Friday, October 17, 2014
Saturday, September 27, 2014
The opening production of Hartford Stage’s new season, “Ether Dome,” is about the 19th-century physicians, frauds and cranks who pioneered surgical anesthesia.
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In Stony Point in Rockland County, “Playing the Assassin” takes a good, solid shot at professional football while telling a gripping story.
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“Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” in Hartford combines songs, incidents and anecdotes to create a complete Guthrie experience.
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“The Fabulous Lipitones,” a song-stuffed comedy, is having its New York debut at the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point in Rockland County.
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The Goodspeed Opera House’s triumphant production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in East Haddam manages to be both reverent and utterly fresh.
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“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which is at Hartford Stage, is a comic mash-up of Chekhovian themes and characters, with nods to Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Beckett and Walt Disney.
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In Evan Smith’s comedy “The Savannah Disputation,” produced by the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, Rockland County, a surprise visitor raises uncomfortable questions of religious f…
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In “Damn Yankees, the Red Sox Version,” a reboot in East Haddam of a Tony-winning musical, a baseball fan makes a deal with the devil.
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“West Side Story” has great meaning for the writer, and the characters, of “Somewhere,” now at Hartford Stage.
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Noël Coward weighed ethical and emotional ramifications of his closeted existence in what he called his most serious play.
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Meg Miroshnik’s new play peers into the history and sociology of the former Soviet Union through the lens of czarist folklore.
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In Heidi Schreck’s new play, at Long Wharf Theater Stage II, mismatched colleagues try to find their way through the 2008 financial crisis.
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‘The Most Happy Fella,’ a story about a farmer captivated by a young waitress, closes the 50th anniversary season of Goodspeed Musicals.
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“Owners,” a 1972 play by Caryl Churchill at the Yale Repertory Theater, taps the ethos of “Do what you want. Get what you can.”
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In Jeffrey Hatcher’s semi-autobiographical comedy “Mrs. Mannerly,” he recalls the deportment lessons absorbed in 1967 by his pudgy, going-on-10-year-old self.
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A Hartford Stage production of the tragedy is light on props, relying on the power of the play itself to connect with the audience.
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“La Dispute,” an entertaining 70-minute comedy now at Hartford Stage, asks: Who committed the first infidelity, mankind or womankind?
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“Time Stands Still,” the Tony-nominated play by Donald Margulies about a wounded war photographer, deliberately leaves some disturbing questions about journalism unanswered. &…
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At Penguin Rep Theater, “Drop Dead Perfect” playfully gives nods to 1950s television, pulp novels, Hitchcock and more.
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The production at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam stars Klea Blackhurst in a down-to-earth version of the title role.
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In a multilevel never-never land with hedges of artificial turf and whimsical, mixed-period costumes, “Twelfth Night” teems with mismatched romance and physical comedy. …
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“Good News!” a 1927 musical comedy adapted Jeremy Desmon and being presented at the Goodspeed Opera House, combines all the trademarks of shows from that era.
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“Ride the Tiger,” at the Long Wharf Theater, spins a tale of Camelot, featuring Sinatra, the mob and a pretty girl.
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A musical at Hartford Stage tells the story of the tenor Roland Hayes, the first African-American vocalist to receive international acclaim.
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A revival of the musical whodunit “Something’s Afoot” is playing at Goodspeed Opera House, where it was first staged in 1973, through Dec. 9.
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Two biologists warily, testily, explore menstruation, menopause and other questions of female evolution in “The How and the Why,” a smart, densely textured play by Sarah Treem.
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“Hedda Gabler,” Ibsen’s classic about anomie and the bottomless misery of a stage monster, is being performed at Hartford Stage.
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Tom Dudzick’s backstage comedy “Don’t Talk to the Actors” is now playing at Penguin Rep Theater in Rockland County.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Louise Pitre steps into the title role of “Mame” — made famous by Angela Lansbury in 1966 — at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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