The spring production will be a sharp contrast to Classical Theatre Company’s Gothic horror fall offering in the form of Anton Chekhov’s stirring drama, Three Sisters. CTC has not produced a Chekhov play since The Bear & The Proposal in 2016, and hasn’t produced a full-length Chekhov piece since 2015’s critically-acclaimed The Cherry Orchard.

The play focuses on the three Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, whose military officer father died one year prior. Nearly one thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, the sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings in the home which their father left to them. Masha finds solace from her loveless marriage in an affair with a passionate young colonel. Irina, the youngest of the three, forces herself to return the affections of a suitor, hoping that he will bring her back to the city of her youth before it is too late. Intoxicated by yesterday’s highs and heedless of tomorrow’s woes, the sisters are left to sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the eve of the social and political upheaval that will change Russia forever.

Directed by CTC Executive Artistic Director, John Johnston, who most recently directed last season’s Medea, and appeared on CTC’s stage when he portrayed Joseph Surface in The School for Scandal in 2023.