Friday, December 28, 2018
Hartford Public Library has announced the 15 jazz acts playing in its free, Sunday-afternoon 2019 Baby Grand Jazz Series, which opens Jan. 6 with a special Three Kings Day concert featuring …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:27PMThursday, December 13, 2018
When CONNetic Dance’s “Nutcracker Suite & Spicy” bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four memb…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:52AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, an associate professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, has been named the first poet laureate of Hartford. Knowles is 45 and lives in …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:55AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
In case you hadn’t been able to surmise from all the coverage it received in various places, including this one, the Connecticut music scene had a fantastic year for new music. It wasn’t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:00AMIn case you hadn’t been able to surmise from all the coverage it received in various places, including this one, the Connecticut music scene had a fantastic year for new music. It wasn’t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:00AMFive of the seven shows in the Ivoryton Playhouse’s 2019 season will be musicals — including an unnamed new project from “Woody Sez” creator David Lutken, about a yet-to-be-divulged …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:50AMMonday, December 10, 2018
New musicals about addiction, marriage and a lethal gambling club get single readings at the 14th annual Festival of New Musicals, hosted Jan. 18 to 20 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Hadda…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:30AMWhen CONNetic Dance’s “Nutcracker Suite & Spicy” bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four members …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
To mark six successful seasons of its unique holiday show “Christmas on the Rocks,” TheaterWorks is hosting a “Chaos, Curls & Cocktails” party Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. Hartford-based playwr…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Do writings by Hartford’s famous authors relate to the social justice issues of today? On Dec. 12 from 3 to 4:15 p.m., students and teachers in the literature course offered jointly by Cap…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTheater producer Neil Goldberg could easily be mistaken for Santa Claus. A producer and director of modern circus entertainments, he delivers magic and wonderment around the country. This mo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Hartford Public Library has announced the 15 jazz acts playing in its free, Sunday-afternoon 2019 Baby Grand Jazz Series, which opens Jan. 6 with a special Three Kings Day concert featuring …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:55PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
It’s a Christmas miracle that “Christmas on the Rocks” has now entered its sixth season at TheaterWorks. We need its sweet insanity more than ever. The show, conceived and directed by …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAh, the sights and smells of “A Christmas Carol.” The snow is still falling on the audience. You can still smell the smoke when the Spirit of Christmas Present makes her grand misty entr…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
Don’t have “Hamilton” tickets? You could have a shot at two of them for just $10 each in the Bushnell's daily lottery starting Dec. 9, the Bushnell announced Friday. Forty tickets will…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:45PMDon’t have “Hamilton” tickets? You could have a shot at two of them for just $10 each in the Bushnell's daily lottery starting Dec. 9, the Bushnell announced Friday. Forty tickets will…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:45PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Gina Barreca, best-selling author, UConn English professor, Courant columnist, humorist and feminist, will give a free reading at Westminster School, 995 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury, on Dec. 7 a…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AM‘Hamilton” isn’t the only revolution coming to The Bushnell. The show’s popularity has added a virtual army of thousands of new subscribers to the theater's Broadway series. Beth Hyl…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMConnecticut Public, which produces Connecticut Public Television, Connecticut Public Radio and Connecticut Public Learning, is introducing a new TV station on Dec. 3 called Create. Create’…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMHow does a fast-talking, awesome Broadway show — a hip-hop history of the American revolution — still going gangbusters, known around the world, immortal and beloved, find itself in Hart…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
At Christmastime, popular toys, hot books and the latest heavily advertised thing always catch the public’s fancy. But the mall and Internet are not the sole options for holiday shopping. …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:10AMMonday, November 26, 2018
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra will receive a $1 million grant after meeting a fundraising challenge as part of its long-term $10 million campaign. A group of donors who wish to remain anon…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:45AMThursday, November 22, 2018
When she was a college student, Leslie McGrath, a poet who lives in Essex, majored in Spanish and psychology and immersed herself in literature from Mexico, Spain, Central and South America,…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, will launch a new annual event on Nov. 30 at 7 p.m., when noted author Nicholson Baker will give the first Mark Twain Birthday L…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Paula Vogel had her first Broadway production just a couple of years ago, with “Indecent,” a play-with-music concerning a famous theater censorship trial. But Vogel’s been a major pres…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Tickets go on sale Nov. 19 for Camp John Waters, the third annual weekend at the 320-acre Club Getaway in northwestern Connecticut with the cult-film director. The event at the adult camp in…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:40AMThursday, November 15, 2018
Jess Nelson didn’t used to be into art. “I never got past stick figures,” says the 35-year-old Burlington native, who has cerebral palsy. Then she tried art therapy at New Horizons Vil…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:00AMHallelujah! A new ballet company is bringing a new Christmas dance tradition to town — Handel’s “Messiah.” Vivid Ballet, founded in 2016, changed its name recently to Ballet Hartford…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:20AMOyster Club and Bank Square Books will present a dinner Nov. 18 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Oyster Club, 13 Water St., Mystic, with award-winning baker and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan. The ev…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Sometime’s it’s hard to remember amid all the hustle and bustle, but the holidays are supposed to be fun. So whether it’s your favorite “Christmas Carol” or “Nutcracker,” a gin…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThere are some new gifts, as well as a sleigh-full of familiar Christmas comforts, in the Christmas shows returning to Connecticut theaters this holiday season. TheaterWorks' 'Christmas on t…
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