Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The calm, contemplative musical of cross-cultural harmony "The Band's Visit" is at The Bushnell through Nov. 21. It's a rare sort of sweet, human-sized musical that rarely comes around.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:23PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
The legendary freeform radio station WPKN is marking its move to a new studio near Bridgeport's Bijou Theater with a Nov. 19 gala featuring a premiere performance by komungo virtuoso Jin Hi …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:06PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Local artist Tao LaBossiere has created a massive mixed-media mural along the wall of The 224 EcoSpace in Asylum Hill.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PMFriday, November 12, 2021
"Doubt" at the Westport Playhouse raises questions about its choice of how to present John Patrick Shanley's award-winning drama about suspicions at a Catholic school.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:22PMThursday, November 11, 2021
"The Band's Visit" finally arrives at The Bushnell, Nov. 16-21. The Tony-winning musical was originally scheduled to hit Hartford in April 2020 and the tour was continually postponed due to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:33PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has split its accustomed leadership position of CEO/Director into two separate positions. It has made Jeffrey Brown the new CEO and is continuing the sea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
The movie "Pep" has been filming in Hartford for a week now. On Monday scenes were shot at St. Francis Hospital and at a private home in West Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Stephen Graham Jones' "The Only Good Indians" has won the 2021 American Voice in Literature award from the Mark Twain House and Museum, which includes a cash prize of $25,000.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PM"Christmas on the Rocks" returns live this year to TheaterWorks Dec. 2-23, with two of the cast members from the 2019 and 2020 renditions, Ted Lange and Randy Harrison, and Jennifer Cody now…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:19AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
An HSO concert of American composers gets earthy, outrageous and invigorating.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:11PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
Sonia Plumb's new dance "Penelope's Dream," premiering Nov. 5 and 6 at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, takes Odysseus' patient wife from the Odysseus and makes her the central char…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:51PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Five upcoming Christmas movies were made in Connecticut, including one where Hartford was made up to resemble Harlem.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:05PM"Rent" is returning to The Bushnell, maybe for the last time in a while. The musical are downtown NYC bohemians in the early '90s plays Nov. 5-7.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PMEight small or mid-sized Connecticut arts organizations received $5,000 to $20,000 each, from the latest round of New England Arts Resilience Fund grants.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMFriday, October 29, 2021
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2022 season, a return to the usual format of three full musical theater productions. The shows next year are "Cabaret," the world premiere of "Ann…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:57PMThursday, October 28, 2021
"The Top Ten Book of Horror Lists," by Connecticut-based convention and tour promoter Charles Rosenay!!!, contains creepy contributions from dozens of celebrities. Most of them list their fa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:51PMThe 5x5 Dance Festival at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford had to go virtual last time, but returns for its 20th anniversary with live performances and master classes featuring …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:17PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
A movie about champion boxer Willie Pep which has been in the works for 13 years, starts filming in Hartford next week. The Middletown native and longtime Hartford County resident held the W…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, October 25, 2021
Melia Bensussen delivers a smartly underplayed, multi-ethnic, entirely admirable "Ah, Wilderness!" at Hartford Stage through Nov. 7.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:22AMLarry Rifkin's book "No Dead Air" chronicles his long career in radio and television, including how he introduced Barney the dinosaur to the airwaves and got public television to air UConn w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 22, 2021
TheaterWorks presents a ghost story, "Someone Else's House," as the first show of its 2021-22 season, through Oct. 31.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:21PMThursday, October 21, 2021
The first and second stops of the second national tour of the musical "Anastasia" are in Connecticut, at the Palace in Waterbury through Oct. 21 and the Shubert in New Haven Oct. 22-24. The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:23PM"The Chinese Lady," Lloyd Suh's two-person biographical drama (with fictional and fantastical elements) is an even deeper theatrical experience than it might have been pre-COVID. The play is…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:26PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
TheaterWorks' latest offering is a haunted house story, told virtually from the house itself by performer and technical theater innovator Jared Mezzocchi, who grew up hearing the story and i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 14, 2021
The national tour of the Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville" is the first Broadway show at The Bushnell since COVID. It's an escapist lark set on a romantic island. It r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:39PMMelia Bensussen chose Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" as the first play she's directing at Hartford Stage since becoming its artistic director nearly three years ago. It's a new, m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:51PMMonday, October 11, 2021
The first national Broadway musical tour to play The Bushnell since the COVID shutdown opens in Hartford Tuesday. One of the stars is a Hartt grad.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:18PMFriday, October 8, 2021
"Kiss My Aztec!" will closed the 2021-22 Hartford Stage season in June. The comic musical, which plays fast and loose with Latin American history, was co-created by the comic actor and write…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:51AMThursday, October 7, 2021
“By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Itay 1500-1800,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through Jan. 9, brings together around 60 artworks drawn from around 30…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:38PM"A Grand Night for Singing" is the first live show at the Goodspeed Opera House since COVID. It's a relatively low-key revue of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, given conceptual twists by a …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:24PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
Hartford Public Library's Big Read for 2021 is Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street." The library has planned weeks of events around the book (as well as this year's youth selec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PM 
