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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

Yale Acting Students To Receive Julie Harris Scholarships by Frank Rizzo

Julie Harris loved acting and actors and now that love will manifest itself in the Julie Harris Scholarship  that will benefit an acting student at the Yale School of Drama.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:09PM
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

'Love And Other Fables' Musical Postponed At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Season Ender for 50 t h Anniversary Is Now Durang's 'Vanya'The new musical "Love and Other Fables," Hartford Stage's 50 t h anniversary season-ender slated for a world premiere in May, i…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM

A Sassy Nun Takes The Stage At Long Wharf by Frank Rizzo

'Sister's Christmas Catechism' Plays Through Dec. 15 The retelling of the story of the Nativity gets an irreverent twist in "Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold," pl…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Sunday, December 1, 2013

TheaterWorks' 'Christmas On The Rocks' An Irreverent Twist On Season by Frank Rizzo

Show A Funny, Dark Follow-Up To Some Of Your Favorite Holiday Characters What ever happen to Tiny Tim after Scrooge became benefactor to the Cratchett family that famous Christmas morning? D…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Ari Brand Heads Cast In 'Crossing Delancey' At Westport by Frank Rizzo

Ari Brand, who starred in "My Name Is Asher Lev" at Long Wharf theatre and off-Broadway, will head the cast of the romantic comedy “Crossing Delancey,” a Script in Hand play…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:41PM

'My Fair Lady" Returns With Full Orchestra by Frank Rizzo

At New Haven's Shubert Theater Where It Premiered

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:28PM

Wesleyan's Center For The Arts Gets $400,000 Surprise by Frank Rizzo

Thank You, Doris Duke Foundation

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PM

Goodspeed Actor Responds To Tragedy With '26 Pebbles' by Frank Rizzo

Aftermath Of Newtown Killings Subject of New Play, Reading

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AM
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Phylicia Rashad Directing Wilson's 'Fences' At Long Wharf by Frank Rizzo

Diners and waitresses beam upon recognizing the familiar face of the woman eating a short stack of blueberry pancakes and sipping peppermint tea at an off-the-highway eatery in New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

'Newsies' Heading To Waterbury's Palace by Frank Rizzo

Prior To Official Start Of Tour

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:26PM
Monday, November 18, 2013

Rocco Sisto Heads '3 Musketeers' Cast by Frank Rizzo

At Connecticut Repertory Theatre

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:31PM

Short Takes On Connecticut Theater Events by Frank Rizzo

More 'Spagheti,' New Kids' Show, New Legacy execs

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:18PM

Theater Comes To Hartford's Mark Twain House and Museum by Frank Rizzo

'Wonderful Life,' 'Life On the Mississippi'

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:09PM

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