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King James by Rajiv Joseph at TheaterWorks Hartford
Thu, Jan 30
TheaterWorks Hartford
Jan 30, 2025, 7:30 PM – Mar 01, 2025, 2:30 PM
TheaterWorks Hartford, 233 Pearl St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
Jan 30, 2025, 7:30 PM – Mar 01, 2025, 2:30 PM
TheaterWorks Hartford, 233 Pearl St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
It’s 2004. LeBron James is just the hero Cleveland needs. Two strangers eat, sleep, and dream in the language of basketball while forging a deep bond over their worship of the “King” – one of the greatest NBA players of all time.
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6:00pm Pennington Lecture: Annette Gordon-Reed
Thu, Feb 20
Wadsworth Atheneum Theater
Feb 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Wadsworth Atheneum Theater, 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
Feb 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Wadsworth Atheneum Theater, 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.
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One Play: Romeo and Juliet
Thu, Apr 17
Hartford Stage
Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM – May 18, 2025, 7:30 PM
Hartford Stage, 50 Church St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
Apr 17, 2025, 7:30 PM – May 18, 2025, 7:30 PM
Hartford Stage, 50 Church St, Hartford, CT 06103, USA
The Hartford Stage presents theater's most iconic, tragically forbidden romance. Amidst the chaos of political turmoil, familial rivalries, and mortality's unforgiving promise, see how love and hope still reign supreme this Spring.
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Recent Press

Researching Inclusive Museums in the Liberal Arts Action Lab

In the fall of 2022 the Inclusive Museum Project at the Liberal Arts Action Lab asked: Why do 18-28 year olds in the Hartford area choose to visit the museum?

Hartford Heritage Project Launches first annual Pennington Lecture

On April 21, 2022, at the Capital Community College Centinel Hill Hall, a Rev. Dr. James W.C. Pennington themed lecture series began with a breakfast, architecture presentation, and morning lecture by Dr. Christopher L. Webber.

Connecticut Explored Announces
“20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History”

In 2021 the HHP received its third NEH grant, this time to launch the Black Heritage Project, aimed at bringing to light the history of the 19th-century Black community centered at Hartford's Talcott Street Congregational Church and school that stood next to the current site of the college.

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ABOUT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.