Hartford Stage Announces 2013 Gala

Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak, Managing Director Michael Stotts, Board of Directors President Jill Adams and the Board of Directors of Hartford Stage announce the annual fundraising gala, Party in the Paint Shop 4: Horns and Halos at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2013.

The theme this year is Horns & Halos - "Are you an angel... or a demon? Let your conscience be your guide."

The evening will feature a performance by Ben Franklin and Joshua Dean of Cirque Le Jazz, a fusion of circus arts, musical theatre and vaudeville. Dean was the aerialist in last season's production of The Tempest. Also, indulge in decadent cuisine prepared by the Kitchen at Billings Forge, bid on an array of heavenly auction items, and dance the night away to the fiery sounds of Hot House.

Party in the Paint Shop 4: Horns and Halos is sponsored by Cigna, Cummings & Lockwood, Hoffman Audi, Morning Star, Prudential, and United Technologies.
For more information, contact Kristen Mauro at kmauro@hartfordstage.org or 860-520-7241.

HISTORY OF HARTFORD STAGE Now in its 49th season, Hartford Stage is one of the nation's leading resident theatres, known internationally for producing classics, provocative new plays and musicals, and neglected works from the past, as well as a distinguished education program that reaches 21,000 students annually. In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. That same year, the theatre presented the World Premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year the company also produced a world premiere musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which recently played at The Old Globe in San Diego, and the world premiere of Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty, which recently played at City Theatre Company in Pittsburg.

Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, two New York Critics Circle Awards, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award, and has produced nationally renowned titles, including the Broadway productions of Enchanted April and Our Country's Good and the Off-Broadway productions of The Orphans' Home Cycle and The Carpetbaggers Children.

The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage's offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses. In 2012 the theatre acquired the education programs of the Hartford Children's Theatre and created The Children's Theatre of Hartford Stage.

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