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Local hardcore hero Jay Reason has opened his own record store in downtown Milford. Static Era Records carries an array of intriguing vinyl albums, including releases from Reason's own recor…
"Russian Troll Farm" is a harrowing "workplace comedy" based on the real-life activities of those who used social media to try to disrupt the 2016 election. The play by Sarah Gancher, direct…
The theater season has begun, largely online, but with great variety. October brings political shows, the classic play "The Gin Game," a Judy Garland tribute and more.
The state is allowing music venues to reopen Oct. 8 but few are able to without some clarification of the new regulations.
Rather than go dark in just its second year, Hartford Fringe Festival has gone virtual during the COVID crisis, with dozens of online offerings. Most of them are theatrical but there are als…
HartBeat Ensemble has announced an online fall season of political theater, interviews with women musicians, a radio series based on Mohegan tribal tales, an immigration game show and more. …
Several Connecticut theaters (including TheaterWorks and the Long Wharf) are moving away from traditional season subscription offers and embracing new "membership" plans, where loyal theater…
Connecticut dancers, musicians and storytellers will be showcased on an episode of The Kennedy Center's online "Arts Across America" program Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. The University of St. Joseph's…
UConn's Connecticut Repertory Theatre has announced its two-show fall season. The comedy "Men in Boats" will have multiple live online performances, while the radio-style Christmas play "It'…
Virtual concerts by Suzanne Vega and Jim Brickman on The Bushnell's fall schedule are designed to benefit the theater while its building is closed due to the coronavirus.
TheaterWorks Hartford is opening its new membership-based season of monthly online theater shows with a staged reading of a new musical, "At the River I Stand," about the 1968 Memphis Sanita…
Goodspeed Musicals has renamed its annual gathering of musical theater creators. It is now the Johnny Mercer Foundation Grove at Goodspeed Musicals.
A 4-year-old Southington resident has seen the shorts videos she stars in, recreating scenes from hit movies, go viral in recent days, raising tens of thousands of dollars for charity.
The Goodspeed Opera House is planning to do a two-show season in 2021, and will be offering a streaming version of each show to ticket holders who don't want to see it live.
Tiffani Gavin is the new executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
The 2020-21 theater season has begun, largely online, with shows from established local theaters that speak to contemporary issues like immigration, civil rights and presidential elections.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal visited his third Connecticut theater in as many weeks to stump for two federal bills that could bring relief to entertainment venues that have largely been clos…
The Hartbeat Music Festival, which has quickly become one of the biggest local band events in Connecticut, has gone online this year. Over three dozen bands are participating, including uniq…
The modern dance troupes Pilobolus and 860 MVMNT will grace the Autorino Center at the University of St. Joseph during the 2020-21 school year. Performances will range from live shows for sm…
Hartford Symphony violinist and Avon resident Gary Capozziello was debilitated by COVID and came out of it wanting to help his fellow musicians who livelihoods had been affected by the crisi…
The annual Night Fall event, which features dozens of locals artists and giant puppets performing in area parks, has moved online for 2020. The video will stream on Oct. 3.
The first Columns Dance Festival, held outdoors in Bushnell Park, will showcase seven Connecticut-based dance companies. Columns is a new project from choreographer Sonia Plumb, who hopes to…
The Goodspeed is continuing its new outdoor "By the River" concert series with David Lutken of "Will Rogers Follies" and "Woody Sez" fame, Sept. 10-27.
A new group is attempting to build a new Shakespeare theater in Stratford, where the last one burned down last year after decades of sitting dormant. The project hopes to restore the town's …
Six major Connecticut theaters have lobbied the state for $12 million in relief money, to be taken from the Federal CARES assistance program.
