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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

"Becoming Dr. Ruth:" More Than A Little Sex by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Becoming Dr. Ruth" at Hartford's TheaterWorks

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Sunday, June 9, 2013

A Different Magic For 'Midsummer Night's Dream': Puppets by Frank Rizzo

'War Horse' Director Works Some Shakespeare Magic That Plays International Festival of Arts & Ideas What do you do after you create an international mega-hit starring a horse?

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Comedy Shows The State Has Its Funny Side by Frank Rizzo

Mike Reiss' 'I'm Connecticut' At Ivoryton PlayhouseThe show: "I'm Connecticut" at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

My Interview With Jean Stapleton; Part of the Hartford Stage Family by Frank Rizzo

The news of the death of actress Jean Stapleton at the age of 90 was sad but not surprising this weekend. The actress was in failing health for years. Indeed she withdrew from the lead in …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:09AM[SHARE]

'Smokey Joe's Cafe' Joins Long Wharf Theatre Summer Slate by Frank Rizzo

The musical reviue  "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs opf Leiber and Stoller""  will be part of  Long Wharf Theatre  summer slate July 10 to 28.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:25AM[SHARE]

Hunter Foster Joins Cast At O'Neill's Music Theater Conference by Frank Rizzo

Sara Gettelfinger, Wesley Taylor, Kate Wetherhead, TooHunter Foster  (Broadway's "Urinetown"),  Sara Gettelfinger  (Broadway's "Nine," "Dirty Roten Scoundrels"), Veronica Kuehn , (…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:10AM[SHARE]

Hunter Foster Joins Cast At O'Neill's Music Theater Conference by Frank Rizzo

Sara Gettelfinger, Wesley Taylor, Kate Wetherhead, Too

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:54AM[SHARE]
Monday, June 3, 2013

'True Blood''s Joe Mangianiello To Star in Yale Rep's "Streetcar,' Reports Say by Frank Rizzo

Joe Manganiello, star of HBO's "True Blood" and the male stripper film "Magic Mike" will play the iconic role of Stanley Kowalksi in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Tennes…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:32PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 30, 2013

"Marie Antoinette," "Gentleman's Guide" Get Top Honors From Ct Critics by Frank Rizzo

A Broadway-bound musical about a charming serial killer and a play about a misunderstood French icon received top honors from the Connecticut Critics Association, honoring the best of the …

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

Review: Sachi Parker's Confusing, Confounding Life In 'Lucky Me' by Frank Rizzo

Daughter of Shirley MacLaine Premieres Solo Memoir ShowThe show: "Lucky Me" at Off Broadway Theatre in New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:48PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Review: 'Catch Me If You Can' Runs In Place by Frank Rizzo

Stephen Anthony Impressive As Con-On-The-RunThe show : The tour of the musical "Catch Me If You Can" at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts .

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013

Jeffrey Hatcher's 'Mrs. Mannerly' To Open TheaterWorks' New Season by Frank Rizzo

'The Other Place,' 'Love/Sick,' 'Woody Sez' TooHartford’s TheaterWorks, under the direction of Rob Ruggiero , in will open its 2013-14 season with Jeffrey Hatcher’s &ldq…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:05AM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Connecticut Critics Circle Nominate Best Of Theater Season by Frank Rizzo

Winners To Be Named Next Week; Ceremony Open To Public June 10 At Long Wharf Theater Whew! There's a slew of nominations for The Connectocut Critics Circle Awards honoring the best of t…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:30AM[SHARE]
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Review: Doubling Down On Love in Hartford Stage's 'Twelfth Night' by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Twelfth Night" at Hartford Stage

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Shirley MacLaine's Daughter Sachi Parker Has Her Say by Frank Rizzo

New Haven Stage Show Based on Autobiography 'Lucky Me'People would often come up to Sachi Parker to say she must be so lucky to have such a wonderful mother, Oscar-winning actress Shirley Ma…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:36PM[SHARE]

Calling On Dr. Ruth About Her Play At TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

One-Woman Show Looks At Her Life As Holocaust Orphan, Israeli Sniper And Sex Counselor The doorbell of the apartment in a modest brick building in a quiet residential neighborhood in Washin…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:45PM[SHARE]

Three In Connecticut To Receive Governor's Arts Awards by Frank Rizzo

Eliizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Greene, Olu Oguibe

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Yale Crash Victim's Play Opens As Family Marks First Anniversary Of Her Death by Frank Rizzo

On the night before the first anniversary of the death of Marina Keegan, the 22-year-old writer who was killed in a car crash on Cape Cod days after graduating magna cum from Yale, her play …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:21PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 20, 2013

Nominations Announced For Connecticut High School Music Theater Awards by Frank Rizzo

Nominations are out for the annual Connecticut High School Music Theater Awards . Winners will be revealed at a ceremony at the Palace Theater in Waterbury on Tuesday, June 4. Tiony Award…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:46AM[SHARE]
Friday, May 17, 2013

Set Designer Creates Maze Magic For 'Twelfth Night' At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Alexander Dodge Creates Solid Settings But Under His Own Terms For set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:51PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Being Neighborly — And Not — In 'Clybourne Park' by Frank Rizzo

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Gets Solid Connecticut Premiere ProductionEditor's note: This is a corrected version of this online review. Actress Alice Ripley was incorrectly named as Emily Sk…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:42PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013

Two World Premieres, Musical Slated For Long Wharf Season by Frank Rizzo

New Works by Athol Fugard, Heidi Screck PlannedWorld premieres by Athol Fugar d and Heidi Schreck , a revival of August Wilson ’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “Fence…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:34PM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Tallulah Bankhead Remembered At Ivoryton Playhouse by Frank Rizzo

The run of Matthew Lombardo's "Looped" starring Stefanie Powers as Tallulah Bankhead at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts this week prompted a letter from Henry E. …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:38PM[SHARE]

Kevin Gray Memorial Set For Monday In New York by Frank Rizzo

Hartt School Educator, Actor Died Earlier This Year

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:08PM[SHARE]

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