The Chautauqua Theater Company, the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s newest play, The Light and The Dark. Directed by Jade King Carroll, producing artistic director, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly (June 22-August 25).
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, announced today its 2024 season. Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2024 season will feature two productions. Opening the season is Love and Longing by the Lake, a trio of chamber operas, including two world premieres from The Summer Place, music by Rene Orth and Kamala Sankaram, and libretto by Jerre Dye. Four performances of this triple bill will be staged down the hill from Chautauqua’s Athenaeum Hotel. Engelbert Humperdinck’s beloved Hansel and Gretel will receive one performance in the Amphitheater with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Chautauqua Opera Conservatory...
Chautauqua, N.Y.- Chautauqua Institution today announced a four-year extension for Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director and Principal Symphonic Conductor Rossen Milanov. The extension follows 10 successful seasons of CSO programming on Chautauqua Institution’s renowned Amphitheater stage. “I am overjoyed that Chautauqua Institution will continue to be blessed with Maestro Milanov’s leadership in the coming years,” said Vice President of Performing and Visual Arts Laura Savia. “Rossen is a consummate musician, a discerning leader and a brilliant and collaborative colleague. Whether commissioning a work by a living composer or preparing a Mahler symphony, his conducting acumen ensures the highest quality...
Chautauqua Institution and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (CSO) today announced the retirement of the esteemed principal clarinetist Eli Eban, several new musician appointments, and summer 2024 auditions. The CSO will welcome Eliot Heaton and Sharon Roffman back as guest concertmasters. Heaton will join the orchestra in Week One through Four, with Roffman leading through the end of the Summer Assembly. Led by Music Director and Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov and Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz, the stage is set for an extraordinary season. After 30 seasons with the CSO, beloved Principal Clarinetist Eli Eban will retire at the end of...
Chautauqua Theater Company, the resident theatre company of Chautauqua Institution, will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s The Light and The Dark next year. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the Summer Assembly, which runs June 22–August 25, 2024, in Chautauqua, New York.
Directed by Jade King Carroll, the production will be staged during the Summer Assembly in 2024. Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, announced today it will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill‘s newest play, The Light and The Dark. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly (June 22-August 25, 2024).
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, announced today it will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s newest play, The Light and The Dark. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly (June 22–August 25, 2024). Kate Hamill is an award-winning, NYC-based actor/playwright. In 2017, The Wall Street Journal named Hamill Playwright of the Year, a title she has maintained through being among the top 10 most-produced playwrights in the U.S. for the last five consecutive years. Most recently, she...
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Stephine Hunt to the permanent, full-time role of Manager of Literary Arts. Since 2017, Hunt has served Chautauqua Institution and supported Chautauqua Literary Arts programming as the manager of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC) Octagon in a seasonal and part-time capacity. She is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in American Studies and a teaching assistant in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo, as well as an adjunct instructor of English and Ethnic and Gender Studies at SUNY Fredonia. In the role of manager, Hunt will provide coordination and...
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Kwame Alexander to the role of Michael I. Rudell Artistic Director of Literary Arts. Alexander will also serve as the Inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Chautauqua. A poet, educator, publisher, and Emmy-nominated producer, Alexander is the author of 40 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir; The Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor-winning picture book The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; Becoming Muhammad Ali, co-authored with James Patterson; and the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel, The Crossover, now a television series on Disney+. His books have long...
Welcome to the fall update on Chautauqua’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI). I hope that many of you were able to visit the Institution in October. The colors were stunning! In this edition we provide a wrap-up of the 2023 Summer Assembly, review important progress in making the Institution more environmentally sustainable, and share some exciting updates about our ongoing investments in understanding and improving Chautauqua Lake’s ecological health. We regularly post program updates by email and online at climate.chq.org. In addition, our Chautauquans for Sustainability group on Facebook now has 273 members. Please join us if you are a Facebook...
