What does the future hold? Can we change the world? Those are the questions at the heart of Chester Theatre Company’s 2026 season. Our four plays are strikingly different, yet each brims with humor, courage, a touch of grit, and the thrill of discovery. Futurist Buckminster Fuller, fearless activist Fannie Lou Hamer, a…
PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has presented the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies, on Monday, November 10, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This is the ninth time in ten years that these awards have…
PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies. The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This…
Chester Theatre Company in Chester, MA seeks a full-time managing director to partner with our co-artistic directors and our board of directors to lead our critically acclaimed summer theatre. Now in it’s 37th season, Chester Theatre Company produces contemporary professional Equity theatre in an intimate setting, creating community and offering audiences…
Chester Theatre CompanyMR. JOYBy Daniel Koa BeatyDirected by Vernice Miller AUGUST 7 – 17 What happened to Mr. Joy? A Harlem community takes stock when a Chinese immigrant’s shoe repair shop mysteriously doesn’t open one morning, causing an array of customers to realize what the shop owner has meant in…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The title, A Case for the Existence of God playing at Chester Theatre Company gives little hint to the theme of this moving play between two actors. Playwright, Samuel D. Hunter, best known for his Oscar winning screenplay adaptation of his play, The Whale, opened this play…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The landscape of grief and loss can be a perilous territory in which to find oneself and those boundless emotions can plunge one into darkness and hopelessness. However, in Tatty Hennessy’s play, 100 WORDS FOR SNOW, that landscape becomes a place of wonder, beauty, and danger…
By all appearances Jay Sefton, co-author and star of “Unreconciled”, which plays tonight and tomorrow night (June 26 & 27) at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield MA, is your average mid-career actor with a day job. After years waiting tables while auditioning, performing, and chasing the dream, he returned…
