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Monday, July 12, 2021

Real Art Ways' Creative Cocktail Hour returning with music, art, performances and food trucks by Christopher Arnott

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…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:38PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 9, 2021

TheaterWorks, Goodspeed, Infinity Music Hall get federal grants 'vital to recovery' by Christopher Arnott

Twenty-one more Connecticut arts venues (or production companies or promoters) have received federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grants, it was announced Tuesday. Among the awardees: TheaterWor…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:06AM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Arts picks for July 11-17: a jazz fest, an opera, a radio play, Luke Bryan and more by Christopher Arnott

What's happening arts-wise in Connecticut July 11-17, from the "La Boheme" in Burr Mall to the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz in Bushnell Park.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:36PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Pilobolus hosting another 'art safari' for summer by Christopher Arnott

Pilobolus has announced that the outdoor arts safari it created during the COVID crisis last summer will return, with a new title and location, in July.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PM[SHARE]

July brings a Beatles bonanza to Connecticut, from the 10-band Fab 4 Music Festival to Hartford Symphony's Classical Mystery Tour by Christopher Arnott

A slew of Beatles-themed events are happening in Connecticut in July, led by a ten-band outdoor Fab 4 Music Festival in Ansonia on July 10 and also including a Hartford Symphony Orchestra "C…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:28PM[SHARE]
Friday, July 2, 2021

Playhouse on Park's Shakespeare festival forced to move abruptly after Auerfarm gets cease and desist order by Christopher Arnott

Playhouse on Park has had to shift its entire six-week Connecticut Shakespeare Festival from an outdoor location in Bloomfield to indoors at the theater's accustomed 244 Park Road home " jus…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:55PM[SHARE]

This week's arts picks: Outdoor concerts, comedy, dance and a murder mystery by Christopher Arnott

Our pick of the arts events for July 4-10, 2021. An Independence Day "bonanza" in Bushnell Park, a dance concert in Keney Park, a Shakespeare Festival on farmland in Bloomfield and much more.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Connecticut's Doug Lyons, known for children's musical 'Polkadots', bringing feel-good comedy 'Chicken & Biscuits' to Broadway by Christopher Arnott

Douglas Lyons, who grew up in New Haven and attended the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, will see his family comedy "Chicken & Biscuits" produced on Broadway this fall.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:57PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Goodspeed adds Nina Simone bio-musical to summer concert season by Christopher Arnott

"Little Girl Blue," a two-act one-woman musical about jazz/pop legend Nina Simone, has been added to the Goodspeed by the River tent concert series, Aug. 4-29.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:59PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Yale Repertory Theatre to reopen in January with three-show season by Christopher Arnott

The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced a shortened yet high-impact three-show 2021-2022 season, the first public shows to be produced by the Rep since the coronavirus shutdown. The season …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

A community 'Godspell' gives hope, evokes enthusiasm for live theater's return in Connecticut by Christopher Arnott

A community-based "Godspell" in Shelton gives clues as to what live theater will be like in the next few months.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PM[SHARE]

'Kill Move Paradise,' a play for the Black Lives Matter era, performed this week in Bushnell Park by Christopher Arnott

The racial injustice drama "Kill Move Paradise" is being staged by Playhouse on Park in Hartford's Bushnell Park through June 25, then will stream in July. The show covers some of the same t…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AM[SHARE]
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Civil rights murals, to be unveiled Juneteenth across Connecticut, celebrate heroes of the fight for equality by Christopher Arnott

This year Juneteenth " which commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States in the 1860s " will be especially grand in five Connecticut cities, where giant murals have been c…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

'Ben & Dee' kick off Goodspeed concert series with pop duets by Christopher Arnott

The "Goodspeed by the River" concert series, which kicked off last week, is the Goodspeed doing what it can do until it can be the Goodspeed again.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, June 11, 2021

Shubert, Waterbury Palace announce 2021-22 seasons, including shared bookings of 'Anastasia' by Christopher Arnott

New Haven's Shubert and the Palace Theater in Waterbury have both announced their Broadway seasons, and four tours ("Anastasia," "Waitress," "An American in Paris" and "Beautiful") have land…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PM[SHARE]

Goodspeed will present Rodgers & Hammerstein revue this fall, but no big musicals by Christopher Arnott

"South Pacific," long promised as the first musical the Goodspeed Opera House would produce when the theater reemerged following the COVID crisis, has fallen off the schedule entirely now. "…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:25PM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Hartford Stage announces 'optimistic' 2021-22 season " but no 'A Christmas Carol' by Christopher Arnott

Hartford Stage's 2021-22 season will feature "Ah, Wilderness!," "Lost in Yonkers," "Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous" and the new play "Dishwasher Dreams" -- but not the seasonal sta…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM[SHARE]

Simsbury Meadows steps up its summer season with 100 Men of Color event, Darius Rucker charity show and of course Hartford Symphony by Christopher Arnott

The Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center continues to expand its operations. This summer it will present concerts by Darius Rucker and the U.S. Coast Guard Band and others, plus new comed…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PM[SHARE]
Monday, June 7, 2021

New seal tank tranforms the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk by Christopher Arnott

A new 150,000 gallon seal tank, named Pinniped Cove, has opened at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. The grand opening is June 8, World Oceans Day.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Hartford Stage's inaugural New Voices Festival showcases Hispanic and Latinx playwrights by Christopher Arnott

Hartford Stage is hosting its inaugural American Voices New Play Festival, showcasing works by Latinx and Hispanic writers, June 23-26.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, June 4, 2021

In TheaterWorks production, Connecticut playwright Cin Martinez explores friendship and forgiveness by Christopher Arnott

Local playwright Cin Martinez has gotten strong support from TheaterWorks Hartford for the workshop production of her new play about friendship, "Moonlighters." The theater has connected Mar…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 27, 2021

In play about 1992 L.A. riots, Oddfellows teen troupe dramatizes police violence concerns today by Christopher Arnott

A street in Middletown is a backdrop " substituted for L.A. amid the Rodney King riots " for the Oddfellows Playhouse's current production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," which the teen tr…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:32PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Foxwoods fully reopens, bringing back zipline, drive-in movies, pool parties and concerts by Christopher Arnott

Foxwoods Resort Casino has reopened at full capacity, bringing back its spa, zipline ride, Pequot Museum. The two main performance venues have been renamed, with the Grand Theater becoming t…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:37PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 24, 2021

Conard High School students find power, offer hope in retelling of Chieftains renaming debate by Christopher Arnott

Students at Conard High School in West Hartford used a theater project to revisit a controversy that roiled the school just five years ago, when the Conard sports team name and mascot was ch…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 23, 2021

National website for renters names Hartford #1 city for artists by Christopher Arnott

Hartford has earned the top spot on rent.com's list of "50 Best Cities for Artists in America." Three other Connecticut cities also landed on the list.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:57AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Sea Tea Comedy Theater plans summer reopening with lots of laughs to help people process the pandemic together by Christopher Arnott

Sea Tea Improv is preparing to roar back to life this summer, holding live improv comedy classes again in June and reopening its Sea Tea Comedy Theater in July.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:17AM[SHARE]
Friday, May 14, 2021

Couple who fell in love at the Yale School of Drama premiere musical docuseries about their marriage, careers and time in New Haven by Christopher Arnott

Married actors Ken Robinson and Christina Acosta Robinson met and fell in love at the Yale School of Drama a decade ago, moved back to New Haven a year ago and have done a virtual musical "d…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Playhouse on Park bringing political drama about murdered Black men to Bushnell Park, then Shakespeare and Sondheim to AuerFarm by Christopher Arnott

The Playhouse on Park production of "The Revolutionists" in 2019. The playhouse has planned a busy summer, with a staging of the drama "Kill Move Paradise," about violence against Black men…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:28AM[SHARE]

West Hartford native, now in London, bringing together Broadway, West End performers in virtual fundraiser for struggling actors by Christopher Arnott

West Hartford native Sarah Drake, now a resident of London, has put together a virtual charity benefit concert for struggling actors, with help from friends from Broadway and the West End. "…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The LA riots, Romeo & Juliet on gun violence, Walden and a Black coming of age musical: Connecticut theaters staging outdoor shows with unusual lo by Christopher Arnott

Connecticut theaters are braving the great outdoors this summer, with provocative shows about the environment, gun violence, the L.A. riots and Black identity.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PM[SHARE]

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