Sunday, March 19, 2023
Spring is a time of newness, of rebirth, of brightness and joy, and Connecticut’s theaters are happy to accommodate this season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2023
March 12 marks the return of Bruce Springsteen to Connecticut, but that’s not the only legendary music act visiting the state this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play Connecticut for the first time in six years at Mohegan Sun Arena on March 12.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:07AMSunday, March 5, 2023
Broadway musical "Hadestown" plays The Bushnell March 7-12. Director Rachel Chavkin explains how the show came to be and how it stays fresh.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, February 27, 2023
A thematic stamp collection highlighting the “postal history” of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries is heading to auction in March after winning several major awards. A result of ye…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMA prize-winning stamp collection focused on the history of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries will be disassembled and sold in an auction next month. The collector, Anthony Dewey, has b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThree "Jeopardy!" High School Reunion Tournament contestants with ties to Connecticut talk about how seeing and playing against each other again was more important than winning or losing.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Jeopardy!,” the long-running TV quiz show, is in the midst of a brand-new High School Reunion Tournament. For the three Connecticut-based contestants in the competition, the operative w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 26, 2023
Kate Snodgrass' new play about modern society, "The Art of Burning," comes to Hartford Stage March 2-26 after a run earlier this year at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. It's directed by Ha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe new play “The Art of Burning” has a plot and a lot of action, but according to its playwright Kate Snodgrass, it grew out of a general feeling of distress about the world today rathe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, February 24, 2023
TheaterWorks Hartford is sharing an Obie Award for its 2020 premiere of Sarah Gancher's virtual play "Russian Troll Farm," which it co-produced with the Arkansas company TheatreSquared and t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMTheaterWorks Hartford‘s politically charged 2020 virtual theater production “Russian Troll Farm” has won an Obie Award, one of the highest American theater honors. The dark comedy by S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMThursday, February 23, 2023
The second annual 90s Con at the Hartford Convention Center March 17-19 is reuniting castmates from "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Clueless," "Full House," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "Hocus Pocu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:19PMThe 90s Con nostalgia fest is zipping back to the Hartford Convention Center in March with a hot number: 90210. It was announced on Monday that the convention — which celebrates TV shows, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:19PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The national tour of the musical "Tootsie," at The Bushnell through Feb. 26, has great comic timing and great theatrical style. Making some big changes to the 1982 movie it's based on, the s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PMSome Broadway musicals based on classic Hollywood movies try to recapture the original’s style as closely as humanly possible, the biggest changes being that the shows are live and the act…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, traveled to Turkey in September to perform “The Demons of Society” with the world-re…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:31PMThe director of the puppetry institute at UConn, John Bell, will talk about his experiences performing a political pageant in Turkey last fall at the first in this year's series of puppetry …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:46AMMonday, February 20, 2023
You don’t have to wait until April Fool’s Day to find comedy in Connecticut. The next six weeks will feature legendary comedians such as Robert Klein, as well as up-and-coming funny peop…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMYou don’t have to wait until April Fool’s Day to find comedy in Connecticut. The next six weeks or so brings some legendary comedians to clubs and theaters around the state, as well as i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMSunday, February 19, 2023
The Broadway musical based on the 1982 movie comedy "Tootsie" will be at The Bushnell Feb. 21-26. Some of the scenes have changed, but the overall theme of gender disparity in the workplace …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Tootsie” is all about change. A struggling male actor named Michael Dorsey changes himself into a female performer named Dorothy Michaels to make a point at an audition, then finds hims…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, February 16, 2023
Jonathan Majors, the hot new villain in the highly anticipated “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," kick-started his career as an acting student at Yale.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:57PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Two Yale students and a Stamford resident are competing in the first "Jeopardy!" High School Reuinion Tournament, airing Feb. 20 through March 9.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:58PMHilary Bettis' "Queen of Basel," at TheaterWorks Hartford through Feb. 26, takes some cues from August Strindberg's classic anti-romance "Miss Julie" and fashions a modern drama about class …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 12, 2023
Real Art Ways is holding a night of Surrealist Games on Valentine's Day. The event is hosted by the celebrated musician and Surrealist art enthusiast Roger C. Miller.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Ventriloquist and comedian Jeff Dunham brings his gaggle dummies to the XL Center on Saturday for his "Still Not Canceled" tour.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2023
Award-winning actress and Waterbury native Sheryl Lee Ralph, of TV's "Abbott Elementary" and the original Broadway "Dreamgirls," win perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the pregame ceremo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:38PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
The Connecticut-made summer camp horror film "She Came From the Woods" will be released on hundreds of screens nationwide on Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, 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 06:00AM 
