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Podcast: Acting Classes at Town Players of New Canaan

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Deborah Burke, a local actress, director, producer, set decorator and costumer, who also is creative director for the Town Players of New Canaan. She’s leading a new 8-session acting class that’s set to start Jan. 23 (details here). We talk about the Town Players, its productions and especially its acting classes. Burke can be reached at info@tpnc.org.

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Podcast: Claire Ayoub’s Solo Show ‘The Gynokid’ Coming to Powerhouse Theatre

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Claire Ayoub, a New Canaan High School graduate and comedy writer whose award-winning solo show, “The Gynokid,” is coming to town next month. Presented by the Town Players of New Canaan, “The Gynokid” will be performed at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny from May 12 to 14 (just three shows, ticket info here). Here are recent episodes:

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Podcast: Talking ‘Ordinary People’ with the Town Players, Silver Hill [Part 1 of 2]

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Deborah Burke, director of an upcoming Town Players of New Canaan production of “Ordinary People,” as well as Dr. Michael Groat, chief clinical officer at Silver Hill Hospital, about how their organizations are working together on a very unique and important show. Here are recent episodes:

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Podcast: Town Players of New Canaan

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Patricia Spugani, a board member and fundraising chair for the Town Players of New Canaan, a community theater organization that operates out of the Powerhouse Performance Arts Center in Waveny. We talk about the history of the Town Players, some of the locals who are most involved in it, how the pandemic affected the organization and what it is planning now, both in terms of programming and for its physical facility. 

Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

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Did You Hear … ?

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Seven women with direct connections to New Canaan—see the gallery above—will share their leadership experiences and encourage women and girls to pursue their goals in “Being Queen: Thoughts from the Throne,” a panel discussion hosted by NC Women Mean Business that will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at New Canaan Library. Read here for more information to this free, open event. ***

A New Canaan woman spotted a bobcat on her Canoe Hill Road property on Saturday morning—the sixth such sighting in one month of the reclusive feline. “I happened to be in the kitchen and turned and looked out the window and saw a bobcat on the front lawn,” Carol Miller said of her sighting at about 4:35 p.m. Saturday. “It meandered across the driveway and headed into the woods, and not a minute later there were six prancing deer that followed it.