Sunday, May 11, 2025
Composer Brian Field has teamed up with poet Amanda Gorman to present a musical setting of Gorman's poem “Hymn for the Hurting” premiering in Nashville in October.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMatthew Lombardo's celebrated one-woman play about local legend Katharine Hepburn is running at the Ivoryton Playhouse from May 15 to June 8.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic and Gene Simmons (without Kiss).
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 9, 2025
Lilting melodies melt with dramatic intensity in the spirited production of "Ragtime" at the Goodspeed Opera House through June 15.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:16AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Carolyn Kuan announced that she will conclude her time as music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in 2027. She has been in the position since 2011.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:44PMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Several major Connecticut theaters were abruptly informed on Friday night that National Endowment for the Arts grants, which had already been awarded, were rescinded.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMMonday, May 5, 2025
Mara Vélez Meléndez's "Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members” provides final big blast in what has been the strongest Yale Rep season in years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AMSunday, May 4, 2025
The annual festival offers full-scale productions by graduating playwrights from the David Geffen School of Drama directed and designed by fellow students.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThere's a Connecticut book club for every taste. Whether you read Shakespeare or Stephen King, there are groups where you can discuss your favorite authors or subjects.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMSaturday, May 3, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for May 4-10 include Alice in Chains, the bicycle acrobats 360 Allstars, a circus on New Haven Green, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 2, 2025
The 2025 Tony Award nominees were announced Thursday and included dozens of theater artists with Connecticut connections.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
"Some Like It Hot," the Broadway musical based on the 1959 movie about jazz musicians on the run from gangsters, revs up the jazz quality and fancy dancing at The Bushnell.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Michael Price, who served as executive director of the Goodspeed Opera House for 47 years, will receive the Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:56AMThe third production of "Romeo & Juliet" in Hartford Stage's history ia an open-minded, open-hearted and remarkably amusing romantic tragedy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, April 27, 2025
Even if Matthew López hadn’t written the epic social/cultural drama “The Inheritance,” one of the most acclaimed plays of the 21st century so far, he’d still be known for the region…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAround 30 different local music acts grace this year's festival. Here is a guide to the weekend lineup.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 26, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for April 27 through May 3 include music competitions, a Christie Brinkley book signing, a concert based on "Labyrinth," comedians and jazz musicians.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
The just-announced season at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven includes the Connecticut premiere of the musical version of "Kimberly Akimbo” among the five shows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, April 21, 2025
Not only do Connecticut-based college radio stations figure prominently in “Live From the Underground,” the author wrote most of it thanks to a fellowship from UConn.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:01PMSunday, April 20, 2025
The 1996 musical "Ragtime," based on the E.L. Doctorow novel about intersecting cultures in early 20th century New York, opens the 2025 Goodspeed Opera House season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMThere are several full productions of William Shakespeare plays in Connecticut this week, plus readings, discussions and other events to honor his April 23 birthday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for April 20-26 include a "Girls Night Out" arena show, orchestras featuring classical music, a Connecticut Book Trail event and comedians.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMEboni Booth's "Primary Trust," about a man of steady habits who must undergo big life changes, is a mostly comic yet also darkly dramatic journey of self-discovery and survival.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
R&B star Chris Brown is bringing his Breezy Bowl XX Tour to Connecticut on Aug. 23. It's the first big concert at East Hartford's Pratt & Whitney Stadium since 2007.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:28PMThe 198 recipients of 2025 Guggenheim fellowships include at least eight who live or work in Connecticut, including several visual artists and composers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:25AMSunday, April 13, 2025
The first two exhibits at the freshly renovated Yale Center for British Art in New Haven are "J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality" and "Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until the Morning."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMelia Bensussen's production of "Romeo and Juliet," at Hartford Stage from April 17 through May 18, focuses on the theme of youth versus their parents.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for April 13-19 included a plethora of women artists, a night of doo-wop, early rock 'n' roll acts and 1980s British pop stars.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMOver two dozen Connecticut musical acts performed songs by James Velvet, a leader in the New Haven music scene from the 1980s to 2015.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 10, 2025
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's 2025 Talcott Mountain Music Festival in Simsbury this summer will also feature tributes to Queen, The Bee Gees and Tina Turner.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:25PMSunday, April 6, 2025
Eboni Booth's bookstore-set play about self-discovery, "Primary Trust," will be directed by Jennifer Chang at TheaterWorks Hartford from April 10 through May 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
