Thursday, April 14, 2022
A new production of at "Next to Normal" at Westport Country Playhouse challenges that clichéd framework with a racially diverse cast including Black and LatinX actors as the central family.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, April 11, 2022
Christopher Betts was named the first Joyce C. Willis Fellow at Hartford Stage and will direct two shows for the theater over the next two seasons. Betts directed the current show at Yale Re…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:12PMHartBeat Ensemble, the Hartford theater dedicated to social justice and anti-racism, is staging "Bee Trapped Inside the Window," a play about modern slavery, this month at its Carriage House…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Choir Boy" gets a new production at the Yale Rep, where McCraney heads the Geffen School of Drama's playwriting program. The play, set in a prestigious African-Ameri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:16PMThursday, April 7, 2022
The top 12 theater shows for a renewed spring arts season include the return of "Hamilton," a local production of "Rent," several sociopolitical dramas and some outrageous comedy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AMBackyard Theater Ensemble is performing Caryl Churchill's cloning conundrum "A Number" at Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain through April 9.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Goodspeed has announced a new musical based on the classic holiday movie, "Christmas in Connecticut." It will play at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam from Nov. 18 through Dec. 30.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:01AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Arte Popular, a new collective of Hartford artisans who have immigrated from Spanish-speaking countries, held its first event Monday at the Park Street Library at the Lyric to promote local …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AMMonday, April 4, 2022
A new statue honoring women's suffrage and titled “The Art of Perseverance” by Canton-based artist Marilyn Parkinson Thrall was unveiled March 29. This strong, unyielding female figur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 1, 2022
The “Punk is Coming” exhibit at MoCA Westport is an amazing explosion of work that concentrates on the early years of punk. The show runs through June 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Courant arts picks for April 3-9 include Diana Krall, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and indie rock exemplars Spoon.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:03PMA prank with higher pretensions, the American Museum of the Free Publication Distribution Box draws attention to derelict newspaper vending boxes on Hartford streets. A project by local come…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 30, 2022
The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival returns March 31 through April 3 with dozens of live musicians, rappers, dancers, graffiti artists, speakers, historians and filmmakers. The festiv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PMThe national tour of "Dear Evan Hansen" provides all the gravitas, angst and lilting melodies that first drew audiences to this downbeat Broadway hit five years ago. The show is at The Bushn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:45PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Mike Miller, who helped boost community spirits in Hartford when he worked with Billing Forge, now lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he's using those same skills to promote the peo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PMMonday, March 28, 2022
Best Actor Oscar winner Troy Kotsur began his acting career in the early 1990s with Connecticut's National Theatre of the Deaf.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:54PMThe Hartt School turned 100 two years ago and is continuing to celebrate the milestone with talks and concerts that reflect current concerns about diversity, inclusion and social awareness.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 25, 2022
Courant arts picks for March 27 through April 2 include the national tours of the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," the Christian pop stare TobyMac and the horror podcast "Last Podcast on the Left…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:41PMThe national tour of the Broadway hit "Dear Evan Hansen" comes to The Bushnell two years after it was originally scheduled, delayed by the COVID shutdown. The musical, which was recently tur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, March 24, 2022
Goodspeed Musicals has been working with consultants on issues of racial equity and inclusion to increase diversity both in the workplace and on the stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Connecticut-born magician TJ Salta, an entrepreneurism major at Quinnipiac University, will be performing his magic act in a new Cirque du Soleil show, "Mad Apple," in Las Vegas starting in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Real Art Ways offers a real service to local artists and arts-lovers, with four gallery spaces, a cinema and special live events including the monthly Creative Cocktail Hour.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAlex Segura will discuss his new novel "Secret Identity" March 29 in a virtual event held by the Mark Twain House and Museum,
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Madison Lyric Stage offers musicals, operas and dramas for small audiences in a tent next to a historic house in Madison. The company's tenth summer season has just been announced.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 19, 2022
Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e" blends family drama and arch Absurdism for the story of two sisters selling their old family homestead via a reality TV show.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:58PMFriday, March 18, 2022
The Courant's arts picks for March 20-26 include Derby native Sammy Rae at Infinity Hall Hartford and a local benefit concert for Ukraine at Congregation Beth Israel.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, March 17, 2022
Remembering William Hurt from his earliest days as an actor, by someone for whom he babysat.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:50AMTuesday, March 15, 2022
The Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals returns to East Haddam's Goodspeed Opera House March 18-20, featuring readings of three musical theater works-in-progress, talks, seminars, cabaret per…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTickets will go on sale March 24 to the general public for the return of "Hamilton" to The Bushnell in June/July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, March 13, 2022
Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e" is a play about sisters dealing with how to leave their family home. The play is at the Long Wharf Theatre March 15 through April 3. The Long Wharf happens to be …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMFriday, March 11, 2022
The "'90s Con" brings stars of shows from "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" to "Party of Five" to Connecticut Convention Center March 11-13.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PM 
