T. Roberts News

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.

The Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph has a fall season full of virtually accessible engagements for the entire community's enjoyment including, performances, lectures, master classes, and more.

Anne Cubberly's vision for a seasonal performance has been recast as Night Fall 2020 - The Movie, a film that will drop online and on Night Fall Hartford's social media channels.

Save the date, contact your friends, and start planning your picnic dinner because the Capital Classics Theatre Company will be staging "The Merry Wives of Windsor" for the 28th Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival - outdoors - on the beautiful grounds of the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, this July 11-28, 2019.

The University of Hartford's The Hartt School presents "Fleeting Moments" the Spring Senior Dance Concert Today, March 1st at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 2nd at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

The University of Hartford's The Hartt School presents "Fleeting Moments" the Spring Senior Dance Concert Friday, March 1st at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 2nd at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

'Fake news.” Violent pornography. Terrorist propaganda. Everyone agrees that the initial dream of the internet as a utopian global community has evolved into something much more sinister. Silicon Valley leaders and lawmakers have taken steps to remove some of the internet's most hateful sites and content, but who actually sifts through the net and removes them? The Cleaners looks at five digital cleaners or “content moderators” – young people in an outsourced post in the Philippines who spend each day scanning the net and deciding what to keep and what to delete. Directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck, The Cleaners premieres on Independent Lens Monday, November 12, 2018, 10:00-11:30 PM ET (check local listings) on PBS.

The University of Hartford's Hartt School Dance Division presents, "Transcendence" the Fall Senior Dance Concert. Performances are Friday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 3, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater announces its 2018 Summer Theater Season featuring 4 outstanding plays and the return of WHAT for Kids.

More than five hundred years later, Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate and intrigue. And now Sonia Plumb Dance has created an exciting new work inspired by his genius.

The University of Hartford's The Hartt School presents "Quintessence" the Spring Senior Dance Concert Friday, March 9th at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 10th at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

TheaterWorks (Rob Ruggiero, Producing Artistic Director) announced today that CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne will extend though February 22, 2018 with four added performances including a Wednesday matinee on February 21st. CONSTELLATIONS is the 2nd show of TheaterWorks 32nd Season.

TheaterWorks (Rob Ruggiero, Producing Artistic Director) announced today that CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne will run January 18 through February 18, 2018 (note date change). CONSTELLATIONS is the 2nd show of TheaterWorks 32nd Season.

TheaterWorks (Rob Ruggiero, Producing Artistic Director) announced today that CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne will run January 18 through February 18, 2018 (note date change). CONSTELLATIONS is the 2nd show of TheaterWorks 32nd Season.

In 1941, Joseph Kesselring offered this sage advice: If you are a lonely, elderly gentleman steer clear of the old Victorian rooming house that Abby and Martha Brewster run - it may be your last room on Earth!