Jen Silverman is the name to beat in Connecticut arts this week. The playwright, who happens to have a show on Broadway right now (“The Roommate,” starring Mia Farrow and Patti Lupone), is getting rediscovered on local stages with two of their creepier works. Their historical drama, “Witch,” is getting a reading as part of Westport Playhouse’s Script in Hand series, while their take on old Gothic novels, “The Moors,” is the first show of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre season at UConn in Storrs.
There’s another witchy show on the boards this week, “The Crucible” by the late longtime Connecticut resident Arthur Miller at New Britain’s Hole in the Wall Theater. If you’re a lighter mood, you can choose from Mickey Mouse, Blippi, David Sedaris, Jessica Kirson and many others. The wonder-seeking preschool TV show “Blippi,” has a live stage version.
This tour is especially musical. The “Join the Band” tour has the bespectacled star leading a live band with giant video screens behind them. Oct.
6 at 2 p.m. $25-$87.
50; added $55 for “photo experience.” concerts.livenation.
com . The esteemed and adventurous local chamber group Connecticut Virtuosi, conducted by Adrian Sylveen, presents the ninth installment in its “We the People: Immigrant Stories in Music” concert series, performing works by Alban Berg and Joseph Haydn, plus the world premiere of Jakub Polaczyk’s “Slavic Streams: ‘Śmiętlana.'” Oct.
6 at 3 p.m. $39.
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