A&E Blog

Posted on June 12, 2020

Everyone has a favorite Sondheim musical, or at least they should. Stephen Sondheim is one of the t...

Posted on June 04, 2020

I don’t know how to contribute to the current conversation because I don’t know what is left to say. ...

Posted on May 28, 2020

The best of us have figured out a way to be lifelong learners and teachers simultaneously. Nineteen...

Posted on May 21, 2020

During my college theatre years I fell down a lot…literally… It was the second perfor...

Posted on May 14, 2020

Time for some real talk. Let me begin by saying that the views and opinions expressed in this...

Posted on May 07, 2020

Find your light! You will hear these words quite a lot if you happen to wander into a darkene...

Posted on April 30, 2020

What if… What if I told you that those two simple words make up the foundation for the syste...

Posted on April 23, 2020

William Shakespeare turns 456 years old today. I am a professed Bardolator, which is one who...

Posted on April 16, 2020

There can be great power in the pause. Actors and directors use different words to describe i...

Posted on April 09, 2020

I am hopeful that history could repeat itself. Between the 14th and the 15th centuries, a ser...

Posted on April 01, 2020

Terrence McNally has passed away. I understand that most of you engaging with this blog probably have no id...

Posted on June 01, 2013

I hate money. I hate what people will do to acquire it. I hate not having it. I hate how not...

Posted on April 05, 2013

The last theatre project that I was involved in at college was an ethnographic research based original play based upon...

Posted on April 01, 2013

My grandmother had some crazy expressions. She was a remarkable woman that I got...

Posted on February 02, 2013

I was afraid I had lost Art! You see, in the summer of 2002, I was living in the College Park Apartment...

From the Bench: With Hoops Season in Ful...

There’s nothing more exciting on the sports front than a packed house that produces that charged up atmosphere that fo...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: Some Mid-1980s Fun with Cit...

See anyone you know? This photo, believed to be from the mid-1980's, shows a group of young city boys and one of...

Posted by Dick Duez
City Faces in Different Places

This week's Bridgeport City Face is Alfred Isch, who has his own version of Santa's workshop in his home - year-ro...

Posted by Julie Perine
Off the Shelf: Adult Winter Reading Prog...

Needing a little inspiration to get started on those New Year’s resolutions? The library has...

Posted by Sharon Saye
The Grapevine: Praying for End to the Pa...

If you are watching national news, you have seen all the emphasis that has been put on the effect that the pandemic is...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
ToquiNotes: After 40-Plus Years of Servi...

The name was right even if the first profession was not for Bridgeport’s Stan Cutright. “I was a welder...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Wellness Watch: COVID Q and A Session wi...

As we spring into 2022, Connect-Bridgeport launches a new blog, concentrating on all things health and wel...

Posted by Julie Perine