Where can Connecticut kids go trick-or-treating while keeping safe from coronavirus contamination? Businesses throughout the Hartford area are stepping up to the challenge, providing alterna…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:31PMConnecticut bands scare up some spooky tunes for Halloween, including some creative classical riffs and a couple of online live events.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:52AMThe Consonare Choral Community in Storrs has created a series "Ballads for Ballots" of song videos leading up to Election. The final video is inviting singers from outside the group to parti…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:38AMFolk hero Tom Rush returns to New England, playing an outdoor 1 p.m. show Nov. 7 at Bridge St. Live in Collinsville.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:16PM"American Dreams" is an interactive political comedy about immigration, structured like a game show, with the play's audience deciding who wins. The online production is being brought to Con…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:42PMOnline arts galas take many forms: a multi-star concert at the Goodspeed, an array of bestselling writers at the Mark Twain House, a Steve Turre sextet for the Hartford Jazz Society and star…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:18PMSarah Gancher's brash, multi-styled social satire about Russian internet misinformation campaigns of 2016 is spun with all sorts of creative online tricks. It's full of visual surprises and …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:10PMPre-election shows from TheaterWorks, HartBeat Ensemble and other Connecticut theaters touch on such topics as immigration, disinformation campaigns and Donald Trump.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:25AMTheaterWorks Hartford has partnered with Hartford Public Library to offer passes to its latest online attraction, the political comedy "Russian Troll Farm."
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:08PMUConn's Jorgensen Center has announced a four show fall season of Pilobolus, Kelli O'Hara, a chamber concert and a kids show about the Day of the Dead.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:23AMLocal hardcore hero Jay Reason has opened his own record store in downtown Milford. Static Era Records carries an array of intriguing vinyl albums, including releases from Reason's own recor…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Russian Troll Farm" is a harrowing "workplace comedy" based on the real-life activities of those who used social media to try to disrupt the 2016 election. The play by Sarah Gancher, direct…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:34PMThe theater season has begun, largely online, but with great variety. October brings political shows, the classic play "The Gin Game," a Judy Garland tribute and more.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:35PMThe state is allowing music venues to reopen Oct. 8 but few are able to without some clarification of the new regulations.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 05:43PMRather than go dark in just its second year, Hartford Fringe Festival has gone virtual during the COVID crisis, with dozens of online offerings. Most of them are theatrical but there are als…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMHartBeat Ensemble has announced an online fall season of political theater, interviews with women musicians, a radio series based on Mohegan tribal tales, an immigration game show and more. …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:48AMSeveral Connecticut theaters (including TheaterWorks and the Long Wharf) are moving away from traditional season subscription offers and embracing new "membership" plans, where loyal theater…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:18PMConnecticut dancers, musicians and storytellers will be showcased on an episode of The Kennedy Center's online "Arts Across America" program Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. The University of St. Joseph's…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:17AMUConn's Connecticut Repertory Theatre has announced its two-show fall season. The comedy "Men in Boats" will have multiple live online performances, while the radio-style Christmas play "It'…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:39PMVirtual concerts by Suzanne Vega and Jim Brickman on The Bushnell's fall schedule are designed to benefit the theater while its building is closed due to the coronavirus.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTheaterWorks Hartford is opening its new membership-based season of monthly online theater shows with a staged reading of a new musical, "At the River I Stand," about the 1968 Memphis Sanita…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMGoodspeed Musicals has renamed its annual gathering of musical theater creators. It is now the Johnny Mercer Foundation Grove at Goodspeed Musicals.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:09AMA 4-year-old Southington resident has seen the shorts videos she stars in, recreating scenes from hit movies, go viral in recent days, raising tens of thousands of dollars for charity.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:29AMThe Goodspeed Opera House is planning to do a two-show season in 2021, and will be offering a streaming version of each show to ticket holders who don't want to see it live.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:43AMTiffani Gavin is the new executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:42AMThe 2020-21 theater season has begun, largely online, with shows from established local theaters that speak to contemporary issues like immigration, civil rights and presidential elections.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMU.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal visited his third Connecticut theater in as many weeks to stump for two federal bills that could bring relief to entertainment venues that have largely been clos…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:42PMThe Hartbeat Music Festival, which has quickly become one of the biggest local band events in Connecticut, has gone online this year. Over three dozen bands are participating, including uniq…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe modern dance troupes Pilobolus and 860 MVMNT will grace the Autorino Center at the University of St. Joseph during the 2020-21 school year. Performances will range from live shows for sm…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMHartford Symphony violinist and Avon resident Gary Capozziello was debilitated by COVID and came out of it wanting to help his fellow musicians who livelihoods had been affected by the crisi…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe annual Night Fall event, which features dozens of locals artists and giant puppets performing in area parks, has moved online for 2020. The video will stream on Oct. 3.
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