Sunday, August 25, 2024
Elm 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 06:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
A Connecticut couple are scheduled to appear on "The Wall" on Aug. 26, as they answer trivia questions and make wagers for the chance to win thousands.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Beloved by fans of Southern rock, female rock vocalists and jam bands, the Tedeschi Trucks Band has entertained many different Connecticut audiences at many venues for decades.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Conor Galvin, who studied physical therapy at Sacred Heart University and lives in West Haven, is the latest Connecticut athlete to make the finals for this season of "American Ninja Warrior…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Canadian singer/songwriter Johnny Reid has co-written "Maggie," a musical based on his Scottish grandmother making its U.S. debut Aug. 23 through Oct. 20 at the Goodspeed Opera House.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTom Cridland, a British fashion entrepreneur, learned piano as a way to stop drinking and has turned his love for Elton John into a tribute act, which performs Aug. 21 at Simsbury Meadows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 17, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 18-24 features legendary rock, blues and hip-hop double bills, rapper Childish Gambino and pop-punk artist Avril Lavigne.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 11, 2024
Legendary rockabilly band Stray Cats ends its current reunion tour in Bridgeport at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater on Aug. 17.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDozens of major comic book talents, movie and TV stars, and even some wrestlers, are the special guests at this year's TerrifiCon at Mohegan Sun Expo Center Aug. 16-18.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 11-17 include Canadian pop stars and a rapper, Keanu Reeves and Dogstar and comedians Fred Armisen, Zarna Garg and Shane Gillis.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, August 9, 2024
“Ask for the Moon," a new musical farce at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre, is making the theater world safe again for jokes about Nazi-styled villains, dirty old men and mangled …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
The Chameleons are coming to the Space Ballroom on Friday with a live rendition of its 1986 "Strange Times" album. The British post-punk band has also been working on new recordings.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 4, 2024
There’s a nice range of Country and loud rock music this week on Connecticut stages. Dierks Bentley is at Mohegan Sun, Roseanne Cash is at Ridgefield Playhouse and there’s a strong Ameri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMIt’s August already, but it’s feeling a lot like June – national Pride Month – or maybe September or October, which is when Hartford holds many Pride events. There are numerous LGBTQ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe last few weeks have been an intense period of political theater, the kind that comes from the political side of that well-worn phrase. We’ve had one major party convention with another…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
Goodspeed Musicals, the famed East Haddam theater institution that specializes in classic and brand new American musicals, has announced that its current (and first-ever) managing director D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, July 28, 2024
"School of Rock: The Musical," featuring a live band of local 11 and 12 year olds, will be performed Aug. 2-11 at the Warner Stage Company in Torrington.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:05PMThe Turtles, now featuring singer Ron Dante of The Archies, brings its latest "Happy Together" tour to the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford on Aug. 3.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, July 27, 2024
This week's Courant arts picks offer a throwback to the '70s, '80s and '90s with Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul, DJ Jazzy Jeff, SWV, Xscape and Slash.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
The 2024 Great Hartford Shakespeare Festival's presentations of "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew" mixes enthusiastic amateurs with some striking performances in the lead roles.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, July 21, 2024
As the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz ends, half a dozen other big Connecticut music festivals are ready to go from Black-Eyed & Bluesfest to Jam at the Dam to the Charles Ives Music …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"The One Who," a spiritual, socially conscious outdoor theater experience from Marcella Trowbridge, has two performances at The Sanctuary in East Haddam on July 27.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, July 20, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for July 21-27 include comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Vicki Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, blink-182, Sammy Hagar and Loverboy and Phish.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs has announced its fall 2024 season of concerts, children's theater shows, comedy and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA new Christmas-themed Cirque du Soleil will play Nov. 29 through Dec. 8 at a venue the company has never visited before, the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, July 16, 2024
"The Prom" is another strong summer musical choice for Playhouse on Park, and the final show of the theater’s 2023-24 season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, July 14, 2024
Three-actor, opera-loving musical comedy "Ask for the Moon" debuts at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester July 19 through Aug. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWhen Benj Gershman picks up his bass to play with O.A.R. on July 21 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, you can see it as another jam but also as a personal triumph.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Director Chay Yew brings a special down-to-earth feel to Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1949 hit "South Pacific," at the Goodspeed Opera House through Aug. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for July 14-20 include comedian Kevin Hart, the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, the Hartford Latino Fest and Joshua Quimby's Back Home Fest.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
