T. Roberts News

The University of Hartford’s The Hartt School Dance Division will perform “Evolve” the Spring Senior Dance Concert. Performances are Wednesday, March 6th, Thursday, March 7th, and Friday, March 8th at 7:30 p.m.

 The University of Hartford’s Hartt School Dance Division presents 'Vantage Point', the Fall Senior Dance Concert. Learn more about the concert here!

HartBeat Ensemble presents the Connecticut premiere of 'Possessing Harriet,' a Kyle Bass drama. Don't miss this powerful and thought-provoking production.

Night Fall, Hartford’s annual community celebration of art, music, dance, nature, and seasonal change, returns to Bushnell Park for the third time in its 12-year history. Learn more about how you can catch this event here!

Hartford Stage has announced the cast and creative team of the relevant revival of Alice Childress' watershed play Trouble in Mind. A powerful backstage drama-comedy that's sure to resonate with audiences today as it did in the 1950s, Trouble in Mind will run May 25 through June 18 at Hartford Stage in downtown Hartford, CT.

Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered to be one of the greatest operatic works in the classical repertoire, will receive a gripping production by Connecticut Lyric Opera (CLO) in partnership with the Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra.

Hartford Stage has announced the Tony Award-winning theater's highly-anticipated lineup for the 2023/2024 season.

The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation announced today a panel conversation with the three recipients of the Inaugural Joyce C. Willis Artists-in-Residence Grant.

The Hartt School Dance Division presents the Spring Senior Dance Concert, “Tri·Fecta”. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday March 8th, 9th, and 10th at 7:30pm EST. All three shows will be held at The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation Theater in the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford CT 06112. 

The glorious music of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini's classic opera of passion, and revenge, will receive a thrilling production by Connecticut Lyric Opera (CLO) in partnership with the Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra.

On Saturday, September 17 from 12 PM to 4 PM, Hartford Stage will open their doors and invite new and returning audiences to discover more about the Tony Award-winning theater with games, behind-the-scenes secrets, complimentary food and drink, live music, and more. 

HartBeat Ensemble announced today their upcoming production of My Children! My Africa!, a gripping drama about the collision of education, idealism and politics by preeminent South African dramatist Athol Fugard. The play will run September 29 through October 9 at HartBeat Ensemble's Carriage House Theater (360 Farmington Avenue) in Hartford, CT. 

Capital Classics Theatre Company announced today the complete cast and artistic team behind Much Ado About Nothing, the centerpiece of the company's 2022 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival. The production will run for three weekends, July 14 through 31, 2022, on the grounds of the University of Saint Joseph (1678 Asylum Avenue in West Hartford, CT).

Hartford Stage announced today the lineup for the Tony Award-winning theater's 2022/2023 season. Three classics, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, and Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind, will join two new plays.

Hartford Stage has announced director Christopher D. Betts as the Joyce C. Willis Fellow through the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons, made possible through a generous grant from The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.

For fourteen months, residents of Connecticut got a tiny taste of what involuntary confinement feels like. With that changed perspective, we can perhaps better understand the burden of isolation experienced by those in prison.

Initiated by Hartford artist Anne Cubberly and a coalition of like-minded visionaries in 2012, Night Fall was created to celebrate the city's park system and neighborhoods by rotating its annual presentation to public park sites throughout the city.

The Amistad Center for Art & Culture is pleased to announce Merik Goma as the inaugural Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence. Made possible through a generous grant from The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, this $150,000 program includes an eighteen-month residency and will culminate in an exhibition of newly created work.

Live opera will return this summer with Connecticut Lyric Opera's production of Giacomo Puccini's beloved masterwork La Bohème. The powerful story of love and selflessness, which inspired the Tony and Pulitzer Award-winning rock musical Rent, is presented in partnership with Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.

Today, Hartford Stage announced plans to reopen the theatre to in-person performances for the 2021/2022 Season beginning in October 2021. The theater will produce a 5-play Mainstage season plus a holiday performance. All performances will be held at Hartford Stage on 50 Church Street in Hartford.