Thursday, 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 06:00AMSunday, 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 06:00AM 
