Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Hartford Stage has canceled its announced 2020-21 season due to ongoing coronavirus concerns, and also canceled the shows it postponed from the 2019-20 season. The theater does not expect to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PMMonday, July 27, 2020
A month after most of them were given the go-ahead to reopen, many Connecticut cinemas are still dark. The reasons range from ongoing coronavirus concerns to the lack of fresh films to show.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, July 24, 2020
Hartford Symphony Orchestra will present a five-concert chamber music series, "Summer Splash!," starting with an HSO Brass Quintet concert July 30 at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:51PMThe Bushnell has postponed yet another of the Broadway tours on its 2021-22 season, moving “Pretty Woman” from its originally scheduled February 2021 run to new dates over a year later: …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 22, 2020
Real Arts Ways is reopening its gallery space Thursday July 23, and making plans to offer outdoor film screenings in August.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:41PMA Black Lives Matter mural is now gracing the walls of the Swift Factory economic revitalization project in Hartford's North End. The mural will be officially unveiled with a ceremony and a …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
The Bushnell has announced new dates for two of the spring shows it had to postpone. Blue Man Group is now coming May 28-30, 2021, and An Evening With Neil Gaiman has been rescheduled for Oc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:07PMThursday, July 9, 2020
The Long Wharf Theatre helped start "Play at Home," an ingenious project which offers brand new short scripts by important American playwrights for people to perform in their own homes durin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Black photographers share their experiences and emotions documenting the recent Black Lives Matter protests, rallies and marches in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:47PMMonday, July 6, 2020
The Hill-Stead Museum's new "From the Porch" summer series gives opportunities to theater and dance companies whose own spaces are still shuttered. Playhouse on Park, Sonia Plumb Dance Compa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Celebrating the legacy of Margaret Holloway, New Haven's Shakespeare Lady and a true Connecticut theater icon.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:07AMFriday, June 26, 2020
While a few theaters are attempting to stage shows this summer, most are staying closed. Ivoryton Playhouse, Talcott Mountain Music Festival and Westport Country Playhouse are among the perf…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Brian Syms' short video "Dying Black Swans" uses classical ballet and other dance forms to make a strong non-verbal message about black lives, personal identity and survival, in response to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, June 20, 2020
Three teen brothers from Manchester are sharing their fears about the George Floyd cartoon through a political cartoon. Keyon, Korey and Kahari Franklin have self-published several books an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 18, 2020
The homegrown "Fatherhood Manologues" videos, posted June 21, offer diverse tales of black fatherhood today.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMWednesday, June 17, 2020
With the moving of "South Pacific" to next year, Goodspeed Musicals has now postponed or canceled every one of the shows it planned for its 2020 season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:28PMThe Bushnell continues to shuffle its schedule of Broadway tours. "Dear Evan Hansen" and "Hadestown" now have firm dates, but won't be coming to Hartford until over a year from now.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:02PMFriday, June 12, 2020
Hartford Public Library is restoring several services this month, including patrons' ability to reserve, pick up and return books at the main downtown building.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:57AMConnecticut theaters realize that words (onstage or off) are not enough, and are committing to concrete change in their organizations in the wake of the George Floyd protests and calls for a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:01AMThe Long Wharf Theatre has changed its 2020-21 season, relabeled it "One City, Many Changes," and plans to stage shows in "open spaces throughout New Haven.”
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 11, 2020
Capital Classics, the bard-loving local theater troupe which produces the annual Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival shows at the University of St. Joseph, has dealt with the necessary can…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMFriday, May 29, 2020
New Haven's progressive, community-oriented Artspace has had to postpone aspects of its multi-media exploration of the Black Panther trials that took place in the city 50 years ago. The "Rev…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, May 28, 2020
Two shows on The Bushnell's fall schedule have been affected by ongoing coronavirus concerns. The multi-week September run of "Wicked" has been canceled and "Hadestown"'s October dates will …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:18PMShelley Quiala is the new executive director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. She joins the 25-year-old festival after 17 years with the Ordway Center for the Performing A…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:56PMLarry Kramer, who died Wednesday, was remarkable for how his plays and novels, meant to be outspoken and controversial for the times in which they were written, hold up beautifully today.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:43PMFriday, May 22, 2020
Connecticut theaters, dancers, DJs, drag artists and more go online with virtual performances.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, May 20, 2020
TheaterWorks Hartford's 2020-21 season will include two postponed shows from the current season ("Fun Home" and "The Who & the What"), plus "The Sound Inside," "Zoey's Perfect Wedding" a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:29PMThursday, May 14, 2020
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has announced key events in its Democracy-themed Ideas series. The festival will be largely online this year, running from late May through the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
It’s hard to be seen as a shelter, a sanctuary, or a temple of knowledge when your doors are closed. But Hartford Public Library, its buildings shut since March 13, has taken to the air an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:29AMSunday, May 10, 2020
Three major Connecticut summer arts festivals planning to go ahead this summer: two by going online, and one through innovative socially distanced programming.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, May 2, 2020
A May 6 auction in Westport displays historical treasures ranging from signed Bob Dylan lyrics to a stock certificate owned by Mark Twain and Jack Kerouac's pajama bottoms.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
