Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The Goodspeed Opera House will soon be undergoing some of the biggest renovations in the building’s 148-year history, many to meet ADA standards.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
As comedian Kathleen Madigan makes her way across the country to Foxwoods’ Great Cedar Showroom on Friday, she dishes on how natural life on the road has become.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, September 23, 2024
The postponed Heart tour, which reunites sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, will resume next year and has added extra dates, including one at Foxwoods.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:40PMSunday, September 22, 2024
The Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport features nearly 20 nationally renowned music acts, including headliners Foo Fighters and Noah Kahan, on Sept. 28 and 29.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"No Love Songs," a deeply personal musical by Scottish rock star Kyle Falconer and his wife Laura Wilde, is coming to the Terris Theatre in Chester Sept. 27 through Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 21, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 22-28 include The Beach Boys, Hillary Clinton, comedians Leslie Jones and Kathleen Madigan and a slew of indie music acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 19, 2024
"The Featherweight," a movie about the life of prizefighter Willie Pep filmed in Hartford, opens on movie screens throughout Connecticut this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
The true story of a Connecticut sports hero whose NFL career went horribly and murderously wrong is told in the new FX TV series “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez.”
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, September 15, 2024
Megan Trainor, whose music is everywhere from radio to TV, is hitting the road with her family on her "Timeless" tour, coming to Mohegan Sun Arena on Sept. 21.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLudwig von Beethoven is favored by many orchestras in Connecticut this fall, but there's also room for classical music "storytelling" concerts, a 12-hour TV opera and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Under new artistic director Mark Shanahan, the Westport Country Playhouse is expanding its programming to feature one-night events, concerts and touring theater shows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Sept. 15-21 include nostalgia acts from Bachman-Turner Overdrive to Boy George, comedian David Spade and alt-rockers Jane's Addiction and Alkaline Trio.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 13, 2024
The Mark Twain House & Museum is holding a day-long celebration for the historic building's 150th anniversary on Saturday with music, readings and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Several key shows in James Earl Jones' career, including one that became his Broadway debut, happened in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:04AMMonday, September 9, 2024
Billy Joel will return to Mohegan Sun Arena on Feb. 22, 2025 with presale tickets going on sale Tuesday and tickets for the general public on Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PMSunday, September 8, 2024
There are three key music stages at The Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts this year, with bands ranging from local Connecticut acts to legends like Chubby Checker, Public Enemy and Ludacri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe upcoming theater season is full of scares from "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" to "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors" to "Hocus Pocus Live!" and many versions of the ghostly "A Christmas Carol."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 7, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 8-14 include concert acts Kehlani, Pleasure P and Dashboard Confessional, as well as comedians Jon Stewart and Wanda Sykes.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Maggie," co-written by musician Johnny Reid and premiering at the Goodspeed, tells empowering tale of a family who fights through uncertainly and loss.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 6, 2024
Macaulay Culkin is set to attend a screening of his biggest hit film, "Home Alone," at the Oakdale Theatre on Dec. 14 and engage in a Q&A session with the audience.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:47PMJack White is playing at Toad’s Place in New Haven on Sept. 10, with tickets going on sale Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:33AMSeven Angels Theatre in Waterbury announced its four-show 2024-25 season, after which artistic director Semina De Laurentis said she plans to retire after 35 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:33AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
The live touring show of "The Price is Right" will bring its games to Bridgeport's Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater and New London's Garde Arts Center.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMMonday, September 2, 2024
The adventurous, community-based, volunteer-run Dionysus Theatre Company has found a new location in the Enfield Square Mall and will hold its first show in October.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Big-name comics from Donnell Rawlings to Wanda Sykes to Chelsea Handler to Jon Stewart and more are playing Connecticut in September.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe 2024 Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo kicks off the fall festivals on Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at New Haven's Edgerton Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 31, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 1-7 include folk festivals, hardcore punk pioneers, country crooners and legendary rockers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Kit Ingui, who has been at the Long Wharf in various managing director positions since 2017, helped shape the image of the New Haven-based theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 25, 2024
The Connecticut Renaissance Faire has been around for a quarter of a century and is still growing. This year's festival now runs eight weekends from Aug. 31 through Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMElm Shakespeare Company brings depth and clarity to a timely "Richard III," a play about abrupt transfers of power, lies, family issues and the power of personality.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 26-31 include festivals, comedy, local death metal acts, outlaw country crooners, rappers and rockers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
