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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Cheshire's Jonny Orsini Wins Barnes Prize by Frank Rizzo

Cheshire’s Jonny Orsini is the winner of the fouth annual Clive Barnes Award in New York recently, presented by Tony Award winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman. He won…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:31PM
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Michael Price Retiring From Goodspeed Opera House by Frank Rizzo

After 46 years as executive director of the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Michael Price will end one of the longest runs in American theater.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:27PM
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Review: Girl Power Rules Mightily, Magically In 'Fairytale Lives' by Frank Rizzo

The show: "The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:48PM

'War Horse' Gallops Into Hartford's Bushnell In An Astounding Production by Frank Rizzo

The show: "War Horse" at Hartford's Bushnell Centrer for the Performing Arts

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:27PM
Friday, January 3, 2014

Steve Martin's 'Underpants' At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

In Dusseldorf in 1910 during the king's parade, a wife's bloomers accidentally fall down, scandalizing her government-clerk husband. But to the wife, Louise, it was just an innocent slip. To…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:06PM
Thursday, January 2, 2014

'Stage Designs By Ming Cho Lee' At Yale by Frank Rizzo

Watching legendary theatrical set designer Ming Cho Lee lead a group of students through the exhibit "Stage Designs By Ming Cho Lee" recently was like watching Yoda gently guiding the next g…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Monday, December 30, 2013

What Was The Best Of Connecticut Theater In 2013? by Frank Rizzo

Show Of The Year Was UnexpectedA red-hot rocking musical as well as a heart-felt one. Two ensemble dramas that looked at the way we live with humor and rue. A pair of outstanding shows from …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:52AM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013

Does Obama Care About The Arts In America? by Frank Rizzo

13 Months Since NEA Head Announced ResignationDid you miss the anniversary last month? 

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:41PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

'A Christmas Carol' Wrapped Up With New Packaging by Frank Rizzo

-- And Ghosts For Hartford Stage's 16th Edition The show: "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" at Hartford Stage

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Musical 'Rent' To Go On At Trumbull High - Or Will It? by Frank Rizzo

A Musical Tale Of Art, Power And Social MediaCan you believe the protests, the internet chatter, the angst surrounding the controversial revival of a Broadway musical?

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:00PM

Review: 'Christmas On The Rocks' Packs a Holiday Punch by Frank Rizzo

Premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorksThe show : "Christmas on the Rocks" at Hartford's TheaterWorks

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Monday, December 9, 2013

Goodspeed Offers "Rent" Berth To Trumbull High Students by Frank Rizzo

Canceled Show Gets 'Revival'Students at Trumbull High School may have had their plans to do “Rent: The School Edition” as the spring musical at the school quashed but now the…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:16PM

A Darker Peter Pan At Yale by Frank Rizzo

There have been many variations of "Peter Pan," the eternal Lost Boy who first enchanted theater audiences in J.M.Barrie's 1904 play.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:57PM
Saturday, December 7, 2013

'Anarchist' At Yale Rep Is Radically Ridiculous Fun by Frank Rizzo

Comedia Team Triumphs With For Play At Yale RepThe show: "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Friday, December 6, 2013

Next Musical For 'Love/Murder' Creative Team by Frank Rizzo

'Campaign Of The Century' Being Developed

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:15PM

"Fences" Remains Vivid Even When Production Isn't by Frank Rizzo

The show:  August Wilson's "Fences" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Thursday, December 5, 2013

New Haven's Douglas Lyons ('The Book of Mormon') Has New Recording by Frank Rizzo

With Musical Partner Ethan PaksharDouglas Lyons, a BFA musical theater grad of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford who went on to be in the cast of Broadway's "The Book of Mo…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:31PM