Wednesday, September 12, 2018
‘Man of La Mancha” is the latest classical musical to be scaled down for a smaller orchestra, a smaller cast and a more intimate presentation by adventurous director Mark Lamos at the We…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Tens of thousands of “Hamilton” fans won the battle. Tickets to the Hartford stop on the Broadway hit’s national tour went on sale Saturday morning and within a few hours, the least ex…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:15PMThursday, September 6, 2018
The kids are all right. Playwright Bess Wohl and director Jackson Gay, old friends working together for the first time in years, are at Blue State Coffee in Main Street. They’re sharing th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:05AMMonday, September 3, 2018
“Peter and the Starcatcher” is not technically a musical. But it has songs, and comedy and fantasy, and is based on the same story that has already fueled numerous musicals (from “Pete…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 1, 2018
Scott Stephen Kegler has directed and acted at New Britain’s Hole in the Wall Theater for years, bringing such audacious projects as Nicky Silver’s “Fat Men in Skirts” to the communi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMRoger Kabler is an accomplished actor who was a sketch performer on “The Carol Burnett Show” in 1991. He played the title role of a crazed Robert DeNiro impersonator in the 2002 film “…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Tickets to the national tour of “Hamilton” at The Bushnell will go on sale to the public on Sept. 8, the venue announced Tuesday. The highly anticipated tour will be at The Bushnell Dec.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:10AMSaturday, August 25, 2018
The man who turned sluggish moping into hysterical high art, Steven Wright, returns to Foxwoods Resort Casino’s Fox Theater, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket, for a night of riotously …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
What else is there to say about a theater season that began and ended with puppets having sex? The copulation of puppets in “Avenue Q” (the first show of Playhouse on Park’s 2017-18 se…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSomething of a Canadian comedy superstar, Russell Peters stars in the highly entertaining mystery/comedy series “The Indian Detective,” tours the world, and has appeared in dozens of mov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Brian Regan’s observational humor involves an awful lot of food. Like those jars that have peanut butter and jelly pre-mixed together: “I want to meet the guy who needs that.”). Or cra…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 4, 2018
The celebrated Canadian “new circus” troupe Cirque Eloize has a special relationship with Foxwoods. Cirque Eloize performs at the resort casino complex in Ledyard at least once a year, a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe “Mama D’s” burlesque shows at Playhouse on Park are a special thrill. Grounded in old vaudeville jokes, striptease bump-and-grind, and honking jazz music, they also manage to be st…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSome classic comedy stylings enliven the dog days of summer. Larry the Cable Guy has been around since cable TV was still a new thing in the 1980s, and is coming to Foxwoods Aug. 17. This be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMElm Shakespeare Company is one of the oldest and largest providers of free outdoor summer Shakespeare shows in Connecticut. The company’s shows are seen by tens of thousands of people each…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 2, 2018
Two top-rank political comedians are in Connecticut, using news to amuse. Both comics have interviewed presidents, senators, business moguls, movie stars, activists and journalists. Both hav…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM‘The Understudy” is play about what it’s like to be in a play — when the play is a newly discovered script by Franz Kafka and the star is a fading Hollywood action movie star named J…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
The swashbuckling musical “Cyrano” has arrived for its first full-fledged workshop at Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre with a few readings under its sword-belt, many revisions and fres…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:25PMThursday, July 26, 2018
They have found their “place on the path … in the circle of life.” As children, both Greg Jackson and Bruce Paul Reik enjoyed putting on puppet shows in their backyards. Now they’re …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Leslie Jones is the complete entertainer. On “Saturday Night Live,” she’s both a standout performer (especially when flirting with Colin Jost on “Weekend Update”) and a consummate …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Before a single one of its duels (physical or verbal) has been fought, and before a single one of its songs (by members of the great indie rock band The National) has been sung, the musical …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AMMonday, July 23, 2018
‘Two Kings and a Queen” is a touring trio of stand-up comedians from New York. The queen is Cocoa Brown, who’s ruled on BET’s “Comic View” and “One Mic Stand,” Comedy Central…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:10PMThe Ivoryton Playhouse has done four musicals so far this summer of four distinct styles. First was the fantasy “The Fantasticks,” then the biographical tribute “A Night With Janis Jop…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:30PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Kids scramble up ladders and across bridges. Muttering, mutton-chopped authority figures wave their staffs (or even their spoons) menacingly. There are drinking songs and horseplay and expre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:45PMPilobolus sees things differently than others do. When the internationally renowned dance/movement troupe decided to start an arts festival in its Connecticut hometown of Washington, it wasn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:25PMMonday, July 16, 2018
Jesus Christ is super stressed out, man. Connecticut Repertory Theatre has restored Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s raucous religious rock opera to its 1970s origins, with a chorus of h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:00PM‘I had the most wonderful mother.” Now there’s a statement you rarely hear in the American theater. It’s how Mona Golabek opens “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” which she has bro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Four “Saturday Night Live” veterans, including one of the show’s longest-serving members, are at Mohegan Sun Arena at 8 p.m. July 28. Jon Lovitz, active on “SNL” from 1985-90, was …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Eight extra performances have been added to the run of the new musical “Cyrano” at Godspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre in Chester. The show, which opens Aug. 3 and was originally s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:50AMThursday, July 12, 2018
‘Hand to God” is a harrowing, hilarious, hand-wringing comedy with tragic elements about a young man whose life is changed — and endangered — by an unhinged, demonically possessed ha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AM‘The Lion King” still rules. The circle of life brings Julie Taymor’s acclaimed stage version of the 1994 animated Disney feature back to The Bushnell for a two-and-a-half-week engagem…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:25AM 
