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Roundabout: "Catch Me If You Can" at The Bushnell
How can you cope with the cancellation of that irrepressible, deliriously uncentered Broadway-brouhaha TV series "Smash"? By getting tickets to the Bushnell stop on the national tour of Catch Me If You Can. Based on the 1980 memoirs of con man and...
Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Music Theater, NBC (tv network), Academy Awards
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Set Designer Creates Maze Magic For 'Twelfth Night' At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantFor set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image. In the case of the visual inspiration of Hartford Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," it was the suggestion of a garden maze by director Darko Tresnjak. The result is...Tags: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Kate Burton, Architecture, Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater
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Two World Premieres, Musical Slated For Long Wharf Season
Hartford CourantWorld premieres by Athol Fugard and Heidi Schreck, a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “Fences,” directed by Phylicia Rashad and the two-person musical “The Last Five Years” will highlight the...Tags: Greenwich Village, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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"The Dining Room" Showing at The Westport Country Playhouse Through May 18
The Dining Room is a play that tells the tale of the American family and its vanishing traditions, set in the room where meals are eaten and generations are spanned. It's currently running at Westport Country Playhouse every day of the week except for...
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2013 Summer Theater Events
The Hartford CourantInternational Festival of Arts & Ideas: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" brings together the puppet masters (South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company) and director (Tom Morris) of the sensational "War Horse" which stunned audiences in London, Broadway and is...Tags: War Horse (movie), Bristol (Hartford, Connecticut), Treat Williams, Arts and Culture, Theater
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Hartford Stage's Twelfth Night Has a Cast
Hartford Stage knows who’s in its upcoming production of Twelfth Night, directed by the theater’s new artistic director Darko Tresnjak. Tresnjak clearly has a thing for familiar faces. Not only do the majority of the Twelfth Night actors...Tags: The Hartt School, University of Hartford, Arts and Culture, Hartford Stage, Adam Green
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The Lobstercraft Food Truck Offers Fresh Lobsters, Boat to Bun
Like many a lobsterman in the year 2012, Captain William Michael Harden discovered he needed a new business plan. Lobsters never recovered after the die-off in 1999, and he couldn't sell the 1,000 a day he needed to make a profit. When he came home from...
Tags: Cucumbers, Long Island Sound, Stamford, Allergies
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Paul Giamatti's Hamlet and Douglas Sills' JFK Both Have Issues With Their Fathers
Hamlet Ends April 13, Yale University Theatre, New Haven. Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre. (203) 432-1234, yalrep.org Ride the Tiger Ends April 21, Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven, (203) 787-4282, longwharf.org Greed...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale University, Arts and Culture
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Hartford Stage's 2013-14 Season
Hartford Stage has a 2013-2014 season: September 12 through November 10: Marivaux’s lusty comedy La Dispute and Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy Macbeth, played in repertory with the same director—new Hartford Stage artistic director Darko...Tags: Steve Martin, Aesop , Fiction, Entertainment Events, Music
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A Connecticut Theater Club? Say, That's The Ticket
Hartford CourantAre Connecticut theaters missing out on a new audience? New engagement? New revenue? The thought occurred to me when a colleague asked me a simple question: How can she buy a gift certificate for someone who can then choose whatever show they want...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Pottery Barn, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Products, Long Wharf Theatre
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Hartford Stage's 50th Season Includes Premiere of Musical Comedy, Classics
The Hartford CourantA premiere of an original musical comedy, two classics performed in repertory, a reunion of the theater's five artistic directors, and a "rejuvenated" Dickens' favorite are highlights of Hartford Stage's 50th anniversary season beginning in September....Tags: Somewhere (movie), Holidays, Aetna Inc., Arts and Culture, Much Ado About Nothing (movie)
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Musical Comedy Premiere Highlights Hartford Stage's 50th
Hartford CourantA world premiere of an original musical comedy, two classic performed in repertory, a reunion of the theater’s five artistic directors and a “rejuvenated” “A Christmas Carol” will be among the highlights of Hartford Stage&...Tags: Holidays, Aetna Inc., Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Michael Wilson
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