Thursday, April 11 at 7pm
Friday, April 12 at 7pm
Saturday, April 13 at 2pm

Let’s Get Together (Wheel Life Theatre Troupe)

Legacy Theatre’s Wheel Life Theatre Troupe presents Let’s Get Together, an original piece of devised theatre, written and performed by the Wheel Life participants. A show about the evolution of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the brave people in the ‘80s and ‘90s who brought it to pass, this entertaining and thought-provoking production boldly looks at how we can all “get together” to improve each other's quality of life -- today and always.

Guilford Poets Guild is heading to Breakwater Books on Thursday April 4th at 5pm. Breakwater has a wonderful event planned for 5pm and at 6pm, where we’ll be hearing poetry by Guild members and other local poets.

** NO REGISTRATION NEEDED TO CREATE POETRY AND LISTEN, JUST SHOW UP TO BREAKWATER BOOKS at 81 Whitfield Street in Guilford! **
A two-in-one event: an opportunity to create your own erasure/redacted poetry at your leisure starting at 5:00. Listen to local poets share their work starting at 6:00, with chances to read your own newly-created redacted poetry. Conversation, reading, poetry writing & book signing.

We are excited to be presenting some readings from The Guilford Poets Guild and other local poets.

Laura Thoma, Pat Lore and Julie Fitzpatrick will be sharing their work in Chester’s Arts and Literary Weekend at 5pm on Sunday the 11th of February at the Chester Meeting House.

Evenings at Chester Meeting House (4 Liberty Street)

• Acoustic Jam Session, Friday, starting at 6 p.m. Musicians are invited to join in this jam session. Audience members are encouraged to lend a voice, clap their hands, and dance their hearts out!

• Connecticut Storytelling Center Presents Music & Storytelling, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. This 90-minute show filled with stories and music is a benefit for the Connecticut Storytelling Center. $10 per ticket, pre-purchase at connstorycenter.org/ or at the door the night of the performance.

• Breakwater Books Presents a Series of One-Act Plays, Sunday at 5 p.m. Several Connecticut authors present their works onstage via one-act plays hosted by Breakwater Books. Meet the authors and grab their books post-show!

Join Julie for an Improv afternoon - aimed at schoolchildren, but open to all ages, this will be an hour of theatrical games and sheer fun. More info is here!

Join the Moses Gunn Players for another lively play reading at Guilford Library.

Join us at Legacy Theatre 128 Thimble Islands Rd in Branford, CT for a sharing of this wonderful troupe’s original writing and movement pieces. Comprised of performers who ambulate on crutches, wheelchairs and other ambulatory devices and their friends, the Wheel Life Theatre Troupe has written a series of monologues and movement works which will be shared at this free event. Talk back to follow.

The Moses Gunn Play Company will present a reading of THE STRONGER by August Strindberg (1849-1912), Sweden’s foremost dramatist. His work is known for showing the power one character has over another. This short play is about the love triangle of a wife, husband, and his lover. It is performed as a soliloquy in which only one character speaks and the other responds with body language. In this reading, the actors will then switch roles, and perform the short play again.

The Readers:

JULIE FITZPATRICK and PRIMI TOWNSEND

PLACE: Guilford Free Library 67 Park Street Guilford

DATE: Saturday, November 18, 2023

TIME: 2:00 PM

Contact: Norman Marshal: JohnBrown1859@sbcglobal.net

“Write On” Festival of Short Plays on Sunday, October 15 at 12:30 PM

Presented at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society - 297 Boston Post Road, Madison CT

“Let’s Play” by Toby Armour and the Audience

“Acting 101” by Kate Gill, directed by Joy Lenters

"Rum-Antics: A Distilled Operetta" by Emma Palzere-Rae, directed by Marta Ladd

“Zephyr’s Tale” written and directed by Allan Appel

“A Show of Hands” written and directed by Peter Sonenstein

“Apples, Peaches and Prose” written and directed by Laura Thoma

“Nice Neighborhood” written and directed by Zeb Appel

“One Plus One” written and directed by Diana Insolio

“Togas & Talking in the Time of Thespis: Modern Drama's First Known Actor” written and directed by Julie Fitzpatrick

Yours in Words, by Playwright Laura Thoma will be performed as part of the GreenStage Live Arts Festival 2023 at 7pm on September 17th. Set in New York City, Yours in Words, follows the journey of two women writers with vastly different life experiences amidst a burgeoning turning point for women and invention. Lily Lamont is a daring young sapphist (lesbian) from Nebraska. Annabelle (Julie Fitzpatrick) is a famous novelist, the world knows only as A.B. Jones. After an unlikely meeting, the two women realize they have an opportunity to change the landscape of The Great White Way. To do so, they must overcome their differences and break away from the societal limitations set for women, and challenge the gender norms of the day.

Julie will be leading improv class on Tuesday July 11th from 4-5pm at Willoughby Wallace Library in Stony Creek, 146 Thimble Islands Rd Branford! We’ll play games, explore scene work and pantomime, and have some laughs! All are welcome. https://www.wwml.org/events/kids-improv-class-with-julie-fitzpatrick

Sacred Land: Songs and Poems of Resilience from Ukraine - Led by celebrated producer, conductor and actor, Marika Kuzma, this unique live performance conveys a portrait of Ukraine not limited to destruction and conflict, but as a country of great cultural beauty and breadth. Experience projected images of the varied Ukrainian landscape, paired with soulful and colorful sacred and secular choral music spanning several centuries sung by Ensemble Cherubim, and interwoven with Ukrainian poetry. The 80-minute long concert is a true celebration of Ukrainian creativity and resilience. Julie Fitzpatrick and Manu Kumasi will be the actors reciting the poetry in the event.

WHEEL LIFE THEATRE TROUPE: POOH'S ADVENTURES

PRESENTED BY THE LEGACY THEATRE

Follow the adventurous and delightful tales of A.A. Milne’s engaging characters, Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Piglet in Pooh’s Adventures! With book adaptation by Keely Baisden Knudsen, this fun and witty exploration of the Hundred Acre Wood by the Wheel Life Theatre Troupe will engage audiences of all ages!

June 24th 10am & 12noon

Featuring Dana Canevari, Joshua Greenvall, Wynter Knudsen, Keely Baisden-Knudsen, Julie Fitzpatrick, Fitz Pant, Felix Petersen

Shoreline Arts Alliance is proud to host a Celebration of the Arts on Thursday, June 22 at Scranton Memorial Library in Madison. The event, which runs from 5-7 PM will celebrate all of the arts with performances, readings and exhibits by winners of Shoreline Arts Alliance’s 2023 Scholarships in the Arts, IMAGES 2022, the 2023 Tassy Walden New Voices in Children’s Literature competition and SAA’s 2023 Future Choices juried art exhibition for high school students. In addition to seeing emerging artists, attendees will be able to view the work of professional artists and enjoy interactive art events and projects.

Celebration of the Arts is sponsored in part by Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Guilford Foundation, Guilford Savings Bank, National Roofing, and Scranton Memorial Library.

Julie Fitzpatrick and son, Fitz Pant, will be among the performers.

For more information: www.shorelinearts.org

THE MOSES GUNN PLAY COMPANY fun raiser:

We are committed to presenting high quality, entertaining play readings for the Shoreline community.

SWAN SONG by Anton Chekov, adapted by Norman Marshall May 13th, 2023 acted by Julie Fitzpatrick and Norman Marshall drinks and snacks at 2PM, play at 3PM - 395 Nut Plains Road, Guilford - Bring a chair if convenient.

The story of the play concerns an elderly actor on the night of his final performance. In his cups, he falls asleep backstage in an inconspicuous place and awakes in the middle of the night to find himself locked in. The charwoman who cleans the theatre arrives and they begin a conversation about the theatre. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of the theatre in general, and of the old actor in particular. Delightful interactions ensue. RSVP john.brown.drama@gmail.com

Join us at the Guilford Library for The Coatroom Quartet!

The plays are: A Deliberate Mistake, Dinner Party, The Interview & A Hero of Tal Afar

Featuring: Sharon Austin Bloom, Julie Fitzpatrick, Mark Hamilton, Norman Thomas Marshall, Sally Plass, Primi Townsend, Ted Reinert, and Jarik Strzemien

The Guilford Free Library Saturday, April 29, at 2:00 pm - free & open to the public

The fifth and sixth graders from Baldwin Middle School will perform their many talents of magic and music and dance at GHS Performing Arts Center at 6:30 on April 19th - join us for to celebrate these remarkable performers!

Just us for staged readings of three short hilarious Holiday plays by Frederick Stroppel.

THE GIFT EXCHANGE- performed by Julie Fitzpatrick and Gwen Gunn.

Two old friends meet for lunch to swap gifts. It doesn’t go well.

LAND OF SWEETS- performed by Primi Carey.

A somewhat tipsy, somewhat embittered ballet teacher attempts to stage The Nutcracker while recalling a dance career that might have gone better.

EPIPHANY- performed by Mark Hamilton, Roger Carey and Norman Marshall.

These three dudes, as much wise guys as wise men, show up at this barn. Something about a kid getting born. It goes fairly well.

Performance at the Guilford Free Library.

Saturday, December 17 @ 2 PM.

No admission charge.

77 U-Turn is part of the Expanded Voices Series at Legacy Theater. It follows an intense personal story, told as a one-woman show with multiple characters and explores being affected by a brother's mental illness which exposes itself in surprising and terrifying ways on a tour of her childhood home.
Written and Performed by Julie Fitzpatrick, directed by Keely Baisden-Knudsen. Tickets are available here.

Warning: There are references to self harm. Recommended for audience members 12 years and older.