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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Long Wharf Profiles 'Second Mrs. Wilson,' Our 'First Female President' by Frank Rizzo

Margaret Colin feels right at home in the White House.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Yale Rep's 'Elevada:': He's Losing His Identity. She's Finding Hers. It's Love by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Elevada" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Julie Andrews To Present Goodspeed Award by Frank Rizzo

Goodspeed Musicals gala fundraising event will have star power this year.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:12PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Goodspeed's 'Guys And Dolls:' A Safe, If Somewhat Frantic, Bet by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Guys and Dolls" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:41PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Hartford Stage To Produce New Musical 'Anastasia' by Frank Rizzo

A new musical inspired by the legend of a surviving member of the Royal Romanov family will make its world premiere at Hartford Stage in the spring of 2016, making it the theater's first ori…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Goodspeed Stays True To Beloved 'Guys And Dolls' by Frank Rizzo

Don Stephenson knows "Guys and Dolls" inside and out. After all, his father-in-law " Frank Loesser " wrote the score.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:57PM[SHARE]

Goodspeed Stays True To Beloved 'Guys And Dolls' by Frank Rizzo

Don Stephenson knows "Guys and Dolls" inside and out. After all, his father-in-law - Frank Loesser - wrote the score.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:57PM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Yale Rep Playwright Launches Virtual Theater Company With TV Financing by Frank Rizzo

Late one night last year at New Haven's Anchor bar, playwright and TV writer Rolin Jones and his theater pals, jazzed by the excitement they were having with the "These Paper Bullets!" produ…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, April 10, 2015

Yale Rep Playwright Launches Virtual Theater Company With TV Financing by Frank Rizzo

Late one night last year at New Haven's Anchor bar, playwright and TV writer Rolin Jones and his theater pals, jazzed by the excitement they were having with the "These Paper Bullets!" produ…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:28AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 5, 2015

'Gentleman's Guide' Recoups Its $7.5M Capitalization by Frank Rizzo

The Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" has recouped its $7.5 million capitalization after playing in New York more than 16 months.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55PM[SHARE]
Friday, April 3, 2015

'Rear Window' Coming To Hartford Stage For 2015-16 Season by Frank Rizzo

Before there were drones, there were binoculars.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:31PM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Hartford Stage Chooses Cast For 'Kiss Me Kate' Revival by Frank Rizzo

Anastasia Barzee will be Lilli/Kate (Broadway's "Urinetown") and Mike McGowan will be Fred/Petruchio (Broadway's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") in the  Hartford Stage revival of Cole …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PM[SHARE]

Hartford Stage Chooses Cast For 'Kiss Me Kate' Revival by Frank Rizzo

Anastasia Barzee will be Lilli/Kate (Broadway's "Urinetown") and Mike McGowan will be Fred/Petruchio (Broadway's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") in the Hartford Stage revival of Cole Po…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Long Wharf's 'brownsville song' Takes On Gun Violence, A Life Cut Short by Frank Rizzo

The idea of the new play "brownsville song (b-side for tray)" began during the summer of 2012 when playwright Kimber Lee came across a one-page blog about a youth in the east side of Brookly…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:42PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

International Fest Of Art, Ideas Announces Lineup by Frank Rizzo

Free outdoor concerts on the New Haven Green by Lucinda Williams, Darlene Love, Angélique Kidjo, Ibeyi, and Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra will be among the highlights of…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM[SHARE]
Friday, March 20, 2015

New Christopher Shinn Play Part Of Hartford Stage 2015-16 Season by Frank Rizzo

A world premiere of a play by Christopher Shinn set in a central Connecticut suburb will open the 2015-16 season in a newly renovated Hartford Stage this fall.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM[SHARE]

Dianne Wiest Part Of Yale Rep's 2015-16 Season by Frank Rizzo

Three world premieres by a trio of female playwrights and directors " including a new work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel " are among the highlights of the 2015-16 season announced f…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM[SHARE]

Dianne Wiest Part Of Yale Rep's 2015-16 Season by Frank Rizzo

Three world premieres by a trio of female playwrights and directors - including a new work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel - are among the highlights of the 2015-16 season announced f…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 19, 2015

'Pianist Of Willesden Lane' At Hartford Stage Celebrates Power Of Music To Sustain by Frank Rizzo

Mona Golabek remembers taking piano lessons from her mother when she was a child and being told, "Each piece of music tells a story, Mona, but you have to discover what that story is."

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

'The Book Of Mormon' To Open Shubert's Next Season by Frank Rizzo

The Shubert Theatre in New Haven is ending its 100th anniversary season with an announcement of some major touring shows for its 101st .

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:25PM[SHARE]
Monday, March 16, 2015

Bushnell Announces Family-Friendly 2015-16 Broadway Season by Frank Rizzo

It will be an especially family-friendly Broadway series for Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:05PM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 5, 2015

NEA Chair Jane Chu Says Music Haven Proves Value Of School Arts Programs by Frank Rizzo

It was yet another major winter snow storm when roads shut down, classes are canceled and events are postponed and yet here at Music Haven, a modest arts school tucked away between a pizza j…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:22PM[SHARE]
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Luke Macfarlane On His Role In 'Reverberation,' His Passions And Aspirations by Frank Rizzo

In talking to Luke Macfarlane, the TV, film and stage actor, about furniture making, which is just one of his passions, you also get a window into his art, and his life.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]
Monday, February 16, 2015

Audience Intregal Part Of Shubert's 'Seen Change!' by Frank Rizzo

Oh, to return to the days of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical in the '40s and '50s and '60s when future classics first got their acts together in out-of-town places like New Haven's Sh…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:11AM[SHARE]
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Hal Holbrook Celebrating His 90th Birthday At Bushnell With 'Mark Twain Tonight!' by Frank Rizzo

"My best wish was to ignore it," says Hal Holbrook referring to his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 17. "I don't like the sound of 9-oh."

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:37AM[SHARE]

Hal Holbrook Still Discovering New Things About Twain by Frank Rizzo

"My best wish was to ignore it," says Hal Holbrook referring to his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 17. "I don't like the sound of 9-oh."

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:37AM[SHARE]
Monday, February 9, 2015

Yale Rep's 'Familiar' An Intriguing Tale With Delivery Strains by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Familiar" at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 6, 2015

New Book Celebrates Set-Design Master Ming Cho Lee by Frank Rizzo

NEW YORK CITY " The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the sett…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]

New Book Celebrates Set-Design Master Ming Cho Lee by Frank Rizzo

NEW YORK CITY - The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the sett…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, January 30, 2015

TheaterWorks' 'Dancing Lessons' Sweet, Funny by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Dancing Lessons" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PM[SHARE]

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