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Westport Country Playhouse’s recent one-time fundraiser featured Broadway standouts Justin Paul, Kelli O’Hara and Aaron Tveit.  Westport native Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, “Only Murders in the Building TV season 3”), a 2003 Staples graduate, had been a Staples Players member. A news release says that the assemblage included Jessica Vosk (Elphaba…

Unwanted mattresses and box springs that are dry and intact can be disposed of by Norwalk residents only this Saturday Sept. 16 from 9 a.m. until noon, according to a news release.    Bring them to the Norwalk Public Works Center, 15 South Smith St., and park in the gas pumps area. Ineligible items include: The…

Three non-theistic Jewish High Holiday services will be conducted by the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Fairfield County, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation located at 10 Lyons Plains Road in Westport.  According to a news release, the services will also be livestreamed on YouTube. There’s no charge to attend, but registration is needed for the…

NORWALK, Conn. – Neighbors, friends, and patrons will recall the 1960s when the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum holds its annual gala on Saturday Oct. 14 at 7 p.m., at Shorehaven Golf Club, 14 Canfield Ave., Norwalk.  The event’s theme Get in the Groove! The Mansion’s 1960s Gala reflects the storied edifice’s 1966 public opening and subsequent National Historic Landmark…

Rampant anti-female sexism in high school debate competitions is probed in Lucia Small’s 2022 feature film Girl Talk.  See it and stay for a Q&A with the movie’s star actress Gil Anon at the Avon Film Center on Monday Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.  The Avon is at 272 Bedford St. in Stamford.            You can watch…

NORWALK, Conn. – Based on his book of the same title, Max Tucci’s illustrated talk The Delmonico Way; Sublime Entertaining and Legendary Recipes from the Restaurant that Made New York will explore the history of America’s first renowned bastion of fine dining:  Delmonico’s in lower Manhattan.  According to a news release, attendees will get a complimentary copy of…

Celia Keenan-Bolger portrays a rebellious teenage girl’s single mother seeking religious validation in a “Script in Hand” playreading of Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know, directed by Maria Dizzia at Westport Country Playhouse on Monday Sept. 18, at 7 p.m.  Broadway star Keenan-Bolger’s portrayal of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird won the Tony Award for Featured Actress in a…

Brien McMahon High School Alumni Association’s new Hall of Fame inductees are Lisa Wilson Grant (class of 1981), B.J. Lawless (class of 1990), and Alexander Restrepo (posthumous inductee, class of 1977).  According to a news release, the public is invited to the Association’s ninth induction ceremony and reception on Sunday Oct. 22 from 2 until…

Climb aboard Norwalk Preservation Trust’s Tenth Living History Bus Tour to see how adaptive reuse has made the city’s remaining historical factory buildings amenable to present day needs.  Formerly the manufacturing venues for a wide array of products (notably hats, textiles, pottery and apparel), these archaic structures now house residences, community spaces, and new businesses.…

NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk NAACP’s 20th Freedom Fund Banquet, featuring keynote speaker Connecticut District Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery, is planned for 6 p.m. Friday Oct. 13 at The Water’s Edge at Giovanni’s, 2748 Boston Post Road, Darien.  A ceremony feting this year’s Outstanding Community Service Honorees will be complemented by a paddle raise for scholarships and live…

NORWALK, Conn. — State workers hustled to close a fence opening over the Merritt Parkway after NancyOnNorwalk alerted authorities to the dangerous condition Thursday. The temporary patch with plastic fencing and caution tape went up around 1 p.m. The Connecticut Department of Transportation rebuilt the Grumman Avenue overpass last year, removing the existing fencing on…

Laurence Maslon’s new book I’ll Drink to That! combines theater-based anecdotes with cocktail recipes inspired by classic Broadway performances.  The author, who is also an NYU Tisch School arts professor, will hold forth in a 70-minute presentation augmented by two actors’ renderings of Broadway songs and scenes at Westport Country Playhouse’s courtyard and adjacent Lucille Lortel White…

Music Theatre of Connecticut starts off its new season with a sure-fire crowd pleaser: Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning musical bio of chart-topping vocal group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.  Directed by MTC co-founder Kevin Connors, the show stars Michael Fasano as Frankie, with Sean McGee, Nathan Cockroth, and Stephen Petrovich supported by a seasoned…

NORWALK, Conn. — World class soprano Laura Strickling, a Grammy nominee, will lift the audience to a higher plane when she fronts the Norwalk Symphony on Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 at the Symphony’s season opener, “American Masterpieces” on Saturday Sept. 23. at 7:30 p.m. in the Norwalk Concert Hall at 125 East Ave.  Rounding out…

Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease will be discussed in three Norwalk Public Library “Especially for Seniors” episodes representing the Library’s collaboration with Alzheimer’s Association of Connecticut.   A news release outlined this schedule: You can experience serenity and peacefulness on “Mindfulness Walks” supervised by Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Jackie DeLise and the Norwalk Health Department from…