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Following a festive sold-out performance on July 4 of America’s Sweethearts, singing female close harmony, Sharon Playhouse has another drive-in concert scheduled for Sunday, July 19.
The patio bar opens (with social distancing) at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.
The planned purchase of the University of Connecticut’s Torrington campus by Five Points Gallery has been completed, thanks to the leadership of Center Director Judith McElhone. Photo submitted
Judith McElhone’s lofty vision for creating a world-class contemporary art center in northwest Connecticut has taken flight.
Margo Martindale, who appeared in “The Good Wife” with, at left, Alan Cumming and Chris Noth, will be the featured speaker in a Kent Memorial Library talk on Wednesday, July 15. Photo courtesy CBS
The trouble with actress Margo Martindale is that there just isn’t enough of her.
It’s not that she’s a tiny slip of a woman; she is, in fact, robust and big-voiced and large-laughed.
A retrospective show of paintings by Cornwall, Conn., artist Erica Prud’homme had opened at the Cornwall Library on March 7 — and then had closed almost immediately after because of the COVID-19 quarantine.
There are many things homeowners in the area need to learn, from where to buy groceries to how to register their children for school.
KK Kozik’s evocative paintings in the Summer Nights collection include “Overlook,” above. The works all seem to glow with heat and memories.
When you first move to rural Connecticut, it has a magical mystique that makes you feel like you’ve been transported to one of the scenic old New England books of Robert McCloskey (remember “Blueberries for Sal,” with the plinking of the freshly picked berries in a metal bucket?).
Michael Berkeley is now musical director of the Performing Arts department at the Marvelwood School in Kent. Photo submitted
Michael Berkeley has joined the faculty of the Marvelwood School in Kent, Conn., as musical director of the Performing Arts department.
Tapestries made in leather, including “Sunshine Rows,” above, are the focus of a show at James Barron Art in Kent, Conn., featuring work by Winfred Rembert. Photo submitted
James Barron Art in Kent, Conn., has long been a gallery that appreciates and promotes the work of contemporary Black American artists.
Photo by Tom Brown
Skip Barber, the owner and operator of Lime Rock Park in Lime Rock, Conn., said he doesn’t anticipate the track holding any major events before Labor Day weekend because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art galleries in Kent, Conn., are slowly unfurling and welcoming the world back in — with COVID-19 quarantine restrictions in place, of course.
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