Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Pilobolus has announced that the outdoor arts safari it created during the COVID crisis last summer will return, with a new title and location, in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMA slew of Beatles-themed events are happening in Connecticut in July, led by a ten-band outdoor Fab 4 Music Festival in Ansonia on July 10 and also including a Hartford Symphony Orchestra "C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:28PMFriday, July 2, 2021
Playhouse on Park has had to shift its entire six-week Connecticut Shakespeare Festival from an outdoor location in Bloomfield to indoors at the theater’s accustomed 244 Park Road home —…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:55PMOur pick of the arts events for July 4-10, 2021. An Independence Day "bonanza" in Bushnell Park, a dance concert in Keney Park, a Shakespeare Festival on farmland in Bloomfield and much more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, July 1, 2021
Douglas Lyons, who grew up in New Haven and attended the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, will see his family comedy "Chicken & Biscuits" produced on Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:57PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
"Little Girl Blue," a two-act one-woman musical about jazz/pop legend Nina Simone, has been added to the Goodspeed by the River tent concert series, Aug. 4-29.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:59PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
The Shuttered Venue Operators grants (originally known as Save Our Stages) has awarded
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PMThursday, June 24, 2021
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced a shortened yet high-impact three-show 2021-2022 season, the first public shows to be produced by the Rep since the coronavirus shutdown. The season …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
A community-based "Godspell" in Shelton gives clues as to what live theater will be like in the next few months.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PMThe racial injustice drama "Kill Move Paradise" is being staged by Playhouse on Park in Hartford's Bushnell Park through June 25, then will stream in July. The show covers some of the same t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
This year Juneteenth — which commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States in the 1860s — will be especially grand in five Connecticut cities, where giant murals have be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The “Goodspeed by the River” concert series, which kicked off last week, is the Goodspeed doing what it can do until it can be the Goodspeed again.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 11, 2021
New Haven's Shubert and the Palace Theater in Waterbury have both announced their Broadway seasons, and four tours ("Anastasia," "Waitress," "An American in Paris" and "Beautiful") have land…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PM"South Pacific," long promised as the first musical the Goodspeed Opera House would produce when the theater reemerged following the COVID crisis, has fallen off the schedule entirely now. "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:25PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Hartford Stage's 2021-22 season will feature "Ah, Wilderness!," "Lost in Yonkers," “Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous” and the new play “Dishwasher Dreams" -- but not the season…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMThe Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center continues to expand its operations. This summer it will present concerts by Darius Rucker and the U.S. Coast Guard Band and others, plus new comed…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PMMonday, June 7, 2021
A new 150,000 gallon seal tank, named Pinniped Cove, has opened at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. The grand opening is June 8, World Oceans Day.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Hartford Stage is hosting its inaugural American Voices New Play Festival, showcasing works by Latinx and Hispanic writers, June 23-26.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 4, 2021
Local playwright Cin Martinez has gotten strong support from TheaterWorks Hartford for the workshop production of her new play about friendship, "Moonlighters." The theater has connected Mar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, May 27, 2021
A street in Middletown is a backdrop — substituted for L.A. amid the Rodney King riots — for the Oddfellows Playhouse’s current production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” which t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:32PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
Foxwoods Resort Casino has reopened at full capacity, bringing back its spa, zipline ride, Pequot Museum. The two main performance venues have been renamed, with the Grand Theater becoming t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:37PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Students at Conard High School in West Hartford used a theater project to revisit a controversy that roiled the school just five years ago, when the Conard sports team name and mascot was ch…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PMSunday, May 23, 2021
Hartford has earned the top spot on rent.com's list of "50 Best Cities for Artists in America." Three other Connecticut cities also landed on the list.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:57AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Sea Tea Improv is preparing to roar back to life this summer, holding live improv comedy classes again in June and reopening its Sea Tea Comedy Theater in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:17AMFriday, May 14, 2021
Married actors Ken Robinson and Christina Acosta Robinson met and fell in love at the Yale School of Drama a decade ago, moved back to New Haven a year ago and have done a virtual musical "d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMThursday, May 13, 2021
The Playhouse on Park production of "The Revolutionists" in 2019. The playhouse has planned a busy summer, with a staging of the drama "Kill Move Paradise," about violence against Black men…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:28AMWest Hartford native Sarah Drake, now a resident of London, has put together a virtual charity benefit concert for struggling actors, with help from friends from Broadway and the West End. "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Connecticut theaters are braving the great outdoors this summer, with provocative shows about the environment, gun violence, the L.A. riots and Black identity.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMCenter Stage Theatre in Shelton has announced a full indoor summer season of four musicals and one comedy play, starting June 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05PM"Coming Alive Again," a charming and timely concert of uplifting and anxiety ridden showtunes sung by Christiane, was produced jointly by Goodspeed Musicals and TheaterWorks Hartford. It str…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AMSaturday, May 8, 2021
Canton resident and LEGO enthusiast Palas Patani will appear in the second season of the "LEGO Masters" TV show. In Connecticut, Patani runs education programs where he uses LEGO blocks to t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
