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CTC Receives Economic Recovery Grant

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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!

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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

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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...

Panel Discussion–Theatre Re-openings

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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...

Don’t Miss Our Next Virtual Talkback–Macbeth

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Don’t Miss Our Next Virtual Talkback Macbeth Starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood Thursday, July 30 at 2:00pm (eastern)  Following sold out runs on London’s West End, at BAM, and a limited engagement on Broadway, director Rupert Goold’s magnetic stage...

What makes a play a “Chester” play?

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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...

Our Next Virtual Talkback

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Don’t Miss Our Next Virtual Talkback Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles Tuesday, July 7 at 2:00pm (eastern) Anna Deavere Smith, a professor, playwright, and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient,  has appeared in many television shows including Black-ish, Nurse Jackie, and The West Wing. She...

A New Virtual Event With Two Chicago Critics and Writers

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We have another wonderful event lined up for you! On Tuesday, June 23 at 2pm (eastern), Steven Oxman, Chicago theatre critic for Variety, and Kris Vire, theatre writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications, will join Daniel Elihu Kramer in discussion about one...

Our Third Virtual Talkback, Spike Lee’s “Pass Over”

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Our third Virtual Talkback will take place on Monday, June 15 at 2pm (eastern). We’ll be discussing Pass Over, an adaptation of a play by Antoinette Nwandu, produced at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, where it was directed by Danya Taymor. The production was...

Welcome Our 2020 Summer Interns!

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Though 2020 is a season unlike any other, we are still able to carry out one of our important mission goals, working with student interns. We are thrilled to have Clarissa Po and Madison VanDeurzen with us this summer. Even...

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