Category: Entertainment

Westport Country Playhouse Offers Free-of-Charge Events Exploring Comedy “Straight White Men”

Westport Country Playhouse will present “Straight White Men: Dig Deeper,” a series of special events, free-of-charge and open to the community, surrounding the comedy, “Straight White Men,” playing May 24 – June 5. The events will enhance the community’s insight on the production and its themes. No performance ticket is necessary to attend the programs.…

Area premiere of Disaster musical spoof at Curtain Call – Greenwich native was part of the original Broadway production

Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos and dozens of unforgettable songs of the ’70s, take center stage in Broadway’s side-splitting homage to classic disaster films, Disaster!, playing at Curtain Call in Stamford, June 3 through 18. Disaster! is a new musical straight from Broadway, featuring some of the most unforgettable songs of the ’70s. “Knock on Wood,”…

Westport Farmers’ Market and Sustainable Westport to Host the Award-Winning Film, Biggest Little Farm, at Remarkable Theater Friday Evening May 27

Westport, CT – Get your tailgating game on for a special showing of the award-winning Biggest Little Farm, the 2018 documentary film chronicling the 8-year quest of John and Molly Chester to trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream of living in harmony with nature. In a welcomed partnership, Westport…

Steely Dan Cover Band – Logical Pretzel – Kicks Off Weston Historical Society’s Music at the Barn Outdoor Concert Series

WESTON, CT – Steely Dan cover band, Logical Pretzel, kicks off the Weston Historical Society’s Music at the Barn Outdoor Concert Series on Sunday, June 5, 2022 from 5:30pm – 7:00pm. Tony Pizza Napolitano will be on site selling his famous thin crust pizza! Bring a lawn chair, a craving for pizza, and enjoy the…

CT Humanities to Award Generous Quick Grant to Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum for New Exhibition on Sustainable Fashion

Norwalk, CT – Connecticut Humanities has awarded a $4,999 Quick Grant to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in support of a new exhibition titled, Making It Last: Sustainable Fashion in Victorian America, which will open to the public on May 19, 2022. Dr. Jason Mancini, executive director at CT Humanities said, “Congratulations to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion…

Macricostas lecture at WCSU to feature Connecticut  philosopher, poet David Capps

DANBURY, CT – As part of Western Connecticut State University’s Macricostas Lecture Series, philosophy professor and poet Dr. David Capps will present “Myth’s Poetic (Re)fracturings: Themes from Antiquity” via Zoom at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29. Capps, a resident of New Haven, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut and M.F.A.…