Solid 4 for food! My friends and I came here after the tattoo convention for an early dinner and it…read morewas great, better than expected for sure. We are coming back to enjoy a show this Friday so I will return with an updated rating. For my main meal I got steak frites and they were delicious. One of my friends got the salmon and I tried some of hers and that was great as well. We also had 2 pitchers of sangria. You truly can't beat the price and the atmosphere is so fun with a bull and everything.

Good food. Had a Steak Salad and hubs had a burger. Bartenders were super nice. We ate at the bar…read morethen went into the comedy show. Loved that you werent sitting on top of people. Good craft beer lists and mixed drinks!

Great jazz club and totally worth the train ride from NYC. There's a BNB across the bar and…read moretotally worth the bang for your buck. B.H.

Happened to stumble across this venue and it's a great place to visit and hear live music. It's an…read moreintimate venue so you definitely want to get there when doors open to get the best seating. Service was friendly. By showtime, the place really filled in. Great sound and just a really cool vibe all around. They have a bar and offer small bites with a savory and sweet option.

Fantastic venue inside Foxwoods casino! Employees are always friendly & helpful! Inside had the A/C…read morepumping I thought I was in the North Pole! The temperature was a little too much for me I was freezing! I'm pretty sure I saw a penguin in the corner drinking a cocktail!I didn't get to try any food b/c I was waiting on Junior's after the show. Priorities,priorities ppl.!The seats could have been more spacious & comfortable. All in all, still a great time(just bring a parka, maybe a seat cushion, & a strong sense of humor)!

First time at premier theatre and it was a marvelous experience. Everyone is so nice, even asking…read morefor instructions was inspirational. The theatre is well taken care of and very clean Overall it was fantastic and I will do it again.

I was fortunate enough to have one of my plays included in the 2008 Playwrights' Conference, and…read moresince the playwrights are asked to stay for an entire month (even though our own workshops are only 1 week), I got to have the full-on O'Neil experience. While in Waterford I saw an extremely diverse batch of plays (in terms of style, content, and execution), a handful of so-new-they-wrote-the-music-yesterday musicals, and all kinds of special panels and events -- all worth the price of admission. The staff at the O'Neill were beyond friendly, and the creative team we worked out for my play were top-notch. My room in the cottage did what it needed, and a bit more by being a mere 50 feet from Blue Gene's Pub. The productions at the O'Neill are workshops, meant to help their creators refine and develop the work. Consequently, the actors have scripts in hand and the design is only sketched out. I thought this meant things would be pretty rudimentary, but I was surprised time and again at how there were just enough elements present to allow me to imagine a full production. The work they do is truly remarkable. I haven't a negative thing to say. If you can make it up, catch a show. You won't be disappointed.

Want to see theater no one has seen before? Check out the O'Neill Center. New plays, new…read moreplaywrights, musical readings, dramatic readings, a host of programs. Saw a terrific reading there today. They've got all kinds of programs running through the summer. There's a cute little cabin on the property where you can get a drink and a snack, and you can walk beautiful grounds right down to the water. They have indoor and outdoor theater settings and there's more than one thing going on at the same time. Very cool.

As our first visit to Strange Brew Pub we came to see a Beastie Boys cover band. Having never seen…read morethis band, nor been to this location we were not sure what to expect. The hubby read some of the other Yelper's comments and knew to go upstairs, really glad others mentioned that! The space is just big enough that you don't feel like it's tiny but just small enough to feel like you're right in the action. The bar tenders were friendly, they had lots of beer selections (not all on tap, many canned options) and the band turned out to be absolutely fabulous! Following Strange Brew on Facebook is a great way to find out about all their different shows (bands, trivia, comedy, etc) and I don't know why we waited so long to get there! We'll definitely be back.

May stop by again when it is warmer…read more Unfortunately, there is no sign on the door downstairs, at street level, to ask new patrons to go up the stairs, especially on a dark rainy night. A great thing is their response to Facebook requests for information. But, It was cold outside and when we came in, upstairs, it was cold inside too. So we decided to leave and find a place that was a bit warmer. Nite that there was plenty of seating and it looked like a nice venue. ***** Facebook response for parking. Thank you for your inquiry. There are a few options for parking including on street parking on both sides of the road. Our building is located on the right side of the road (Water Street is a one way road). There are also three parking garages across the street. Each are available for parking, two of them have signage that says otherwise but it does not apply to our business hours, 6pm till closed. There are a few other parking garages located in downtown within walking distance including Main Street parking garage. There is also parking available in the lot at the marina, about a two minute walk from us on the road running parallel with our road. Please feel free to ask any questions you have regarding the venue &/or event(s). Thanks! For the entryway their response: Sorry for delay, On the right side of the building their is a staircase. Although we own the entire building, we are located on the second floor.

Free parking for a venue onsite is always a plus even if it is hours away for me. I've been here to…read moresee John Oliver and Alice Cooper. Granted I sat much closer to center for John Oliver rather than the free tickets for charity at the Alice Cooper concert. Even so they don't have a lot of screens for people far away or at weird angles to see clearly. The ushers were moderately helpful in directing us the appropriate seats. I wish the staff were more attentive at monitoring the audience. The entire time for the Alice Cooper concert we had a very annoying guy standing, whooping and hollering incessantly. Thankfully he wasn't directly in our line of sight but hearing his added noise was not appreciated. He was too far away for us to yell "sit down". As it's located in a casino there are other things you can do afterwards to hang around. The con is you still have to walk through the smoky atmosphere. Aside from that it's a decent venue for live performances if you can snag a closer seat. It doesn't feel too overwhelming like an arena at 4,000 person max capacity.

My family and I were there last nights for Dancing With The Stars. It was so much fun! The…read moreperformances were so amazing to watch, so much talent was on that stage I was left in absolute amazement. They really went all out and you can feel the passion in every single performance. The light work was very blinding, that's the only thing I really have to complain about. At certain times the lights would glare at you and literally blind you, so I would try to look at the screen to watch the performance but the lighting for the tv screens were absolutely terrible. You really need to A. invest in better screens or B. make sure before the show goes on that you can actually see the performance on the screens. It was too dark half the time or blurry. if you relied on the screen to watch the show you're shit out of luck.

Excellent live theatre! Make a point to check them out this summer!…read more Flock's Summer Shakespeare Festival includes A Midsummer Night's Dream running in the Connecticut College Arboretum July 16-Aug 2; Romeo and Juliet running on the Custom House Pier August 6-16 and Richard III running in the Connecticut College Arboretum August 20-September 6 www.flocktheatre.org

Long Day's Journey Into Night…read more Reviewed by Edmond Chibeau Flock Theatre at Monte Cristo Cottage, New London 28 April 2018 Derron Wood, director With: Christie Williams as James Sr.; Anne Flammang, as Mary; Victor Chiburis, as Edmund; Eric Michaelian as Jamie; Madeleine Dauer as Cathleen. Monte Cristo living room This production takes place in the actual living room of O'Neill's childhood home at Monte Cristo Cottage in New London. Seeing the play in the room where the events actually took place give us an uncanny feeling of eavesdropping on the family. The room is small, so the audience is limited to 26 people. The performance I attended started at 9 in the morning and ended at about 9 at night. Director Derron Wood wanted the light to be entering the room at the angle it would have been when these events took place in the life of the O'Neill family. Stage directions in the script list Act 1 at 8:30 a.m., Act 2 at around 12:45 p.m., Act 3 at around 6:30, and Act 4 at around midnight. There was only one great performance in the production; it was given by all the actors working together. Every performer on stage played their part to perfection, and more importantly, they were all acting in the same play. Often when we go to the theatre we see as many different versions of the script as there are actors.In this case the cast was united in their interpretation. No grandstanding, no upstaging! To achieve that kind of unity, we need both a director who is able to communicate his particular understanding of the script to the players, and actors who are willing trust each other. Actors must listen to each other and live in the moment that is happening on stage. They must live the moment and allow the audience to see it, hear it, and share it. The actors must also trust the audience to stay with them. When they fail to trust the audience the performers "indicate" what they are feeling rather than live it. Each actor must be generous with the other actors and with the script they are performing. To be an actor you need a strong enough ego to be able to put up with rejection at auditions, and still believe you can share your insights with a large number of people. At the same time you need to be self-sacrificing enough to bend your personality to the character you are attempting to portray, and to share the stage with your fellow actors.The actor must decide if the script is to be a vehicle for pyrotechnic display of thespian prowess, or if that actor is to be the interlocutor who helps the audience feel the play. To achieve this higher calling, as this cast does, the actors must be yoked together in a kind of emotional performance-yoga where each harnesses and enlivens the energy and intelligence of the other. (The words yoke and yoga have the same Indo-European root) That performance-yoga must link the energy of the whole team. The script is full of transitions that take place in the middle of a speech. The characters emotions are whipsawed back and forth in a matter of moments. To try to do this on stage in a thousand seat theatre would require a kind of broad-gesture melodramatic acting that is anathema to Eugene O'Neill's vision of the dramatic art, but is the cornerstone of his father's approach. There are no stars in the play written by O'Neill, nor in this production directed by Derron Wood. But there is a constellation of integrity to be found in both the characters and the actors. Preston Whiteway, Executive Director of the Eugene O'Neill Center took a chance in allowing this production to take place in Monte Cristo Cottage. He was rewarded with a great production that should be repeated as a yearly event.

Great bar with a cool intimate environment with phenomenal craft cocktails. Great music and a great…read morebartender. I started with the factory sazerac and finished with the high tide. If you like a classic sazerac this one is for you. The high tide was a perfectly balanced cocktail and it was very hard not to order another one. It was smooth, refreshing, sweet with a slight tartness from the lime.

I'm going to be honest, I really don't like this place. There are so many bars in the area to…read morechoose from, so it really makes a bad spot stand out. They charged me $21 for a well rum and coke. I specified well rum was fine, and I got an overpriced, mediocre drink. The spot has nothing to offer, service included, that could come close to justifying that price. I've gotten fancier drinks, in wealthy neighborhoods for less. Do better.