Saturday, May 8, 2021
Canton resident and LEGO enthusiast Palas Patani will appear in the second season of the "LEGO Masters" TV show. In Connecticut, Patani runs education programs where he uses LEGO blocks to t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
The 10th Trinity Film Festival is mostly online again this year, but opened with a night of screenings for a small audience at Cinestudio and will end May 8 with a live awards ceremony that …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has extended Carolyn Kuan's contract through May of 2024. She has been the symphony's music director since 2011.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:16PMMonday, May 3, 2021
The Warner Theatre in Torrington canceled a production of the drama "I Am Not My Own Wife" due to complaints that the actor in the one-person drama was not transgender.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:41PMThursday, April 29, 2021
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a mix of live and virtual this year. Concerts on the Green (including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ladama, a Fantasia drag imperson…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:01PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Geoffrey Owens, a well-known actor whose work experiences off the stage started a national dialogue about the value of steady employment, was in Connecticut this month paying tribute to work…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:36AMSunday, April 25, 2021
A major new small professional theater in the state, the Legacy Theatre in Branford, opened Friday. The theater building is the former Stony Creek Puppet House, a landmark used in the past b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:47PMFriday, April 23, 2021
The applicant process for grants to help shuttered arts venues crashed on its first day of use, two weeks ago. The application portal for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program will reo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:56PMNew Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has announced the "Ideas" slate for its 2021 festival. All the Ideas events are virtual this year. The performance events, some of whic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:37AMShakespeare theater companies in the state are wrestling with a second summer of COVID complications. Several are returning to live performance, with some alterations.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 22, 2021
TheaterWorks' latest staged-to-stream production, of Adam Rapp's trenchant teacher/student drama "The Sound Inside," incorporates a filmmaker on its creative team. It's a subtle, deep, distu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMSunday, April 11, 2021
Three arts venues with a reputation as summer arts destinations face different challenges in reopening this year, after all being shuttered last year due to COVID.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 8, 2021
The Civil Rights struggle of the 20th century will be explored through three historical figures — voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, Puerto Rican activist Antonia Pantoja and teen murder…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:02PMA new movie, "Call Jane" is filming some scenes in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:55PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
Hot on the heels of International Transgender Visibility Day March 31, the new documentary “Mama Gloria” by Connecticut filmmaker Luchina Fisher is getting its broadcast debut this week,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:21AMMonday, April 5, 2021
The Bushnell has set new dates for eight shows it postponed from its 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons due to COVID. The musicals will start appearing in October of this year. The Bushnell will be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
Some big names come to Hartford venues virtually, college theaters begin to wrap up their online seasons and there are even some live music clubs reopening. Here are ten top entertainment pi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, March 25, 2021
Goodspeed Musicals has had to further postpone its 2021 season, rescheduling the opening of "South Pacific" from June to September and moving "Anne of Green Gables" to next year. The theater…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:21PMIn one of the biggest entertainment events to hit Connecticut since COVID, Dave Chappelle will be at Foxwoods Resort Casino's Grand Theater on June 25 and 26. Tickets go on sale Friday at no…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:18PMOne of Connecticut's premiere homegrown dance events, the 5x5 Dance Festival at the University of Saint Joseph's Autorino Center, has gone online for its 19th edition, with short filmed cont…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:26PMSome Connecticut theaters are beginning to formalize their reopening plans following a year of being shuttered due to COVID. Expect a slew of outdoor shows to happen in spring and summer, wh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:47AMErin Keller, who was properties manager at Hartford Stage until the theater was shuttered during the COVID crisis, is running 55 miles along the Farmington River Trail on May 29 to raise mon…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWestport Country, after not producing any shows in 2020, has announced that its 2021 season, running April through December, will be all virtual. Among the new productions will by the comedy…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 19, 2021
The Bushnell could open sooner that anticipated thanks to large federal grants for theaters contained in the American Rescue Plan. Many Connecticut arts venues will benefit from the Shutter …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:35PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Fairfield Comedy Club has designed its own Vans shoe, to raise money for out-of-work comedians.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:49PMSunday, March 14, 2021
Ruthie Fierberg, who grew up in West Hartford enjoying musical theater and a good high school arts education, has created a national podcast centered on major social issues as handled by pro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
The Shubert has announced its new executive director. Anthony McDonald is only the second person to hold that position since the theater was taken over by the CAPA management company 20 year…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:14AMSunday, March 7, 2021
The newest professional dance company in the area, New England Ballet Theatre, is presenting “Ballet Speaks: Against Domestic Violence” at 7 p.m. on March 13, live as well as livestreame…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 5, 2021
HartBeat Ensemble's latest virtual show is a reading of a new play about modern slavery, set in a wealthy Connecticut suburb. "Bee Trapped Inside a Window" is by Romanian playwright Saviana …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, March 4, 2021
TheaterWorks has added American Sign Language interpretation to its latest online show, James Anthony Tyler's “Talkin’ to This Chick Sippin’ Magic Potion," and will offer the service f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:46PMTuesday, March 2, 2021
The 34th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival will take place June 4-13, lasting a day longer than usual and holding screenings both online and in-person.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
