Thursday, February 6, 2025
A new tour of the 1954 musical "Peter Pan" has a modern sensibility, a stronger ensemble feel and grander spectacle but retains the show's classic feel.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
The intriguing new production of August Wilson's "Two Trains Running," at Hartford Stage through Feb., 16, offers a more optimistic and community-oriented feel.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:04AMMonday, February 3, 2025
Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival will be at Hartford's Xfinity Theatre in September with Willie Nelson & Friends, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee and Madeline Edwards.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:52PMConnecticut theaters are presenting works by or about Black writers including August Wilson, Steve Carter and James Baldwin during Black History Month.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 2, 2025
The new version of the 70-year-old musical "Peter Pan," at The Bushnell Feb. 4-9, is set in modern times with care taken to discourage outdated stereotypes.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Paper, Color, Line" is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a thousand European works that span more than 500 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, February 1, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 2-8 includes an immigration-themed concert, country crooners and a side of comic relief.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 30, 2025
The Podium Players are producing a staged reading of "Amy's House," about a woman who poisoned dozens of residents at her nursing home between 1907 and 1916.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Jacques Cartier, who made the dream of bringing a professional theater company to Hartford come true in 1963, died recently at 94.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, January 27, 2025
"Eden," Steve Carter's melodrama about clashes between two Black families in 1927 New York, gets a deluxe revival at Yale Repertory Theatre through Feb. 8.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:19AMSunday, January 26, 2025
Rajiv Joseph's "King James," about a couple of Cleveland fans of LeBron James, is at TheaterWorks Hartford Jan. 30 through March 2.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWest Hartford's stop/time troupe is celebrating its 22-year history with its final show, "OUR SHOW: The stop/time Story," Jan. 29 through Feb. 9 at Playhouse on Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 25, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 26 through Feb. 2 include an additional spate of tribute bands and a range of original acts such as Ollabelle, American Football and Drive-By Truckers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, January 24, 2025
Judging from the first play in Pa’lante's new space in Waterbury, it is clear that the Afro-Latine company is a magnet for local theater talent.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Hartford Film Showcase at Real Art Ways on Feb. 1 will screen eight shorts and three features, all made in Hartford and released in the last year or so.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 23, 2025
The 2025 Oscar nominations included several actors who attended Yale, including Edward Norton and Jeremy Strong, as well as those who appeared in stage shows in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AMSunday, January 19, 2025
The Hartford Stage production, part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, is directed by Gilbert McCauley and will run Jan. 23 through Feb. 16.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe current national tour of "Annie," a musical which had its world premiere in Connecticut nearly 50 years ago, is coming to the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford Jan. 25 and 26.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 18, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 19-25 includes comedians Ms. Pat, Orlando Baxter and Ali Siddiq and a range of music acts from the Isley Brothers to G. Love & Special Sauce.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, January 16, 2025
Actor Ryan Reynolds and his frequent filmmaking partner director/writer/producer Shawn Levy will speak at Yale on Feb. 26 in an event open to the public.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:57PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
The nomination process is now open to find Connecticut's 19th State Troubadour and ninth State Poet Laureate.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:36AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
The 2025 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals offers musicals-in-progress, cabaret performances, panel discussions and more at Terris Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, January 13, 2025
The extraordinary blues singer Shemekia Copeland and her powerful band are at Infinity Music Hall in Hartford on Jan. 17.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMThe second annual Afro Latino Film Festival, organized by the Pa'lante Theatre, offers around 40 films, most of them shorts, spread over five nights.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMSunday, January 12, 2025
Autumn used to be the main thrust of the Connecticut theater season, but winter is now the core of it. Here's what to watch for.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAn installation by Alan Ruiz at the MATRIX gallery recalls a memorable time in the museum's history when there was a considerable debate over a renovation.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 11, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 12-18 include a concert by three legendary guitarists, Billy Joel's backup band and a night of music, art and spoken word in Bristol.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, January 10, 2025
Square One Theatre Company, a community-based theater in Stratford, will be ending its 35-year run.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, January 5, 2025
This year, Opus' Blizzard Bash metal festival has extended into a multi-state tour featuring Dead by Wednesday and California metal band Skinlab.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA.J. Croce celebrates the work of his father, folk and rock singer-songwriter Jim Croce, with a "Jim Croce's Birthday Bash" show Jan. 12 at the Warner Theatre in Torrington.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 4, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 5-11 include a whole lot of tribute bands, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" tour at Mohegan Sun and a garage punk show at Cafe Nine.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
