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…
Unfinished Women Cry in No Man’s Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage By Aishah RahmanDirected by Judyie Al-Bilali March 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 at 7:30 p.m. | March 8 at 2 p.m. | March 11 at 10 a.m.The Curtain Theater $5 students, seniors, Card to Culture,…
by Mark G. Auerbach Special to Berkshire on Stage August Wilson was a prolific playwright who wrote about the 20th century African American experience. His works, several of which, including Two Trains Running premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre, were important plays on Broadway and translated into powerful films. He’s best known…
The Value of the Ticket The Power of Artistic Voices A moderated panel discussion that discusses how artists leave lasting impressions, deepen our sense of empathy, and spark movements for social and structural change in Hartford and beyond. Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Downtown Hartford Public Library (500 Main St.) 6:30pm…
In the past five decades, UMASS Theater has produced nearly forty plays by Black Playwrights, and the first one was directed by Paul Carter Harrison, distinguished playwright, director, and scholar of Black Theater, in 1977. Excerpts from 16 of those works will be performed Oct. 27 & 28 at 7:30…
