Tuesday, 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 11:47AMThursday, December 15, 2022
"The Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" returns to the Wadsworth Atheneum for the hip holiday show's first full-length live performances since 2019. Digital video excerpts of the show can also be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
The world premiere musical "Christmas in Connecticut," at the Goodspeed Opera House through Dec. 30, rethinks the classic Barbara Stanwyck movie to make it more relevant for modern times, th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, December 12, 2022
The Long Wharf Theatre has announced a partnership with Southern Connecticut State University through which the theater will stage shows using the university's resources while sharing its ex…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:06AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Cirque du Soleil's dreamlike spectacle "Corteo" fills the XL Center in Hartford on Dec. 15-18 with a series of circus acts and Italian storytelling.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" is back for a second season at Hartford Stage with three new cast members and a different director. It's not as fresh as last year but remains a he…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 10, 2022
TheaterWorks Hartford's "Christmas on the Rocks" is as sweet as a candy cane and as spiky as the Christmas tree it hangs on. The holiday staple, which runs through Dec. 23, has been spreadin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, December 9, 2022
A Stamford resident and two Yale undergrads are among the 27 students chosen for a new “Jeopardy!” tournament happening in February.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:51AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Connecticut Ballet is finally bringing its version of "The Nutcracker," which it has performed around the state for nearly 40 years, to The Bushnell in Hartford for four performances on Satu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Broadway director and Connecticut resident Jack O'Brien is discussing his new book "Jack in the Box: or, How to Goddamn Direct,” a loving guide to the art of directing, at the Waterbury Pa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:02AMMonday, December 5, 2022
"Cirque Dreams Holidaze" returns to the Oakdale Theater on Dec. 9 and 10, but it's a very different show than last year, with new sets, music, choreography, themes and 16 circus acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
"The Brightest Thing in the World" is a tragicomic play by Leah Nanako Winkler about recovery from addiction which uses many different styles and attitudes to tackle this tricky theatrical s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
