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The last time we spoke about Hannah Cruz, the Newtown native was playing Inez Milholland in the original Broadway cast of Suffs. The 34-year-old is now not only playing Svetlana in the Broadway revival of Chess, she — wait for it… — has been nominate...

NEW MILFORD — Long before HBO’s Succession or Fox’s Empire, the mother (or father in this case) of all family dramas was William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear. Family dynamics, madness, and injustice reign supreme in this gripping and fast p...

Town Players of Newtown continues its 2026 season with the equally compelling and heartbreaking drama The Shadow Box, which runs through May 16. The Shadow Box is a Pulitzer and Tony-winning play that depicts three terminally ill patients living...

EAST HADDAM — There are only a handful of Broadway musicals so iconic they are instantly identifiable by the opening few chords of music, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar (JCS) is at the top of that list. The religious rock-opera burs...

Leaps of Faith Adaptive Skiers, or LOF for short, is a local adaptive skiing group that works with all kinds of individuals of all abilities. From hosting open ski days to private groups for those with visual impairments or spinal cord injuries, LOF ...

Family: My wife Robin, and our daughter Charly. How did you meet your wife? I met her on the subway in Brooklyn. I was helping someone with their stroller, and she saw me and handed me her business card. Pets: Two dogs, Jet and Utah. ...

On Saturday, April 25, Newtown hosted its 17th Earth Day Festival. The primary mission of the Newtown Earth Day Festival is to foster education and drive awareness of environmental stewardship through project participation and collaboration with loca...

May 4, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — CHARTER REVISION: EVOLUTION OR UPHEAVAL? From its inception last fall, Newtown’s Charter Revision Commission has shown a high degree of independence — particularly from the Legislative Council, which created the...

Best wishes Laura Cole! Laura was celebrated a few months ago by longtime employer Newtown Savings Bank for reaching an amazing milestone — 40 years of working with this town’s oldest financial institution. Early last month she agreed to be featured ...

Newtown Underwater Search & Rescue (NUSAR) once again made a splash with its third annual open house on Saturday, April 18. Held on-site at NUSAR’s headquarters on 28 Riverside Road in Sandy Hook, people were invited to meet the local search and resc...