Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the professional theater company of Chautauqua Institution, is proud to announce its 2025 New Play Workshops — a celebrated series that continues CTC’s tradition of championing bold, original voices and advancing the future of American theater. This season, CTC will present three new works at varying stages of development, offering audiences a unique opportunity to engage with new plays in real time. The 2025 New Play Workshop (NPW) lineup features Pranayama by James Anthony Tyler, All the Little Boxes by Vichet Chum, and CTC’s commission Best for Baby by Sharyn Rothstein. These workshops and readings are...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), has announced the commission of a new play by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Zora Howard. This commission is part of CTC’s ongoing commitment to support bold, resonant storytelling and to elevate some of today’s most compelling voices in American theater. Zora Howard, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her acclaimed play STEW, is known for her lyrical writing and deeply human characters. Her work, including Hang Time and the recently premiered Bust, often explores the interior lives of Black women, the complexities of familial bonds, and the enduring impact of memory and place. Through this commission, CTC...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) today announced their full mainstage season for 2025. In addition to the previously announced world premiere of Tell Me You’re Dying by C.A. Johnson, CTC will produce Execution of Justice by Emily Mann, a reexamined version to be directed by Mann herself. Emily Mann is a Tony-nominated director and playwright and a Tony Award-winning Artistic Director. In her 30 years as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at McCarter Theatre Center, she wrote 15 new plays and adaptations, directed over 50 productions, produced 180 plays and musicals, and supported and directed the work of emerging and legendary...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, announces plans for the world premiere of Tell Me You’re Dying, a CTC-commissioned work by Brooklyn-based playwright C.A. Johnson. This year marks CTC’s third consecutive year producing a world premiere, underscoring the company’s commitment to supporting fresh voices in American theater. C.A. Johnson, an emerging powerhouse known for her poignant, complex explorations of human relationships, offers audiences an unconventional tale of love and survival against an apocalyptic backdrop. The world premiere of Tell Me You’re Dying is an opportunity to experience a daring and genre-blending production — a post-apocalyptic...
Chautauqua Institution today announced The Roe Green Foundation has made a transformational $4.5 million commitment to advance the completion of the new Roe Green Theater Center, a state-of-the-art, centralized facility for Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC). This gift, which consists of a $3 million outright contribution and a $1.5 million matching challenge gift, comes after a long history of supporting theater arts at Chautauqua, including the New Play Workshop series. The new Roe Green Theater Center will complement Chautauqua’s beloved Bratton Theater, adding a black box/flexible space, rehearsal studios, offices for CTC leadership and other support spaces to ensure that CTC...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the introduction of Sensory-Friendly Performances and the return of pilot programs Pick Your Price (PYP) and Live Audio Descriptions (LAD) for the 2024 season. CTC is committed to fostering inclusivity and promoting the power of storytelling to all audiences. “As we shared in our open letter regarding CTC’s commitments to racial and social justice through the lens of IDEA, CTC is actively building the future of the American theater. In doing so, we aim to create space for culturally specific storytelling that leads to dialogue, understanding and...
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the creative teams for its 2024 mainstage season. In celebration of Chautauqua’s 150th anniversary, CTC is set to showcase a season that reflects the depth and richness of its legacy. The lineup includes three mainstage productions: Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, and Kate Hamill’s The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi), CTC’s first commissioned world premiere under Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll’s leadership. “I am thrilled to invite such an incredible group of brilliant...
Mike Lew, playwright, tiny fatherMoritz von Stuelpnagel, director, tiny father Both How do you each challenge each other and/or make each other better? Moritz: Because we know one another so well, there’s a shorthand in our conversations. We trust that there’s great faith between us, so we aren’t as sensitive about criticism. And because we’re so close, we know where the other person is coming from, where the ideas in the play are coming from, and we try to make them all the more personal. It’s an intimate partnership for which I’m very grateful. Mike: Moritz has an immense work...
