Thursday, August 17, 2017
Norm Macdonald's been declared "a modern master of the long joke" (by the pop culture site Vulture) and "one subversive, hilarious dude" (by Paste magazine). A viral video of Macdonald telli…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:44PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
"I think I'm typecast," says Phillip Huber. Fourteen years ago he was asked to supply a puppet dog for a new musical called "Road to Hollywood" at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre. T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:04AMThursday, August 10, 2017
It had bangs and whimpering sounds, bullies and victims, politics and personal issues. It ended with a chef serving appetizers to the audience. Yes, with the world premiere of "Raging Skille…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PMPlayhouse on Park is unveiling another of its bawdy "Mama D's" seasonal dance/comedy/revues. The latest saucy spectacle is "Mama D's Hot Summer Nights," conceived and directed by Mama D hers…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe Elm Shakespeare Company underwent the biggest change in its more than 20-year history last summer, when its founder James Andreassi passed on the artistic director reins to Rebecca Goodh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Hershey Felder has made a career out of dramatizing the lives of famous composers. He dresses like them, plays their greatest works live on piano, and he brings out the real-life human stori…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:36AMThursday, August 3, 2017
The Glass Eye theater company, founded by Hartt School alumni and based in New York City, originally focused on new works. In recent years, however, the Glass Eye has added a touring outdoor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Two dozen years ago, a Frank Sinatra concert opened the Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The spirit of Ol' Blue Eyes is returning to the Fox. Forty years ago in Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Pr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:56AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
John Davidson plays the seafaring pirate Captain Hook, who chases a flying child in "Finding Neverland." But he's got his feet firmly on the ground. "I like it when a character's objectives …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PMFriday, July 21, 2017
"Finding Neverland," the Broadway musical about how J.M. Barrie created Peter Pan, has been on a national tour since October 2016. That's long enough for it to have undergone a few cast chan…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, July 20, 2017
In East Haddam, the wind goes sweeping down the Connecticut River rather than the plain. But Jenn Thompson is feeling right at home, bringing Rodgers and Hammerstein's game-changing 1943 mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:58AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
The Capital Classics presentations at the University of St. Joseph are so simple, unassuming and unadorned that they're more about resting on a comfortable lawn than having to get too deeply…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:49AMMonday, July 17, 2017
For his third play about food, Jacques Lamarre wanted to whip up something fresh, try some fresh spices and increase the portion size. "Raging Skillet," having its world premiere at TheaterW…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:07PMFriday, July 14, 2017
"Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been." — Ebenezer Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens It…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMMonday, July 10, 2017
New "Newsies" is good "Newsies." The Disney musical about enterprising newsboys in early 20th-century New York played more than 1,000 performances on Broadway from 2012-14, then spent anothe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:42PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
The outdoor Shakespeare season is on! Middletown's Artfarm is staging "Hamlet" July 9 to 16 and July 19 to 23 as part of its Shakespeare in the Grove series. Director Dic Wheeler has describ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:20PMMonday, July 3, 2017
"Grounded" is a dark, isolated, legal and social drama by George Brant. It's about war, sacrifice, personal ethics and clashes with the system. But director Liz Diamond beams. "I'm so enjoyi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:21PMThursday, June 29, 2017
"Newsies" is still in circulation. Disney's decision not to continue doing national tours of its jaunty journalism musical after an initial two-year go-round (which played Connecticut twice)…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:40PMFriday, June 23, 2017
What would summer be without "West Side Story" at some small Connecticut theater? The Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim/Robbins street fight is at the Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton (E…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
The works of William Shakespeare have been around for about 500 years. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," a popular multistyled comic romp through those works, has been …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Ancient battles among gods will mingle with modern mortal realities when celebrated English storyteller Neil Gaiman returns to The Bushnell July 10. Gaiman has written some of the finest fan…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"Fun Home" is where the heart is. The national tour of "Fun Home" is a large, rich production of a musical known for its small, tender moments. It concerns a young woman coming of age and co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
TheaterWorks has announced its 2017-18 season. All of the playwrights are new to TheaterWorks, but some are well-known from other theaters in Connecticut. The season opens in October with "T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, June 15, 2017
"Fun Home" is the consummate "alternative" comic that became a maverick Broadway musical. The national tour of the show comes to The Bushnell June 20 through 25. The original format for "Fun…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMA.R. "Pete" Gurney not only lived in Connecticut, he became one of the most produced playwrights at the state's regional theaters. The eminent dramatist died Tuesday at the age of 86. He had…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
"(Be)Longing" belongs to two well-established traditions at New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas: it's a world premiere, and it tackles provocative social issues. The show, whi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIn his native Mexico, Hiram Marina is a well-known theater director and producer who's helmed shows involving more than a hundred performers at once, for audiences that numbered in the tens …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Tony Awards were given Sunday night to several Broadway shows that were first seen or developed at Connecticut theaters. Rebecca Taichman won for directing "Indecent," the klezmer-scored his…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AMFriday, June 9, 2017
An insecure writer named Lucia is settling into her first real job, at a big TV studio. She shares her hopes and fears with a custodian, Abel, who comes in regularly to change the liners in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, June 8, 2017
For nearly all of its 22-year existence, New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has been known for creating strong working relationships with the artists it presents. It arrange…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:35AMMonday, June 5, 2017
"Motown the Musical" is an ensemble drama roiling with temptations, miracles and all those other fantastic Detroit groups of the 1960s and '70s. The central characters in the musical are Ber…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:56AM 
