Long-Shuttered Community Theater In Downtown Fairfield To Reopen
The long-shuttered Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield will reopen as the new Sacred Heart University Community Theater.
The university signed a 10-year lease with Kleban Properties to create a premier arts and education site at the corner of Post and Unquowa Roads.
Open to the entire Fairfield community, including all university students, the refurbished venue will provide a range of offerings, including high-profile lectures, author talks, unique films, concerts, and performances.
It will showcase the work of the University’s dance, orchestra, band, choir, theater arts, f…
Iona College Names 'Leading Academic' As Its Ninth President
A “national leader in higher education” is taking his talents from Kentucky to New Rochelle and will become Iona College’s ninth president.
Seamus Carey, the president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, has been chosen following an extensive, nationwide search to take over at Iona, effective as of July 1. Carey replaces Joseph Nyre, who has led to college since 2011, during what the college called “a time of unprecedented growth.”
According to the school, since 2014, Carey has “transformed (Transylvania University’s) campus, successfully led the school’s commitment to diver…
What Happened? Free Public Post-Election Analysis At Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University's Institute for Public Policy will host "Post-Election Analysis: What Happened and What Lies Ahead for Connecticut" took place on Wednesday, Nov. 14
The event took place in the Martire Forum at 5401 Park Ave. in Fairfield.
Expert panelists included Ken Dixon, politics editor for Hearst Connecticut Media Group, Gary Rose, professor and chair, SHU Department of Government, Michael Vigeant, chief executive officer of GreatBlue Research, and Ebong Udoma, senior reporter at WSHU Public Radio.
The discussion was moderated by Professor Lesley DeNardis, Ph.D., d…
