CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) this week announced its 2019 season line-up, featuring a look inside contemporary Christianity with Lucas Hnath’s Obie Award Winning Play, The Christians and a West End and Broadway hit with Richard Bean’s farce, One Man, Two Guvnors, in addition to the popular Young Playwrights Project, Shakespeare, and CTC’s signature New Play Workshops. “This series will showcase our strengths and stretch our capacity in new ways,” says Sarah Clare Corporandy, Managing Director of CTC. “We are trying a new approach, with two highly celebrated mainstage performances that will each have extended runs,” Corporandy said....
Performances August 11–17 CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to bring award-winning playwright George Brant’s uplifting comedy Into the Breeches! to CTC. Directed by Laura Kepley, Artistic Director of the Cleveland Play House, Into the Breeches! plays from August 11th-17th on the Bratton Stage at the Chautauqua Institution. Tickets are $35-40. A Fringe First and Smith Prize Award Winner, George Brant premiered Into the Breeches! at Trinity Repertory Company and it was declared “a breath of fresh air that will leave one smiling” by...
(Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy opens its 36th season with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Obie Award-winning play, An Octoroon. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli, An Octoroon is playing June 29–July 8 in Bratton Theater on the Chautauqua Institution grounds. Tickets are $35–$40. A MacArthur “genius” grant recipient and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Jacobs-Jenkins premiered An Octoroon in 2014 at Soho Rep. It was quickly declared “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America” by The New York Times, and in 2018 it was...
Performances June 24 – August 15 Chautauqua Theater Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, announces the launch of Free Will: Chautauqua Shakespeare in the Park, a new program that will bring free, public Shakespeare performances to Chautauqua Institution and venues across Chautauqua County in partnership with the City of Jamestown (as part of the Summer Performance Series at Allen Park), the Mayville / Chautauqua Community Chamber of Commerce (as part of the Summer Concert Series at Lakeside Park) and Southern Tier Brewing Company. Borba will direct the program’s inaugural production, As...
An Octoroon, Airness, and Into the Breeches! Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to announce mainstage programming for the 2018 summer season. The 2018 season features Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, running June 29–July 8; Airnessby Chelsea Marcantel, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, running July 14–29; Into the Breeches!by George Brant, directed by Laura Kepley and running Aug. 11–17; Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by Andrew Borba and touring around Chautauqua Institution and surrounding communities; The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey, directed by CTC Artistic Associate Sarah Elizabeth Wansleyfor a special limited run, Aug. 19–21; two New Play Workshops including Untitled...
Chautauqua, NY – Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to continue its support of new play development with the 2017 New Play Workshops, running August 1-5 at Bratton Theater. The 2017 New Play Workshops are Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle and Building the Wall by Robert Schenkkan. The New Play Workshop (NPW) Program is the arm of Chautauqua Theater Company dedicated to fostering important new American playwrights and providing a safe and stimulating playground for artists to develop new work for the theater. As such, it...
Chautauqua Theater Company is delighted to be a lead partner in Public Enemy: Flint, a response by local, national, and international arts and community organizations to the ongoing water crisis. Public Enemy: Flint is a contemporary staging of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People in Flint, Michigan. The play will be performed by a diverse cast of actors from Michigan and across the nation. Community and education events will be led by M.A.D.E. Institute and Tectonic Theater Project. Performances of Public Enemy: Flint will be free to the public at Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village 4119 Saginaw StreetFlint, MI, 48505...
Noises Off, Detroit ‘67, and Romeo and Juliet (Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the new direction of Andrew Borba, Artistic Director, and the continued leadership of Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, is proud to announce mainstage programming for the 2017 summer season featuring Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, directed by Andrew Borba and running June 30 – July 16; Detroit ‘67 by Dominique Morisseau running July 21 – 30 and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III (“The Hip Hop Project”; “American Taboo”); Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet running August 11 – 18 and directed by Dawn Monique Williams (“Merry Wives...
Performances August 12 – 19 (Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the co-leadership of Artistic Directors Andrew Borba and Vivienne Benesch, brings its 33rd season to a close with William Shakespeare’sThe Taming of the Shrew directed by Andrew Borba andfeaturing the outstanding talents of its entire 2016 Conservatory company onstage and off to produce this comedy masterpiece. The Taming of the Shrew plays August 12 – 19 on the Bratton Theater stage at the Chautauqua Institution. Opening night is Saturday, August 13 at 6pm. Tickets are $35 and are currently on sale. Embracing themes of cross-dressing and gender roles,...
Karen Pittman and Richard Topol Star in Chautauqua Theater Company’s Signature Staged Reading of The Glow Overhead Opening Tonight (Chautauqua, NY) Karen Pittman, best known for playing the role of Jory in the Tony-nominated play Disgraced and starring in the TV series “The Americans,” and Richard Topol, known for numerous Broadway appearances, most recently with Larry David in Fish in the Dark, both star in Chautauqua Theater Company’s (CTC) Signature Staged Reading ofThe Glow Overhead. Starting tonight and running through August 5 as part of the 2016 season’s New Play Workshop, The Glow Overhead is written by Nick Gandiello, and...
