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August 8, 2017 |
| SELECTED EVENT HIGHLIGHTS FOR click above for complete listings |
| | The list below is a small selection of the very many cultural events happening across our region this coming week. We strongly recommend that you click the link above for our complete listing. |
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| Pippin
Aug. 8-12
Curtain Call
There's "Magic to Do" at Curtain Call, when PIPPIN, the 1972 Tony Award-winning musical, plays through Aug. 12. PIPPIN has been thrilling audiences since 1972 with its unforgettable score by CT resident Stephen Schwartz. (More)
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| | Phillip Phillips Alive at Five Series
Thurs. Aug. 10
Columbus Park, Stamford
Live music from national and regional headliners attracts after-work crowds Thursday nights in Columbus Park in Stamford Downtown. The series ends with Phillip Phillips. (More) |
| | Wine, Cheese and Moonlit Walks
Thurs. Aug. 10
Audubon Greenwich
As the August sun sets and a waning gibbous moon rises through the trees, join Greenwich Audubon among friends, drinks, and timber rafters more than a century old. Gather in the newly renovated Asnes Barn to enjoy drinks, food, and conversation in the setting of our beautiful, historic barn. Afterwards, walk the paved accessible trail to take in the sights and sounds of a moonlit summer evening. (More) |
| | Donavon Frankenreiter
Thurs. Aug. 10
Fairfield Theatre Company
Donavon Frankenreiter’s music always invites a loving vibe into the room. His freewheeling music gravitates toward slack key guitar, lap steel, and ukulele to create a tropical island feel. The laid-back and sandy songwriter has a tendency to whisk you away to the laid-back groove of the Hawaiian islands with his smokey vocals and tender delivery (More) |
| | Fairfield Fly-In
Sat. Aug. 12
Fairfield Museum & History CenterCelebrating the anniversary of Gustave Whitehead’s flight in 1901 at Turney’s Farm in Fairfield, a replica of Whitehead’s No. 21 “Flyer” will be on display, and Hobbytown will give aerial demonstrations of remote controlled aircraft and drones. (More) |
| | Bending RealitySat. Aug. 12
Bruce S. Kershner Gallery Fairfield Public Library Opening Reception
The public is invited to a reception for Bending Reality, the paintings of Cultural Alliance members Norm Siegel, Marjorie Poe, and Al Coyote Weiner. The artists will talk about their work at 5:30. The show runs through October 1. (More) |
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| | Brett Dennen
Sat. Aug. 12
Ridgefield Playhouse
Brett Dennen’s roots-based sound incorporates elements of Americana, pop, bluegrass and alt-country. The folk/pop musician and songwriter recently released his sixth album, Por Favor – an intimate and revealing new album. (More) |
| | NT Live: Angels in America, Part 1
Sun. Aug. 13
Quick Center
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new National Theatre production is sold-out in London. NT Live is about the only way to see it. (More)
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| Defending Your Life
Tues. Aug. 15
Avon Theatre Film Center
A Religious Hope from the Movies screening of DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, a 1991 comedy with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, that invites viewers to probe deep questions about life and death. Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El in Stamford will host a post-film discussion. (More) |
| | Fairfield Counts
Tues. Aug. 15
Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts
Westport
This 19-member big band from Fairfield County plays the best of the Big Band music for all occasions, entertaining audiences across Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. (More) |
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