Thursday, 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"When I auditioned for this, I was told it was one of the hardest roles on Broadway," Garen Scribner says of his starring turn in the national tour of "An American in Paris." "There's a lot …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Let your vote count. Then laugh at it. TV networks have been providing live coverage of presidential election nights for decades. In recent years, it's also become common for late-night come…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:57AMThursday, November 3, 2016
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" has undergone a complete change of cast since the show played The Bushnell in Hartford last winter. (No, the actors did not turn into mice and lizards.) …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMOn his long-running, award-winning National Public Radio show "This American Life," Ira Glass often cedes the microphone to guests, who tell long stories about their experiences and beliefs.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
"I love to create as much as I love to perform. I just like to create, then walk away. I do something, then I leave it alone." That's the versatile Jon Peterson's musical-theater modus opera…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, October 27, 2016
"I wrote a play I wanted to do," Paul Slade Smith explains. A steadily working actor, particularly in comedies and musicals, he had enjoyed performing in such grandly comic shows as "Lend Me…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:49AMOne of the odder trends of Connecticut theater in 2016 is the rediscovery of Anthony Newley, the British entertainer whose diverse achievements include writing the classic movie songs "Goldf…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Bill Raymond is saying goodbye to "Bah! Humbug!" The venerable character actor, who has played Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" at Hartford Stage for 16 of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:43PMThursday, October 20, 2016
The annual Navaratri Festival of Indian music and dance at the Wesleyan Center for the Arts is marking its 40th anniversary by acknowledging the 50th anniversary of special Indian-themed art…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
For those of you of weaker constitution / For those of you who may be faint of heart / This is a tale of revenge and retribution / So if you're smart / Before we start / You'd best depart / …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PMFriday, October 14, 2016
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" first came to life at Hartford Stage in 2012, directed by the theater's artistic director, Darko Tresjnak. It returns to the city Oct. 25-30 at the B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"La Ronde" is a world of your own making, cued by voices in your ears and paths on the floor of the Goffe Street Armory building in New Haven. The performance, created by the French theater …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Where is William Shatner boldly going now? To Connecticut, on the latest go-round of his one-man show, "Shatner's World… We Just Live In It." The erstwhile Captain Kirk (and T.J. Hooker an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:09PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Do you believe in ghosts? Hartford Stage does. The theater is conjuring up "The Piano Lesson," one of the most haunted, and haunting, of the 10 dramas in August Wilson's legendary 10-play "C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PMHartford got to see Broadway veteran Anthony Rapp earlier when the national tour of "If/Then" visited the Bushnell. Rapp reprised the role of Lucas, which he originated in the show's Broadwa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, October 3, 2016
In Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower," some flashy celestial figures abruptly change the lives of four people at a backyard dinner party. Stars are aligning in curious ways for the play…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Sarah Ruhl formulates questions that are on the tip of our tongues — questions about the world around us and life itself. She articulates those thoughts, connects them to revolutionary per…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, September 29, 2016
Richard Dreyfuss redefined what it meant to be a leading man in the "New Hollywood" era of the 1970s, in such groundbreaking films as "Jaws," "American Graffiti," "The Apprenticeship of Dudd…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:21AMScottish actors know all about heath and hard-blowing winds. It's Graeme Malcolm who endures the elements and compares his children to serpents' teeth in Connecticut Repertory Theatre's prod…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
"A Room of My Own," a recent off-Broadway success that's now at Seven Angels Theatre with much of its original cast, is an old-fashioned melodrama — not far removed from "I Remember Mama" …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AMThursday, September 22, 2016
"Everybody knows what happens to Judy Garland after 'The Wizard of Oz.' But nobody knows what happened before," says Tina Marie Casamento Libby. That kind of questioning spirit is right up t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:28PM"Disenchanted!" takes some familiar fairy-tale princesses, the kind that you know from cartoon movies, and takes them places that may be even creepier than dark forests and castle towers. Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:31PMAutumn may be a time of darkness and dead leaves, but the theater season brings newness: world premieres, bright comedy and social issues torn from today's headlines. Hartford Stage's first …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
The accomplished familiar cast VANESSA BUTLER, MARY BACON, CHARLOTTE MAIER, ALICE CANNON & HEIDI ARMBRUSTER fall effortlessly into a smooth ensemble.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:17AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Joseph Voelker invokes the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's essay "Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles" in discussing how he came to set up a six-hour symposium on "Politic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe dance scene has changed deeply in just a couple of decades. National touring troupes are fewer, some local dance companies have been around long enough to become institutions and many sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMLive comedy in Connecticut this fall can be scripted, improvised, musicalized, politicized, feminized, interactive … whatever makes you laugh. The state has more comedy venues than it's ha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSteve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower" is a comedy about a couple of married couples contemplating life, love and the cosmos while having dinner and drinks in a spacious Los Angeles backyar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
The HartBeat goes on. Fifteen years after it was founded, HartBeat Ensemble's pulse is felt throughout the city. The politically aware, community-conscious theater troupe marks its decade-an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:10PM 
