Thursday, March 30, 2017
It sings "Leave, Leave" but happily it doesn't. "Once — The Musical" has been in Connecticut four times, and here comes a fifth. The show is based on the 2007 John Carney film that won a b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:34AMThe host: "For this next routine, we'll need a location, a style of performance and, hmmm, the name of an established Hartford comedy ensemble." The crowd: "Spotlight Cinemas! Improv Comedy!…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:30AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas welcomes The Wailers, Wu Man, "Whitman, Melville, Dickinson—The Passions of Bloom," "We Are Citizens" and "The War Room" this summer. And…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Trains. A coal furnace. Apartheid. The lunatic, the lover and the poet. Hartford Stage's wide-ranging, multistyled 2017-18 season was announced today. It follows some familiar patterns for t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:09PMMonday, March 27, 2017
"Next to Normal" may be the new normal at TheaterWorks. Once this would have seemed a highly ambitious project for such an intimate, small theater to take on. But in a season that began with…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:39PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
He has a warm, gentle voice. A sharp wit. A sense of history coupled with an interest in the here and now. An interest in where the world is going and a concern about how to live in it now. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:29PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Stephen Sondheim has given us the warm nostalgia of "Follies," the contemporary relationship foibles of "Company," the summer magic of "A Little Night Music" and the passion of "Passion." He…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Sarah Ruhl's feminist reworking of the ancient Greek myth "Eurydice" is set in the present day and gives its heroine a firmer hand in deciding her own fate — something she's been denied fo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFrom the 1930s into the 1970s, you could find stars such as Groucho Marx, Carol Channing, Bob Fosse, Eartha Kitt, James Mason, Mae West and Ethel Waters at the intimate Ivoryton Playhouse on…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Desdemona Chiang says she knew that directing Lydia Diamond's hit drama "Smart People" was going to be challenging. But she also knew that this was the best time to do it. With "Smart People…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:16PMPledge allegiance to the band. Get on your feet. Own the night. Welcome to the Renaissance. That's what is being asked of Bushnell audiences this fall and next year. The Bushnell announced i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:13AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's envelope-pushing 1990 musical "Assassins" offers a nightmarish gathering of men from throughout American history who have one thing in common: They tried …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
He coaxed Norm McDonald into describing the worst moments of his gambling addiction. He patched up an old friendship with Louis C.K., in a conversation that Slate magazine deemed "the best p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMMonday, March 6, 2017
Mention to Charlotte Maltby that "The Sound of Music" had its premiere at New Haven's Shubert theater in 1959 and she'll tell you she's heard all about it. Her father, the Broadway lyricist …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMFriday, March 3, 2017
'Smart People," Lydia Diamond's drama about psychology and academia had its premiere nearly three years ago at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, just a few miles from the Harvard campus w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMThe Albano Ballet Company celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. The Hill-Stead Museum turned 70 last year. These two institutions know something about elegant artistic traditions. On Ma…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:41PMThursday, March 2, 2017
You feel you know Faust? Not so fast. The immortal legend of eternal damnation has taken many forms, including plays, operas and musicals. It'll take a new one March 10 to 12 at Hartford Sym…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:17AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
The Omaticaya, Tawkami and Anurai clans live! The Sky People breathe! Pandorian animals frolic! Na'vi is spoken! In Hartford! When James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" appeared in t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AMMonday, February 27, 2017
Great music has been written by deaf people, including Ludwig van Beethoven. Great music is also being written for deaf people. Cuatro Puntos, an innovative Hartford-based classical music en…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
An actor in the current Hartford Stage production of "Cloud 9" was injured Thursday, causing the cancellation of performances this weekend.Performances are expected to resume Tuesday, Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:18PMEditor's note: Hartford Stage released the following press release. "Due to the injury of an actor, Hartford Stage’s performance of "Cloud 9" scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, has b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Connecticut has a special ear for "The Sound of Music." The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical — about a nun/nanny, the adorable kids she cares for and the gruff captain with a heart,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe title "Riverdance — 20th Anniversary Tour" is getting a little old. When it played The Bushnell last May, it was firmly in the zone, coming two decades and two months after the Irish d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Raphael Xavier feels that he's taking break dancing to places it has never been before. "I'm still a breaker, man," he says in a recent phone interview. "As a 46-year-old breaker, I'm not su…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, February 16, 2017
"Waiting for Lefty" is the stuff of political theater legend, right up there with "The Cradle Will Rock" and "The Crucible." Clifford Odets' Depression-era drama, staged as a series of short…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMDon't worry, you're not late to the ball. The national tour of "Cinderella" has already parked its pumpkin coach in Connecticut twice — just over a year ago at The Bushnell in Hartford and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Karin Coonrod found Queen Elizabeth I to be such a compelling subject that she needed four actresses, and four thrones, to contain her. "I totally get her spirit," Coonrod said in a recent, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
It bodes well for a good time in the theater that when the star of the show is asked to name one of its funniest bits, he mentions one of its first moments. "The first time I ring a doorbell…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, February 3, 2017
They're together again: George and Gracie! And Bruce and Semina! Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury has fashioned a stage production "George and Gracie: The Early Years" out of classic routin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:18PMThursday, February 2, 2017
"Hello! My Name is Elder Price! And I would like to share with you the most amazing book." "The Book of Mormon" returns to The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave. in Hartford, Feb. 14 to 19, with a l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, January 27, 2017
The Hartford theater scene has been good to Matthew Macca. Six years ago, when he was still in high school, he landed the plum role of Eugene in the Neil Simon play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM 
