Thursday, September 23, 2021
"A Grand Night for Singing," comprised of songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals, is the first live show at the Goodspeed Opera House since COVID. Director Rob Ruggiero has assembled …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:43PMThe Connecticut Office of the Arts announced three separate groups of awards on Tuesday: the first round of the new Artists Respond grants, the 15 people who will receive free training for t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:01PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Known as the voice of Southern New England, radio broadcaster Bob Steele died nearly 19 years ago, but Paul Hensler is determined to keep his memory alive. Hensler will discuss Steele’s li…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:25PMMonday, September 20, 2021
Susan Schoenberger's new novel "The Liability of Love" uses Hartford, and its insurance industry, as a backdrop for a literary romance set in the 1980s.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 16, 2021
Changes in the TheaterWorks season: The first show of the 2021-22 season, "Monster Songs," will be moved to 2022-23 but will hold a private workshop in Hartford this month that will be docum…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:28PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre has scheduled three shows for its fall semester, its first live shows since the COVID shutdown in the spring of 2020.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:14AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Connecticut's own "Jeopardy!" champion Matt Amodio shares his feelings about returning for the new season, being the face of the show on TV ads and his wish that they'd ask more math questio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:21AMThursday, September 9, 2021
Kids can visit the New Britain Museum of American Art for free. Using its own resources, the museum will continue a policy begun over the summer through an initiative launched by the state o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:36PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
Westport Country Playhouse suffered flood damage to its basement level during heavy rains from Hurricane Ida on Sept. 1 as a concert performance was taking place upstairs. Cost for repairs a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:59PMThursday, September 2, 2021
Christina Forrer's large contemporary conflict-ridden tapestries are juxtaposed with items from several Wadsworth Atheneum collections for the latest transcendent exhibit in the museum's MAT…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:22PMThe Courant's arts picks for Sept. 5-11 include Ben Folds, Dead & Co., Yung Bleu and a new play at TheaterWorks Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Ed Asner, who died Sunday, entertained Connecticut theater audiences for 60 years off and on, starting with a stint in the American Shakespeare Theatre company and ending with a slew of one-…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:32AMSunday, August 29, 2021
A free New Haven Symphony Orchestra concert hosted by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas on New Haven Green for Labor Day weekend was switched to a "Vaccines & Vibes" event, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 24, 2021
UConn's School of Fine Arts has named the new head of its Dramatic Arts department: Megan Monaghan Rivas, a playwright and dramaturg who has spent the last seven years at Carnegie Mellon Uni…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:57PMMonday, August 23, 2021
A spate of cancellations and postponements of concerts and shows — some due to COVID-19, others to Tropical Storm Henri — have marred the lead-in to the fall arts season and a general …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:27PMFriday, August 20, 2021
Chandra Prasad's new Young Adult novel "Mercury Boys" is set in the fictional town of Coventon, Connecticut, but references many real-life places in the state in telling the story of a teen …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 19, 2021
The first Highly Caffeinated 5K & Music Festival happens Aug. 21, with the 5K run happening at 10 a.m., followed at 11 a.m. by eight music acts, including the Connecticut-based national …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:29PMMonday, August 16, 2021
Live Nation, which operates some of the largest concert venues in Connecticut, will implement a policy on Oct. 4 requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for staff, artists and audience membe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:31PMBallet Theatre Company in West Hartford is hiring dancers for a new resident dance company. Auditions are being held Aug. 27 and the dancers will allow BTC to expand its season and the range…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 12, 2021
"Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical" is being workshopped before attentive audiences as part of the Goodspeed by the River series at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam through Aug. 29.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:29PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
TheaterWorks Hartford has announced its 2021-22 season of four plays plus the live return of "Christmas on the Rocks."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMMonday, August 9, 2021
To stage Amy Berryman’s relationship drama “Walden,” which is set in a tiny house in a grassy wooded area, TheaterWorks Hartford has built a tiny house in a grassy wooded area on the n…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMThe Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival returns with "As You Like It," through Aug. 15 on the University of St. Joseph lawn in West Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:52PMThursday, August 5, 2021
The Courant's art picks for Aug. 8-14 includes three small-cast theater shows, the Podunk Bluegrass festival and several free concerts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:07AMWednesday, August 4, 2021
Playhouse on Park's first Connecticut Shakespeare Festival offers an earthy "Into the Woods" that depends more on emotional truth than special effects.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:24PMTuesday, August 3, 2021
Theaters are reopening. Some have COVID safety guidelines thrust upon them by unions and trade associations. Others are figuring it out as they go along.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, August 2, 2021
As a gift to fans, the Hartford Yard Goats is hosting a concert by DJ Funk Flex following the final Saturday home game of the season, Sept. 18. Admission to the concert is free with a ticket…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:33PMFriday, July 30, 2021
As of Thursday night, Yale grad student Matt Amodio won seven straight matches on TV's "Jeopardy!" His $268,800 total thus far makes him the ninth highest earning player in the show's histor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:59PMThe Long Wharf Theatre has announced the four mainstage shows in its next season. But you can’t buy a subscription. In one of the biggest changes in marketing and programming that the Tony…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PMThursday, July 29, 2021
