American Premiere, two New England Premieres, and the return of actor Joel Ripka in a one-man performance. And, in a first for CTC,...