SOUTHBURY – The Press Box Theater will welcome accomplished actress and singer, Diana Canova, to its stage this September. With a successful career spanning over decades, Diana has appeared both on screen and on stage in various TV shows, films and musicals. Diana has since retired from TV and film, but she continues to act and direct in theaters across Connecticut. Taking the stage in Southbury for the first time, Diana will be playing the role of Melissa Gardner in the epistolary romance, Love Letters .

Diana grew up in a family of entertainers, with her mother being the brilliant comedian, Judy Canova, and her father a prominent Cuban musician, Filberto Rivero. According to Diana, “there really wasn’t a question that I would follow in [my mother’s] footsteps.” As a young woman, Diana

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