A Waterbury native is providing the notes and chords that give a musical boost to one of Shakespeare’s best known comedies, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Composer Lydia Arachne, a Waterbury native.
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Lydia Arachne, who now lives in Oxford, has helped Lara Morton, director of FUSE Theatre of Connecticut, turn some of the Shakespearean text into song. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Rewired Musical,” which features a cast of youth and adult actors, will be available virtually from May 21-June 4.
Press materials say the Madison-based company’s production is set in “the scariest place imaginable: the summer of 2020. A global pandemic has altered the way humans interact and social distancing forces young lovers to maintain their connection via high-tech devices… This reboot jumps the setting over 400 years and reminds us how the digital world can simultaneously pull us apart and bring us together.”
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The Biden administration greenlit the first large-scale offshore wind project this month in a move that could help jumpstart an industry that thus far has been stagnant in the United States.
It’s a small first step toward meeting
a goal President Joe Biden set in March for the U.S. to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, but the country has a long way to go. Currently, the U.S. only has two small-scale pilot offshore wind projects in operation, one off the coast of Rhode Island and the other off the coast of Virginia, totaling about 42 megawatts of power.
WASHINGTON – Twenty years ago, it seemed as if the Cape and Islands were ready to tap into the wind off our shores and lead the nation into a new era of renewable energy.
Cape Wind, located in Nantucket Sound, faltered after a tortuous 16-year regulatory process, but on Tuesday Vineyard Wind received its final approval from the federal government and will become the nation’s first industrial-scale offshore wind farm.
Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced final approval of construction and operation for Vineyard Wind on Tuesday morning, clearing the way for construction to begin.