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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Sex And Secrets In New Orleans: 'House That Will Not Stand' At Yale Rep by Frank Rizzo

Poet-playwright Marcus Gardley appears to be inspired by hothouse atmosphere of Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" and created his own world of steamy intrigue in "The Hous…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Shubert, Hartford Stage Getting Makeovers This Summer by Frank Rizzo

Spiffier Lobbies, New Seats And Warmer Looks Freshen Two Connecticut TheatersWhen New Haven's Shubert Theater celebrates its 100 t h anniversary in December, the grand dame of Connecticut …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Friday, April 11, 2014

How She Learned To Write: Paula Vogel To Speak At Wesleyan by Frank Rizzo

On The Day The Pulitzers Are AnnouncedPulitzer Prize winning playwright and renown playwriting educator Paula Vogel (“How I Learned to Drive”) will be speaking at Wesleyan Uni…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:55PM[SHARE]

Will Tony Love This 'Gentleman' In So-So Season? by Frank Rizzo

With Few Shows Left, Excitement Grows For Nomination Possibilities

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AM[SHARE]

Hartford Stage's 'Somewhere' Is Charming But Underdeveloped by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Somewhere" at Hartford Stage.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 10, 2014

'The Shadow Of The Hummingbird:' Looking For Lost Wonder On Walls by Frank Rizzo

The show: Athol Fugard's "The Shadow of the Hummingbird" at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II in New Haven.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

'Damn Yankees' At Goodspeed by Frank Rizzo

For what would you sell your soul to the devil? For devoted Red Sox fans of the 20th century the answer is simple: A world series pennant, made sweeter if it is at the expense in that final …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:45AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 6, 2014

The Family Drama Behind 'West Side Story'-Inspired 'Somewhere' At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Matthew Lopez Writes Play For Tony-Winning Aunt Priscilla LopezPlaywright Matthew Lopez knows the exact moment he got the theater bug — and he's got the picture to prove it.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Dianne Reeves, La Santa Cecilia To Headline Free Concert Series by Frank Rizzo

Part Of New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:11PM[SHARE]

Cast Of 'Last Five Years' At Long Wharf Theatre by Frank Rizzo

Adam Halpin and Katie Rose Clarke star in the L ong Wharf Theatre production of the two-actor musical " The Last Five Years."

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:36PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014

'Somewhere' At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Meet the Candelarias, a Puetro Rican family living in New York's West Side in 1959. In the Hartford Stage play "Somewhere," which begins previews Thursday, April 3, the family is struggling …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:18PM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 27, 2014

National Music Theater Institute Planned For O'Neill Center by Frank Rizzo

Taking Advantage Of A Growing Market For Students

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:41PM[SHARE]

Hartford Stage's Aetna Voices Fellow Janine Nabers Wins Honor by Frank Rizzo

Janine Nabers , an Aetna New Voices fellow at Hartford Stage,   has won this year's Yale Drama Series competition  for her play about a series of child killings in Atlanta in the …

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AM[SHARE]

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