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BRISTOL
Lake Compounce Theme Park will celebrate Independence Day
with fireworks over the lake on July 4 at 10 p.m. The show
is free with park admission.
ENFIELD
July 6-8: The town is holding a celebration over the
weekend. Events kick off July 6 at 5 p.m. with a Taste of
Enfield food festival, which runs all three days. The Edgar
Winter Band performs at 9:30 p.m. July 6; Lou Gramm of
Foreigner plays July 7 at 9 p.m.; and the Isaac Young
Quartet plays jazz on the town green July 8 at 10:15 p.m.
following fireworks at 9:45 p.m. Information:
www.enfieldcelebration.org.
HARTFORD
Saturday, July 7: Hartford and East Hartford will celebrate
our country's independence and the Connecticut River with a
dual-community, multi-venue festival at Riverfront Plaza and
Charter Oak Landing in Hartford, and Founders Plaza and
Great River Plaza in East Hartford. The festivals will
feature family entertainment, children's activities, and the
Fiesta del Rio, featuring local Latin music. There will be
7:30 p.m. readings at all locations of the names of the
Connecticut soldiers who have fallen in the fighting in
Afghanistan and Iraq, with fireworks salutes after each
name, and a flyover of four A10s as the conclusion. The
fireworks display will begin at 9:45 p.m. and will be
choreographed with patriotic music played live on air by
WDRC 102.9FM. The celebrations will be from 4 p.m. to 10:15
p.m. Information: 860-713-3131 or visit
www.riverfront.org.
LITCHFIELD
Wednesday, July 4: The town will be holding Independence Day
celebrations that focus on the appreciation of history. The
festivities will begin at 8:30 a.m. at East Cemetery with a
ceremony at the grave sites of Wolcott and Benjamin
Tallmadge, the latter the head of the American army's
espionage efforts during the Revolutionary War. The
Daughters and the Sons of the American Revolution will
sponsor the event, which will include a presentation by
Descendants of Signers of the Declaration of Independence at
the grave site of Oliver Wolcott, Sr., an original signer of
the Declaration. The Litchfield Artillery will host an
afternoon event on Litchfield's East Green. Dressed as
19th-century Indian fighters, members of the group will
perform a 13-gun salute to celebrate the ratifying of each
state. Lastly, the Litchfield Historical Society will hold a
pet parade and "Turn of the Century Fest." The festival will
include an ice-cream social and old-fashioned games. All
events are free. Information: 860- 567-4501.
MIDDLEBURY
Wednesday, July 4: Quassy Amusement Park is putting on a
"3-D" fireworks display. Fireworks will be fired off as
usual, but the amusement park will be offering special "3-D"
viewing glasses for $1, with the proceeds going to benefit
the Prevent Blindness Tri-State charity. Admission is:
$19.95 for adults and $15.95 for children. July 4th parking
is $7. Rides open at 11 a.m., and the fireworks will begin
at 10:15 p.m. Quassy is off Route 64. Information:
203-758-2913 or 1-800-FOR-PARK, or visit
www.quassy.com.
MIDDLETOWN
July 6-7: Tastes, Sights and Sounds of Middletown, with the
fireworks over the Connecticut River on July 7 at 10 p.m.
MYSTIC
Wednesday, July 4: There will be an 1876-themed Fourth of
July celebration at Mystic Seaport from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visitors are invited to play croquet with "people from the
past," churn ice cream, and row a whaleboat. The event will
start at noon with a picnic on the Village Green. Children's
activities include a 1 p.m. parade through the museum's
village, and an old-fashioned spelling bee. Admission is
$17.50 for adults, $12 for children, and free for children
under 5. Mystic Seaport is one mile south of Exit 90 off
I-95 in Mystic. Information: 888-973-2767, or visit
www.mysticseaport.org.
NEW BRITAIN
Wednesday, July 4: The parks and recreation department will
host the 13th annual Great American Boom at Stanley Quarter
Park. The giant celebration begins at 5 p.m., with a concert
by "Steppin Out," and culminates with a fireworks display
about 9:15 p.m. The rain date is July 5.
The recreation department will have attractions and
inflatables set up, including several carnival games and a
sand-art station. There also will be a live animal petting
zoo, including llamas, sheep, cattle and more.
Several food vendors will sell snacks and dinner in the
park, including ice cream, fried dough, hot dogs, sausage
and peppers, pizza, cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn and
soft drinks.
A state-of-the-art sound system will be set up throughout
the park to project both the pre-fireworks concert and the
pre-recorded patriotic music in-sync with the fireworks
show.
Parking will be available at Central Connecticut State
University. Handicapped parking is available at Stanley
Quarter Park through Eddy Glover Boulevard entrance only.
People should bring blankets, lawn chairs and bug spray. For
more information, call the recreation hotline, 860-826-3360.
NEWINGTON
Saturday, July 21: The parks and recreation department will
host its annual Mill Pond Park Extravaganza on .
The event includes daylong activities that begin at 9 a.m.
and end with a fireworks display at 9:30 p.m.
The annual event includes arts and crafts exhibits, karaoke,
live music, children's rides, paddle boats and Mill Pond
canoes.
NEW HAVEN
Wednesday, July 4: Fireworks will start at dusk on Long
Wharf Park, Exit 46 off I-95. Information: 203-946-7821.
NEW LONDON
Wednesday, July 4: Poets Jon Andersen, Rhonda Ward, Doug
Anderson and F.D. Reeve are reading from their work at the
Hygienic Art Gallery, 83 Bank St., from 7 to 9 p.m. Reeve
spent a year in Moscow as an exchange professor, has taught
at Wesleyan and has two dozen books of poetry, fiction and
literary criticism. His jazz trio, Exit 59, is also
performing. Andersen teaches at E.O. Smith High School in
Storrs. His first full-length collection of poetry is
"Rattle, Stomp and Sing." Ward is a poet who lives in New
London and has published in Temper Review, Siren, Poetry Bay
and online at
www.burningword.com.
SIMSBURY
Wednesday, July 4: The Simsbury Community Band, the premier
community band of north central Connecticut, will celebrate
with a summer concert at 7 p.m. at Simsbury Farms Ice Rink,
Old Farms Road. Patrons should arrive early to ensure a good
seat. Ice cream sundaes will go on sale at 6 p.m. for $2.
STAFFORD
Saturday, July 7: As part of its annual Summerfest
celebration, there will be a fireworks display sponsored by
Stafford Savings Bank at 9:15 p.m. at Stafford Motor
Speedway. A rain date is scheduled for July 8.
TORRINGTON
Wednesday, July 4: Independence Day celebration, sponsored
by the park and recreation department, to be held at
Torrington Middle School, Rt. 183, the food court will be
open from 5 to 10:45 p.m., dough toss, bounce house, dunk
tank, face painting from 5 to 7:45 p.m., tirebitter performs
from 6 to 7:45 p.m., fried dough eating competition from
7:45 to 8:30 p.m., at 8:30 p.m. a conversation with Abe
Lincoln, with cameo appearances by a Revoluntionary War
Figure and Victorian Lady, Color Guard with 21 gun salute,
at 9:15 p.m. fireworks and at 9:45 p.m. restaurants open and
Tirebiter performs.
The First Annual New England Fried Dough Eating Competition
will be held in town in connection with Connecticut's own
Brian's Fabulous Fried Dough and Torrington Parks and
Recreation. The event will award $1,000 to the winner, and
$300 and $100 prizes to second and third place respectively.
Each participant is allowed one coach for motivation and the
psyching-out of other contestants. There will also be a raw
dough throw, in which boys and girls of two different age
groups will compete to throw dough at the fastest speed;
additionally, kids up to 12 can participate in a raw dough
toss that will measure distance thrown. Winners of both
events will be rewarded two-day passes for Six Flags New
England. Applications can be found at
www.fabulousfrybread.com or
www.torringtonct.org. For more information, call
860-309-1836 or 860-309-4637.
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Sterling Farms Theatre
Complex
1349 Newfield Ave.
Stamford,CT
Box Office: 203-461-6358 x13
Curtain Call's annual Shakespeare on the Green production on
the lawn of Sterling Farms. park opens at 6 p.m. for
picnicking, with complex's The Royal Green Restaurant taking
food and drink orders.
Jul. 6: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 7: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 12: 7:30 p.m.
Jul. 13: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 14: 7:30.
Comedy of Errors
Roger Sherman Park
Arch St.
Greenwich,CT
Box Office: 203-299-1300
Shakespeare on the Sound's annual outdoor production, this
year's tackling one the bard's most farcical plays about two
sets of twin boys separated when they were young that sets
the stage for lots of cases of mistaken identity and plot
twists. www.shakespeareonthesound.org.
Jul. 5: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 6: 7:30 p.m. Jul. 7: 7:30 p.m.
Jul. 8: 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Shakespeare and Theatrical Fair
Outdoor Shakespeare and Theatrical Fair in West Hartford
Capital Classics Theatre Company will partner with The Carol
Autorino Center at Saint Joseph College to present The
Capital Classics Shakespeare Festival in July, 2007. The
main stage production of The Comedy of Errors will be
preceded by a full-fledged theatrical festival, including a
commedia dell’arte (masked comedy), Elizabethan dance,
music, and more.
Performance dates are: July 5, 6, 7, 8, and July 12, 13, 14,
15; Thursday – Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.; Sundays at 5:00 p.m.
All performances take place outdoors in the sunken garden of
The Carol Autorino Center; rain location: the Hoffman
Auditorium.
Audience members are invited to bring picnics, lawn chairs,
blankets and friends. Tickets, which are $10 for adults and
$5 for students, are available at the door or at
860.231.5555 or www.sjc.edu/arts. The Festival is
appropriate for all ages! For more information on Capital
Classics, Inc., visit
www.capitalclassics.org
The
Tempest
Boothe Memorial Park & Museum
Main St.
Stratford,CT
Box Office: 203-612-7908
Outdoor Shaksepeare production by the Players at Putney
Gardens, in the park's Sunken Garden.Jul. 6 - Jul. 28Fridays
: 8 p.m. Saturdays : 8 p.m.
Price: $15/general, $12/senior & student
The
Merchant of Venice
Stratford Library
2203 Main St.
Stratford,CT
Love, debt and chance, Shakespeare-style. Staged outdoors by
the Hudson Shakespeare Company.
Jul. 7: 2 p.m. Price: Free.Box office: 203-385-4162
Delirium
Arena at Harbor Yard
Box Office: 203-345-2308
Cirque Du Soleil.
Jul. 5: Jul. 6:
Fiddler on the Roof
Musicals at Richter
100 Aunt Hack Rd.
Danbury,CT
Debut production for the outdoor theatre's summer season,
staged on the grounds of Danbury's Richter Arts
Center.Through Jul. 7
Sundays : 8:30 p.m. Thursdays : 8:30 p.m. Fridays : 8:30
p.m. Saturdays : 8:30 p.m.
Price: $20/adult, $15/senior, $12/student & child,
$10/preview performance June 21.
Box office: 203-748-6873
Man
of LaMancha
Ridgefield Theater Barn
The popular musical--winner of seven Tony Awards--about the
windmill dueling hero Don Quixote. www.theaterbarn.org.
Through Jul. 14 Fridays : 8 p.m. Saturdays : 8 p.m. Box
office: 203-431-9850
Snazz-n-Guffaw
Puppet House Theater
128 Thimble Island Road
Branford,CT
Reunion/20th-anniversary performance by the New
Haven-rooted improv comedy troupe. Hosted by Robin Selfridge
and Robert Galinsky.
Jul. 7: 7 p.m. Price: $10
Box office: 203-488-5752
2007
National Playwrights Conference
Produced by: Eugene O'Neill
Theater Center
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
This summer's lineup includes collaboration with the Goodman
Theatre of Chicago, Illinois (Robert Falls, artistic
director) and Galway, Ireland's famed Druid Theatre Company
(Garry Hynes, artistic director). Selections: "End Days" by
Deborah Zoe Laufer, July 5 and 7, 8 p.m.; "The Velvet Rut"
by James Still, July 6, 8 p.m. and July 8, 5 p.m.; "The
Woodpecker" by Samuel Brett Williams, July 11 and 13, 8
p.m.; "The Crowd You're In With" by Rebecca Gilman, July 12,
8 p.m. and July 14, 5 p.m.; "Good Boys and True" by Roberto
Aguirre-Sacasa, July 18 and 20, 8 p.m.; "The Book Club Play"
by Karen Zacarias, July 19, 8 p.m. and July 21, 5 p.m.;
"Guardians" by Lucy Caldwell, July 25 and 27, 8 p.m.; "The
Ballad of Emmett Till" by Ifa Bayeza, July 26, 8 p.m. and
July 28, 5 p.m.
Jul. 5 - Jul. 28
Daily :
Price: Call for tickets. Schedules subject to change.
www.theoneill.org
Box office: 860-443-5378
Kenya
Safari Acrobats
Quassy Amusement Park
Box Office: 203-758-2913
Email: http://www.quassy.com
Kenya Safari Acrobats will perform daily at the amusement
park this summer. Attendees are asked to bring canned food
items to support the Connecticut Food Bank.
Jul. 7 - Aug. 10
Daily :
Price: Free. Free admission; $5 parking.
Box office: 800-367-7275
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