Thursday, 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 06:00AMMonday, March 1, 2021
Goodspeed Musicals will be airing archived video of some of its recent shows as part of a new "Goodspeed on Demand" series during the pandemic. The first screening is of the new musical "Pa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, February 19, 2021
This year's Big Read events at Hartford Public Library are all virtual, centered around the historical novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Another Day's Begun," a new book on the contemporary importance of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" mentions some major productions of the play that happened in Connecticut. The state was also …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, February 18, 2021
Many famous artists, from David Bowie to Billy Joel to Ariana Grande to (just this month) Harry Connick Jr., have shot music videos in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AMCommunity theater sucessfully lobbied to be eligible for COVID relief funding through the Save Our Stages Act. But there are still issues for certain non-profits applying for funds.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, February 10, 2021
The recently formed West Hartford Commission of Arts has started an Artist Job Bank where artists can register and be considered for local gigs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:08PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Real Art Ways has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its annual Real Art Awards competition, which gives money and exhibition opportunities to six e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:18PMThe spring 2021 Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts season at UConn includes concerts by Ben Folds, Kronos Quartet, Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Chris Thile and an entire day of discussi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:07AMMonday, February 8, 2021
Valentine's day entertainment may be fewer this year, but include some livestreamed concerts that you can enjoy at home with your sweetheart.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 7, 2021
Actors Veanne Cox and Ezra Barnes have boiled the Noël Coward classic “Private Lives” to just its second act and given it a naturalistic modern-day COVID setting. Titled "Amanda & E…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, February 6, 2021
Connecticut Humanities has given 17 small arts organizations around the state $5,000 each in COVID relief grants, to use for general operating expenses. The grants are a collaboration among …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, February 5, 2021
Christopher Plummer made dozens of films, but also found time to perform on Connecticut stages in major plays, important benefits and film screenings. Plummer was a Fairfield Country residen…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:43PMThursday, February 4, 2021
Hartford Stage has launched a new phase of its Raise the Curtain fundraising campaign, for which it has confirmed $1,000,000 in matching funds from some of the theater's board members and ot…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:17PMHartBeat Ensemble has received $15,000 through a new New England Foundation for the Arts program, to create a new play based on the life of Hartford-based actress Gwendolyn Reed.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:16PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Hal Holbrook, who died Monday at the age of 95, particularly endeared himself to Connecticut through his impression of Hartford icon Mark Twain and his performances as The Stage Manager in l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:34PMSaturday, January 30, 2021
Pilobolus has released a series of exercise videos, "Connecting With Balance," which are appropriate for any age but are especially useful for those over 40, when the sense of balance begins…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 28, 2021
The Bacon Brothers will (virtually) headline Hartford Stage's 2020 fundraising gala, with a performance that will stream April 10-17.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PMMonday, January 25, 2021
TheaterWorks Hartford has won a 2020 Neighborhood Builders grant from Bank of America. The award includes $200,000, a year of leadership training for two members of the staff and networking …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:05PMFriday, January 22, 2021
Women are now at the forefront of theater in Connecticut, running institutions which in some cases have been male-dominated for over half a century.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Community theaters in the state feel they are unfairly being denied the chance to apply for "Save Our Stages" COVID relief funding due to eligibility requirements that didn't take this type …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Teen jazz prodigy Anton Kot has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation. This month he's also performing as part of Hartford Public Library's Baby Grand concert series.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:49PMTheaterWorks Hartford has postponed its latest online production so as to process the political turmoil in the U.S. this month and other real-life news events.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
Goodspeed Musicals has named its new leadership team: Donna Lynn Hilton as artistic director and David Byrd as managing director.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMSaturday, January 9, 2021
The new Artists of Color Unite! program of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded $400,000 to three local arts organization and will work with them to fund dozens of projects …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 7, 2021
"Jeopardy" contestants from Connecticut share their memories of the late Alex Trebek as his final episodes as host of the show air this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:44AMSunday, January 3, 2021
TheaterWorks Hartford is in the forefront of theaters who have adjusted to COVID-era challenges by producing its shows online. The theater is now offering a show a month, a big change from i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMemories of the scattered, akilter theater year, 2020.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:55AMWednesday, December 30, 2020
The $9 million in Connecticut's COVID Relief Fund for the Arts grants, drawn from national CARES Act funding, has been distributed to over 150 arts organizations throughout the state. The fu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:21PMMonday, December 28, 2020
The tradition of "dinner and a show" has been given a virtual spin with TheaterWorks Hartford's "Christmas on the Rocks." The Hartford Chamber of Commerce and weHartford have arranged for fo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AM 
