Friday, June 1, 2018
Some changes in “The Invisible Hand” are very invisible indeed. Following its initial success at Westport Country Playhouse in 2016, Ayad Akhtar’s gripping drama has been remounted at …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:50AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
Grandiose and grotesque, lush and lurid, strange and familiar, “Love Never Dies” lets its phantasmic freak flag fly through Sunday at The Bushnell. The romantic potboiler is Andrew Lloyd…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
“A Lesson From Aloes” gives us one more reason to miss Darko Tresnjak when he leaves his post as artistic director of Hartford Stage at the end of next season. We know that Tresnjak will…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMFriday, May 18, 2018
Love may never die, but voices can change. Actress Karen Mason plays Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his greatest hit, "The Phantom of the Opera." In "Phantom," Giry is the he…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:20PM“Chicago” is a model of urban redevelopment. The musical, based on a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins (based in turn on actual sordid events that occurred in Chicago while Watkins was…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Janis Joplin’s life was short but packed with incident. She fronted a few different bands, had two hit albums and appeared at Woodstock, Monterey and other major rock festivals, all in the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWestport Country Playhouse’s 2018 season opens with the popular melodrama “Flyin’ West” by famed feminist novelist, playwright and essayist Pearl Cleage. The play — May 29 through …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, May 14, 2018
Ayad Akhtar's follow-the-money hostage drama "The Invisible Hand" continues to strike Connecticut theatergoers. The play had a successful production at the Westport Country Playhouse in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMSunday, May 13, 2018
‘It's the renovation season," declares Rob Ruggiero, TheaterWorks’ producing artistic director. Which means it's also the relocation season. Theaterworks has announced five of the six sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
In February of 1961, South African playwright Athol Fugard jotted down in his diary an eight-paragraph description of an argument he’d witnessed during “a party at the flat of a Catholic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTrixie Mattel, who recently won on the third season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” has released two albums in the past two years. Last year she started a web series called “UNHhh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra has regularly turned to Broadway musicals for its concert content. On May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in The Bushnell’s Mortensen Hall, the affectionate topic is “Lov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWho’s still on the short list of rock and roll stars who haven’t had a musical written about them? Dion DiMucci, who in September of 1961 introduced us to “Runaround Sue” and then tw…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
‘Comedians” is a cunning sociopolitical drama from 1975 by British playwright Trevor Griffiths. The drama is set in a class for aspiring comedians, and the second act shows the students …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AM‘Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical” is an allegory about segregation and dealing with prejudice. The story, which is also about friendship and being accepted by one’s peers, concerns an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AMConnecticut Ballet calls its spring concert “Russian Classics!” but also notes that two of these three classics have not been danced in Connecticut before. Old and famous, then, but perh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AMThe national tour of the Broadway hit “Motown the Musical” played The Bushnell in the spring of 2016, then returned to Broadway shortly afterward, where it added another few weeks to its…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:40AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Radicals. Choirs. A billion nights. A big read. Whodini. Ruth B. Kaki King. A dance to the Beatles. Stories from survivors. Five merchants of Venice. The International Festival of Arts & Ide…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Rob Santos lives two lives. They’re both pretty funny. You can glimpse both of them May 3, when two episodes of the local comedian’s new web series “Beige on Both Sides” premiere in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:50AMMonday, April 23, 2018
Ballet Theatre Company recently brought on new artistic director Stephanie Dattellas, who is choreographing a new production of the Prokofiev ballet “Cinderella” as its big spring produc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:40PMThose who love David Yazbek’s current Broadway hit “The Band’s Visit” might want to check out his first — and very different — musical, “The Full Monty.” It’s based on the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:30PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Evan Yionoulis is happy to talk about her exciting career transition, from longtime Yale School of Drama faculty member to the new head of the theater program at Juilliard. She’s eager to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:25AMIn recent weeks, Hartford Stage has mourned the deaths of two people who guided the theater through periods of great expansion and artistic growth, and who are considered key figures in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:05AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Laurie Berkner’s latest appearance in Connecticut will be a different experience for the children’s music star’s fans, who are used to seeing her being chased around the stage and play…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:20PMIt was inevitable that the 1994 Australian movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” would become a musical. It contains all the ingredients necessary for modern musical t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PMConnecticut has heard quite a lot from Steve Martin in recent years. His play “Meteor Shower” premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre before it was done (with a different cast and director) …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PMHere’s how “The Will Rogers Follies” ropes you in. The boisterous bio-musical, with a bouncy score by Cy Coleman and snappy lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was a Tony-winning B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Hartford Stage has filled in the sole “to be announced” slot on its 2018-19 schedule, and it’s a funny choice. A very, very, funny choice. What you might call an international laugh ri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMSonia Plumb thinks big and works hard to make her big thoughts happen. So it’s not surprising that her latest work — “The Dance of da Vinci” — was inspired by one of the biggest th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
The final show of Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s main school-year season is the Shakespeare comedy “As You Like It.” That’s the one where an ace wrestler named Orlando wanders into …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMFriday, April 6, 2018
Edith Wharton’s novel “The Age of Innocence” exquisitely evokes the rarified realm of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. Playwright Douglas McGrath and director Doug Hughes won…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:00AM 
