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Cirque du Soleil’s bug-filled circus ‘Ovo’ flies back to Hartford in 2025
Cirque du Soleil’s “Ovo” is returning to the XL Center in Hartford for six performances in 2025. The show has been in Hartford twice before, first as one of the internationally renowned circus troupe’s “tent shows” on Market Street in 2010 and then at the XL Center as part of a stadium tour in 2016. The first visit was so popular that a week of extra performances were added. After touring ...
‘Monster Summer’ offers scary coming-of-age tale from CT native and ‘Peanuts’ writer
Newington native Cornelius Uliano is best known as a writer/producer for the new series of animated “Peanuts” specials on Apple+. For his latest project, he is still working with children, but real live ones, in “Monster Summer,” a new family-friendly horror film being released Oct. 4. The cast is dominated by young actors, led by “The Black Phone” star Mason Thames and including Abby James ...
Not in Connecticut Yet, But Steak and Ale Restaurants Are Back
I just read some good news, and it's got me driving down memory lane. Steak and Ale, one of my favorite restaurant chains in the 1970's-2000's, has been resurrected after almost 16 years. The bad news? The new Steak and Ale restaurants that are being built are nowhere near Connecticut,...
TV writer/producer goes back to his roots with emotionally raw TheaterWorks Hartford project
Jeffrey Lieber was a co-creator of the landmark TV series “Lost,” crafting the show’s original pilot episode, he was a writer and producer on “Charmed,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “The Originals,” “Miami Medical,” and the miniseries “Don’t Look Deeper” and he is currently a co-executive producer of the “Matlock” reboot starring Kathy Bates. But “a million years ago,” as Lieber put it, “I was a ...
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