Monday, July 26, 2021
An autumnal romance TV-movie for Hallmark was filmed last week at Meadowbrook Farm in Marlborough.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:30PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
TheaterWorks Hartford is presenting Amy Berryman's new play "Walden" in a small cabin on Riverfront Recapture property on the Hartford/Windsor line. The environmental drama has live performa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, July 23, 2021
"Bloom," an outdoor "art safari" by the dance/movement troupe Pilobolus, takes place in the ponds, fields and forests of Sunny Meadow Farms in Bridgewater.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55PMAt its annual meeting, the Hartford Stage board of directors elected Jack Sennott as its new president.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PMTen arts highlights for the week of Aug. 25-31, including two Shakespeare festivals, the Black-Eyed and Blues Festival and the SHAG Festival.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PMThe Spring Hill Arts Gathering (SHAG) is a celebration of modern art, music, ideas and food. Building on the Five Senses Festival which happened on the same location in recent summers, SHAG …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 22, 2021
Two dozen more Connecticut-based arts venues (or production companies, or promoters or other arts-themed businesses) received Shuttered Venue Operator Grants this week. This is the fourth ro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:31PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
The first Connecticut Paranormal Convention, also known as ParaConn, is happening July 24 and 25 at the Ansonia Armory. The gathering for those interested in the supernatural includes over a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PMA Yale Ph.D. student, Matt Amodio will be competing on "Jeopardy" Wednesday night.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:22AMThursday, July 15, 2021
The Courant's top arts picks for July 12-19, including a Pilobolus Safari, '60s pop star turned top pop producer Peter Asher and much more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:07PMThe Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series is back in Bushnell Park. This year, the Hartford Jazz Society, which hosts the series, has also produced a local jazz compilation CD which is being g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AMWednesday, July 14, 2021
Playhouse on Park's "Kill Move Paradise," now streaming through Aug. 1, is a harrowing fantasy about young murdered Black men who turn up in a stark netherworld, where they act out scenes of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:33AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
Hartford Stage has received a federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grant at the same time is announcing the conclusion of its own successful $6 million fundraising campaign. Also among the lates…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:59PMMonday, July 12, 2021
Real Art Ways' Creative Cocktail Hours, a tradition that started in 2002, is returning July 15 with a gallery opening, live music from Red Baraat, performance art, a DJ, a yoga session and m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:38PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Twenty-one more Connecticut arts venues (or production companies or promoters) have received federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grants, it was announced Tuesday. Among the awardees: TheaterWor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:06AMThursday, July 8, 2021
What's happening arts-wise in Connecticut July 11-17, from the "La Boheme" in Burr Mall to the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz in Bushnell Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:36PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Pilobolus has announced that the outdoor arts safari it created during the COVID crisis last summer will return, with a new title and location, in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMA slew of Beatles-themed events are happening in Connecticut in July, led by a ten-band outdoor Fab 4 Music Festival in Ansonia on July 10 and also including a Hartford Symphony Orchestra "C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:28PMFriday, July 2, 2021
Playhouse on Park has had to shift its entire six-week Connecticut Shakespeare Festival from an outdoor location in Bloomfield to indoors at the theater’s accustomed 244 Park Road home —…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:55PMOur pick of the arts events for July 4-10, 2021. An Independence Day "bonanza" in Bushnell Park, a dance concert in Keney Park, a Shakespeare Festival on farmland in Bloomfield and much more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 1, 2021
Douglas Lyons, who grew up in New Haven and attended the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, will see his family comedy "Chicken & Biscuits" produced on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:57PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
"Little Girl Blue," a two-act one-woman musical about jazz/pop legend Nina Simone, has been added to the Goodspeed by the River tent concert series, Aug. 4-29.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:59PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
The Shuttered Venue Operators grants (originally known as Save Our Stages) has awarded
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PMThursday, June 24, 2021
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced a shortened yet high-impact three-show 2021-2022 season, the first public shows to be produced by the Rep since the coronavirus shutdown. The season …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
A community-based "Godspell" in Shelton gives clues as to what live theater will be like in the next few months.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PMThe racial injustice drama "Kill Move Paradise" is being staged by Playhouse on Park in Hartford's Bushnell Park through June 25, then will stream in July. The show covers some of the same t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
This year Juneteenth — which commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States in the 1860s — will be especially grand in five Connecticut cities, where giant murals have be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The “Goodspeed by the River” concert series, which kicked off last week, is the Goodspeed doing what it can do until it can be the Goodspeed again.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 11, 2021
New Haven's Shubert and the Palace Theater in Waterbury have both announced their Broadway seasons, and four tours ("Anastasia," "Waitress," "An American in Paris" and "Beautiful") have land…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PM"South Pacific," long promised as the first musical the Goodspeed Opera House would produce when the theater reemerged following the COVID crisis, has fallen off the schedule entirely now. "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:25PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Hartford Stage's 2021-22 season will feature "Ah, Wilderness!," "Lost in Yonkers," “Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous” and the new play “Dishwasher Dreams" -- but not the season…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM 
