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A Yale Ph.D. student, Matt Amodio will be competing on "Jeopardy" Wednesday night.
The Courant's top arts picks for July 12-19, including a Pilobolus Safari, '60s pop star turned top pop producer Peter Asher and much more.
The Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz series is back in Bushnell Park. This year, the Hartford Jazz Society, which hosts the series, has also produced a local jazz compilation CD which is being g…
Playhouse on Park's "Kill Move Paradise," now streaming through Aug. 1, is a harrowing fantasy about young murdered Black men who turn up in a stark netherworld, where they act out scenes of…
Hartford Stage has received a federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grant at the same time is announcing the conclusion of its own successful $6 million fundraising campaign. Also among the lates…
Real Art Ways' Creative Cocktail Hours, a tradition that started in 2002, is returning July 15 with a gallery opening, live music from Red Baraat, performance art, a DJ, a yoga session and m…
Twenty-one more Connecticut arts venues (or production companies or promoters) have received federal Shuttered Venue Operator Grants, it was announced Tuesday. Among the awardees: TheaterWor…
What's happening arts-wise in Connecticut July 11-17, from the "La Boheme" in Burr Mall to the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz in Bushnell Park.
Pilobolus has announced that the outdoor arts safari it created during the COVID crisis last summer will return, with a new title and location, in July.
A slew of Beatles-themed events are happening in Connecticut in July, led by a ten-band outdoor Fab 4 Music Festival in Ansonia on July 10 and also including a Hartford Symphony Orchestra "C…
Playhouse on Park has had to shift its entire six-week Connecticut Shakespeare Festival from an outdoor location in Bloomfield to indoors at the theater's accustomed 244 Park Road home " jus…
Our pick of the arts events for July 4-10, 2021. An Independence Day "bonanza" in Bushnell Park, a dance concert in Keney Park, a Shakespeare Festival on farmland in Bloomfield and much more.
Douglas Lyons, who grew up in New Haven and attended the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, will see his family comedy "Chicken & Biscuits" produced on Broadway this fall.
"Little Girl Blue," a two-act one-woman musical about jazz/pop legend Nina Simone, has been added to the Goodspeed by the River tent concert series, Aug. 4-29.
The Shuttered Venue Operators grants (originally known as Save Our Stages) has awarded
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced a shortened yet high-impact three-show 2021-2022 season, the first public shows to be produced by the Rep since the coronavirus shutdown. The season …
A community-based "Godspell" in Shelton gives clues as to what live theater will be like in the next few months.
The racial injustice drama "Kill Move Paradise" is being staged by Playhouse on Park in Hartford's Bushnell Park through June 25, then will stream in July. The show covers some of the same t…
This year Juneteenth " which commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States in the 1860s " will be especially grand in five Connecticut cities, where giant murals have been c…
The "Goodspeed by the River" concert series, which kicked off last week, is the Goodspeed doing what it can do until it can be the Goodspeed again.
New Haven's Shubert and the Palace Theater in Waterbury have both announced their Broadway seasons, and four tours ("Anastasia," "Waitress," "An American in Paris" and "Beautiful") have land…
"South Pacific," long promised as the first musical the Goodspeed Opera House would produce when the theater reemerged following the COVID crisis, has fallen off the schedule entirely now. "…
Hartford Stage's 2021-22 season will feature "Ah, Wilderness!," "Lost in Yonkers," "Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous" and the new play "Dishwasher Dreams" -- but not the seasonal sta…
The Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center continues to expand its operations. This summer it will present concerts by Darius Rucker and the U.S. Coast Guard Band and others, plus new comed…
A new 150,000 gallon seal tank, named Pinniped Cove, has opened at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. The grand opening is June 8, World Oceans Day.
