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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: Tallulah Bankhead, Wethersfield, Linda Lavin, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Tony Awards
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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: John Waters, Wethersfield, Politics, Religion and Belief, Tony Awards
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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, Wicked (musical), Ira Glass, Holidays, NPR
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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: Tallulah Bankhead, Valerie Harper, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Manhattan (New York City), Tony Awards
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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., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Old State House, Arts, Arts and Culture
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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: Weather Watches, Politics, Bars and Clubs, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Louis Armstrong
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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: Les Miserables (musical), Goodspeed Opera House, Billy Elliot (musical), Holidays
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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: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Music, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Arts and Culture
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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, Tony Awards, Chris Rock, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Voyeurism Meets S&M in TheaterWorks' "Venus in Fur"
Venus in Fur Through Nov. 18, TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., (860) 527-7838, theaterworkshartford.org Don't be fooled by the dingy realism of the anonymous rehearsal room where Venus in Fur takes place: this play calls on mythic precursors and is meant...
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Review: Psycho-Sexual 'Venus In Fur' Sizzles At TheaterWorks
Hartford CourantThe show: "Venus in Fur" at Hartford's TheaterWorks First impressions: The notion of role-playing has a multitude of meanings in David Ives' clever psycho-sexual comedy, that takes Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's infamous erotic 1870 novella and places it...Tags: Tony Awards, Comedy (genre), Hartford Stage, Celebrities, Entertainment Events
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"Venus in Fur" Extended For Hartford's TheaterWorks
Hartford CourantThe run of David Ives' comedy "Venus in Fur" at Hartford's TheaterWorks is extending one week. The show, originally set to close Nov. 11, will now ends its run Nov.18. Added performances are Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday,...
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