HartBeat Ensemble Artistic Director Godfrey Simmons is interviewed about HartBeat Ensemble and Citizen James in this video by Fox 61.
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Trinity College and HartBeat Ensemble—the Hartford-based professional theater company—have formed a partnership that will bring HartBeat to Trinity’s Austin Arts Center as its resident theater company through at least 2028.
The politically conscious HartBeat Ensemble has a new performance space and home base. The community-rooted professional theater collective was based at the Carriage House Theater on Farmington Avenue since 2013, but that space was sold last year by the church that owned it.
