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    Sep 25, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  1. New Play at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II Explores the Life of Louis Armstrong

    The Long Wharf Theatre explores the life of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong with the opening of <em>Satchmo at the Waldorf</em>, and the start of the theatre's 2012-13 season. The play, written by Terry Teachout after he completed his biography of Armstrong titled <em>Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong</em>, in order to further explore certain circumstances in his life. It centers on a night in March 1971 with Armstrong sitting backstage at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel's Empire Room, trying to get ready to play one last show. John Douglas Thompson stars in this one-man show. <strong><em></em></strong>
    The Long Wharf Theatre explores the life of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong with the opening of Satchmo at the Waldorf, and the start of the theatre's 2012-13 season. The play, written by Terry Teachout after he completed his biography of Armstrong...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Louis Armstrong, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)

    2. Aug 29, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  2. Gabriel Kahane's "February House" Recording Available

    <span>It&rsquo;s no secret how more I greatly admire <strong>Gabriel Kahane</strong>&rsquo;s terrific score to his new musical <strong>&ldquo;February House&rdquo;</strong> when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven&rsquo;s<strong> Long Wharf Theatre</strong>. It subsequently had a run at off-Broadway&rsquo;s <strong>The Public Theater.</strong></span>
    Hartford Courant
    It’s no secret how more I greatly admire Gabriel Kahane’s terrific score to his new musical “February House” when its had its world premiere earlier this year at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. It subsequently had a run at...

    Tags: Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn (Windham, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), W.H. Auden

    3. Aug 29, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  3. Theaters On Political Wave? Not This Election in Connecticut

    With the closing of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" last week, the most politically direct show on Broadway has left the stage. It has also got me to thinking about theater and politics during these last few weeks of a major presidential campaign. I look...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Theater, Hartford Stage, Gore Vidal, Entertainment

    4. Sep 12, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  4. New Haven Fall Arts Preview: A Lively, Unpredictable Theater Season

    Let the casting debates begin!
    Let the casting debates begin! Paul Giamatti will star as Hamlet next spring at the Yale Repertory Theatre, part of a lively Rep season that includes new works by Sarah Ruhl (with the Clean House playwright devising "a play in letters" from the...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Theater, Drama (genre), Celebrities, Yale Cabaret

    5. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  5. Why Hedda Endures

    There's something about Hedda.
    The Hartford Courant
    There's something about Hedda. "Hedda Gabler," that is, the titular character in Henrik Ibsen's classic "new woman" tale, the original housewife of Oslo County, the gal who has attitude, aptitude and is one mean shot. The inscrutable character has...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Claire Bloom, Hartford Stage, Celebrities, Martha Plimpton

    6. Sep 7, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  6. New Haven's Theater Scene is Bursting

    Most states are lucky to have one theater that's won the Tony Award for Best Regional Theater. Connecticut has five, and two of them are in New Haven. The Yale Repertory Theatre [1120 Chapel St., New Haven; (203) 432-1234, yalerep.org], right downtown on...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Travel, Drama (genre), Yale Cabaret, Entertainment

    7. Aug 30, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  7. Raising Curtains on the Hartford Theater Scene

    Hartford has seldom seen more changes in its theater scene than it has in the past year. Two of the city's best-known theaters have had turnovers at their topmost ranks. In the June of 2010, Michael Wilson announced he was leaving Hartford Stage [50...

    Tags: West Hartford, Arts and Culture, Theater, Hartford Stage, Mikhail Baryshnikov

    8. Aug 20, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  8. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Playing at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre

    This summer's Shake It Up Shakespeare Youth Ensemble production puts a new spin on the Bard's wonderful and magical play, <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>. Adapted and directed by LWT Director of Education Annie DiMartino, the play features contemporary tunes and oldies, as they tell the story of mischief and love. Performances run Thu., Aug. 23 through Sat. Sat., Aug. 25 at 8 p.m., with a 3 p.m. matinee on Sun., Aug. 26. <strong><em></em></strong>
    This summer's Shake It Up Shakespeare Youth Ensemble production puts a new spin on the Bard's wonderful and magical play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Adapted and directed by LWT Director of Education Annie DiMartino, the play features contemporary tunes...

    Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)

    9. Aug 22, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  9. Long Wharf, Westport Join Forces for Tickets Deal for Two Shows

    <strong>Westport Country Playhouse </strong>and New Haven&rsquo;s <strong>Long Wharf Theatre</strong>, which will produce two works this season on similar themes and stories, are uniting to create an $80 ticket package for their respective productions: the 1959 classic <strong>&ldquo;A Raisin in the Sun&rdquo; </strong>by <strong>Lorraine Hansberry</strong> and the 2012 Tony Award and 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winner it inspired, <strong>&ldquo;Clybourne Park,&rdquo; </strong>by <strong>Bruce Norris</strong>.
    Hartford Courant
    Westport Country Playhouse and New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre, which will produce two works this season on similar themes and stories, are uniting to create an $80 ticket package for their respective productions: the 1959 classic “A Raisin...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Clybourne Park (play), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Phylicia Rashad

    10. Jul 30, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  10. Roxanna Hope Stars In Hartford Stage' "Hedda Gabler"

    <strong>Roxanna Hope,</strong>&nbsp;who played Caroline Cushing in&nbsp;<em>Frost/Nixon</em>&nbsp;on Broadway will play the title role in <strong>Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler",</strong>" the season opener at <strong>Hartford Stage.</strong>
    Hartford Courant
    Roxanna Hope, who played Caroline Cushing in Frost/Nixon on Broadway will play the title role in Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler"," the season opener at Hartford Stage. The show, directed by Jennifer Tarver (the Canadian director who staged "Krapp's Last...

    Tags: Olympia Dukakis, Henrik Ibsen, Hartford Stage, Brian Dennehy, Frost Nixon (movie)

    11. Jul 31, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  11. Bobby Steggert In Cast for Premiere of "Harbor" at Westport Playhouse

    Hartford Courant
    Tony Award-nominee Bobby Steggert (Broadway’s “Ragtime”), Emmy Award-nominee Paul Anthony Stewart (“Guiding Light”), Kate Nowlin and Alexis Molnar are featured in the cast of the world premiere of "Harbor" at Westport Country...

    Tags: All My Children (tv program), Arts and Culture, Theater, Poetry, Entertainment

    12. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  12. "Tartuffe" At Westport Playhouse To Get Additional Performance

    <strong>Westport Country Playhouse</strong> announces that due to ticket demand for its current production of <strong>Moli&egrave;re&rsquo;s&nbsp; &ldquo;Tartuffe,&rdquo; </strong>an extra performance has been added on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m.&nbsp;
    Hartford Courant
    Westport Country Playhouse announces that due to ticket demand for its current production of Molière’s  “Tartuffe,” an extra performance has been added on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m.  The Playhouse production, now playing through Aug. 4,...

    Tags: Hartford Stage, Tennessee Williams, Westport Country Playhouse, Tony Awards, Richard Wilbur

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