Sunday, January 3, 2021
Memories 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 11:42AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Playhouse on Park has made the play-with-music "All is Calm," about a real-life Christmas Eve ceasefire on a World War I battlefield, into an involving streaming production filmed at Auerfar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMThursday, December 17, 2020
Dean Falcone's Vomitorium is a decades-old tradition where Connecticut musicians gather to play obscure and strange rock covers. This year, the Vomitorium has become a "Covidtorium" set of C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:47PMFriday, December 11, 2020
Hartford Stage will host the second year of its interactive Spanish reading of “A Christmas Carol” on Dec. 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:31PMHartford Library's 2021 Baby Grand Jazz Series will remain online, with 16 shows planned from January through April on Facebook Live and YouTube.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PMThursday, December 10, 2020
TheaterWorks Hartford has remade its holiday hit "Christmas on the Rocks" for the streaming era, offering fresh and much-needed laughs in a new format. The show is available on demand throug…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:22PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Despite the shutdowns, precautions and regulations, there are still plenty of events and activities (mainly virtual) this holiday season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:10AMThursday, December 3, 2020
Unable to stage its holiday staple "A Christmas Carol" for the first time in 24 years, Hartford Stage has created a new virtual adaptation of the Dickens story, "A Community Carol," streamin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 2, 2020
A new fund from the Roberts Foundation will offer residencies to Black artists at three major Hartford arts institutions: Hartford Stage, Hartford Symphony and the Amistad Center. The fund w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:02PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Over 150 Connecticut arts organizations, from grand theaters like The Bushnell and Shubert to small community arts groups, are divvying up $9 million in COVID relief funds administered by th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:41PMSunday, November 29, 2020
HartBeat Ensemble is premiering the local history dramas "Up and Down the River," a series of short audio plays co-written by Mohegan tribe members Madeline Sayet and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Z…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Hartford Symphony Orchestra has upped its online programming, including concerts recorded live around the city, discussion series, and screenings of new music documentaries.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AMMonday, November 16, 2020
Ayad Akhtar's "The Who & the What," about a provocative novelist whose religious-themed book upsets her father and sister, is streaming via TheaterWorks Hartford through Nov, 28.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:48PMWednesday, November 11, 2020
Ten shows -- all kinds, from comedies to musings on death and depression -- coming to a Connecticut theater (or computer) near you.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Fun fact about a show made up of fun facts: The Hartford Courant has been the subject of at least 15 questions (or answers) on "Jeopardy."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, November 9, 2020
Local schools, libraries and others remember Kristallnacht, the "Nights of Broken Glass" in November 1938 when Nazis terrorized German and Austrian Jewish communities. Events range from scho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:26PMFriday, November 6, 2020
The Guerilla Girls, those masked and anonymous art activists who issue broadsides condemning sexism and patriarchical attitudes major art institutions, are part of the "Some Day is Now: Wome…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, November 2, 2020
“Building a Brave New Theater: Exploring Shakespeare & Race in 2020″ is a new free online discussion series devoted to issues facing black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:45PMFriday, October 30, 2020
Where can Connecticut kids go trick-or-treating while keeping safe from coronavirus contamination? Businesses throughout the Hartford area are stepping up to the challenge, providing alterna…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:31PMConnecticut bands scare up some spooky tunes for Halloween, including some creative classical riffs and a couple of online live events.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AMThe Consonare Choral Community in Storrs has created a series "Ballads for Ballots" of song videos leading up to Election. The final video is inviting singers from outside the group to parti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:38AMThursday, October 29, 2020
Folk hero Tom Rush returns to New England, playing an outdoor 1 p.m. show Nov. 7 at Bridge St. Live in Collinsville.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:16PMFriday, October 23, 2020
"American Dreams" is an interactive political comedy about immigration, structured like a game show, with the play's audience deciding who wins. The online production is being brought to Con…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:42PMThursday, October 22, 2020
Online arts galas take many forms: a multi-star concert at the Goodspeed, an array of bestselling writers at the Mark Twain House, a Steve Turre sextet for the Hartford Jazz Society and star…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:18PMSarah Gancher's brash, multi-styled social satire about Russian internet misinformation campaigns of 2016 is spun with all sorts of creative online tricks. It's full of visual surprises and …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PMTuesday, October 20, 2020
Pre-election shows from TheaterWorks, HartBeat Ensemble and other Connecticut theaters touch on such topics as immigration, disinformation campaigns and Donald Trump.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:25AMMonday, October 19, 2020
TheaterWorks Hartford has partnered with Hartford Public Library to offer passes to its latest online attraction, the political comedy "Russian Troll Farm."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:08PMUConn's Jorgensen Center has announced a four show fall season of Pilobolus, Kelli O'Hara, a chamber concert and a kids show about the Day of the Dead.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:23AMLocal hardcore hero Jay Reason has opened his own record store in downtown Milford. Static Era Records carries an array of intriguing vinyl albums, including releases from Reason's own recor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
