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Thursday, December 5, 2013

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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]

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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]

'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[SHARE]

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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
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[SHARE]
Monday, November 18, 2013

Rocco Sisto Heads '3 Musketeers' Cast by Frank Rizzo

At Connecticut Repertory Theatre

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:31PM[SHARE]

Short Takes On Connecticut Theater Events by Frank Rizzo

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

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:18PM[SHARE]

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[SHARE]

Ken Tigar, Jonathan Crombie in 'Freud's Last Session' by Frank Rizzo

TheaterWorks Prioduction Staged By Maxwell Williams

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:50PM[SHARE]

Short Theater, Arts, Entertainment Blurbs In Connecticut by Frank Rizzo

About Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Crawford, Mark Russell

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:04PM[SHARE]

Writers Of New Musicals Get Cracking by Frank Rizzo

O'Neill Center, Yale Institute Wants You

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:04PM[SHARE]

New Holiday Spoofs By Theresa Rebeck, Jonathan Tolins, Others by Frank Rizzo

'Christmas on the Rocks' Premieres At Hartford's TheaterWorks

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:18PM[SHARE]

New York Times Cheers For Broadway/Hartford Stage's 'Love/Mruder' by Frank Rizzo

Other Critics Positive, Too; A Few Dissenters

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AM[SHARE]
Friday, November 15, 2013

'A Christmas Story: The Musical:" Nostalgic, Quirky And Sweet by Frank Rizzo

The show: "A Christmas Story:The Musical"

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Hartford Stage's 'Gentleman's Guide' Opening On Broadway by Frank Rizzo

Darko Tresnjak and Joey Parnes — the Broadway newbie and the veteran producer — sit in the orchestra section of the Walter Kerr Theatre looking remarkably serene. After all, it w…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 10, 2013

'Ralphie' Talks About His 'Christmas Story' At Bushnell by Frank Rizzo

You know him as Ralphie, the bespectacled fourth-grader with the December-long quest with getting an Official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle in 1983's "A Christmas S…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, November 8, 2013

Former Dean of Hartt Malcolm Morrison Dies by Frank Rizzo

Transformed Institution During 12-Year TenureMalcolm Morrison, who expanded the Hartt School at the University of Hartford in size and scope, died Friday at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:58PM[SHARE]

Steven Epp Heads Yale Rep's 'Anarchist' Cast by Frank Rizzo

Steven Epp who clowned his way through two side-splitting shows at Yale Repertory Theatre --  "A Doctor In Spite of Himself" and "A Servant of Two Masters" under director Christop…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:23PM[SHARE]

In Praise Of The "Stickiness' Of Arts Leaders by Frank Rizzo

Things are getting pretty nostalgic lately, what with the 50th anniversary celebrations first at Goodspeed Musicals and now at Hartford Stage -- with more half-century milestones coming…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:21PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Yale Repertory Theatre Presents Engaging But Unfocused 'Owners' by Frank Rizzo

Early Caryl Churchill Work Explores Power Of PossessionThe show: "Owners" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 31, 2013

50 Years At Hartford Stage: The Highs And Lows Via Its Artistic Directors by Frank Rizzo

Among themselves, they call each other by the order in which they led Hartford Stage with Jacques Cartier, who founded the theater in 1963 being "One."

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05PM[SHARE]

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