The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and The Mark Twain House & Museum are partnering on a 21st-century book club to consider all things Twain, Stowe and the topics that had Nook Farm buzzing during the Victorian Era that still captivate us today – politics, social issues, humor, adventure, romance, literature and more.
This exciting “First Thursday” series continues March 4. Refreshments will be offered starting at 5 pm; the facilitated discussion will begin at 5:30 and end at 6:30. The museums will alternate hosting the Book Club. Admission is free, thanks to a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council, and free parking is available at each of the museums.
Here's the schedule:
Thursday, March 4, 2010
"Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Meet at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Visitor Center
Thursday, April 1, 2010
"Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America" by Jay Parini
Meet at The Mark Twain Museum Center
Thursday, May 6, 2010
"Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective" by Mark Twain
Meet at The Mark Twain Museum Center
Thursday, June 3, 2010
"Stowe in Her Own Time" by Susan Belasco
Meet at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Visitor Center
Thursday, July 1, 2010
"A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade" by Christopher Benfey
Meet at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Visitor Center
Future titles will be announced.
Registration for individual or all sessions is strongly recommended, by contacting Kate Rounds at 860.522.9258 x 317 or krounds@StoweCenter.org.
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2018-2019 Season Reviews
2017-2018 Season Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Hartford Stage
- Age of Innocence, The -- Hartford Stage
- An Evening with James Mapes
- Appropriate -- Westport
- Avenue Q -- Playhouse on Park
- Baskerville -- Long Wharf
- Bridges of Madison County, The -- Music Theatre of CT
- Chatting with Bess Wohl: Small Mouth sounds -- Long Wharf
- Chatting with Jenn Thompson: Oklahoma -- Goodspeed
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) -- Playhouse on Park
- Diary of Anne Frank, The
- Fade -- TheaterWorks
- Finding Neverland -- The Bushnell
- Fireflies -- Long Wharf
- Grounded -- Westport
- I Hate Musicals, the Musical -- Ivoryton
- Legend of Georgia McBride, The
- Les Miserables -- The Bushnell
- Lettice and Lovage -- Westport
- Murder on the Orient Express -- Hartford Stage
- Our Great Tchaikovsky-- Hartford Stage
- Raging Skillet -- TheaterWorks
- Rags -- Goodspeed
- School of Rock -- The Bushnell
- Seder -- Hartford Stage
- Something Rotten! -- The Bushnell
- The Bodyguard -- The Bushnell
- The Revisionist -- Playhouse on Park
- Wolves, The -- TheaterWorks
2016-2017 Reviews
- [title of show] -- Playhouse on Park
- A Chorus Line -- Playhouse on Park
- An American in Paris -- The Bushnell
- Beautiful -- The Bushnell
- Biloxi Blues -- Ivoryton
- Bye Bye Birdie -- Goodspeed
- Chasing Rainbows -- Goodspeed
- Chicago- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Comedy of Errors, The -- Hartford Stage
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The -- The Bushnell
- Endgame -- Long Wharf
- Gypsy -- Music Theatre of CT
- Heartbreak House -- Hartford Stage
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying -- CT Repertory
- IF/THEN -- The Bushnell
- Invisible Hand, The -- Westport
- It's a Wonderful Life -- Music Theatre of CT
- King and I, THe -- The Bushnell
- King Lear
- Little shop of Horrors -- Playhouse on Park
- Man of La Mancha -- Ivoryton
- Mary Jane -- Yale Rep
- Meteor Shower -- Long Wharf
- Midsummer, A Play with Music -- TheaterWorks
- Moon for the Misbegotten, A -- Playhouse on Park
- Napoli, Brooklyn -- Long Wharf
- Next to Normal -- TheaterWorks
- Other People's Money -- Long Wharf
- Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour -- NH Festival Arts & Ideas
- Peter and the Starcatcher -- CT Repertory
- Piano Lesson, The -- Hartford Stage
- Queens for a Year -- Hartford Stage
- Relativity -- TheaterWorks
- RENT -- Ivoryton
- Scenes from Court Life -- Yale Rep
- Seven Guitars -- Yale Repertory
- Smart People
- Sunset Baby -- TheaterWorks
- Tenderly -- Ivoryton
- The 39 Steps -- Ivoryton
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Unnecessary Farce -- Playhouse on Park
- West Side Story -- CT Repertory
- What the Butler Saw -- Westport
2015-2016 Reviews
- A Little Night Music -- Boston
- A Wonderful Life -- Goodspeed
- Anastasia -- Hartford Stage
- And a Nightingale Sang -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Anything Goes -- Goodspeed
- Bedroom Farce -- Westport
- Body of an American, The -- Hartford Stage
- Buyer & Cellar -- TheaterWorks
- Calendar Girls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Cinderella -- The Bushnell
- Cymbeline -- Yale Rep
- Dirty Dancing -- The Bushnell
- Disgraced -- Long Wharf
- Evita -- Music Theatre of CT
- Good People -- TheaterWorks
- Hair -- Playhouse on Park
- Having Our Say
- I Hate Hamlet -- Playhouse on Park
- I'll Eat You Last -- TheaterWorks
- Jimmy and Lorraine -- Hartbeat Ensemble
- Kinky Boots -- The Bushnell
- La Cage aux Folles -- Goodspeed
- Lewiston -- Long Wharf
- Liberace! -- Ivoryton
- Little shop of Horrors -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Love and Money -- NY and Westport
- Measure for Measure -- Long Wharf
- Memphis -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Motown -- The Bushnell
- My Paris -- Long Wharf
- Newsies -- The Bushnell
- Opening in Time, An -- Hartford Stage
- Passing Strange -- Playhouse on Park
- Peerless -- Yale Rep
- Peter Pan -- CT Repetory
- Rear Window -- Hartford Stage
- Romeo & Juliet -- Hartford Stage
- Sense and Sensibility -- CT Repertory
- Sex With Strangers -- TheaterWorks
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks -- Ivoryton
- South Pacific -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Spamalot -- CTRepertory
- The Call -- TheaterWorks
- The Chosen -- Playhouse on Park
- The Illusionists -- The Bushnell
- The Lion -- Long Wharf
- The Moors -- Yale Repertory
- The Road: My Life With John Denver -- Ivoryton
- Third -- Theaterworks
- Tuesdays With Morrie
- Twelfth Night -- CT Repertory
- Wit -- Playhouse on Park
- Xanadu -- CT Repertory
2014-2015 Reviews
- ANNA PURNA-- TheaterWorks
- All Shook Up -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Altar Boyz -- Playhouse on Park
- Arcadia-- Yale Rep
- Bad Jews -- Long Wharf
- Brownsville Song
- Calendar Girls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Camelot -- The Bushnell
- Caucasian Chalk Circle, The -- Yale Repertory
- Comedy is Hard -- Ivoryton
- Dancing Lessons -- TheaterWorks
- Driving Miss Daisy -- Music Theatre of CT
- Elevada -- Yale Repertory
- Endurance -- Long Wharf
- Ether Dome -- Hartford Stage
- Evita -- The Bushnell
- Familiar -- Yale Rep
- Fiddler on the Roof -- Goodspeed
- Forever -- Long Wharf
- Ghost -- The Bushnell
- Guys and Dolls -- Goodspeed
- Gypsy-- CT Rep
- Hamlet -- Hartford Stage
- Holiday Inn -- Goodspeed
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -- The Bushnell
- Kiss Me Kate -- Hartford Stage
- La Cage Aux Folles -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Last Romance, The -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Our Town -- Long Wharf
- Pianist of Willesden Lane, The -- Hartford Stage
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile -- Long Wharf
- Pippin -- The Bushnell
- Playing the Assassin -- TheaterWorks
- Private Lives -- Hartford Stage
- Proof -- Playhouse on Park
- Reverberation -- Hartford Stage
- Say Goodnight, Gracie -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Second Mrs. Wilson, The -- Long Wharf
- Stand By Your Man -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Sunshine Boys, The -- CT Repertory
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee -- CT Repertory
- The Bikinis -- Long Wharf
- The Dining Room -- Playhouse on Park
- The Importance of Being Ernest -- Playhouse on Park
- The World Goes 'Round -- Music Theatre of CT
- Things We Do for Love -- Westport
- War -- Yale Repertory
- Wicked -- The Bushnell
- Woody Sez -- TheaterWorks
2013-2014 Reviews
- 4,000 Miles -- Long Wharf
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- CT Repertory
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas
- A Song at Twilight -- Hartford Stage/ Westport Country Playhouse
- A Streetcar Named Desire -- Yale Rep
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist -- Yale Rep
- Becoming Dr. Ruth -- TheaterWorks
- Big Love -- CT Repertory
- Billy Elliot -- The Bushnell
- Book of Mormon -- The Bushnell
- Catch Me if You Can -- The Bushnell
- Christmas on the Rocks -- TheaterWorks
- Damn Yankees -- Goodspeed
- Dreamgirls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
- Fences -- Long Wharf
- Freud's Last Session -- TheaterWorks
- Grease -- New Canaan
- Hello Dolly! -- Goodspeed
- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- I'm Connecticut -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Julius Caesar -- Elm Shakespeare Company
- La Dispute -- Hartford Stage
- Last Five Years, The -- Long Wharf
- Loot -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Love/Sick -- TheaterWorks
- Macbeth -- Hartford Stage
- Midsummer Night's Dream -- Hartford Stage with Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Miss Saigon -- The Bushnell
- Mrs. Mannerly -- TheaterWorks
- Much Ado About Nothing -- CT Repertory
- Music Man, The
- Oblivion -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Owners -- Yale Rep
- Peter and the Starcatcher -- The Bushnell
- SHOUT! -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Seven Year Itch, The -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Shadow of the Hummingbird -- Long Wharf
- Show-Off, The -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Smokey Joe's Cafe -- Long Wharf
- Stuck Elevator -- New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas
- The Consultant -- Long Wharf
- The Drowsy Chaperone -- CT Repertory
- The Jungle Book, Huntington Theatre Co., Boston
- The Most Happy Fella -- Goodspeed
- The Other Place -- TheaterWorks
- These Paper Bullets -- Yale Rep
- Three Musketeers -- CT Repertory
- Time Stands Still -- TheaterWorks
- Underpants, The -- Long Wharf (and Hartford Stage in 2014)
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike -- Hartford Stage
- War Horse -- The Bushnell
2012-2013 Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Couple of Blaguards -- Long Wharf
- A Genteman's Guide to Love & Murder -- Hartford Stage
- A Raisin in the Sun -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Abundance -- Hartford Stage
- Almost Maine -- TheaterWorks
- American Idiot -- The Bushnell
- American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose -- Yale Rep
- Ancestral Voices: Music Theatre of CT
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Breath & Imagination -- Hartford Stage
- Carousel -- Goodspeed
- Chicago -- The Bushnell
- Clybourne Park -- Long Wharf
- Cole -- Music Theatre of CT
- Curse of the Starving Class -- Long Wharf
- Dear Elizabeth -- Yale Rep
- Good News -- Goodspeed
- Hairspray -- CT Rep
- Hairspray -- Ivoryton
- Hamlet -- Yale Rep
- Harbor -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Hedda Gabler -- Hartford Stage
- His Girl Friday -- CT Rep
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti -- TheaterWorks
- In a Year With 13 Moons -- Yale Rep
- January Joiner -- Long Wharf
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers -- Ivoryton
- Life Could Be a Dream -- Ivoryton
- Looped -- The Bushnell
- Man in a Case -- Hartford Stage
- Marie Antoinette -- Yale Rep
- Mary Poppins -- The Bushnell
- Million Dollar Quartet -- The Bushnell
- Miracle on 34th Street -- Seven Angels
- Next to Normal -- Music Theatre of CT
- Next to Normal -- Seven Angels
- O Beautiful -- CT Rep
- Oliver! -- Ivoryton
- Other People's Money
- RAIN -- The Palace
- Ride the Tiger -- Long Wharf
- Romeo & Juliet -- CT Rep
- SantaLand Diaries, The -- TheaterWorks
- Satchmo at the Waldorf -- Long Wharf
- Say Goodnight, Gracie -- Seven Angels
- Sister Act -- The Bushnell
- Somethiing's Afoot -- Goodspeed
- Stones in His Pockets -- Yale Rep
- Tartuffe -- Westport Country Playhouse
- The Dining Room -- Westport Country Playhouse
- The Immigrant -- Seven Angels
- The Killing of Sister George -- Long Wharf
- The Mountaintop -- TheaterWorks
- The Odd Couple -- CT Rep
- The Year of Magical Thinking -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Tryst -- TheaterWorks
- Twelfth Night -- Hartford Stage
- Venus in Fur -- TheaterWorks
2011-2012 Reviews
- A Doctor in Spite of Himself -- Yale Rep
- Ain't Misbehavin' -- Long Wharf
- Almost Maine -- MTC
- Always Patsy Cline -- Ivoryton
- Barefoot in the Park -- Ivoryton
- Being Boeing -- Hartford Stage
- Bell, Book & Candle -- Long Wharf
- Belleville -- Yale Rep
- Cabaret -- MTC
- Centennial Casting -- Seven Angels
- City of Angels -- Goodspeed
- Defending the Caveman -- Downtown Cabaret
- February House -- Long Wharf
- Fraulein Maria -- Hartford Stage
- Good Goods
- I Left My Heart -- Music Theatre of CT
- I'm Connecticut -- CT Rep
- Into the woods -- Westport
- Krapp's Last Tape -- Long Wharf
- Les Mis -- The Bushnell
- Lips Together Teeth Apart -- Westport
- Macbeth 1969 -- Long Wharf
- Mame -- Goodspeed
- Memphis -- The Bushnell
- Molly Sweeney -- Long Wharf
- Motherf**ker with the Hat -- TheaterWorks
- My Fair Lady -- CT Rep
- My Name is Asher Lev -- Long Wharf
- Odysseus D.O.A. --CT Rep
- Over the Tavern -- Seven Angels
- Race -- TheaterWorks Hartford
- Red -- TheaterWorks
- Ring of Fire -- Ivoryton
- Show Boat -- Goodspeed
- Suddenly Last Summer -- Westport
- Teddy & Alice -- Seven Angels
- The Addams Family -- The Bushnell
- The Circle -- Westport
- The Cripple of Inishmaan -- Festival of Arts & Ideas
- The Crucible -- Harttford Stage
- The Marvelous Wonderettes -- Ivoryton
- The Producers -- Ivoryton
- The Realistic Joneses -- Yale Rep
- The Sty of the Blind Pig -- TheaterWorks
- The Tempest -- Hartford Stage
- The Understudy -- TheaterWorks
- The Whipping Man -- Hartford Stage
- The Winter's Tale -- Yale
- The Woman in Black -- Ivoryton
- Three Sisters -- Yale Rep
- Traces -- The Bushnell
- Twelfth Night -- Westport
- Water by the Spoonful -- Hartford Stage
2010-2011 Season Reviews
- A Delicate Balance -- Yale Rep
- A Steady Rain -- TheaterWorks
- Agnes Under the Big Top -- Long Wharf
- An Evening with Ben Vereen -- Hartford Stage
- Arsenic & Old Lace -- Ivoryton
- Autumn Sonata -- Yale Rep
- Beyond Therapy -- Westport
- Blue Man Group -- The Bushnell
- Bossa Nova -- Yale
- Broke-ology -- TheaterWorks
- Carnival! -- Goodspeed
- Chita Rivera: My Broadway -- Hartford Stage
- Cirque Dreams Holidaze -- Palace
- Divine Rivalry -- Hartford Stage
- Elaine Stritch Singing Sondheim -- Hartford Stage
- Everything the Traffic Will Allow -- MTC
- Finian's Rainbow -- Ivoryton
- Gem of the Ocean -- Hartford Stage
- God of Carnage -- TheaterWorks
- Gray Matters -- Emerson Theater Collaborative
- High -- TheaterWorks
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying -- Goodspeed
- I Do! I Do! -- Westport
- Italian American Reconciliation -- Long Wharf
- My One and Only -- Goodspeed
- Next to Normal -- The Bushnell
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ivoryton
- Porgy & Bess -- The Bushnell
- Rent at CT Repertory
- Shirley Valentine -- Long Wharf
- Snow Falling on Cedars -- Hartford Stage
- Spamalot -- The Palace
- The Buddy Holly Story -- Ivoryton
- The Diary of Anne Frank -- Westport
- The Old Masters -- Long Wharf
- The Piano Lesson -- Yale Rep
- The Train Driver -- Long Wharf
- THIS -- TheaterWorks
- Urinetown -- CT Rep
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Yale Rep
- White Christmas -- The Bushnell
2009-2010 Season Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Doll's House -- Long Wharf
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum-- Goodspeed
- American Buffalo
- Annie Get Your Gun -- Goodspeed
- Arsenic & Old Lace -- Ivoryton
- Broadway By Request -- Hartford stage
- Cirque Dreams Illumination -- The Palace
- Compulsion -- Yale Rep
- Doubt -- MTC
- Eclipsed -- Yale
- Emmet Otter -- Goodspeed
- Galileo -- CT Rep
- Gee's Bend -- Hartford Stage
- Have You Seen Us? -- Long Wharf
- Jerry's Girls -- Ivoryton
- Lil's 90th -- Long Wharf
- Mistakes Were Made -- Hartford Stage
- Motherhood Out Loud -- Harttford Stage
- No Child-- Long Wharf
- Orphans' Home Cycle Part 1 -- Hartford Stage
- Orphans' Home Cycle Part 2-- Hartford Stage
- Orphans' Home Cycle part 3-- Hartford Stage
- Pop! -- Yale
- Porgy & Bess -- The Bushnell
- Shakespeare's R&J-- TheaterWorks
- She Loves Me -- Westport
- South Pacific -- The Bushnell
- Souvenir -- TheaterWorks
- Sylvia -- Long Wharf
- That Championship Season -- Westport
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Hartford Stage
- The Breath of Life-- Westport
- The Fantasticks -- Long Wharf
- The Lady with all the Answers -- TheaterWorks
- The Master Builder -- Yale
- The Miracle Worker -- Ivoryton
- The Servant of Two Masters -- Yale
- Young Frankenstein -- The Bushnell
2008-2009 REVIEWS
- 42nd Street -- Goodspeed
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Norwalk
- Betty Buckley at Hartford Stage
- Children -- Westport
- Crowns -- CT Rep
- Dividing the Estate -- Hartford Stage
- Emmet Otter -- Goodspeed
- Greater Tuna -- The Bushnell
- How the Other Half Loves -- Westport
- Notes from Underground -- Yale Rep
- Speech & Debate -- TheaterWorks
- The Color Purple -- The Bushnell
- The Glass Menagerie -- Long Wharf
- tick, tick... Boom! -- Westport
- ADDITIONAL REVIEWS at American Theater Web. Type the name of the show in the search tab.
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