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May 21, 2025 | In The News

Chautauqua Theater Company Marks 20 Years of New Play Development

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...

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December 3, 2024 | In The News

Broadway World: Chautauqua Theater Company to Commission Musical Adaptation of Kwame Alexander’s THE CROSSOVER

Chautauqua Theater Company has announced their commission and development of a musical adaptation of The Crossover, the critically acclaimed novel by New York Times best-selling author and Chautauqua Institution’s Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts and writer-in-residence Kwame Alexander. Under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, CTC is cementing its reputation as a national home for exciting new works. Carroll’s tenure has brought a renewed focus on commissioning, developing and producing works from new and established American Playwrights. This commitment to fostering innovative storytelling is exemplified with recent commissions such as Kate Hamill‘s The Light and The Dark, C.A....

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November 4, 2024 | In The News

PLAYBILL: The Light and the Dark, Amerikin, More in Primary Stages’ 2024-2025 SeasonPLAYBILL:

The Off-Broadway company has also announced a year-long discount ticketing initiative. Off-Broadway’s Primary Stages has announced the lineup of productions for its 2024-2025 season, which marks its 40th anniversary. The company will also take part in a discount ticketing initiative throughout the season.  The season will kick off with Kate Hamill‘s The Light and the Dark (The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi), running November 2-December 15. Jade King Carroll will direct the work, which is presented in association with Chautauqua Theater Company and Jamie deRoy. The work, which had its world premiere at CTC earlier this year, tracks how painter Artemisia Gentileschi transcended trauma to become one of...

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October 23, 2024 | In The News

Cast Set for THE LIGHT AND THE DARK at Primary Stages

PRIMARY STAGES and 59E59 Theaters in association with Chautauqua Theater Company, and in association with Jamie deRoy, will present The Light and The Dark, a new play written by Kate Hamill and directed by Jade King Carroll. The Light and The Dark will begin previews at 59E59’s Theater A on November 2, 2024, with an opening night set for November 17 for a limited run through December 15, 2024. Primary Stages is the Resident Off Broadway Theater Company at 59E59 Theaters.

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September 26, 2024 | In The News

Applications Now Open for Drama League’s 2025 Directors Project

The organization has also announced Whitney White, Schele Williams, and Tatyana Marie-Carlo will serve as mentors for this year’s Irene Gandy Directing Assistantships.

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August 10, 2024 | In The News

PLAYBILL: Kate Hamill’s The Light and The Dark Makes World Premiere Beginning August 10

Chautauqua Theater Company, the resident theatre company of Chautauqua Institution, produces the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s The Light and The Dark in association with Primary Stages. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play begins previews August 10 prior to an official opening August 15 for a limited engagement through August 23 in Chautauqua, New York.

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August 7, 2024 | In The News

PLAYBILL: 59E59 Theaters Reveals Fall 2024 Season

The Off-Broadway theatre is currently operating under a rent-free model, allowing productions to use its spaces without the financial burden of rent. Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters has revealed the lineup of productions for its fall 2024 season.  Programming will kick off with What Doesn’t Kill You, presented by New Jersey Repertory Company in association with Vasi Laurence Productions and M. Green Productions; followed by Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, presented by Luna Stage; Thistles, presented by White Horse Theater Company in association with Anthony W. Lopez; and the return of Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker Man, presented by Christian Hege, Epyllionard, after performing in East to...

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August 1, 2024 | In The News

Erie News Now: New Shows from the Chautauqua Theater Company

Catch Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll’s interview on Erie News Now, where she talks about exciting details of Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2024 season!

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July 31, 2024 | In The News

City Rotary Club Welcomes Chautauqua Theater Personnel

Rotarian Jim Smith introduced Rachel Lykins, a theater artist originally from Huntington, W.V., during a recent Rotary Club of Jamestown meeting. She recently graduated from the MFA Acting Program at UC Irvine, Calif. Currently, she serves as the Administrative Assistant at the Chautauqua Theater Company. In the fall, she will be traveling to the Milwaukee Theater as a Swing in Prelude to a Kiss: The Musical. She will be working at the theater and performing in the play as well. Lytkins is based in Southern California with her cat, Kiki.

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July 18, 2024 | In The News

Birthday Candles’ Illuminates Life’s Fleeting Beauty at Chautauqua

Review by Anthony Chase Set in a modest kitchen, “Birthday Candles” by Noah Haidle is a beautiful and affecting play. We follow Ernestine Ashworth at various stages of her life from age 17 to 101, always on her birthday. Throughout these snapshots, we see her experience love, loss, and the passage of time, and Haidle explores themes of mortality, the meaning of life, and how small, everyday moments can shape our existence. The play owes its very existence to Chautauqua Theater Company, where it received essential development in the Chautauqua New Play Workshop of 2017. Under the direction of former...

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