The
Odd Couple
Produced by: Ivoryton
Playhouse
Ivoryton Playhouse
103 Main St.
Ivoryton, CT
Box Office: 860-767-7318
Neil Simon's Tony
Award-winning comedy, directed by Larry Thelen.
www.ivorytonplayhouse.org Aug. 5 - Aug. 30
Produced by:
Westport Country Playhouse
Westport Country Playhouse
25 Powers Court
Westport, CT
Box Office: 203-227-4177
Drama by Jason
Miller (the young priest in The Exorcist), about the 20th reunion of four
players and the coach of a high school basketball team where secrets are
revealed and loyalties tested.
www.westportplayhouse.org Through Sep. 12 Price: $35-$55.
The
Immigrant
Spirit of Broadway Theater
24 Chestnut St.
Norwich, CT
Box Office: 860-886-2378
Musical based on a
true story about a Jewish Russian immigrant who ends up in a Baptist Texas
community and is given shelter by a childless older couple.
Aug. 26 - Sep. 27
Vesta
Thornton Wilder Hall, Miller Cultural
Complex
2901 Dixwell Ave.
Hamden, CT
Reading of a one act play that follows a terminally ill woman and her family
through the choices they must make as she nears the end of her life.
Presented by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of Waterbury.
Aug. 29: 7 p.m. Price: Free
High School Musical
Broad Brook Opera House
107 Main St.
Broad Brook, CT
Box Office: 860-292-6068
For more information, call 860-292-6068 or visit www.operahouseplayers.org.
Aug. 20: 8 p.m.
Aug. 21: 8 p.m. Aug. 22: 8 p.m. Aug. 23: 2 p.m. Aug. 27: 8 p.m. Aug.
28: 8 p.m.
Aug. 29: 2 p.m. 8 p.m. Aug. 30: 2 p.m.
Price: $20 adults, $16 for persons younger than 21 and older than 60.
Summer Concert Series
Elizabeth Park
Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT
Hartford presents its own little Tanglewood free to the public inside the
Rose garden of Elizabeth Park. Bring a picnic dinner and your dancing shoes
and let lose to everything from rock to Motown and if it rains, the concert
will take place in the Pond House.
August 26-R&B from Massconn Fussion
Through Aug. 26
Wednesdays : 6:30 p.m. Price: Free
Murder Mystery
Mystic Seaport
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT
Box Office: 888-973-2767
Interactive moving
mystery tour, where visitors attempt to solve a mystery by interviewing
witnesses and suspects, played by the Mystic Seaport TaleMakers.
Through Sep. 5
Price: $14-$16
Elm
Shakespeare 2009
Edgerton Park
Whitney Ave. & Cliff St.
New Haven, CT
The local troupe presents Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" and Philip
Barry's "Holiday" in repertory.
Aug. 13 - Sep. 6
Price: Free, donations welcomed
Kenya Safari Acrobats
Quassy Amusement Park
Rte. 64
Middlebury, CT Box Office: 800-367-7275
Six to eight acrobats perform feats of strength and stunts like fire ring
jumping, a human pyramid and more.
Aug. 17 - Aug. 30
My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy
Produced by: Long
Wharf Theatre
Long Wharf Theatre
222 Sargent Drive
New Haven , CT
Box Office: 203-787-4282
Aug. 5-9 and 19-30.
Written and performed by Steve Solomon.
Solomon tells
hilarious stories about his wacky family and the crazy characters he meets
on the road who, it seems, have the sole purpose of driving him into therapy
– something they manage with great success.
www.longwharf.org
Aug. 5 - Aug. 30
Price: $27-$32; special rates for groups and patrons under 16.
Side by Side by Sondheim
Produced by:
Connecticut Cabaret Theatre
Connecticut Cabaret Theatre
31-33 Webster Square Road
Berlin, CT
Box Office: 860-829-1248
Musical tribute to
Stephen Sondheim, featuring his best known works and collaborations.
Jul. 24 - Aug. 29
Price: $30.
Ile
Mystic Seaport
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT
Box Office: 888-973-2767
Dinner
theater-style performance of the one act play by Eugene O'Neill by the
Mystic Seaport TaleMakers aboard the L.A. Dunton (dinner served outside
Shaefer's Spouter Tavern).
Through Sep. 6
Price: $40-$45
Essex Steam Train & Riverboat's "Friday Night Lite"
Essex Steam Train & Riverboat
1 Railroad Ave.
Valley Railroad Company
Essex, CT
Box Office: 800-377-3987
Train boards at 7
for a 7:30 p.m. departure. On alternate Fridays, Riverway Studio of East
Haddam serves up a casual evening of live entertainment—improv comedy or
murder mystery—for passengers.
Hop on board Laugh
Tracks for a joke-filled evening of improv. Or, take a murder mystery train
bound for Hollywood during the Roaring 20s.
$45 per ticket
includes a 2 ½ hour train journey, entertainment and a lite dinner. Full bar
service is available on board with cash or credit card. Reservations
required.
www.essexsteamtrain.com Through Aug. 28 Fridays : 7 p.m.
Music on the River
Mystic Seaport
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT
Box Office: 860-572-5351
Summer cruise
series aboard the steamboat Sabino at Mystic Seaport continues with folk,
rock and jazz by Ron Drago. Series continues each Wednesday through Aug. 26.
Cash bar and light snacks available.
Aug. 26: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Price: $25, $22 members.
Culinary Walking Tour
John Davenport's at the Top of the Park
155 Temple St.
New Haven, CT
Box Office: 203-974-6858
Guided culinary
tour through historic downtown New Haven, with tasty samplings from stops
along the way, including Union League Cafe, Louis' Lunch, Bar, Willoughby's,
Bar, York St. Noodle, the Cupcake Truck and more.
Sep. 26: 1:30 p.m.
Camelot
Produced by:
Goodspeed Opera House
Goodspeed Opera House
6 Main St.
East Haddam, CT
Box Office: 860-873-8668
Lerner and Loewe's
Arthurian musical, an enchanting fable of chivalry, honor and brotherhood.
Wed.-Thu., 7:30 p.m. (no 7:30 p.m. show July 16); Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun.,
6:30 p.m. (no 6:30 p.m. shows Aug. 16, 23, 30, Sept 6, 13) Matinees: Wed., 2
p.m.; Thu. Aug. 13, 20, 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 2 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. (no 2 p.m.
show July 26). Tue., Sept 15, 7:30 p.m. Sat., Sept 19, 2 & 6:30 p.m.
goodspeed.org
Jul. 10 - Sep.
19 Price: $27.50-$69.50
New
Haven Food & Wine Festival
Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale
45 Yale Ave.
New Haven, CT
Box Office: 888-99-PILOT
Pilot Pen Tennis
serves up a showcase of New Haven's eclectic and international cuisine at a
wine tasting with wine professionals from Australia's award-winning Wolf
Blass wines.
Guests will also have a chance to meet one of America's best-known chefs,
Jacques Pepin. The cost of the event is $105 per person, which includes a
box seat for session seven and a Riedel wine glass and bottle stopper from
Lux Bond & Green.
Participating
restaurants include
Barcelona,
Ibiza,
Bespoke,
Sabor,
Claire's
Corner Copia,
Basta Trattoria,
Zinc,
Chow,
Union
League Café,
Miso,
Foster's,
Thali,
Geronimo
and
116
Crown.
For more
information and to purchase tickets, visit the
Pilot
Pen Web site.
www.pilotpentennis.com Aug. 26: noon - 2 p.m. ; 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Price:
$105
Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze
Lyman Orchards
32 Reeds Gap Road
Middlefield, CT
Box Office: 860-349-1793
The maze is open
Aug. 19 through early September.
Lyman Orchards
invites you to get lost among the flowers, 235,000 of them, when the maze is
in full bloom. This year's maze is in the shape of a super-sized guitar.
www.lymanorchards.com Through Sep. 12
Price: $9 ages 13 years and older; $5 ages 4-12. For each ticket sold, Lyman
Orchards will donate $1 to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
Encore performance of "Charlie Parker with Strings"
Riverfront Plaza
300 Columbus Boulevard
Hartford, CT
Violinists Michael Pollard and Jaroslaw Lis, violist Michael Wheeler, and
cellist Jeffrey Krieger will team up with percussionist Gene Bozzi, bassist
Edward “Rick” Rozie, and saxophonist Kris Allen for a live rendering of
tracks from Charlie Parker’s famous album “Charlie Parker with Strings."
Aug. 29: 4 p.m. Price: Free.
Love Fest
New Haven Green
Temple & Elm sts.
New Haven, CT
Box Office: 203-915-7379
A musical
celebration of life, love and hope. Presented by Yahweh Productions.
Featuring Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge paying tribute to Jimi Hendrix and
Janis Joplin, Boogie Chillun, Organic Soul, Sandoval Band, Feet of Fire
Dance Troupe, ASAS Martial Arts demo. Frank Minucci speaks about his life.
Games, face painting and other activities. Non-perishable food item
donations accepted.
Aug. 29: noon - 7
p.m.
Reach Music Festival
Simsbury Performing Arts Center
22 Iron Horse Boulevard
Simsbury, CT
The Reach Music Festival is a first-of-its-kind, one-day music festival
featuring music by Earth, Wind & Fire, Little River Band, Max Creek and
special guests. Proceeds from the evening will benefit children's charities
across Connecticut.
Aug. 29: 5:45 p.m. -
11 p.m.
Price: $55-$150, visit
http://www.reachmusicfestival.com/tickets
Summer Flickers
Hygienic Art Park
83 Bank St
New London, CT
Free weekly movie
series. July 29: Do The Right Thing. Aug. 5: Blazing Saddles. Aug. 12: The
Muppet Movie. Aug. 19: Coffee & Cigarettes. Aug. 26: Faire Harbour Film
Fest. Sept. 2: Double Indemnity. Sept. 9: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind.
Wednesdays, Jun. 24: - Sept. 9, 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.
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