Tuesday, February 20, 2018
In the wake of the high-school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week, singer/actress Deborah Cox is unable to perform at tonight’s opening performance of “The Bodyguard The Musical” at…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMThursday, February 15, 2018
There are lots of reasons to revisit Arthur Miller’s retelling of the Salem Witch Trials, “The Crucible.” McCarthyism and other political witch-hunts — the metaphorical underpinning …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
What’s it like to star in the first U.S. tour of musical “The Bodyguard”? For Deborah Cox, who’ll play the role of Rachel Marron — made famous by Whitney Houston — when the music…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:25PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Ken Ludwig is ubiquitous. He’s in Hartford. He’s in New Haven. He’s on a train. His game is afoot. Ludwig’s one of the most popular playwrights in the world today. This month, two ma…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMThursday, February 8, 2018
The National Endowment of the Arts has awarded nearly a quarter of a million dollars to 10 nonprofit Connecticut arts organizations this week, with the largest amount going to the Eugene O�…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:50AMSteve Martin: “We’re coming up on 80.” Martin Short: “Steve, he didn’t ask how old you were. He asked how many shows we’ve done.” Short and Martin explained during a recent pho…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:20AM“Murder on the Orient Express” is Ken Ludwig’s comic adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel about a murder committed on a transcontinental train trip. The victim is an infamous…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMWhen Sharon McNight brings her Sophie Tucker tribute “Red Hot Mama” to theaters around the country, she is often introducing Tucker’s work to people who have have never heard of the on…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:50AMMonday, February 5, 2018
Please read Sam Wasson’s history of improvisational theater “Improv Nation — How We Made a Great American Art.” It describes how small theater troupes of the 1950s and 1960s such as …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:45PMThursday, February 1, 2018
After several seasons of branding itself as a 20th anniversary event, the national tour of “Riverdance” is back to its unadorned one-word title. The producers have nicknamed the U.S. tou…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
'A Hunger Artist' “The Hunger Artist” is a trenchant short story by Franz Kafka about an entertainer whose “act” is that he fasts for days at a time. The tale is rife with metaphor, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, January 26, 2018
On Monday, The New York Times ran a story detailing numerous allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior concerning Gordon Edelstein, the artistic director of the Long Wharf …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Blake Hammond’s back. As in back in time, in a show that sings “Welcome to the Renaissance.” As in back to the future, since he plays a prophet named Nostradamus. Hammond also finds hi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AMFriday, January 19, 2018
The members of Rude Mechs are far from rude. (The name comes from the company of tradesman actors in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”) The shows developed by this exciting …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PMThursday, January 18, 2018
‘I’m always so refreshed by shows where my first instinct is to not have a set.” Strangely, that’s a set designer talking. Jean Kim recalls during a recent phone interview how Rob Ru…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AMThe legendary choreographer Paul Taylor turned 87 this year, and the dance company that bears his name was founded in 1954. Taylor’s repertoire represents half a century of modern American…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AMConnecticut grieved when A.R. Gurney died last year. The playwright had a home in Roxbury. He premiered more than a dozen of his WASP-laden dramas and romances at Westport Country Playhouse.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
The ventriloquist can’t talk just now. Darci Lynne Farmer, the celebrated 13-year-old singing voice thrower and latest winner of “America’s Got Talent,” is in the first week of her f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and original star of the groundbreaking musical “Hamilton,” will receive the 2018 Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:30PMMention any show in her long stage resume, and Sharon Washington instantly has a story to tell. She recalls “Digging Eleven,” the Kia Corthron drama she appeared in at Hartford Stage in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMThe new national tour of the historical musical “Amazing Grace” — at the Shubert, 247 College St., New Haven, from Jan. 19 to 21 — is a Connecticut homecoming: The show premiered in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Douglas Lyons was attending Career High School in New Haven when he first began to consider theater as a career choice. There was a poster for the University of Hartford’s Hartt School in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:40PMMonday, January 8, 2018
The Long Wharf Theatre is consistently good at finding new plays about timely social issues such as race relations and cultural differences. “Office Hour,” a new drama by Julia Cho, is a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:30AMThursday, January 4, 2018
When Kris Lee graduated from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School a decade ago, it was with a degree in music production and jazz performance. Now she uses that expertise, along with …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:30AMMonday, January 1, 2018
David Lutken’s getting comfortable in Connecticut, with some characters who caused some discomfort in their time, but who also brought much enjoyment. From Jan. 9 to 20, Lutken is the acer…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
Two of the hosts of the podcast “Legion of Skanks,” a show that claims to “consistently raise the bar on filth and depravity,” are in Connecticut Jan. 4 to 6, although at different c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, December 25, 2017
The final days of 2017 bring much mirth. Here’s a comedy-show checklist: John Oliver is at Foxwoods’ Grand Theater, 350 Trolley Line Blvd., Mashantucket, for a whopping four shows over t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, December 21, 2017
The year 2018 begins with fire and noise on local theater stages to get us through the rest of winter. The title of “Feeding the Dragon,” Sharon Washington’s one-woman show at Hartford…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Check out a theater show … at your local library. Hartford Stage and the Hartford Public Library have joined together for what they describe as a “multi-tiered community partnership” w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Join me, as the year winds to a close, in a survey of some of the sensational stage moments, highlights and trends of the past 12 months. Literary Lights The year began and ended with excell…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:10PMThe Chinese classical dance spectacle “Shen Yun” promotes itself as “5,000 Years of Civilization Reborn.” The New York-based ensemble revives narrative dance and music traditions tha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
