Great Connecticut
Traditional Jazz Festival
Produced by: Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz
Festival
Sunrise Resort
121 Leesville Road, Moodus, CT
Box Office: 800-468-3836
The 22nd Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival will be held at the
Sunrise Resort in Moodus, CT July 25-27.
The largest festival of old time jazz in the Northeast--featuring Dixieland
and New Orleans-style jazz, big band and swing--this event features bands
from around the country, including Cornet Chop Suey of Missouri, the Midiri
Brothers Sextet of Jew Jersey and New Orleans' own Jazz'M.
The Sunrise Resort offers overnight accommodations and a full range of
recreational activities including mini golf, boating and children's games.
For more information, visit the
Connecticut Jazz Festival Web site.
Jul. 25: Jul. 26: Jul. 27:
Price: Tickets (up to July 21): $80 three-day pass; $25 single session; $40
all day Sat; $5 children (age 7-17).
"The Taming of the
Shrew" and "Measure for Measure"
Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater
128 Washington St., Middletown,CT
860-347-6143; www.oddfellows.org Jul. 23: 7:30 p.m.
Jul. 24: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 25: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 26: 7:30 p.m.
Price: $12 adults, $8 students and seniors. Box office: 860-347-6143
Traumland (Dreamland)
Yale Cabaret
217 Park St., New Haven,CT
Surreal, dream-like dance piece at as part of Yale's 2008 Summer Cabaret.
Jul. 23 - Jul. 26 Daily : 6 p.m. Box office: 203-432-1566
Stage II: "Late Nite
Catechism"
Long Wharf Theatre
222 Sargent Drive, New Haven ,CT
Box Office: 203-787-4282
Jul. 24 - Sep. 13 Price: $20-$25.
"King and I"
Warner Theatre
68 Main St., Torrington, CT
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony Award-winning classic re-telling of the story
of an English widow who goes to Thailand with her young son to teach the
children of the royal household. www.warnertheatre.org
Jul. 26 - Aug. 3 Price: Call for tickets. Box
office: 860-489-7180
Music Festival
Riverfront Park
65 Welles Street, Glastonbury, CT
Riverfront Music Festival will feature Pure Prairie League.
For information, call 860-659-3587. Jul. 23: 7 p.m.
Price: Free
Music at the Mansion:
Prelude
Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth St.
Middletown,CT Box office: 860-347-1064
Jul. 23: 6:30 p.m. Price: Free.
River Slim and the Sidecar Hogs
Elizabeth Park
Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT
Jul. 23: 6:30 p.m. Price: Free.
Eileen Ivers and
Immigrant Soul
Wesleyan University, Crowell Concert Hall
283 Washington Terrace
Middletown,CT
Box Office: 860-685-3355
Nine Time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, London Symphony Orchestra, National
Symphony at The Kennedy Center, Boston Pops, musical star of Riverdance, The
Chieftains, Patti Smith, founding member of Cherish the Ladies...this is a
short list of accomplishments, headliners, tours and affiliations. She has
established herself as the pre-eminent exponent of the Irish fiddle in the
world today.
Jul. 24: 8 p.m. Price: $22 general; $17 senior citizens; $12 students.
Southside Johnny and
the Asbury Jukes
Columbus Park
Main Street and West Park Place
Stamford, CT
Part of Stamford's Alive @ Five concert series. With the Christopher Robin
Band and Soulstream. For more information visit the
Alive @ Five Web site.
Jul. 24: 5 p.m. Price: Free
Opera Al Fesco and
Bocce Tournament
Mortensen Riverfront Plaza
300 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, CT
Box Office: 860-713-3131
Costumed opera singers perform popular arias with the
35-piece Hartford Festival Orchestra.
Performance at 7:30 p.m.; Bocce tournament at noon.
Food, beer, and wine available.
Rain date is July 27.Jul. 26: 7:30 p.m. Price: Free.
Monday Night Jazz in
Bushnell Park
Produced by: Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park
Bushnell Park
100 Wells St., Downtown Hartford
Hartford, CT
New this year is a post-park jazz event inside nearby Black-eyed Sally's
restaurant. One of the jazz groups will perform there beginning at 9:30
p.m., followed by a jam session with jazz students from throughout the
region.
Jul. 28: 6 p.m. Price: Free.
Sunken Garden Poetry
& Music Festival
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT
Featuring New Hampshire poet Laureate Patricia Fargnoli and Ilya Kaminsky,
award-winning author of "Dancing in Odessa." Musical guest is Tessa Souter,
London-born, New York-based vocalist, composer and lyricist.Map
Jul. 23: 6:30 p.m. Price: Parking: $10. Box office: 860-677-4787
Pirate Sail
Long Wharf Pier
New Haven,CT
Captain William Kidd and the Free Men of the Sea, history re-enactors of the
Golden Age of Piracy, welcome you and your family to sail aboard the tall
ship Quinnipiack. Bring picnic. 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Box Office:
203-865-1737
www.schoonerinc.org Jul. 16: 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Jul. 27: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Aug. 13: 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Aug. 23: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Aug. 30: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sep. 7: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sep. 14: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Price: $40 adults, $20 children age 12 and under
Walking with
Dinosaurs
Arena at Harbor Yard
600 Main St.
Exit 27 I-95, Bridgeport, CT
Box Office: 203-345-2400
Dinosaurs return to the earth in a live
theatrical show at the Arena at Harbor Yard, Walking with Dinosaurs - The
Live Experience." Based on the award-winning BBC Television Series, this
production has already been seen by more than one million Americans.
The show features ten species from the entire 200 million year reign of the
dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient
terrain; the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period; the
Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period; and Torosaurus and
Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous. The largest dinosaur on display,
the Brachiosaurus, stands 36-feet tall and 56-feet from nose to tail.
The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and
tectonic changes that took place, which led to the demise of many species.
The history of the world is played out with the splitting of the continents,
the formation of oceans, the eruption of volcanoes and the transition from
arid desert planet to lush green prairies. All events lead to the impact of
a massive comet, which struck the earth and forced the extinction of the
dinosaurs.
Performances are Wed.-Fri. at 7:30 p.m., Sat. at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.,
and Sun. at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Visit the
Arena at Harbor Yard Web site
for tickets and more information.
www.arenaatharboryard.com Jul. 23 - Jul. 27
Price: $67.75, $47.75, $32.75
"Hamlet" and "The
Seductive Countess"
Produced by: Capital Classics Shakespeare Festival
St. Joseph College
1678 Asylum Ave.
West Hartford, CT
Box Office: 860-231-5555
Enjoy a production of Shakespeare’s
intricate tragedy, "Hamlet," under the stars. Preceded by a Moliere
curtain-teaser comedy, "The Seductive Countess."
Performances are Thu.-Sat., at 7:30 p.m.
and Sun. at 5:30 p.m. The family-oriented production is performed on the
lawn of the Carol Autorino Center. Bring picnics, lawn chairs, blankets. The
rain location is Hoffman Auditorium.
For more information call 860-231-5555 or
visit
Capital Classics Shakespeare Festival's Web
site.
Through Jul. 27 Price: $12 adults, $7
students.
Altar Boyz
Long Wharf Theatre
222 Sargent Drive
New Haven ,CT
Box Office: 203-772-8255
Family-friendly musical spoof about a Christian boy band on the last night
of their tour. No performances on Sundays and Mondays.
Through Sep. 13 Daily : 8 p.m.
Ella
Hartford Stage
50 Church St.
Hartford, CT
Hartford Stage presents a musical portrait of the First Lady of Song. Tina
Fabrique portrays the legendary Ella Fitzgerald in this toe-tapping night of
theater, featuring such classics as "That Old Black Magic," "A Tiskit, A
Tasket" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me."
Book by Jeffrey Hatcher; conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison;
directed by Ruggiero. Produced in collaboration with the Connecticut Theatre
Festival, Dean Adams, producing artistic director.
For more information, visit the
Hartford Stage Web site.
Through Jul. 27 Price: $26-$55. Box office:
860-527-5151
Half A Sixpence
Goodspeed Opera House
6 Main St.
East Haddam, CT
Box Office: 860-873-8668
A bouncy, romantic musical that will
leave you laughing and wanting more. Enjoy the antics of young Arthur Kipps,
a Cockney shop clerk who inherits a fortune, flirts with "society," loses
his money and winds up happier without it.
Performance schedule: Wed.-Thu., 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 3
p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Select Mon. and Fri., 2 p.m.
www.goodspeed.org Through Sep. 19 Price: $26-$63.
Scramble!
Westport Country Playhouse
25 Powers Court
Westport, CT
A farce by David Wiltse that takes place in the offices of a magazine that
fears a corporate takeover. Workers fear the new hire has been sent in from
above to do some secret cutting, and everyone gets caught up in paranoia,
mistaken identities and outlandish triangular relationships.
Through Jul. 26 Price: $30-65 Box office:
203-227-4177
Suddenly Last Summer
TheatreWorks New Milford
5 Brookside Ave.
New Milford,CT
Box Office: 860-350-6863
Tennessee Williams "Suddenly Last Summer" is a one act play of two
monologues that display Williams' starkest and most poetic works.
Through Aug. 2 Daily : 8 p.m.
Price: $20
The Tempest
The Little Theatre
Orchard Hill Road
Newtown, CT
Box Office: 203-270-9144
Town players of Newtown perform, The Tempest.
Through Jul. 26
"Moon Over Buffalo"
Produced by: Ivoryton Playhouse
Ivoryton Playhouse
150 Main St.
Ivoryton, CT
Jul. 16 - Aug. 3
Price: $35 adults; $30 seniors; $20 students; $15 children.
Box office: 860-767-7318Performances are Wed & Sun, 2 p.m.; Wed and Thurs,
7:30 p.m.; Fri & Sat, 8 p.m. An acting couple is on tour in Buffalo when
they hear that Frank Capra himself is en route to catch their performance.
Wonderful Town
Musicals at Richter
100 Aunt Hack Road
Danbury, CT
Two sisters from Columbus, Ohio and their New York City adventures with
fame, romance and fortune in the 1930s. Grounds open at 7:15 p.m. for
picnicking and the curtain is drawn at 8:30 p.m.
Through Jul. 26 Price: $13-21 Box office:
203-748-6873
Shakespeare
Performance
The Cedar Grove at Middlesex Community
College
100 Training Hill Rd
Middletown,CT
Summer Shakespeare in the Grove, presented by Artfarm, will feature
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," a fun, family-friendly comedy. Open lawn
seating, so bring chairs and blankets. Live music will begin at 6 p.m. with
the performance beginning at 7 p.m. On Sundays, the show will be preceded by
an Ecofestival at 4 p.m.
For information, call 860-346-4390. Jul.
17: 6 p.m.
Jul. 18: 6 p.m. Jul. 19: 6 p.m. Jul. 20: 4 p.m. Jul. 24: 6 p.m.
Jul. 25: 6 p.m. Jul. 26: 6 p.m.
Jul. 27: 4 p.m.
Price: Free.
Up 'n Comers Teen
Acting Company production of Rowan and Martin's "Laugh-In"
Park Road Playhouse
244 Park Road
West Hartford, CT
www.parkroadplayhouse.org Jul. 17: 7:30 p.m.
Jul. 18: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 19: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 24: 7:30 p.m.
Jul. 25: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 26: 7:30 p.m.
Price: $20 adults, $10 students.
Box office: 860-586-8500
Twilight Zone: Of
Shadows and Substance
Hole In The Wall Theater
116 Main St.
New Britain, CT
Four of the timeless show's most memorable episodes are given a theatrical
treatment. Through Aug. 9
Fridays : 8 p.m. Saturdays : 8 p.m.
Price: $20 suggested donation. Box office: 860-229-3049
The Music Man
Rich Forum
307 Atlantic St.
Stamford, CT
You may remember the hit songs "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Trouble,"
"Goodnight, My Someone" and "Lyda Rose," which will all be performed by a
professional cast and orchestra. Wed.-Sat. 7:30 p.m.. Sat. and Sun. 2 p.m
.Jul. 17 - Jul. 27 Price: $25-$55 Box office:
203-325-4466
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