A committee formed to advocate for the reopening of the shuttered Ireland's Great Hunger Museum will hold a public event on Oct. 30, as the office of state Attorney General William Tong inve…
University of New Haven English Prof. Dr. Randall Horton has just published a book of poetry based on the years he spent in prison.
Connecticut Literary Festival will be Oct. 22 and 23 in Hartford, sponsored by the CCSU English Department.
The Connecticut Book Awards, which honors books written about Connecticut and/or by Connecticut residents, will be Oct. 22 in Hartford.
The third annual Hartford's L.I.T. Book Festival, a three-day celebration of reading and writing, will be held Sept. 17 to 19.
Meriden Mall will soon be home to a dinner theater, where a local troupe will present musical plays and other entertainers will perform while diners enjoy a meal.
Thirty six projects by artists of color received a total of $329,500 in funding from Hartford's Free Center from its Independent Artists Fund.
A casting call has been put out for a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie that will be shot in Hartford in September.
Cinestudio, the art house theater on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, has appointed Lew Michaels as its new executive director. Michaels was most recently general manager of the Sh…
WeHa Bear Fair, a public art project during which 12 artist-painted bears will be installed in West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square, will be revealed in a ceremony from 4:30 to 6 p.m. o…
Connecticut's Flagship Producing Theaters will require vaccination and masks for all indoor spaces, they announced on Monday.
East Hartford residents are invited to participate in a community paint day Friday from 2:30-5:30 p.m. to work together on a mural of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Sc…
Anyone can have a song custom-written and sung by a Broadway star through The Broadway Song Shoppe website, co-founded by Branford native and Broadway musical director Greg Kenna.
The 2021 season of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road in Farmington, will be held Sept. 10 to 12, with headliners Nick Flynn, Martin Espada and Conn…
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has become the first big art venue in the Greater Hartford area to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to attend events, it was announced on Thu…
An employee of Real Art Ways was fired on Thursday for what he said was termed "gross insubordination" after presenting Executive Director Will K. Wilkins with a demand for a mask mandate an…
The CT Office of the Arts has named its 2021 state Arts Heroes. They will be honored at a ceremony Sept. 1, along with the 2020 Arts Heroes.
Tuition will be free to the Yale School of Drama for all present and future students, thanks to a $150 million gift from film producer David Geffen. The school will be renamed the David Geff…
Min Jung Kim, who is leaving her position as CEO of New Britain Museum of American Art, will become director of the St. Louis Art Museum in Missouri.
Min Jung Kim has resigned as CEO of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
Artist Leonardo Drew, who grew up in Bridgeport, has an exhibit up now at Wadsworth Atheneum of his "monstrosities," sculptures he creates from the remains of old sculptures he created and t…
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Gov. Ned Lamont, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and arts and culture leaders on Wednesday highlighted Hartford's recognition as the best U.S. city for artists to li…
Five indigenous women writers will get together virtually to chat about writing, culture and representation on June 3, in an event presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
February is Black History Month, but Juneteenth is in June, so a lot of galleries and museums in Connecticut are showing Black art exhibits.
The tallest mural in Connecticut, a 100-foot image of a young woman watering flowers, has been painted at the corner of Ann Uccello and Pearl streets in Hartford.