Entertainment in Connecticut Coast
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Partner’s Café
An anything-goes crowd packs it into the three floors at Partner’s. There are pool tables, quiet alcoves for conversation, and thumping house music upstairs. M&M Fridays sees male dancers and midnight pizza. Every Sunday is karaoke night and the boys get the run of the place each Tuesday. Happy hour, which knocks $1 off cocktails and beer, is 5pm to 8pm.
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This club encompasses the Bru Room (New Haven’s first brew pub), the Front Room, the video-oriented BARtropolis Room and various other enclaves. Taken in toto, you’re set for artisinal beer and brick-oven pizza, a free pool table and excellent live music or DJs spinning almost every night of the week. Check the Haven Advocate for specifics.
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Anchor
Sure, you can score the standard pub-grub burgers here, but you’re much better off strolling in later in the evening. The clientele represents a real cross-section of folks. Throw some tunes on the jazz-heavy jukebox, get a drink from the full bar and settle into your black-leather banquette booth. No plastic accepted.
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Frank’s Place
For a quarter-century, Frank’s has provided the area’s gay community with a comfortable place to eat, drink, play pool and sing karaoke. No matter what the evening’s entertainment may turn out to be, there’s never a cover charge. Its birdcage room is not something you see every day.
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Dutch Tavern
Raise a cold one to Eugene O’Neill at the Dutch, the only surviving bar in town that the playwright frequented (though back in the day it was known as the Oak). It’s a good honest throwback to an earlier age, from the tin ceiling to the century-old potato salad recipe.
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168 York St Cafe
This bar-restaurant isn’t too far off its own billing as a gay Cheers. Sunday and Thursday nights will get you $1 domestic beers, while daily happy hours between 4pm and 7pm knock a dollar off all drink prices.
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Chamber Music Society at Yale
This Yale society sponsors concerts from such eminent ensembles as the Guarneri String Quartet at 8pm Tuesday evenings from September through April in the Morse Recital Hall of Sprague Memorial Hall.
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Shubert Theater
New Haven has a first-rate theater scene. Catch a hit before it happens at the venerable Shubert Theater, which has been hosting Broadway musicals on their trial runs since 1914.
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Elm City Java
This café hosts local acts every Thursday evening, and all the bands you hear over the stereo system are New Haven–based. Better yet, the coffee is fair-trade organic.
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Harp & Hound
This pub, in a historic building on the west side of the drawbridge, is the late-night place to grab a pint of Irish ale; decent pub grub and English football on the telly too.
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Backroom @ Bottega
With live acts on Thursday, local DJs on weekends, cheap martinis ($7) and Italian small plates, this spot draws a mix of college kids, locals and assorted nighthawks.
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New Haven Symphony Orchestra
Yale’s Woolsey Hall is home to most performances by this orchestra, whose season runs from October through April. The Pops series performs on Friday evenings.
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Toad's Place
The hottest music scene this side of New York City. Everyone from Count Basie to Bob Dylan and U2 have taken the stage at this legendary venue.
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Yale Repertory Theatre
New Haven has an award-winning repertory theater Yale Repertory Theatre.
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