The story of God selecting David, an unlikely choice, to be King of Israel reminds the Rev. Yvette A. Flunder of two films about penguins: the documentary “March of the Penguins” and the animated movie
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Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Hunter, who has founded multiple community-based arts and education organizations, takes an expansive view of what folk means. “When I think about folk, I don’t just think of music,” Hunter said. “I
We can’t talk about the advent of technology that allows artists to distribute their own music and engage in genre-bending without talking about American rapper Lil Nas X. Raina Douris, the host of NPR’s “World
The Rev. Yvette A. Flunder began the 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24 worship service in the Amphitheater by thanking the Chautauqua community for the gifts they have given her. The joy and love that she
The Rev. Yvette Flunder, during the 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23 worship service in the Amphitheater, relayed her experience with a cicada to the congregation. A native of San Francisco, Flunder did not have experience
Grammy Award-winning musician and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Rhiannon Giddens has graced the stage of the Amphitheater on several occasions — as a solo performer in 2017, with her musical collaborator and romantic partner Francesco
Grammy Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens digs into American music and its entanglement with all of America’s history. One can’t talk about the banjo, one of her historical and also musical loves, she said, without talking
Under the undulating Spanish moss and the twinkling string lights of the College of Charleston’s Cistern Yard, Rhiannon Giddens said she wants to rehabilitate the banjo. Performing there for Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA in late
Outgoing Artistic Director Andrew Borba’s tenure with Chautauqua Theater Company is old enough to vote. Over the span of the last 18 years, Borba has played many roles within the company. He’s been an actor,
Reza Behjat, the lighting designer for Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? quoted the late, great scenic designer Ming Cho Lee in explaining what light does for theater. Behjat said that
The whip-smart verbal sparring of George and Martha, one of the couples at the center of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, could be described as an intellectual prizefight, or a surgically precise chess
Adam Shaukat and Madeline Seidman are the farthest thing from strangers. The Chautauqua Theater Company Guest Actors, who play Nick and Honey in CTC’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, were in the same cohort in
Andrew Borba and Carol Halstead are married again. Chautauqua Theater Company’s outgoing artistic director Borba and guest actor Halstead are playing a married couple onstage, just as they did for Borba’s very first CTC show
Keith Nelson puts the “K” in Cirkus. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, the company Nelson co-founded with his partner Stephanie Monseu in New York City in 1995, aims to respect the history of the circus tradition while
Paul Mullins, the director of Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is struck by the immensity and the staying power of Edward Albee’s classic piece. Although he has never had the
At the tender age of 9, Lynn Trefzger received her first puppet as a gift. That gift would change everything. “I was very shy when I was little, so it was just a fun thing