Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
Alasdair Neale will officially take over as music director and conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the fourth oldest in the country, July 1, shortly after he is introduced to the community at a free concert on the New Haven Green on June 22.
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The ever-busy host of "Late Night" will perform two shows at Ridgefield Playhouse on June 9.
The acclaimed actor brings his one-man show to the Bushnell on June 30; Cirque du Soleil comes to Hartford June 19-July 21; No Kids plays at the 24th International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven June 12-14.
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Musician, producer, author and activist Moby will discuss his Connecticut childhood and his new book, Then It Fell Apart, May 15 at the Space Ballroom in Hamden.
It has taken 12 years since the death of Connecticut native Sol LeWitt — whose remarkable career turned the art world on its head — for a biography to emerge. The wait has been worth it.
Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
Comedian, longtime host of The Tonight Show and renowned car enthusiast Jay Leno will perform his stand-up act at the Palace Theater in Stamford on May 2.
The Tony Award winner who has played Eliza Doolittle and Melania Trump brings her songs and stories to Long Wharf, Marcos Santana is back In the Heights at Westport Country Playhouse, and the new musical The Flamingo Kid debuts at the Hartford Stage.
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
David Hein and Irene Sankoff thought the idea was far-fetched when it was first suggested they write a musical about what happened after 9/11 when 38 planes that were in the air were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, population 11,000.
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Bensussen will be succeeding Darko Tresnjak June 1, becoming the first female artistic director to run a Tony Award-winning theater in Connecticut.
Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
Hal Linden and Barbara Eden to Exchange Sweet Nothings in 'Love Letters' at the Ridgefield Playhouse
The iconic stars of Barney Miller and I Dream of Jeannie discuss missed opportunities, love at first sight and loving their TV characters.
There are shows, concerts and special events happening throughout the state to set a romantic mood all month long.
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Playwright Karen Hartman was “inspired” by the landmark labor case and describes the play as “an imaginative response to transcripts, interviews, and the many histories of New Haven.”
Frank Rizzo takes a look at happenings on the Connecticut theater scene this month.
Steve Martin and Martin Short need no introduction. Their Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t tour stops by Foxwoods Resort Casino on Feb. 16.
You might be surprised at how many things there are for a non-skier can do at some of the mountains in our area.
Among the most memorable musical theater experiences this past year, “Bright Star,” Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s love story set in North Carolina during World War II, shines most radiantly.
Tarell Alvin McCraney sits at one of his favorite haunts in New Haven, Soul de Cuba Cafe on Crown Street. The space’s imagery of the Yoruba people of West Africa reminds him of his youth in Miami when a Santerian priest told him he was “touched and blessed” and that “the gods are talking to you.”
Walking through the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s Chappell Gallery, which is dedicated to the artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, is like going back in time to experience the opulence and luxury of the Gilded Age.
Woodward’s latest book is Fear: Trump in the White House, and he will be at College Street Music Hall in New Haven on Jan. 22.
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To get a sense of his personal taste, we asked incoming artistic directory Jacob G. Padrón to choose a handful of works that have made significant impressions on him.
The photographer's latest project is an ever-evolving, two-year multimedia project exploring the history-filled homes of noted artists and writers.
There are theater events and then there are theater events. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” has landed in Hartford’s Bushnell and that, my friends, is boss of all other events on the theatrical calendar, topping everyone’s social agenda.
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It’s usually the light that first captures Thomas Adkins’ attention. There are moments of natural beauty that seem to tell a story and draw Adkins’ gaze, moving him to preserve the scene on canvas.
The title character of the song joins the grouping of very short plays that make up Christmas on the Rocks, now in its sixth year at Hartford’s TheaterWorks.
Can’t get enough of Alexander Hamilton? Then head to the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford for more on the colorful Founding Father.
Singer-songwriter Jewel will return to the Ridgefield Playhouse on Dec. 4 as part of her second annual Handmade Holiday tour.
A calendar of holiday-themed shows, music, festivals and more this December.
The famed astrophysicist is just a humble servant of your cosmic curiosity.
Back in 2009, Thomas Kail got more than an inkling that his friend Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new project was something special.
Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2018 for Welcome to the New World, an innovative nonfiction comic about a Syrian refugee family in the U.S.
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Allen has stepped behind the camera to direct her first film, based on the Carson McCullers short story A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.
Tim Allen is a busy man, from the Fox reboot of Last Man Standing to a national stand-up comedy tour and the upcoming release of Toy Story 4. He swings through the state this month with stops at the Palace Theatre in Stamford Nov. 15 and Foxwoods Resort Casino Nov. 16.
Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
Activities to enhance the Thanksgiving holiday and to help you get a jump-start on the Yuletide festivities.
Also: Showstopper Lillias White in concert at Norwalk's Wall Street Theater, and Austin Pendleton brings a searing new play to the Westport Country Playhouse.
A Connecticut theater executive recently called it “the biggest change in American theater since the start of the regional theater movement in the ’60s.”
