The Arts

  Thursday marks the end of an era for the Chautauqua Theater Company. It is Vivienne Benesch’s last day as co-artistic director. “I drive away

When philanthropist, musician and Chautauquan Kay Logan was a student flutist at Chautauqua Institution, she played “Poem” by Charles Griffes as a soloist. Nearly 25

NOTE: David Doubilet's Young Readers event has been postponed to 7 on July 28. National Geographic photographer David Doubilet has made a career out of

It is thought that the first teapots appeared as early as the Song Dynasty in China, about 1,000 years ago. Those vessels were used exclusively

Chautauquans are about to be exposed to a deeply personal theater experience. That is, if they’re willing to stay up for it. At 10 p.m.

Poet Jim Daniels said when people think of literary film adaptations, they often think of franchises such as the Harry Potter series. With his Brown Bag,

For an art show at Syracuse University in 2014, Errol Willett didn’t present mugs, teapots or cups as some artists would. Instead, the ceramist presented

Every once in a while, organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music Jared Jacobsen likes to take the Tallman Tracker Organ out of the

Tonight’s Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert will lead audience members through an exploration of the different genres that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky touches with his work, said

  Four hundred years after the death of Shakespeare, vocal ensemble Calmus plans to commemorate the monumental writer through song. Calmus will take the stage

The first two ballets of the Monday's Amphitheater show — “Czech Suite” and “Nightwatch” — are different in a lot of ways. Michael Vernon’s ballet is

  For men and women alike, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is contagious. Less than a decade after sisters Nora and Delia Ephron adapted

  After a concert on Thursday evening that featured a world premiere (Annie Gosfield’s “Almost Truths and Open Deceptions,” apparently tepidly received), it wouldn’t be

Contrary to its reputation, classical music concerts consist only of the new. One reason is perhaps less obvious, the fact that each performance of the

Like most teenagers, Chris Mannarino used to prefer simply doing nothing with his summer except lounging around. But at the suggestion of his aunt, a

Chautauqua Institution creates the perfect platform to inspire and liberate an orchestra, according to pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk. Returning for his 11th season performing with the