Thursday, October 14, 2021
Melia Bensussen chose Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" as the first play she's directing at Hartford Stage since becoming its artistic director nearly three years ago. It's a new, m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, October 11, 2021
The first national Broadway musical tour to play The Bushnell since the COVID shutdown opens in Hartford Tuesday. One of the stars is a Hartt grad.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, October 8, 2021
"Kiss My Aztec!" will closed the 2021-22 Hartford Stage season in June. The comic musical, which plays fast and loose with Latin American history, was co-created by the comic actor and write…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
"By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Itay 1500-1800," at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through Jan. 9, brings together around 60 artworks drawn from around 30 mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:38PM[SHARE]"A Grand Night for Singing" is the first live show at the Goodspeed Opera House since COVID. It's a relatively low-key revue of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, given conceptual twists by a …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Hartford Public Library's Big Read for 2021 is Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street." The library has planned weeks of events around the book (as well as this year's youth selec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The puppet-filled community arts spectacular Night Fall returns outdoors for its annual celebration of fall, Oct. 9 at the Ridgefield St. entrance of Hartford's Keney Park. There are pre-sho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, October 1, 2021
Matt Amodio has now won the second most consecutive games in "Jeopardy!" history: 33.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
"Two Jews Walk Into a War..." is a clever, uncompromising, relentlessly comic and catastrophic 90-minute philosophical argument is at Playhouse on Park through Oct. 8.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Six Connecticut performing arts centers, including The Bushnell, have formed a new coalition in order to cross-promote their shows and announce that live theater has returned to the state.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PM[SHARE]The largest exhibit of Sol Lewitt prints ever mounted is at the New Britain Museum of American Art through Jan. 9. The artist, who died in 2007, grew up in New Britain, and the museum has th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:49AM[SHARE]Former Hartford Stage Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson was acknowledged by name for her contributions to the Best Play Tony winner "The Inheritance" Sunday night, by playwrig…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:14AM[SHARE]Monday, September 27, 2021
Oscar Guerra, a human rights activist and documentary filmmaker who teaches at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, is nominated for two national Emmy Awards this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PM[SHARE]Scholar and TV political commentator Eddie S. Glaude Jr. accepted the 2021 Stowe Prize from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford. The Sept. 23 presentation, which includes a discussi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:03PM[SHARE]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 12:43PM[SHARE]The 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 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 life…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:28PM[SHARE]Connecticut 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 11:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 02:22PM[SHARE]The 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 03:57PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 retu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
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