I CAN BE ANYTHING I WANT is designed for the young child to have fun with creative play. As a parent and educator, I encourage you to join in with the various skills your child is learning as a result of playacting. Soundtrack Features: Performance sing alongs,...

by Jailene Cuevas Nov. 23, 2021New Canaan resident Melody Meitrott Libonati was at the MTA unveiling of the remake of a Broadway ad campaign she partook in back in the late 1970s. The MTA revised its original “The Only Sure Way to Make It to Broadway" ad campaign...

All Conservatory classes are now successfully running Online. The students and 10 teaching artists are finding virtual classes can be a lot of fun. Since March 20th the Performing Arts Conservatory has been teaching all its students in virtual classrooms. Private...

The two women couldn’t know it back then, as they sang and danced eight shows a week, but they would spend the majority of their lives achieving even more significant personal and professional success, all in the Nutmeg State.Fast-forwarding from those Great White Way...

New Canaan: The students at the Performing Arts Conservatory were able to talk to and perform for theatrical talent manager John Mara, Jr. in a recent workshop. Mara spoke to the students and their parents about what a manager and agent does, how to get one, and how...

Two new professional teachers, Rachel MacIsaac and Christopher Hudson Myers, will be joining the Conservatory this fall to teach dance and music theatre. Rachel is a graduate of the University of the Arts with a degree in Dance Education and most recently was on the...

Her achievements are truly dazzling: off-Broadway and Broadway leading roles; national theater tours of A Chorus Line and Lend Me A Tenor; singing and acting at the Goodspeed Opera House, The New York Musical Festival, the Music Theater of Connecticut and more. TV...

As an actor, Christian Libonati admits taking direction from his older sister --and his Mom—is “not always easy.” “But I’ve been able to work around that,” he says, “because in the final analysis I trust the theatrical judgment of both of them.” At 29 sis is Allegra...

By Susan Stewart | NYT Before motherhood, Melody Libonati was an actress, with a part on the soap opera “One Life to Live” (she was Samantha Vernon), stints on Broadway (Sandy in the traveling company of “Grease”) and big commercials: Dawn detergent, Comet cleanser,...