With William Shakespeare’s classic The Taming of the Shrew as its foundation, and Music & Lyrics by the immortal Cole Porter, this classic Broadway musical will put a spring in your step. Big-time actors Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham are formerly-married, constantly battling, and now forced to reunite for a new musical version of…what else? The Taming of the Shrew! Their onstage tussles as Shakespeare’s Katherine and Petruchio are nothing compared to their offstage affairs, backstage brawls, and hilarious misunderstandings. As time goes by the couple realizes, much like the characters in the original play, that they are hopelessly bound to each other. The enduring Tony Award-winning score includes hits such as Another Op'nin, Another Show, Why Can't You Behave? and Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
 

Performance Information:

Dates: September 25, 26, October 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24

Times: Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 pm/ Sundays 2:00 pm

Tickets: $20.00 (includes $1.50 service fee) Reserved Seating

David Mamet's landmark drama comes roaring back to life at TheaterWorks in downtown Hartford in a production featuring Hartford favorite Andrew Benator (Proof, Lobby Hero, SantaLand Diaries).

Community Health Services Hartford, a Federally Qualified Health Center in the North End of Hartford is opening a Farmer's Market in conjunction with its Food share distribution program.  The Farmer's Market, slated to open July 10, 2009 and stay open weekly Friday mornings from 8 - 11 AM will feature health improvement programs with the Farmer's Market, programs to utilize the produce in healthy ways to improve diets and reduce obesity, and additional programming to reduce the trash loads, understand and connect people with the food they eat and demonstrate healthy lifestyle and food choices.

Fresh produce is difficult to find in the North End, often stores carry limited produce and there are transportation and safety issues as well. Increasingly city dwellers have become disconnected from their food sources and chose high fat/highly processed foods instead. Endemic to this area, often seen as the thirdd poorest in the nation for a city of its size, are diabetes, hypertension and obesity, all thieves of quality of life.

We hope you will help us to celebrate this innovative program.

AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit 2004 Tony Award® winner for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account.  Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risque and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!" Recommended for ages 13 and up.

Friday, October 9 at 8:00pm

Saturday, October 10 at 2:00 & 8:00pm

Sunday, October 11 at 2:00pm

Manwaring Gallery: Featured Artist - Ted Hendrickson Gallery 66: Greg Bailey, Barkley Henricks, Maureen McCabe, Timothy McDowell, Pamela Marks, Denise Pelletier and Andrea Wollensak.

Gallery Talk: Ted Hendrickson, Wed., Sept. 16, 4:00 p.m., Reception 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. and Sun., 1-4 p.m. Closed Oct. 8-11

On Friday, October 9th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present innovative saxophonist/composer Steve Lehman's only area performance this year as part its fifth annual Fall Jazz Series.  Lehman, who grew up in Hartford before earning two degrees at Wesleyan University during studies with Anthony Braxton and Jackie McLean, will be performing selections from his latest release, Trevail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings).  Originally composed for his octet, the music, which daringly integrates elements of spectral harmony into jazz, has been meticulously arranged for this acoustic trio featuring bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Damion Reed.

"With Travail, Transformation, and Flow," writes the Washington City Paper's Michael J. West, "alto saxophonist Steve Lehman makes a rare offering to the jazz world: a thoroughly alternative principle of improvisation.  Lehman’s deeply compelling harmonies and textures sound noticeably different from anything before it, but the music doesn’t have the threat-to-everything-we-know-and-love trappings of prior upheavals.  The mysterious and open-ended tensions on Travail are a powerful lure into an advanced and challenging set of music that firmly establishes Lehman as a major force in jazz’s avant-garde without taking the music too far out for comfort."

Critics have called him "an inspired talent" (John Fordham, The Guardian) and "one of the rising stars in modern creative jazz" (Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic.com), noting that "Steve Lehman is thinking about jazz in a new way" (Will Layman, PopMatters.com) by opening "his own corridor of exploration" (Nate Chinen, New York Times).  L.A. Weekly's Chris Barton adds, "Lehman's heady excursions remain unique and engaging to the listener whatever your knowledge of musical theory."  In addition to leading his own bands, Lehman is a member of such prominent creative music ensembles as the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet and Fieldwork.  He is also an instructor and departmental fellow at Columbia University, where he is a doctoral candidate in music composition.  Learn more at http://www.stevelehman.com

2009 Fall Jazz Series Schedule:

09/18 :: Brandon Ross & Blazing Beauty

09/25 :: Matt Wilson Quartet

10/02 :: Mauger: Rudresh Mahanthappa/Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway

10/09 :: Steve Lehman Trio

10/16 :: Gretchen Parlato Band

10/23 :: Whirrr! The Music of Jimmy Giuffre

10/30 :: Taylor Eigsti Trio

11/06 :: ODE: Larry Ochs/Trevor Dunn/Lisle Ellis/Michael Sarin

11/13 :: The Peter Evans Quartet

11/20 :: Darius Jones Trio

12/04 :: Mary Halvorson Quintet

12/11 :: Amy Cervini Quartet

12/18 :: Daniel Levin Trio

Tickets and more information available at:

http://firehouse12.com/performance_space_calendar.asp

 For artistic variety, contemporaneity, and quality, the annual Art and Art History Department Studio faculty exhibition excels.  Painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, printmaking, photography, and installation art are the dominant media.  This year's featured artists are Randall Hoyt, graphic design; Janet Pritchard, photography; and Mark Zurolo, graphic design.

Gallery Hours

Thursday & Friday  10 AM-4:30 PM

Saturday & Sunday 1-4:30 PM

Love mysteries? Like free prizes? Play The Maltese Falcon library mystery game. Follow a series of clues throughout the Shelton Libraries. Help solve the mystery of who stole Peaches, the library snake’s cousin Malta. When you think that you have solved the mystery, write down who you think is the culprit on a form found at either the Plumb or Huntington Branch Libraries. Successful sleuths will be entered in a drawing for 2 $50 gift certificates to Staples. The Big Read is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

EVENT DURING LIBRARY HOURS

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

Painter Bill Revill's exhibit of his first gallery show, "New England Vision," continues at the Sandman Gallery at 35 West Main Street in Meriden. The show primarily features New England landscapes and seascapes, and runs until October 16th. The Sandman Gallery is not open on Sundays or Mondays.

The works in this exhibition reflect the visions of Swedish women who broke from their traditional roles of women, mothers and homemakers to explore their creativity as textile designers, weavers, painters, sculptors and glass artists. Their art resonates with dream-like images of free-flying birds evoking flight and escape from domestic confinement, year-round idyllic visions of midsummer blossoms, and spare Nordic landscapes filled with greenery, water, space, and light.  

Women's Work, Women's Dreams celebrates a remarkable legacy from a country whose art and artists are little known to American viewers.  The Benton Museum is grateful to Samuel and Ann Charters for sharing their extraordinary collection of Swedish Art and Art Glass and for curating this exhibit.

Gallery Hours: 

Thursday & Friday: 10 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday: 1 - 4:30 pm

The Benton will be closed:

November 23 - December 2

Come join us for a rarely seen, unique, Civil War Exhibit filling six rooms of museum-quality artifacts such as camp equipment, diaries, paintings, personal items, and weapons. The event is open on Friday, Oct 9, from 10-5 PM, Saturday, Oct 10, from 10- 5 or Sunday, Oct 11, from noon to 4 at the Gaylord House Museum. We are located on scenic Route 20 in West Hartland, Connecticut, in between Riverton and West Granby. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12. This exhibit has been offered only three times in the last fifteen years. Pack a picnic lunch, some chairs or a blanket if the weather is good, and enjoy the exhibit and area.

The Silo Gallery at Hunt Hill Farm continues its season with a new exhibition focusing on the ages-old subject of horses, in its upcoming

Equine-themed Fall Gallery Exhibit at 44 Upland Rd., New Milford, CT.

  In the Hay Barn Gallery Sheila Tintera, both oil painter and

printmaker will show new works featuring horses as reflected in time and culture, past and present.  Equine Artist and photographer

Juliet Harrison will exhibit media that embodies the elements of texture, contrast, shade and shadow and the beauty of the horse. 

In The New Talent Gallery the students of New Milford’s Canterbury School will be featured.

Award-winning artist Sheila Tintera resides in Connecticut and her works have been in several one person shows and group exhibitions

throughout New England.  Reflecting her deep appreciation for the land and rural life, her subjects most often depict landscapes and

elements relating to the natural world.  Sheila works primarily in oils on canvas, and printmaking in the techniques of drypoint etching

and lithography on stone.  The artist studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, followed by several years at Silvermine

School of Art in Norwalk.  Sheila held the month of June at The Henderson Cultural Center’s Artist-In-Residency program and is presently

in the prestigious Critique held by Yale School of Art, Professor, Barbara Grossman.

Juliet Harrison is an award-winning photographer who began her career in New York City as an architectural and fine-art reproduction

photographer.  Her work is held in private as well as museum collections, and she is represented in galleries across New YorkState. 

In a statement from her website Harrison expresses that, “I am an artist working in traditional black and white photography. I use the horse

as my primary subject matter, but in non-traditional ways.”  In an age of digital cameras and digital prints, the artist maintains her 35mm,

primarily using black and white film, always using the traditional hand-printing method in her studio darkroom.   In The New Talent Gallery

are students from CanterburySchool’s Advanced Placement Studio Art Program, displaying works that reflect their technical skills and their

ability to solve problems through the creative process. 

Get an early start and take advantage of the fall color show provided by the scenic hills of Litchfield County! Tour the the historic grounds

of Hunt Hill Farm and view the works of the talented artists at The Fall Gallery Exhibit which will continue through Sunday, October 18^th.  

Hunt Hill Farm hours are Wed. through Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday’s noon to 5 p.m.   For more information, please call Valerie

Culbertson, Silo Gallery Director.