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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

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

TheaterWorks Prioduction Staged By Maxwell Williams

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:50PM

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

About Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Crawford, Mark Russell

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:04PM

Writers Of New Musicals Get Cracking by Frank Rizzo

O'Neill Center, Yale Institute Wants You

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:04PM

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

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
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
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
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

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