Westport Country Playhouse announces that applications are now being accepted for its 2023 Joanne Woodward Internship Program for theater career aspirants. Interns enhance their professional skills and gain on-the-job experience working directly with Playhouse senior staff during summer months. Named in honor of actress, director, and the Playhouse’s former artistic director, the Joanne Woodward Internship…
The family play about social anxiety disorder marks the launch of the Playhouse Mobile Unit for ages 9 to 15 Westport Country Playhouse will stage “Scaredy Kat Presents,” on Sunday, March 5, at 2 p.m., for one performance only. The show is currently touring the area through April as the inaugural production of the Playhouse…
An imaginative musical using shadow play to help children express their emotions Westport Country Playhouse’s Family Festivities will present “Woof Woof the Shadow Pup,” on Sunday, February 12, at 1 and 4 p.m., a shadow theater musical that encourages children to share their feelings. The imaginative musical is appropriate for grades pre-K and up and…
Waterbury, CT – Waterbury’s Palace Theater is seeking presenters 50 years and older with inspiring, compelling, or interesting second act stories to share in front of an audience as part of its 2nd Act Series. Launched in 2017, 2ND ACT is a monthly storytelling series featuring ordinary people sharing the extraordinary things they are doing…
Norwalk, CT – The Maritime Aquarium is celebrating the New Year with some new faces. This week, adult harbor seals Feisty and Gracie were introduced to the aquarium’s largest exhibit, Pinniped Cove. Both seals came to The Maritime Aquarium from ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Feisty is a gentle 33-year-old male. He is the…
One of Agatha Christie’s best-loved characters – Miss Marple – comes to Curtain Call in the delightfully deceitful mystery, A Murder is Announced, playing in The Dressing Room Theatre, Stamford, January 12 through 29. Set in the 1940s, “A Murder is Announced” is about a group of English villagers summoned by a newspaper notice to…
Newly created position is underwritten in part by a Connecticut Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant administered by CT Humanities Westport Country Playhouse has named Erika K. Wesley to a new, full-time position titled director of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). She will provide strategic and operational leadership of all EDI policies, programs, training, and practices…
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk will once again feature a shark-diving Santa, The Polar Express 4D Experience and a breakfast with Santa, exclusively for members, this holiday season. Shark-Diving Santa 2 high-rez color photos attached Santa Claus will join The Maritime Aquarium’s dive team to help demonstrate that sharks aren’t the blood-thirsty killers of myth.…
“You’ve got mail” has become such a ubiquitous phrase that it was used as the title of a popular 1998 Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan movie. But the story of two people…seemingly appalled by each other yet falling in love as pen pals…has been around a very long time; 1937 to be exact. She Loves…
NORWALK, CT – Enjoy some holiday cheer as you help the Norwalk Historical Society celebrate the holiday season! Visit the Norwalk Historical Society’s Mill Hill Historic Park for a “Holiday Open House” on Sunday, December 11, 2022 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins welcome. View the new…