CTC’s Late Night Cabaret showcases actors’ talents
They sing, they dance, and Chautauquans already know they act. Tonight’s Bratton Late Night Cabaret will open the stage to Chautauqua Theater Company’s (CTC) band of triple threats.
Posts Tagged 'The Tempest'
CTC’s adaption of ‘The Tempest’ re-imagines Shakespeare, rounds out 2014 season
This week, Chautauquans again have the chance to worship at the altar of William Shakespeare.
Review: CTC executes imaginative rendition of Shakespeare’s last, with a few design quibbles
First things first. The Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of The Tempest, probably William Shakespeare’s final play, is excellent: well acted from top to bottom, beautifully and imaginatively costumed by Loren Shaw, and directed with a deft hand. There are a couple of questionable design decisions, I think, but they are quibbles. More about them later.
Becoming Prospero: Harrow steps into alpha male role for ‘Tempest’
Lisa Harrow has rarely found a role that scared her. Apart from when she was 16 and played King Lear in a high school production — Prospero is the first.
Theatergoers to be caught in Bratton’s ‘Tempest’
This weekend, Bratton Theater’s rafters will become a shipwrecked boat, the stage will become a sand dune and Chautauquans will be swept away by a vicious storm.
Harrow, Margolin return to celebrate CTC leadership’s 10th anniversary
Ten years after their first show as artistic directors of Chautauqua Theater Company, Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny welcome back two of their first stars.
Savage’s ‘Tempest’ set reflects fantasy, unknown
When the production opens, that world will have been translated from a quixotic vision to a realized set, one ready to host a cast of actors. CTC’s The Tempest, which opens Saturday, incorporates spilling sand dunes, a floating rock and a shipwreck — all within the confines of Bratton Theater.
CTC demonstrates dialects, accents in Special Studies
With its Week Seven seminar class “Accents and Dialects” and the opening of The Tempest at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Chautauqua Theater Company’s emphasis this week is what special studies instructor Chris Corporandy called “the music of the language.”
CTC’s ‘Apparition’: Something wicked this way comes
After seeing Apparition: An Uneasy Play of the Underknown workshopped more than 10 years ago, Handelsman said she became obsessed with the piece. CTC’s one-time showing of the Late Night Special Apparition is at 11:30 p.m. tonight in Bratton Theater.
Female playwrights, directors find home at Chautauqua amid dismal national figures
In the United States, women make up less than a quarter of both produced playwrights and those directing productions.
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