Real Art Ways has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its annual Real Art Awards competition, which gives money and exhibition opportunities to six e…
The spring 2021 Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts season at UConn includes concerts by Ben Folds, Kronos Quartet, Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Chris Thile and an entire day of discussi…
Valentine's day entertainment may be fewer this year, but include some livestreamed concerts that you can enjoy at home with your sweetheart.
Actors Veanne Cox and Ezra Barnes have boiled the Noël Coward classic "Private Lives" to just its second act and given it a naturalistic modern-day COVID setting. Titled "Amanda & Ely…
Connecticut Humanities has given 17 small arts organizations around the state $5,000 each in COVID relief grants, to use for general operating expenses. The grants are a collaboration among …
Christopher Plummer made dozens of films, but also found time to perform on Connecticut stages in major plays, important benefits and film screenings. Plummer was a Fairfield Country residen…
Hartford Stage has launched a new phase of its Raise the Curtain fundraising campaign, for which it has confirmed $1,000,000 in matching funds from some of the theater's board members and ot…
HartBeat Ensemble has received $15,000 through a new New England Foundation for the Arts program, to create a new play based on the life of Hartford-based actress Gwendolyn Reed.
Hal Holbrook, who died Monday at the age of 95, particularly endeared himself to Connecticut through his impression of Hartford icon Mark Twain and his performances as The Stage Manager in l…
Pilobolus has released a series of exercise videos, "Connecting With Balance," which are appropriate for any age but are especially useful for those over 40, when the sense of balance begins…
The Bacon Brothers will (virtually) headline Hartford Stage's 2020 fundraising gala, with a performance that will stream April 10-17.
TheaterWorks Hartford has won a 2020 Neighborhood Builders grant from Bank of America. The award includes $200,000, a year of leadership training for two members of the staff and networking …
Women are now at the forefront of theater in Connecticut, running institutions which in some cases have been male-dominated for over half a century.
Community theaters in the state feel they are unfairly being denied the chance to apply for "Save Our Stages" COVID relief funding due to eligibility requirements that didn't take this type …
Teen jazz prodigy Anton Kot has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation. This month he's also performing as part of Hartford Public Library's Baby Grand concert series.
TheaterWorks Hartford has postponed its latest online production so as to process the political turmoil in the U.S. this month and other real-life news events.
Goodspeed Musicals has named its new leadership team: Donna Lynn Hilton as artistic director and David Byrd as managing director.
The new Artists of Color Unite! program of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded $400,000 to three local arts organization and will work with them to fund dozens of projects …
"Jeopardy" contestants from Connecticut share their memories of the late Alex Trebek as his final episodes as host of the show air this week.
TheaterWorks Hartford is in the forefront of theaters who have adjusted to COVID-era challenges by producing its shows online. The theater is now offering a show a month, a big change from i…
Memories of the scattered, akilter theater year, 2020.
The $9 million in Connecticut's COVID Relief Fund for the Arts grants, drawn from national CARES Act funding, has been distributed to over 150 arts organizations throughout the state. The fu…
The tradition of "dinner and a show" has been given a virtual spin with TheaterWorks Hartford's "Christmas on the Rocks." The Hartford Chamber of Commerce and weHartford have arranged for fo…
Playhouse on Park has made the play-with-music "All is Calm," about a real-life Christmas Eve ceasefire on a World War I battlefield, into an involving streaming production filmed at Auerfar…
Dean Falcone's Vomitorium is a decades-old tradition where Connecticut musicians gather to play obscure and strange rock covers. This year, the Vomitorium has become a "Covidtorium" set of C…