2025 Season
...lecturers: Lewis Black, celebrated standup comedian and actor, “Inside Out 2” Interfaith Theme — Sin and Redemption: Practices and Possibilities for Reconciliation In a world of cancel culture, where one perceived wrong act or utterance can lead to loss of employment or reputation, is there something we might learn from the religious concept of sin? How do we understand sin today? What do we make of sin on a personal and a corporate level? How...
Rafia Khader Named Chautauqua Director of Religion Programs
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. August 11, 2023— Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of a key new staff member for religious programming at the nearly 150-year-old not-for-profit and within its interfaith community. Rafia Khader has been named the Institution’s director of religion programs. Khader comes to Chautauqua from LaunchGood, a global crowdfunding platform that helps Muslims “launch good” in the world, where she served as program manager. Prior to this strategic management role, she worked at Indiana...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
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...Eliza Williams” Exhibition – July 21-August 20 July 21 @ 10:00 am more info “In the Garden” Exhibition – July 24-Aug 21 July 24 @ 10:00 am more info Catholic Mass July 27 @ 5:00 pm more info Boots vs Badges Softball Game July 27 @ 5:00 pm more info Renée Fleming with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra July 27 @ 8:15 pm more info | tickets Free Sunday at Chautauqua! July 28 @ 7:00 am...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces  2023 New Play WorkshopsÂ
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced its New Play Workshops for the 2023 season, its first under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll. CTC’s audience will have the opportunity to experience plays at every stage of development by the country’s most exciting playwrights. From a first new play reading to a staged workshop, from a world premiere to a published adaptation,...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
Alumni in the News
...Dinner With Friends. Andrea Syglowski (’11) plays Susie in John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry at Manhattan Theatre Club. Yonatan Gebeyehu (’17) cast in the world premiere of Jesús I. Valles’ BATHHOUSE.PPTX Whitney White (’20) directs Ife Olujubi’s Jordans at The Public Theatre’s LuEsther Hall. Around the Country Caitlin Clouthier (’07) plays Edna Buchanan in Dangerous Day at Colony Theater in Miami Beach. Amelia Pedlow (’08/09) played Hester Prynne on Two River Theater’s world premiere of...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
History
...new and undiscovered works to the COA including Ward’s The Crucible, Wagner’s Tannhauser and Die Walküre as well as Hanson’s Merry Mount. Hanson’s opera was the crowning achievement of Treash’s years at Chautauqua. Mr. Treash was also instrumental in establishing and expanding the Young Artist Program with grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York State Council for the Arts. The present Chautauqua Opera Guild was established in 1974. To this day,...