Our picks for things to do in Connecticut the week of July 10 to 16 are rife with legends and classics: a Shakespeare Festival at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, outdoor jazz in Bushnell Park in Hartford with Al Foster, an indoor performance by Wynton Marsalis at Ridgefield Playhouse, Jackson Browne in Bridgeport and a stop by Robert Earl Keen at Hartford’s Infinity Hall. “Day of Absence,” a Black protest drama from the 1960s, is playing at Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain. Oh, and The Amazing Kreskin makes an appearance among the ghosts at the second annual ParaConn, dubbed “Connecticut’s Original & Premier Paranormal Convention.”
The Capital Classics Theatre Company has announced that they will stage Much Ado About Nothing at the 2022 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival. The production will take place on the beautiful outdoor grounds of the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut from July 14th through the 31st, 2022.
The Capital Classics Theatre Company continues its popular “Contemporary Classics Conversations” series with a full-length production of Sweat, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American playwright Lynn Nottage, combined with moderated conversations during the show about the related issues of power and poverty.