Friday, August 7, 2020
The musical "Cyrano," which was workshopped at the Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre in 2018, will become a star-studded MGM movie featuring Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett directed by Joe W…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:58AMGoodspeed Musicals has arranged a fortnight of outdoor concerts by The Playbillies, on the lawn outside the Goodspeed Opera House. These are the first public performance the Goodspeed has ho…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:34AMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Over 40 Connecticut clubs and theaters have joined the new National Independent Venue Association and its "Save Our Stages" campaign. The venues are urging passage of a stimulus bill that in…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:21AMMonday, August 3, 2020
The Five Senses Festival ran through Aug. 2 in a sprawling wooded region in New Preston not far from the internationally renowned Pilobolus’ home base in Washington Depot. The main event w…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:39PMWednesday, 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.…
Linked From 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: …
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, June 18, 2020
The homegrown "Fatherhood Manologues" videos, posted June 21, offer diverse tales of black fatherhood today.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.”
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:43PMFriday, May 22, 2020
Connecticut theaters, dancers, DJs, drag artists and more go online with virtual performances.
Linked From 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…
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