by Macey Levin  Chester Theatre Company, Chester, Massachusetts, has built a reputation of producing provocative plays. Their most recent production of Unreconciled, workshopped and given its world premiere at Chester, is about to move to London. The current offering Will Sacrifice by Julie McKee is another premiere. It doesn’t match…
Chester Theatre Company presentsWill Sacrifice (World Premiere) July 25–August 4 Written by Julie McKee Directed by Keira Naughton with Ken Cheeseman, Catherine Lloyd Burns, and Greg Stuhr This brand-new comedy introduces us to Bridget (Catherine Lloyd Burns) and Nigel’s (Ken Cheeseman) fraught marriage and their cramped NYC apartment. Bridget’s stagnant…
Chester, MA – Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce the full casting for Chester Theatre Company’s 2024 season, the second under their direction, and the 35th for CTC. Barry and Franklin are proud to celebrate this milestone season with the extraordinary artists and audiences that make Chester Theatre Company so special. “Welcoming…
by Macey Levin Two friends banter, argue and dream as they stand guard at the Taj Mahal in Agra, Hindustan in 1653, the year of the monument’s completion. Their relationship is the core of Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph, a complex and compelling drama at the Chester Theatre Company,…
Chester Theatre Company (CTC) presents Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph, at Chester Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Road, Chester, MA. Guards at the Taj runs July 6 to July 16, with performances Wednesday at 2pm, Thursday at 2pm and 7:30pm, Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2pm and 7:30pm, and Sunday at 2pm.…
Chester, MA – Recently appointed Co-Producing Artistic Directors James Barry and Tara Franklin are pleased to announce the full casting for 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…
by Barbara Waldinger Chester Theatre Company’s mission statement includes two important goals: offering audiences “fresh perspectives on vital issues” and developing and supporting new work. Responding to this, along came Fran Henry, founder of a thirty-year-old organization called Stop It Now!, devoted to preventing “the sexual abuse of children by…
Chester Theatre Company’s 2022 season will close with the World Premiere of To the Moon and Back, written by Darcy Parker Bruce, and starring Tara Franklin (Tiny Beautiful Things, On the Exhale, Sister Play) and Raye Birk (Curve of Departure) as a daughter and father with history as murky as the dark side of the moon.…
