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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

CT Arts Connections You Should Know!

Carol Channing Appearance at Sacred Heart University scheduled for Oct. 20 has been cancelled due to an injury that prevents her from traveling. Tickets holders should contact the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts Box Office at 203-371-7908 weekdays noon to 4 pm.

Author, MSNBC political analyst and Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh comes to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center October 24 at 7 pm to discuss her new book, "What’s the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was." www.HarrietBeecherStowe.org.

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, in conjunction with the Connecticut Lyric Opera, kicks-off its fifteenth anniversary season with composer G. Bizet’s ever popular opera “Carmen,” at Naugatuck Valley Community College Fine Arts Center on Saturday, October 20, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50, $35, and $20 and can be purchased by calling 203-346-2000, online atwww.palacetheaterct.org, or in person at the Palace Theater Box Office, 100 East Main Street in Waterbury.

If you saw the blockbuster movie The Amazing Spiderman, you may remember Michael Barra as the thuggish T-Bone; if you saw the blockbuster musical Hairspray at the Ivoryton Playhouse this summer then you certainly won’t forget his performance as the larger than life mother, Edna Turnblad. Well, Edna is back with a few friends for a night of big laughs to support the Ivoryton Village Alliance Holiday Celebration – the Ivoryton Illuminations – on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Barra will be joined by several local comics including Billy Winn, 17-year host of WPLR morning show, and a regular at many comedy nightspots across the northeast. Cash bar – bring your own snacks! Admission is $20. For more information or tickets, contact the Ivoryton Playhouse at (860) 767-7318. The Playhouse is located at 103 Main Street in Ivoryton.
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Lauren Yarger with playwright Alfred Uhry at the Mark Twain House. Photo: Jacques Lamarre)

My Bio

Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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