Chester Theatre Company
Chester Theatre Company (CTC) is a professional summer theatre company in Chester, Massachusetts. CTC performances take place in the Chester Town Hall, which seat approximately 130 guests. CTC also operates several community-based educational programs in Western Massachusetts. CTC has earned a reputation for producing "some of the most adventurous programming in the area," according to a 2018 article in ''The New Yorker''. Leadership CTC was founded in 1990 by Vincent Dowling and H. Newman Marsh as the "Miniature Theatre of Chester." From 1997 to 2015, Byam Stevens served as artistic director of CTC. Stevens led CTC through a lack of outside funding due to the Great Recession. He helped CTC transition from the Chester Miniature Theatre Company to a company focused on contemporary theater. "(Theatre) should address the lasting questions of life, and it should serve as a forum for us to address the important issues that are facing us as a society in the present." In ...
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Summer Theatre
Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, tradition, and culture. When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. Timing From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons, but sometimes astronomical summer is defined as starting at the solstice, the time of maximal insolation, often identified with the 21st day of June or December. By solar reckoning, summer instead starts on May Day and the summer solstice is Midsummer. A variable seasonal lag means that the meteorological centre of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns, ...
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