Monday, February 6, 2023
Hartford drag icon Robin Fierce was eliminated from the "RuPaul's Drag Race" competition Friday. She is the second Connecticut-based contestant to have "sashayed away" from the show in the p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:46PMThe Courant talked to "Brooklyn" author Colm Tóibín, who will be at the Mark Twain House and Museum on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m., about his wide-ranging output, what he’s working on now and his l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Connecticut Ballet and Ballet Theatre Company are both offering romantic dance concerts near Valentine's Day.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, February 3, 2023
"Wife/Worker/Whore," a new play getting its East Coast premiere at the community-based Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain, is a multi-part melodramatic meditation on women's struggles a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:01AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Paula Vogel's "Indecent," at Playhouse on Park through Feb. 26, remains an important play about art, politics and religion, enlivened by klezmer music, a melodramatic play-within-a-play and …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:18AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Two graduates of Yale's graduate drama program, Angela Bassett and Brian Tyree Henry, have been nominated for Oscar awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their roles …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:07PMMonday, January 30, 2023
West Hartford drag queen Amethyst was the first of the three Connecticut-based contestants on this season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" to be eliminated from the competition.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:55PMSunday, January 29, 2023
Hillary Bettis' play, "Queen of Basel," at TheaterWorks Hartford on Feb. 3-26 is a modern take on August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," set at the Miami festival Art Basel.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 26, 2023
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" spreads its melodic wordy mirth at Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury through Feb. 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2023
John Guszkowski of Pomfret is scheduled to compete on "Jeopardy!" Thursday night. He's the third Connecticut resident to compete on the show in the past two weeks.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:01PMChristine Quintana's drama about two women concealing some personal dilemmas, "Espejos: Clean," is a bilingual, multi-media visual feast with emotional underpinnings at Hartford Stage throug…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
A new documentary. "Holding Space for Each Other: New London's LGBTQ+ Community," highlights the small riverfront city where the LGBTQ community has had a visible presence for over 60 years.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 21, 2023
The three drag queens from Connecticut competing on "RuPaul's Drag Race" this season spoke to the Courant about the local drag scene, how they ended up on the show and what the future may b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Connecticut is known for sending shows to Broadway and beyond. Many of them eventually return to the state. Four shows at various theaters around the state in the next few weeks had their wo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 19, 2023
The Broadway hit "Six" fits beautifully into the concert hall atmosphere of The Bushnell. The show, a modern look at the six wives of Henry VIII, is in Hartford through Sunday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
The literally underground anything-goes theater space run by graduate students at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale is opening its spring season with “Hot and Cold Showers: An Eveni…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, January 15, 2023
The national tour of the Broadway hit "Six," a brash modern take on the six wives of Henry VIII, is at The Bushnell Jan. 17-22.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, January 9, 2023
Hartford Public Library's Baby Grand Jazz series has been relocated to Center Church. Its first concert was abruptly postponed, but the series continues following the extensive flooding of t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:12PMThe three Connecticut contestants on the 15th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" distinguished themselves in the first two episodes: One for safely and elegantly passing on "safely" to the next …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:03PMSunday, January 8, 2023
"Espejo: Clean," at Hartford Stage Jan. 12 through Feb. 5, is presented in both English and Spanish. The play concerns two women who meet at a resort hotel in Cancun where one of them works.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
For its first show since leaving its longtime home on Sargent Drive in New Haven, the Long Wharf Theatre is presenting a multi-week run of "Live From the Edge" by the company UNIVERSES at th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:26PMConnecticut-based drag performers Amethyst, Loosey LaDuca and Robin Fierce are all contestants on the new season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," premiering Friday at 8 p.m. on MTV.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AMSunday, January 1, 2023
Intriguing arts trends of 2023 include Japanese anime soundtracks performed live by orchestras and rock bands, a spate of classic murder mysteries and major acts like Bruce Springsteen retur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 31, 2022
The Courant's arts picks for the first week of 2023 includes Blue Man Group, Disney on Ice, a live tribute to emo/punk sounds of the '90s at the Webster Theatre and such dynamic local musici…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 28, 2022
Local train museums are having their last excursions of the year, and some won't start up again until spring. Events include a 20th Century Limited-themed excursion and screening of "North b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, December 26, 2022
Lisa Lampanelli brings her full-cast cabaret theater show "Big Fat Failure," full of songs and stories about ignoble experiences, to West Hartford Dec. 30 as a benefit for Playhouse on Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, December 25, 2022
The year in theater brought everything from rampaging "Straight White Men" to a stand-up soliloquoy with a live tabla soundtrack to a clown walking upside down. These are the most memorable …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, December 22, 2022
Rap pioneer Kurtis Blow discusses his decade of hosting "The Hip Hop Nutcracker," which has two shows in Connecticut before year's end: Dec. 30 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven and Dec. 3…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, December 18, 2022
The hit musical "Come From Away," about connections made in a small Newfoundand town when airplanes are diverted there on 9/11, returns to The Bushnell Tuesday through Saturday with much of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMSaturday, December 17, 2022
The Courant's arts picks for Dec. 18-24 include a Fairfield tribute to the historic New York rock club CBGB, a benefit at Seven Angels Theater for the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting and severa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Cirque du Soleil's "Corteo" transforms the XL Center into an extravagant, acrobatic, invigorating art installation through Sunday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:47AM 
