FRIDAY, MARCH 14 TalkBack Friday morning opened with a memory exploration of the striking setting for Richard Eyre’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS, an Almeida Theatre production transferred into the West End. Upon entering the theatre one was met with a late...

THURSDAY, MARCH 13 WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTHWEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915 is not only the longest play title in recent memory, it ultimately...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 The TalkBack Wednesday morning gave us a chance to compare a play about the Irish in contemporary rural Ireland and the Irish in contemporary urban America because David Lindsay-Abaire’s GOOD PEOPLE is set in the Irish neighborhood of South...

TUESDAY, MARCH 11 Tuesday opened with our first TalkBack on Conor McPherson’s modern classic THE WEIR, in a production that was a sell out at the Donmar Warehouse before moving on to a West End. The TalkBack began, as it often...

MONDAY, MARCH 10 For the tenth year in a row, the theatre portion of our London Theatre Tour opened with a talk with Matt Wolf, Theatre Critic for the International New York Times (it was the International Herald Tribune when...

SUNDAY, MARCH 9 As we assembled in the parking lot at Elms College, it was like the gathering of the mole people, surfacing from their subterranean winter dens to bask in the first taste of Spring. Fellow travelers greeted each...

In celebration of our landmark 25th season, CTC is offering special 2014 Season Holiday Gift Certificates! These gift certificates are a perfect present for theatre aficionados AND a perfect way to share the excitement of CTC’s “silver anniversary” season. Gift Certificates are...

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 Our final TalkBack of this year’s Dublin Tour opened with a discussion of two traditions in theatre first set forth analytically by Plato more than 2,000 years ago — Mimesis and Diegesis. Mimesis roughly means imitation of...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 Rough Magic’s production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s THE CRITIC gave us an opening to discuss theatre architecture at our FridayTalkBack, as the performance took place in two venues. The first act took place in a repurposed art gallery...

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10  Thursday’s TalkBack opened with a discussion about adaptations of classic scripts. The Corn Exchange production of Eugene O’Neill’s DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS was not only set in a contemporary Appalachia (as opposed to 1850 New England) it...