Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce the first New Play Workshop (NPW) of the 2010 season, Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler. Four performances will run July 1 – 4 at CHQ’s Bratton Theater. Now in its sixth season, CTC’s New Play Workshop series introduces audiences to important new voices in the theater and to the staged reading as a thrilling theatrical event in its own right. Each performance is followed by a discussion with the playwright, director and cast. Initiated by Benesch and McSweeny, the series has soared in...

Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to announce the schedule for the Chautauqua Theater Company’s 27th season as the resident theater on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution — western New York’s premier summer arts festival. The season opens with Hart and Kaufman’s screwball family comedy You Can’t Take It With You, directed by Paul Mullins, and concludes with Shakespeare’s political thriller Macbeth, directed by Andrew Borba. In between, CTC returns to the stage of the famed Chautauqua Amphitheater, joining with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to offer a unique concert production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus— an incredible...