Friday, 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 12:00AMThursday, January 26, 2017
You may know "Menopause the Musical" from several summer rental engagements at the Long Wharf Theatre in the past decades. It returns to New Haven, in a larger production, for three performa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, January 19, 2017
HARTFORD — Hundreds of people stood outside Hartford theaters Thursday night. They shined flashlights, battery-operated candles and cellphones in what was intended as a collective artistic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45PMThe graduate thesis projects for the students in the directing program at the Yale School of Drama are large-scale productions. The acting students at the school spend a year on mastering El…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIn October, Connecticut audiences got to see comic writer and performer Mike Birbiglia's full-length performance "Thank God for Jokes" at College Street Music Hall in New Haven. That show, a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Dozens of theaters in Connecticut are joining hundreds of theaters nationwide Thursday night in a pledge to promote diversity and inclusion in their communities. The Ghostlight Project, name…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:02PMFriday, January 13, 2017
Tony Todd leans back on a couch in a hallway outside the rehearsal rooms at TheaterWorks. He's never worked at this particular theater before, but it's a homecoming. Todd spent most of his c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, January 12, 2017
What now? How chance thou art return'd so soon? —Antipholus of Syracuse, to Dromio of Ephesus, in "The Comedy of Errors" It's no small thing that Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
As I happily brace myself for a particularly promising theatergoing year in 2017 — especially regarding new plays — I can't shake some lasting images of the year just past. From the star…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, January 9, 2017
John Cleese? Do you mean Sir Lancelot? The French Taunter? Tim the Enchanter? The man who begs to differ when told that the corpse he's carrying is "not dead yet!"? The Black Knight, who whe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:31AMThursday, January 5, 2017
The titles of songs by Carole King could tell quite a little story by themselves. Her songs are set in such interesting places: "Up on the Roof," "So Far Away." They offer action and adventu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AMIn Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," loosely based on the ancient Roman playwright Plautus' "Menaechmi," confusion abounds when twin brothers, separated in childhood, arrive in the same …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThere's a table in a Long Wharf Theatre rehearsal room piled high with books and articles about Samuel Beckett. These include several volumes of his collected letters (the fourth and final v…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, December 29, 2016
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is a complex life equation, patiently probed and thrillingly answered by a talented group of creative problem-solvers. The internationally…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
OK, Christmas is over. You've had your Ho, Ho, Ho. Now get with the Ha, Ha, Ha. The last week of December is a fine time for comedy. You can laugh away the wintry blues, distract yourself fr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is that rare animal these days, a non-musical play that has landed on The Bushnell's Broadway series. Its inclusion is not so curious, to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, December 16, 2016
Mary Lou Aleskie, who has been the executive director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas for over half of its 21-year existence, will be stepping down in 2017 to become the direct…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:48PMThe way he holds his hat. The way he jiggles a key. The memories of all that — oh, you can't take that away from me. There are plenty of reasons to revisit "A Christmas Carol — A Ghost S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:32PMThursday, December 15, 2016
He's Buddy the elf. What does he want for Christmas? Spenser Micetich, who plays the title role in the East Coast tour of "Elf the Musical," chuckles. "I'm not asking for anything this year,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, December 8, 2016
It had two short stints on Broadway, in 2010 and '12. and is on its fourth national tour. Due to its holiday-seasonal subject matter, "Elf The Musical" has special staying power. Based on th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Time for angels to get wings. In his official capacity as marketing and public relations director at the Music Theatre of Connecticut, Joe Landry duly sent out a press release this month ann…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:01AMThursday, December 1, 2016
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical" returns to the Bushnell in Hartford Dec. 9 to 11. The show is based on the classic Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated special about poor Rudolph a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:44AM"Kinky Boots" is lacing up for yet another trip to Connecticut. When the national tour of the Broadway hits the Palace Theater in Waterbury Dec. 6 through 11, it will be the show's third tim…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:28AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
If "Hamilton" is the show of the Obama age, what show will we think of as representative of Donald Trump? We needn't ask. It already arrived, a quarter of a century ago. It's called "Other P…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:23PMMonday, November 28, 2016
"This is, hand`s down, probably the most difficult role I will ever play," Jessica Vosk says. "It's very complex. I have to take everybody on this journey to see this character growing up ov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
It keeps on rockin' in the Christmas world: TheaterWorks' soused seasonal hit "Christmas on the Rocks" is back for another round. The jolly, juiced-up comedy anthology, stocked with familiar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:35AMHartBeat Ensemble is reviving its locally rooted, socially relevant "Christmas Carol" adaptation "Ebeneeza: A Hartford Holiday Carol" after five years on hiatus. Debra Walsh returns in the t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:56AMFriday, November 18, 2016
The Oz-some musical "Wicked" has been welcomed to Connecticut several times — always by The Bushnell, which hosted the first national, and a couple of subsequent, tours of the Broadway hit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 17, 2016
Thirty-five years ago, August Wilson was a major voice in the American regional theater who'd had some success in New York. That was an impressive point to have reached for a writer known fo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 10, 2016
"A Christmas Carol" season is upon us, with "The Nutcracker" not far behind. Nebraska Theatre Caravan's touring production of the Dickens classic is making its annual pilgrimage to the Shube…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:38AMGershwin is in the air. Just a few days before the national tour of "An American in Paris" hits The Bushnell, there's another dance spectacle visiting Connecticut that features the immortal …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM 
