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Spurring a Conversation About Faith at Hartford Stage
The new Hartford Stage show Breath & Imagination is living up to its name by breathing fresh air into the music-theater genre and adding imaginative touches to everything from the casting to the post-show discussions. The show is a biography of...
Tags: Music, Ruth Westheimer, Shrek (fictional character), Advice Columns and Columnists, Paul Robeson
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Three New Musicals In Development At Goodspeed Festival
Hartford CourantThe Eighth Annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists begins its three-day festival of three new works on Friday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Goodspeed Opera House with a staged reading of "Nine Wives," followed on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. with...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Theater, The Hartt School, Arts and Culture
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Lucas Hall, Jessica Watkins in "Almost, Maine" At TheaterWorks
Hartford CourantLucas Hall, Jessica Watkins, Eric Bryant and Laura Esposito make up the ensemble cast of John Cariani's "Almost, Maine," the next production at Hartford's TheaterWorks. The play, one of the most produced shows on regional stages in the past few years,...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Broadway Theater, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Valerie Harper Hospitalized; 'Looped' Run In Hartford Postponed
Hartford CourantValerie Harper, a four-time Emmy Award and Tony Award-nominated actress, was hospitalized over the weekend in New York City where she was rehearsing for the tour of the comedy "Looped," which was set to begin later this month in Hartford. The Bushnell...Tags: Hippodrome Theatre, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Lavin, Fort Lauderdale, Golda Meir
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The SantaLand Diaries is an Unlikely Holiday Classic, Complete With Green Tights and Pointy Shoes
The SantaLand Diaries By David Sedaris. Directed by Rob Ruggiero. Through Dec. 23 at TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., Hartford. (860) 527-7838, theaterworkshartford.org "My costume is green. I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock,...
Tags: Music, Holidays, Theater, Music Theater, Yale Cabaret
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Brian Hutchison Re-teams With Valerie Harper In "Looped" at Bushnell
Hartford CourantBrian Hutchison will play opposite Valerie Harper in the Matthew Lombardo play, "Looped" when the play comes to the Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford Jan. 24 to Feb. 6 Both actors were in the 2010 Broadway...Tags: Kathleen Turner, Tallulah Bankhead, Bay Street Theater, Valerie Harper, Susan Sarandon
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Kathleen Turner: The Go-To Gal When You Need A Powerful Dame
The Hartford CourantNeed someone to play a potty-mouthed, ex-alcoholic nun? An abusive, alcoholic wife of a college professor? A washed-up, alcoholic writer? Call Kathleen Turner, an actress who has made a career of hard-edged, in-your-face, booze-soaked roles. Now add...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Hal Holbrook, Celebrities, John Waters, William Shakespeare
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Aetna Arts Week Kicks Off Sunday
The Greater Hartford Arts Council kicks off Aetna Arts Week on Sunday, Nov. 11. The rest of the week, through Saturday, Nov. 17, features free and low-cost arts activities hosted by local organizations. Local artist Anne Cubberly will lead an art...
Tags: Aetna Inc., Old State House, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Elections Throw Wrench In Some Theater Programming
Hartford CourantFor many Connecticut theatergoers, the best show around during a presidential election is not on local stages -- which may account for some disappointing box office figures when expectations were higher for some shows. "Whenever there's a national...Tags: Music, Halloween, Elections, Louis Armstrong, Radio
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Jeff Kready Is Crumpet in Hartford's TheaterWorks
Hartford CourantJeff Kready, who played the lovably square Mr. Snow in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel" at the Goodspeed Opera House, will play Crumpet, the cynical Macy's Elf in "The Santaland Diaries," the statge adaptation of David Sedaris' comic holiday essays....Tags: Holidays, Billy Elliot (musical), Les Miserables (musical), Goodspeed Opera House
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How Connecticut Theaters Fared With Storm's Wrath
Hartford CourantHurricane Sandy was very theater-friendly. Things didn't get really ominous until Sunday night, long after the curtain came down on most shows at theaters throughout Connecticut. Then on Monday when the storm's fury -- and tides -- were at their...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Theater, East Haddam, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
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Chris Rock back in 'Mother.... With the Hat' at L.A. Theatre Works
Chris Rock will reprise his Broadway debut role in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Mother.... With the Hat" for six performances at L.A. Theatre Works, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The production will be a radio theater staging recorded in front of live audiences for...
Tags: Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Bobby Cannavale, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Chris Rock, Tony Awards
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