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Elaine Calder, Former Hartford Stage Exec, Gets Shaw Gig
Hartford CourantElaine Calder, who was managing director of Hartford Stage during Michael Wilson’s first few years as artistic director, is the new executive director of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. She held that position earlier in her career,...Tags: Michael Wilson
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Kate MacCluggage To Star In "Twelfth Night" At Hartford Stage
Hartford CourantKate MacCluggage, who charmed as the conflicted witch in “Bell, Book and Candle” at Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage, will be returning to Hartford Stage in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” staged by artistic...Tags: F. Murray Abraham, Long Wharf Theatre, William Shakespeare
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National Playwrights Conference Kicks Off At O'Neill Theater Center
Hartford CourantThe National Playwrights Conference kicks off Wednesday, July 4 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford and continues through July 28. Zabryna Guevara (Hartford Stage’s “Water By the Spoonful”) is featured in the first...Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Felix Solis, Will Rogers, Waterford
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Watching the Tonys? Root For The Home Players
The Hartford CourantConnecticut theater fans will have a few folks with local connections to root for when they tune in to Tony Award telecast on CBS 8 p.m. Sunday night, June 10. What could be a dramatic and emotional moment would be a win for Da'Vine Joy Randolph,...Tags: Long Wharf Theatre, Michael Cerveris, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Music, TheaterWorks
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My Top 10 Shows On Connecticut Stages This Past Season
Hartford CourantI remember this time last year when it came time to review the theater season in Connecticut. I felt pretty discouraged. Sure there was plenty of fine work but few shows really knocked my critical socks off with the kind of productions that you...Tags: Woody Allen, Snow Storms, Long Wharf Theatre, Music, TheaterWorks
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Home, Sweet Home: Picking Your Spots
Diana's Pool One of the must-see attractions in eastern Connecticut is Diana's Pool in Chaplin, along the beautiful Natchaug River. This fishing, kayaking and hiking spot is also popular as a destination because of its sheer beauty. An almost rite of...
Tags: Connecticut Historical Society, Long Wharf Theatre, Canoeing and Kayaking, Music, Travel
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Hana S. Sharif, Christopher Baker To Leave Hartford Stage
Hartford CourantChristopher Baker, senior dramaturg, and Hana S. Sharif, associate artistic director, will leave Hartford Stage this month to pursue other facets of their careers, according to an announcement artistic director Darko Tresnjak made to the staff. Baker...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Tennessee Williams, Drama (genre), Aetna Inc., Arts and Culture
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'Water By the Spoonful' Named Best Play By Connecticut Critics Circle
Hartford CourantThe Connecticut Critics Circle named Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “Water by the Spoonful” the best play of the 2011-12 season. The production, which was commissioned, developed and had a world premiere production at...Tags: Entertainment, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), TheaterWorks
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A Summer of Shakespeare in Hartford
Both The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream share a common bond in that they are Shakespearian comedies that could have easily been tragedies of Romeo and Juliet proportions without the interference of some meddling supernatural characters. Both are,...
Tags: The New York Times, Entertainment, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Weather, Tropical Weather
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CONNetic Dance Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Wadsworth
A Midsummer Night's Dream June 23, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., $30, The Aetna Theatre at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St., Hartford, purchase tickets at (860) 251-9194 or conneticdance.com. Since the CONNetic Dance Company was founded in 2006, the...
Tags: Entertainment, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Music, TheaterWorks, Mark Twain
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What if Medea's children had lived?
In one of the most horrific events in theatrical literature, Euripides’ vengeful Medea answers her husband’s betrayal by murdering their offspring. Michael Elyanow recalls watching the Abbey Theater’s acclaimed Broadway production of...
Tags: Drama (genre), Manhattan (New York City), Comedy (genre), Arts and Culture, Euripides
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An evening with author Joan Didion at Hartford Stage
It's widely known that writer Joan Didion's late husband, John Gregory Dunne, was raised in the Hartford area; she chronicled her grief at his passing in The Year of Magical Thinking, which won the National Book Award. More recently, Didion penned Blue...
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