THEATERS AND SHOWS: 'Walter Cronkite is Dead' opens at Little Theater
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Jun. 10—MANCHESTER — Little Theatre of Manchester at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Road, will stage the comedy "Walter Cronkite is Dead" Friday through Sunday, June 20.
Tickets are $19-$27, with indoor and outdoor seating available.
About the play: Two opinionated women (one from a "Red State," one from a "Blue") are stuck together at Reagan National Airport during a terrible storm.
Patty from Tennessee is a chatty blue-collar southerner who's almost distressingly terrified of silence.
Margaret, a reserved, educated, liberal, is an obsessive matron who so loved the Kennedys she named her children for them.
It should be no surprise these women have conflicting opinions about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.While confining these two to a small table in an isolated airport corner could be disastrously explosive, this lively and insightful comedy will make you nostalgic for the brilliant writing in the old sitcom "The Golden Girls."
Yes, Walter Cronkite is dead, but his wisdom and compassion live on in this charming little comedy about what might be possible if we Americans would stop all the shouting and, at least for one night, listen to each other
For information and tickets, call 860-647-9824 or go to: cheneyhall.org
TheaterWorks Hartford
HARTFORD — TheaterWorks Hartford will stream by demand "Moonlighters" by Cin Martinez Sunday through Friday, June 25.
"Moonlighters" is a developmental piece and is the fourth play in The WORKshop series.
About the play: Something's not quite right in the overworked offices of social services: The boss is hearing things, the referral officer is advocating for a murderer, long-time colleagues are at each other's throats, and Nueva, the new recruit, is a casualty of the agency's biggest failure.
Nueva's mission is to improve a system that has lost its human touch, but unearths information that threatens an important new relationship and forces her to confront the cost of forgiveness.
For information, call the box office at 860-527-7838 or go to: twhartford.org
Connecticut LGBTQ film festival
HARTFORD — Out Film Connecticut wraps up its 34th annual Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival Friday through Sunday.
There will be both in-person screenings at Cinestudio, on the campus of Trinity College, and virtual screenings.
For information and tickets, visit: OutFilmCT.org
Coming up
Playhouse on Park
HARTFORD — Playhouse on Park will present "Kill Move Paradise" outdoors at Bushnell Park Tuesday, June 20, through Friday, June 25.
Dexter J. Singleton directs this production of James Ijames' play, which is also available to stream July 7 to Aug. 1.
Singleton is a director, producer, activist, and educator from Detroit. He is the founding executive artistic director of Collective Consciousness Theatre, a multicultural theatre for social justice in New Haven.
The play was directly influenced by the 2014 murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a member of the Cleveland Police Department
This raw, eye-opening production tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny, four black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic waiting room in the afterlife.
For information, showtimes, and tickets, visit: playhouseonpark.org
