The Drama League’s FutureNow Stage Directing Fellows take over Bratton Stage for an evening of one-act plays featuring the talents of our 2025 design fellows and acting conservatory.
As Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother of five, must reinvent herself and her family when authorities abduct her husband. "Director Walter Salles returns to the political filmmaking he employed in The Motorcycle Diaries. Like that film, this one follows a protagonist who becomes an activist...
Rossen Milanov, conductor Sharon Roffman, violin Experience an evening of passion and virtuosity as the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra's new concertmaster Sharon Roffman takes the stage for Tchaikovsky’s breathtaking Violin Concerto, a dazzling showcase of lyricism and fire. The journey continues with Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Symphony No. 3, a masterpiece of rich harmonies and soaring melodies. Don’t...
David Gluck began his study of meditation and yoga in 2001, with Jivamukti Yoga. He received accreditation as a certified yoga teacher in 2003, directly from Jivamukti founders, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Shortly thereafter, he began formal studies in the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, primarily under the tutelage of Douglas Veenhof, current Resident...
Episcopal Holy Eucharist
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose...
Peter Berg became the fifth senior rabbi of The Temple since 1895 in July of 2008. Rabbi Berg is passionate about Jewish learning and meaningful worship, and he is an advocate for social change. Prior to coming to The Temple, he served as rabbi of Temple Beth Or in Washington Township, New Jersey and as...
Press freedom advocate and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva and U.S. hostage negotiator Roger D. Carstens join Almar Latour, the CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in conversation for the Chautauqua Lecture Series to close a week on “The Global Rise of Authoritarianism.” Alsu Kurmasheva is a journalist...
Summer on the Steps with Chautauqua Literary Arts: A Reading and Open Mic featuring Chautauqua Literary Arts Staff
Jumu'ah introduction for visitors is at 12:30 PM. Jumu'ah Service is at 1:05 PM
Matthew D. Taylor is senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religious politics. His new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy (Broadleaf, 2024), tracks how a loose network of...
Interested in playing slow pitch softball? Contact co-commissioner Wes Delancey at markernalt21@gmail.com to be added to a team roster. Fee per team for league play.
by Vichet Chum, Directed by Mei Ann Teo, Bratton Theater Chan finds an unexpected way to care for the strangers around him: He organizes their closets and unpacks their skeletons, but all the decluttering in the world won’t relieve Chan of his own baggage. All the Little Boxes is a moving and surprisingly hilarious new...
This Latvian Oscar Winner for Best Animated Feature follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. "A film full of wonders...
Four-time GRAMMY Award nominees The Avett Brothers made mainstream waves with their critically acclaimed 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You. In 2012, The Carpenter hit #4 on the Billboard 200, followed by Magpie and the Dandelion in 2013, which debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200. The 2017 documentary May It Last:...
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department sends Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from a CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez's magnificent essay film captures the moment when African politics...