Thursday, December 14, 2017
The 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 06:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Broadway star Bryce Pinkham joins up with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet for a special concert event “A Broadway Holiday” Dec. 16 at the First Congregational Church i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AMMonday, December 11, 2017
‘Christmas on the Rocks” is the holiday gift that keeps on giving. The show, celebrating its fifth year of merrymaking at TheaterWorks, has maintained a faithful fan base while bringing …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:40PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Playhouse on Park’s annual holiday revue “Mama D’s Christmas Stocking” turns Christmas traditions inside out. For one thing, it’s rare to see dancers, actors and elves so scantily …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Ha-ha, Happy New Year! You’ve heard the jokes: “A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” “A New Year’s resolution is a fragile bit of crockery…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:45PMMonday, December 4, 2017
Ebenezer Scrooge can now balance a turkey on his chin. If you want to know the biggest difference between Michael Preston’s portrayal of the “Bah! Humbug!” icon at Hartford Stage when …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:55PMThursday, November 30, 2017
Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s “Holiday Cirque Spectacular” has been an annual tradition since shortly after Carolyn Kuan became the symphony’s music director. This is the sixth year …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:10PMWhen Tig Notaro took part in Connecticut Forum’s “Laughter, Anyone?” event at The Bushnell a few weeks ago, she got her first laughs within seconds of strolling onstage. With her natur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:30PMThere are bountiful reasons to see “The Color Purple” when it arrives at The Bushnell for its six-day run Dec. 5 to 10. It’s the national tour of a Tony-winning hit. It’s a revival o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
For grown-ups, much of the fun of the nationally touring shows based on animated children's shows is seeing the manner in which they've jumped from one form of entertainment to another. "PAW…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, November 20, 2017
‘A Connecticut Christmas Carol” transports Charles Dickens’ Olde England to a little town called East Haddam in New England. The show, though set at the Goodspeed Opera House, is havin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50AMFriday, November 17, 2017
"A Christmas Carol" has been a Hartford Stage standard for 20 years now. The production was brought to the theater by its adaptor Michael Wilson shortly after he became Hartford Stage's arti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIn the past year you might have seen Mike Birbiglia on "Orange Is the New Black" (as Danny Pearson), or in the movie he wrote and directed and starred in, "Don't Think Twice" (about an impro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMYou know how some people buy their gifts from nationwide chain stores, while others make them by hand? And both are well worth having? Connecticut Christmas theater is like that, too. Just a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The new Broadway hit “The Band’s Visit” is the story of a snappily dressed Egyptian police band whose travel plans go awry. They find themselves in Bet Hatikva, a desolate Israeli town…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:52PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
A funny thing is happening on the way to Connecticut Forum. If you were looking for three people to demonstrate the changing face of American comedy today, you might well decide upon Fred Ar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:35PMFriday, November 10, 2017
The latest "Christmas Carol" in Connecticut transports Dickens' holiday story across the ocean, setting it in the East Haddam home of famed early 20th actor William Gillette. The 90-minute, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWhat's up with Whitney Cummings? The comedian's own sitcom "Whitney" lasted only two seasons 2011 to13, but "Two Broke Girls," which she created around the same time, lasted six seasons, end…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Remember "The Charter Boys," that action-packed TV detective drama that aired on UPN, then the WB, for most of the 1990s? Of course you don't. It's a spoof, a parody. But "The Charter Boys: …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:46AM"The Phannnnntom of the opera is therrrrree…" Oh, and over here as well. It's important to know that the tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" coming to the Palace in Wa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 2, 2017
The second-ever production at Quinnipiac University's Theatre Arts Center is the 17th-century French playwright Moliere's timely medical-care comedy "The Imaginary Invalid." One of the best-…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PMClassic drama has plenty to say about modern times. Sometimes the connections are made glaringly obvious by directors and designers. Other times there's a subtlety, an underlying sensation t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:04PMThursday, October 26, 2017
Prolific local playwright Jacques Lamarre has had his scripts produced at TheaterWorks, Seven Angels and Hole in the Wall Theatre in recent seasons. His latest premiere is the socioreligious…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AMRock star-styled illusionist Criss Angel regularly disappears at Foxwoods, whether on his own or as the co-creator of the ensemble magic spectacle "The Supernaturalists." Angel's latest "Min…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIt's rare that a major national tour of a classic musical will come to Connecticut without playing The Bushnell. "The Sound of Music" has now done that twice. It seems you don't have to clim…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWhen does five times five equal 15? When the locally rooted 5X5 Dance Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary Nov. 4 with a full day of performance activities in and around Bruyette Athenae…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTaking the 1986 Broadway misfire "Rags" out of mothballs was a risk. Refashioning it fully, with two of its original creators (lyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer Charles Strouse) on boar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, October 20, 2017
After numerous tours through the state, not to mention club and concert appearances by members of the original New York cast, "Million Dollar Quartet" is now rocking the state's smaller thea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMConnecticut theatergoers remember Jen Silverman from her Gothic pastiche "The Moors" at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016. Her "Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties" premiered at Washington,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, October 19, 2017
"I knew I had to direct it." Elizabeth Williamson has been with Hartford Stage for more than five years, originally as a dramaturg and director of new play development and since 2015 as the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, October 13, 2017
Stephanie Dattellas moved to Connecticut from Syracuse, N.Y., just a few months ago to become the new artistic director of West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company in June. She looked forward …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:31AM 
