by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Since 2019, a key element of the Guilford Performing Arts Festival has been commissioning new work and premiering it at the following year’s festival. To date, we’ve granted a total of $20,000 to eight Connecticut performing artists: playwrights Emily Breeze, Susan...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Almost as soon as the Skyler Hagner Nonet left the stage after premiering Hagner’s jazz suite Invisible Cities at the festival in September, they headed into the studio to start recording it. Skyler tells us the band finished recording in the fall and that he’s hoping...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Fresh from the premiere of their work Prudence Crandall and Sarah Harris: Whole-Souled Women at the Guilford Performing Arts Festival, Dimensional Dance was invited to perform a section of the piece for the 20th anniversary of the 5×5 Dance Festival in West...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
With the pandemic still wreaking havoc on live performance, 2018 festival Artists’ Award recipient Noah Baerman is spending much of his time teaching at Wesleyan and putting muscle behind an initiative to support artists financially burdened by the pandemic. The...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Our friends at Legacy Theatre in Branford are accepting audition submissions for 2022 season casts. Their season, which runs from April to September, will feature performances of I Do! I Do!; Deathtrap; Awesomer & Awesomer; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and...
