Chester, MA – Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce Chester Theatre Company’s 2023 season, the first under their direction. Barry and Franklin are known for their award-winning work on the Town Hall Theatre stage, and they are excited to now be heading the organization and programming works for Chester audiences.…
After seven successful seasons as Producing Artistic Director at Chester Theatre Company (CTC), Daniel Elihu Kramer is leaving to focus on his increased responsibilities at Smith College and his work as a freelance theatre artist. Chester audiences are already familiar with the organization’s new leaders. Tara Franklin and James Barry, a couple who are known…
by Gail M. Burns Forever Plaid has been around for 30+ years now and I have seen dozens of productions, starting with one at The Theater Barn in 1995. It is one of my very favorite shows and I always have a great time. So I was really shocked when…
(August 29, 2022–Chatham, NY) The electrifying roller-skating tale “Xanadu” and the deliciously fun 1950s Barbershop revue “Forever Plaid” will play the Mac-Haydn Theatre in a repertory schedule, running September 9 through October 2. After immense success and positive reviews upon its debut in 2021, the “Summer in September” Mac-Haydn season…
by Macey Levin Pass Over is a difficult but intriguing play receiving a dynamic production at Chester Theatre Company in Chester, Massachusetts. There are comic moments, emotional confrontations and times of darkness. It is also rife with various symbols and references. The play is a depiction of America’s black minority…
Chester, MA–On July 28, Chester Theatre Company (CTC) will begin its two-week run of Pass Over, the show that reopened Broadway in 2021. The three-actor play, which shares some DNA with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, stars Austin Sasser (Western Reserve Playhouse, Karamu House) as Kitch and Kayodè Soyemi (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Cabaret, Dallas…
The Return to Town Hall Theatre Includes Audience Favorites and New Faces After two seasons away, Chester Theatre Company (CTC), under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer, is thrilled to return to the Town Hall Theatre, its beloved home in Chester, MA. “As wonderful as it was to…
The Smith College Department of Theatre New Play Reading Series presents Cordelia Lear by Leonard Berkman and Nutella by Susan Yankowitz Directed by James Barry, MFA ’22. Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 PM on Zoom Cordelia Lear: Isn’t it about time that Cordelia Lear had her voice heard after King Lear AND Shakespeare have both evicted her…
