Ed Hart News

The West End String Quartet Seminar, an exciting new chamber music program at The Hartt School Community Division, continues its series of master classes for Hartt Community Division string chamber groups this semester on Friday, February 4 at 7:30 PM in room 410/412 of the Fuller Music Center (Hartt's main building) on the University of Hartford campus at 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.

The Hartt School continues its 2010-2011 Faculty Recital Series in the spring semester, with a range of concerts that includes both Hartt veterans as well as accomplished performers/educators who are new to Hartt's faculty. All faculty recitals are free and open to the public and take place at various locations on the University of Hartford campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for more information.

The Hartt School Dance Division and Real Art Ways (RAW) collaborate to present a dance performance by Hartt students as part of Saya Woolfalk's RAW installation Institute of Empathy, which runs through March 20, 2011.

Based on the timeless film, White Christmas, this heartwarming musical features seventeen of Irving Berlin's most beloved songs in historic Charles Town's Old Opera House throughout the month of December. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont ski lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. They arrive to find that it has not snowed all season and there is plenty of room at the Inn. In an effort to save the Inn and their former commander, Bob and Phil bring their entire show to the Inn for the Christmas holidays. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A Piano, How Deep Is the Ocean and the perennial favorite, White Christmas.

Based on the timeless film, White Christmas, this heartwarming musical features seventeen of Irving Berlin's most beloved songs in historic Charles Town's Old Opera House throughout the month of December. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont ski lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. They arrive to find that it has not snowed all season and there is plenty of room at the Inn. In an effort to save the Inn and their former commander, Bob and Phil bring their entire show to the Inn for the Christmas holidays. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A Piano, How Deep Is the Ocean and the perennial favorite, White Christmas.

Based on the timeless film, White Christmas, this heartwarming musical features seventeen of Irving Berlin's most beloved songs in historic Charles Town's Old Opera House throughout the month of December. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont ski lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil's former army commander. They arrive to find that it has not snowed all season and there is plenty of room at the Inn. In an effort to save the Inn and their former commander, Bob and Phil bring their entire show to the Inn for the Christmas holidays. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A Piano, How Deep Is the Ocean and the perennial favorite, White Christmas.

Cotillion Ballroom will present Flyleaf at 8:00 pm Friday, October 1 with special guests Story of the Year. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets on sale for $20.00 at Select-a-Seat, The Cotillion, House of Sight & Sound and the employee clubs. Tickets on the day of the show will be $23.00. For further information and to charge tickets by phone call 316-722-4201.

The Hartt School Presents the Hartt Symphony Orchestra The Hartt School presents the Hartt Symphony Orchestra on Friday, October 1, at 7:30 PM, in Millard Auditorium on the University of Hartford's West Hartford campus.

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Hartford's own HartBeat Ensemble a generous grant as part of its LITA (Learning in the Arts) program.

Cotillion Ballroom will present Flyleaf at 8:00 pm Friday, October 1 with special guests Story of the Year. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets on sale for $20.00 at Select-a-Seat, The Cotillion, House of Sight & Sound and the employee clubs. Tickets on the day of the show will be $23.00. For further information and to charge tickets by phone call 316-722-4201.

The Hartt School is proud to announce highlights of its 2010-2011 Instrumental Studies Division performance schedule. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt after August 1 for tickets and up-to-date scheduling information for all performances.

The Court Theatre Board of Trustees today announces that Stephen J. Albert has been appointed Court Theatre's Executive Director. Albert is a nationally known producer, manager and consultant who has led some of America's most prestigious theatres. He has been serving as a management consultant to Court since January and will begin full time with the company in August 2010.

The Hartt School's Director of New Play Development and Professor of Theatre Henry Fonte has been appointed Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Producing Artistic Director of The Jerry Herman Ring Theatre at the University of Miami (FL), effective August 1. Fonte, who departs Hartt on May 17, after twelve years as part of the Theatre Division's faculty, will direct the Dramatic Writing Workshop at New Noises Studio at the Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp (CO), and the musical Into the Woods at Intermezzo Festival in Portland, ME, prior to assuming his new role at Miami.

Boyd Gaines has won the 2008 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical!

Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone.

On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, the cast and creative team of the Kander & Ebb murder-mystery musical, Curtains, celebrated their first anniversary on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

David Hyde Pierce, star of the new musical comedy Curtains, will appear on ABC-TV's 'The View' on Tuesday, April 10. 'The View' airs locally on WABC-TV, Channel 7 from 11:00 AM - 12 noon

David Hyde Pierce, star of the new musical comedy Curtains, will appear on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' on Monday, March 12th. 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' airs on Channel 4 - WNBC in the tri-state area between 12:30 - 1:30 AM.