Sing hallelujah because gospel music is finally getting its due. Yale University is aiming to be the academic center of the gospel music world with its new interdisciplinary Program in Music…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:18AMEstelle Parsons sits in her sunny living room in her Upper West Side apartment, taking an afternoon break from preparations for her annual trip to New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, where…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:31PMSix years ago Ricardo Gutiérrez was in Connecticut for a business meeting at a design firm for which is he was doing graphic work. But when the young Colombian visual artist stepped off the…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:12PMPicture this. You’re entering a world-famous museum say the Yale University Art Gallery or Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum—and you’re feeling overwhelmed, intimidated, and you just don…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:47AMWriter-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist’s coming-of-age in the ’70s, “Almost Famous,” lands pretty much intact in Broadway’s latest …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:03PMALL PHOTOS BY JOAN MARCUS. The show: “Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee at Yale Repertory T…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:30PMThe show: “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie. I mean “Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie at Hartford Stage. What makes it special? Did I mention Agatha Christie? A…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:01PMThe show: “42nd Street” at Goodspeed opera House in East Haddam …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:09AMWhen Mike Reiss takes a vacation, he often skips over the tried and true and heads for global hotspots like Iraq, Libya and North Korea. And cold-spots, too, like the Antarctica, Lizzie Bord…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:15PMWhat a fab Fall 2022 season! How can we choose from the wealth of theater, music and dance events throughout the state? Let us help with a highly opinionated and very user-friendly guide to …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:01PMTake two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway’s most iconic roles, which in her mind — or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:02PMDavid Fay of The Bushnell As the pandemic continues to fade and most Connecticut theaters lift COVID-19 restrictions, there’s a…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:29PMThe opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of “1776” makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signers of the Declara…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:48PMPun Bandhu confesses to having been naive when he graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2000. After having no difficulty being cast in a wide variety of roles in plays while at school, …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:21PMIt was sometime in the late 1970s when I attended my first show at Long Wharf Theatre. I was new to New Haven and only knew of the theatre—then just a dozen years old—by its reputation f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:26PMIt’s taken more than two years but the Yale University Art Gallery has finally returned to pre-pandemic attendance numbers, a significant accomplishment in the arts industry, which was hit…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:15PMALL PHOTOS BY JOAN MARCUS Get thee to Arden — or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted music…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:33PMHere’s a bunch of pictures from photographer Steve James off the 8th Annual Middlebury Filmmakers Festival which concludes today in this charming Vermont college town., Amtrak’s Ethan …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:10PMThe second day of the festival was also filled with film, films and more films, both short and feature length from the U.S. as well as from around the world. What I liked about these films w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:38PMWhen our friends invited us up from New Haven to Middlebury, Vermont, it did’t take long to dash and buy our Amtrak tickets to the town’s new train stop on the Ethan Allen line (leavin…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:53PMTransformative changes are ahead for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, fueled by a historic multimillion-dollar gift that will create new outreach initiatives and a new home for its performa…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:27AMThe show: ”Secondo” at TheaterWorks Hartford What is it?: Jacques Lamarre’s sequel to his play-with-food show, “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti,” based on the stories of author G…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:26AMThe show: “Anne of Green Gables” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:59PMConnecticut VOICE, the state’s premier magazine dedicated exclusively to the LGBTQ+ community, will present the Inaugural Connecticut VOICE Honors Gala on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m., at…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:10PMNEW YORK—The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) and Foundation ATCA have announced the first recipient of the ATCA Helbing fellowship for LGBTQ+ theater writers. Members of the He…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:01AMThe show: “The Kite Runner” by Matthew Spangler at Helen Haynes Theatre, NYC What is it?: Play based on Khaled Hosseini’s fictional memoir and popular debut novel in 2003 about two Af…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:33AMMy uncle Peter is seated peacefully in a lounge chair in a suburban Boston backyard. Feeling the sun warming his face, a gentle spring breeze against his skin and the call of a nearby goldfi…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:27PMThe show: “Kim’s Convenience” by Ins Choi at Westport Country Playhouse …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:46PMAll photos by Matt Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade. The show: “Into the Woods” at the St. James Theatre in NYC. What …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:20PMReview of John Leguizamo's musical "Kiss My Aztec!" It's been presented at Berkeley Rep and La Jolla and this is 3rd perch with hopes to go to NYC. next. The Hartford Courant didnt care for…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:46AM\What to do with the 60 acres of open waterfront space on the Hartford-Windsor border that Riverfront Recapture acquired last year? The private, nonprofit organization is planning a riverwal…
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