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Thursday, February 16, 2012

OPM's Ben Bares Responds to Arts Funding Push-Back by Frank Rizzo

Phase-In Of the Elimination of Earmarks Now ProposedFile this under: "The Devil Is in the Deatils"

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:19PM[SHARE]

New 'Addams Family' Adds Some Heart (And Some Snap, Snap) by Frank Rizzo

It's been a long and hard — not to mention spooky and ooky — road to get "The Addams Family"musical first to Broadway and then on tour. The national road company opens its one-we…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PM[SHARE]

Making the Arts Sing For Its Supper by Frank Rizzo

Malloy Plan Giveth Modestly And Taketh Big TimeI attended two events Wednesday in Hartford about arts funding in Connecticut and taken together they speak of new -- and troubling -- ways the…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:12PM[SHARE]

'Nanny's' Daniel Davis To Star In Hartford Stage's 'Tempest' by Frank Rizzo

Hartford's Restructured Bated Breath Has New Artistic Director   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDaniel Davis , veteran actor o…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Theater Review: 'CQ/CX' by Gabe McKinley at Peter Norton Space by Frank Rizzo

"CQ/CX" by Gabe McKinley traces the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]

Former Slave Lizzy Keckly Subject of Stage Work in Connecticut, Too by Frank Rizzo

Dressmaker and Friend to Mary Todd Lincoln Playwright-director Tazewell Thompson isn't the only theater artist who is inspired to create a stage work about the life of Elizabeth Keckly , …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:51AM[SHARE]

"Mary T. and Lizzy K." Back In Line-Up For Arena Stage by Frank Rizzo

“Mary T. and Lizzy K.,” a new play by Tazewell Thompson (“Constant Star”) will receive its world premiere in the 2012-13 season at Arena Stage in Washington D.C.…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:14AM[SHARE]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Romeo and Juliet...and Stew by Frank Rizzo

Connecticut's Shakespeare on the Sound Offers Play with a Twist Guess who's coming to dinner? Romeo and Juilet and their whole damn families.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AM[SHARE]

Musicals, Comedy and Mrs. Robinson at Ivoryton Playhouse Season by Frank Rizzo

The Ivoryton Playhous e’s 2012 season will be filled with music, comedy and Mrs. Robinson.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:56AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Restructured Bated Breath Theater Company in Hartford Gets New Artistic Director by Frank Rizzo

Mara Lieberman is the new artistic director Bated Breath Theatre Company , which is is restructuring as “a performance collective in order to bring a wide variety of cutting-edge per…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AM[SHARE]

"The Price" to B'way So "All My Sons" to Barrington Stage by Frank Rizzo

Barrington Stage Company , in Pittsfield, Mass. has replaced Arthur Miller’s "The Price" from its summer main stage lineup with Miller’s “All My Sons.”

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:13AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 10, 2012

Gabriel Kahane's 'February House' Premieres At Long Wharf by Frank Rizzo

  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageIn the early 1940s, a group of artists — among them writer Carson McCullers, composer Benjami…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:48PM[SHARE]
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Daniel Davis Is Prospero In "The Tempest" At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Darko Tresnjak Stages First Shakespeare Here As Artistic DirectorDaniel Davis, veteran actor of stage and TV, will play Prospero on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at Hartford Stag e…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:10PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival Heading To Twain House by Frank Rizzo

"The Simpsons" Mike Reiss To Receive "Commie" Award The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the largest comedy film festival in the USA, will head East to Hartfiord's  Mark Twain Ho…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM[SHARE]

Mac Wellman's "Dracula" Bows at Yale Cabaret in New Haven by Frank Rizzo

Mac Wellman' s absurdist, psycho-sexual adaptation (we're there!) of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" will be presented Feb. 16 to 18 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AM[SHARE]

"Risk" Has Wesleyan Dropping Its Act by Frank Rizzo

W. Kamau Bell Featured in ShowsHere's something a little bit different.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:57AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

"Amazing Grace" Opens Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre Season by Frank Rizzo

Gabriel Barre Directs New Show About Famous HymnThe musical workshop of “Amazing Grace,” based on the life of John Newton , the former slave trader who wrote the world's most …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55PM[SHARE]

'Billy Elliot,' 'American Idiot,' 'Sister Act,' 'Million Dollar Quartet' Highlight Bushnell Broadway Season by Frank Rizzo

'Grinch' Coming for the HolidaysTouring companies of Broadway's "Billy Elliot," "American Idiot," "Sister Act," and "Million Dollar Quartet" will make up much of the 2012-13 Broadway ser…

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

"King Lear" Kicks Off Trinity Rep's 2012-13 Season by Frank Rizzo

Ayckbourn's "House & Garden" To Be Presented Simultaneously In 2 TheatersWilliam Shakespeare's "King Lear" will kick off the 2012-13 season at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AM[SHARE]

Jonathan Epstein To Star in "Red" At Hartford's TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

Also Cast Is Thomas LevertonJonathan Epstein, a frequent actor in the Massachusetts Berkshires, stars as abstract artist Mark Rothko in John Logan 's Tony Award-winning play "Red." The…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:26AM[SHARE]
Sunday, February 5, 2012

"Smash:" It's Not a Documentary But Still... by Frank Rizzo

A look at the NBC primetime soap about the making of a Broadway musicalWatching the first four episodes of the much-hyped TV series “Smash,” one may ask, “Whose Broadway …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:35AM[SHARE]

'Smash' Is Look at Broadway Musical by Frank Rizzo

Star Power on and off Screen in NBC Series   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDavid Marshall Grant sits at his desk in a nondesc…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 3, 2012

"Michael Feinstein's American Songbook" Returns for More Musical Hunting by Frank Rizzo

Visits Hugh Hefner's Mansion in Search of Tunes and Devices"Michael Feinstein's American Songbook" kicks off its second season on PBS tonighjt with a visit to Hugh Hefner 's pad in search …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:56PM[SHARE]

Malcolm Morrison To Direct "Hamlet" at Hartt by Frank Rizzo

Mark Ford Stars as Great DaneAnd what did you do your final year at college? Oh, I played “Hamlet”.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:23PM[SHARE]

Lauren Kennedy, Erik Liberman Cast In 'Into the Woods' at Westport Playhouse by Frank Rizzo

Danielle Ferland -- the Original Red Riding Hood -- Returns As Baker's WifeLauren Kennedy, Erik Liberman and Danielle Ferland will be featured in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine music…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Hall of Famer Ben Vereen To Be "In Conversation" in Fairfield by Frank Rizzo

Did you miss Ben Vereen when he performed as part of the "Legends" series in 2010 as part of Hartford Stage's SummerStage ?

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:17PM[SHARE]

Kate MacCluggage To Bewitch in "Bell, Book and Candle" by Frank Rizzo

Kate MacCluggage , who was last featured in the ensemble cast of Long Wharf Theatre's "It's a Wonderful Life," will play Gillian, the bewitching witch, in the the romantic comedy "Bell, Bo…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:23PM[SHARE]

Shirley MacLaine Show In Torrington Still On Despite 'Downton Abbey' by Frank Rizzo

There were a few shock waves set off in Torrington yesterday when the folks at the Warner Theatre read that actress Shirley MacLaine , 77, was added to the cast of the popular PBS series,…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:26PM[SHARE]

O'Neill Center's George White Honored at Theater Hall of Fame by Frank Rizzo

Meryl Streep, Liza, Brian Dennehy, Phylicia Rashad Pay TributeGeorge C. White, founder and former executive director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford called it a &l…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:34AM[SHARE]

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