For a show that’s ostensibly about love, there wouldn’t be much of a plot to Romeo & Juliet without all that violence. “It’s such a
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Shakespeare is getting out of the high school English classroom and back on the stage for area students, thanks to an initiative from Chautauqua Theater
When the average classical music lover thinks of Russian orchestral music, he or she most likely thinks of the grand, sprawling symphonies by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich
Laura Kasischke is obsessed with images. Her workshop at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center this week is titled “Revisiting the Image,” and she and her students
After seven weeks learning, practicing and performing with one another, the Music School Festival Orchestra will play their final concert. “It’s hard to believe we’re
Last at Chautauqua in 2013, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, for its return to the Amphitheater Saturday night, came with a program loaded with the type of
Whether or not Romeo and Juliet is your favorite Shakespeare play, it’s certainly one most people know, a tragedy of young love and soaring poetry
Music gets compared to a lot of things: language, architecture, mathematics, drugs. Violinists Olga and Ilya Kaler like to think of a concert program as
The first time Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory actor Adrianna Mitchell saw a black woman in a Shakespeare play, she was 20. “You know that it
In order to prepare for their performance at Chautauqua Institution, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre spent the past month rehearsing for six hours per day, five
The close of the opera season last Saturday evening was a time for both celebration and remembrance. Following the Chautauqua Opera Company’s final performance of
Who: Mari Taylor, 25, the costume fellow with the CTC conservatory. Taylor assists all visiting costume designers for the mainstage shows this season — Noises
Reporter’s note: Each summer, Chautauqua Theater Company opens its stage doors to young actors and theatermakers for a fully funded fellowship. This summer’s conservatory includes
The unveiling of a Jun Kaneko sculpture, donated by Chautauquans Dan and Linda Silverberg, was shaping up to be a dramatic moment. It was the
Laura Kasischke and Roy Hoffman will help students at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center use images and memories to inspire their work. Kasischke will serve as
It can seem like a distant issue, but the opioid crisis in the United States is a very real problem. According to Ella Nilsen of