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  • Westport Country Playhouse notes fundraiser

    Westport Country Playhouse notes fundraiser

    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…

  • Ciccarello remembered as devoted public servant who enjoyed food and breaking out in song

    Ciccarello remembered as devoted public servant who enjoyed food and breaking out in song

    Lou Ciccarello, whose Norwalk political career was topped by a stint as District 25 State Senator from 1975 to 1977, has died. “Senator Louis Ciccarello was a treasure to Norwalk residents, and I am deeply saddened to learn about his passing. Through his zest for public service and love for the Norwalk community, he made…

  • Norwalk to collect mattresses for recycling

    Norwalk to collect mattresses for recycling

    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…

  • Congregation offers non-theistic Jewish High Holiday services

    Congregation offers non-theistic Jewish High Holiday services

    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…

  • 1960s-themed gala benefits Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

    1960s-themed gala benefits Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

    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…

  • Documentary ‘Girl Talk’ to air in Stamford

    Documentary ‘Girl Talk’ to air in Stamford

    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…

  • LMMM: Tucci to discuss Manhattan’s first fine dining restaurant

    LMMM: Tucci to discuss Manhattan’s first fine dining restaurant

    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…

  • Westport Country Playhouse presents ‘100 Saints You Should Know’

    Westport Country Playhouse presents ‘100 Saints You Should Know’

    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…

  • BMHS alumni plan Hall of Fame ceremony

    BMHS alumni plan Hall of Fame ceremony

    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…

  • Bus tour to review Norwalk’s vintage factory building’s reuses

    Bus tour to review Norwalk’s vintage factory building’s reuses

    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.…

  • NAACP Banquet planned

    NAACP Banquet planned

    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…

  • State closes fence opening over Merritt Parkway

    State closes fence opening over Merritt Parkway

    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…

  • You’ll ‘drink to that’ at Westport theater presentation

    You’ll ‘drink to that’ at Westport theater presentation

    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…

  • MTC presents Jersey Boys

    MTC presents Jersey Boys

    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 Symphony opener features Grammy nominee

    Norwalk Symphony opener features Grammy nominee

    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…

  • Library and Health Department events

    Library and Health Department events

    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…