Playwright Metzler brings ‘The May Queen’ home to Chautauqua
When it came to actualizing The May Queen, playwright Molly Smith Metzler said she wrote about her hometown for her theater home: Chautauqua.
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‘fore-Play invites deeper look into world premiere of ‘The May Queen’
The May Queen is a child of the ’90s. While the contemporary play’s allusions to ’90s-era high school may be unclear for some Chautauquan audiences, ’fore-Plays aim to clarify the context of each play to enrich the audiences’ experience.
‘Dairyland’ to explore politics, methods of farming
According to Heidi Armbruster, writing a love letter to your father is “complicated.”
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ set designed around naturalism
As soft light filters through the nearest window, a woman sits upright in bed. Pulling on a raggedy pink terrycloth robe and house slippers, she slides past a curtain into the kitchen. After collecting the morning paper and milk from outside the apartment door, she sets a dented kettle on the stove to boil, sending a metallic clatter rings through the dead air.
CTC Brown Bag examines race, class in America
If the American Dream were a paper lunch sack, Chautauqua Theater Company would try to unpack and explore such a bag’s contents at its second 2014 Brown Bag lecture at 12:15 p.m. today in Bratton Theater.
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ guest artists play a part of CTC symphony
Veteran Broadway actor Lynda Gravatt approaches each play like a symphony. Throughout table reads, rehearsal and final production, all the players develop their instrumentation, intonation and togetherness. The final result is a melodious chorus.
Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ delivers emotional bruises and glancing blows
When dreams have been deferred for long enough, you don’t want to waste any more time. The Youngers, the iconic family at the center of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, certainly don’t, even if they find themselves at loggerheads (with one another and with themselves) over which dream to finally pursue.
CTC set to gift ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ to opening night audience
Chautauqua Theater Company is ready to present a gift to the Institution. The gift — the opening performance of CTC’s production of A Raisin in the Sun at 8 p.m. Saturday evening in Bratton Theater — takes a little ingenuity to imagine.
‘Raisin’ the curtain to catch the American Dream
What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes never directly answered the question in his classic poem “Harlem,” but Chautauqua Theater Company Resident Director Ethan McSweeny has done his best to explore the fate of these dreams in directing what he calls the “Dream Deferred Trilogy” at Chautauqua.
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ sets the stage for conversation on race at Chautauqua
A Raisin in the Sun is an American story. A story about family, generational change, ambition — and racial discrimination. Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s play represents several firsts. It’s the first time a black female playwright will be produced in Bratton Theater. It’s also the first time that CTC’s conservatory features more than 50 percent non-white actors.
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