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.