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 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:29PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:31PM[SHARE]Ballet 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 newest …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PM[SHARE]The 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 12:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:59PM[SHARE]The 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-w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 29, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
The Garde Arts Center in New London has reopened its box office with special promotional events like in-person discounts on Tuesday "Golden Hours" evenings. The 1450-seat theater has been dr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:52PM[SHARE]The Black-Eyed & Blues Fest returns to Bushnell Park Pavilion July 31 and Aug. 1, with an all-local line-up plus food booths for Black-Eyed Sally's restaurant and Ben & Jerry's.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 26, 2021
An autumnal romance TV-movie for Hallmark was filmed last week at Meadowbrook Farm in Marlborough.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 24, 2021
TheaterWorks Hartford is presenting Amy Berryman's new play "Walden" in a small cabin on Riverfront Recapture property on the Hartford/Windsor line. The environmental drama has live performa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 23, 2021
"Bloom," an outdoor "art safari" by the dance/movement troupe Pilobolus, takes place in the ponds, fields and forests of Sunny Meadow Farms in Bridgewater.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55PM[SHARE]At its annual meeting, the Hartford Stage board of directors elected Jack Sennott as its new president.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PM[SHARE]Ten arts highlights for the week of Aug. 25-31, including two Shakespeare festivals, the Black-Eyed and Blues Festival and the SHAG Festival.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PM[SHARE]The Spring Hill Arts Gathering (SHAG) is a celebration of modern art, music, ideas and food. Building on the Five Senses Festival which happened on the same location in recent summers, SHAG …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 22, 2021
Two dozen more Connecticut-based arts venues (or production companies, or promoters or other arts-themed businesses) received Shuttered Venue Operator Grants this week. This is the fourth ro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 21, 2021
The first Connecticut Paranormal Convention, also known as ParaConn, is happening July 24 and 25 at the Ansonia Armory. The gathering for those interested in the supernatural includes over a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PM[SHARE]A Yale Ph.D. student, Matt Amodio will be competing on "Jeopardy" Wednesday night.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 15, 2021
The Courant's top arts picks for July 12-19, including a Pilobolus Safari, '60s pop star turned top pop producer Peter Asher and much more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:07PM[SHARE]The Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series is back in Bushnell Park. This year, the Hartford Jazz Society, which hosts the series, has also produced a local jazz compilation CD which is being g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Playhouse on Park's "Kill Move Paradise," now streaming through Aug. 1, is a harrowing fantasy about young murdered Black men who turn up in a stark netherworld, where they act out scenes of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Hartford Stage has received a federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grant at the same time is announcing the conclusion of its own successful $6 million fundraising campaign. Also among the lates…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:59PM[SHARE]Monday, July 12, 2021
Real Art Ways' Creative Cocktail Hours, a tradition that started in 2002, is returning July 15 with a gallery opening, live music from Red Baraat, performance art, a DJ, a yoga session and m…
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