Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Savian Stanescu's "Bee Trapped Inside the Window" is a carefully distanced and emotional tale of isolation, racism, classism and social injustice at HartBeat Ensemble through Sunday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Playhouse on Park's 2022-23 season will feature works by August Wilson, Paula Vogel and a new variation on "A Christmas Carol."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:07PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
The Courant chats with New Haven native and longtime Westport resident Michael Bolton, who is representing Connecticut on TV's "American Song Contest." He'll perform in the semifinals on May…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 28, 2022
"Pretty Woman: The Musical," at The Bushnell through May 1, stays true to its movie source material and adds some theatrical flash and creativity.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:18PM"Hallowed Ground: A 17th Century Immersive Drama" lets audiences interact with witches and colonial townsfolk in the historic Buttolph-Williams House in Wethersfield April 29 through May 7.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:53PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
The Meriden Daffodil Festival returns after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Among the attractions: dozens of live music acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30PMA photography exhibit, "The Future is Latinx," is at Park Street Library @ the Lyric through May 31. Work by two photographers is on view, Adrian Martinez Chavez and Rafael Concepcion.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 22, 2022
"Zoey's Perfect Wedding," a "disastrously fun" comedy by Matthew Lopez, is at TheaterWorks Hartford April 30 through June 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 21, 2022
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced its 2022-23 season of four plays: Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” Leah Nanako Winkler’s “The Brightest Thing in the Worl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:29PMHartford Stage has announced its 2022-23 season of six plays: "The Mousetrap," "Trouble in Mind," new plays by Kate Snodgrass and Christine Quintana, Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:49PMThe national tour of the musical version of "Pretty Woman," starring Olivia Valli and Adam Pascal, is at The Bushnell April 26 through May 1.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
Vermont's Bread and Puppet Theater will bring its adaptation of Aeschylus' "The Persians" to UConn for two performances on Saturday and Sunday. The anti-war drama will be preceded by street …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:24PMNeil Simon's 1991 Pulitzer winner "Lost in Yonkers" is having a lackluster revival at Hartford Stage through May 1, starring and co-directed by the playwright's former wife and collaborator …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Ballet Theatre Company will perform "Aladdin," with a score by Carl Davis and contributions from local Indian and Chinese choreographers, April 23 and 24 at The Bushnell. The project was con…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 15, 2022
DiasphoraCon, April 23 at Quinnipiac University's North Haven campus, is a celebration of comic books and graphic novels created by Black writers and artists.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:48PMThursday, April 14, 2022
The Bushnell announced its 2022-23 Broadway series of seven shows on Thursday. The shows include fan favorites and Tony winners such as "Six," "Disney's Aladdin," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:31PMA new production of at "Next to Normal" at Westport Country Playhouse challenges that clichéd framework with a racially diverse cast including Black and LatinX actors as the central family.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, April 11, 2022
Christopher Betts was named the first Joyce C. Willis Fellow at Hartford Stage and will direct two shows for the theater over the next two seasons. Betts directed the current show at Yale Re…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:12PMHartBeat Ensemble, the Hartford theater dedicated to social justice and anti-racism, is staging "Bee Trapped Inside the Window," a play about modern slavery, this month at its Carriage House…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Choir Boy" gets a new production at the Yale Rep, where McCraney heads the Geffen School of Drama's playwriting program. The play, set in a prestigious African-Ameri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:16PMThursday, April 7, 2022
The top 12 theater shows for a renewed spring arts season include the return of "Hamilton," a local production of "Rent," several sociopolitical dramas and some outrageous comedy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AMBackyard Theater Ensemble is performing Caryl Churchill's cloning conundrum "A Number" at Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain through April 9.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Goodspeed has announced a new musical based on the classic holiday movie, "Christmas in Connecticut." It will play at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam from Nov. 18 through Dec. 30.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:01AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Arte Popular, a new collective of Hartford artisans who have immigrated from Spanish-speaking countries, held its first event Monday at the Park Street Library at the Lyric to promote local …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AMMonday, April 4, 2022
A new statue honoring women's suffrage and titled “The Art of Perseverance” by Canton-based artist Marilyn Parkinson Thrall was unveiled March 29. This strong, unyielding female figur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 1, 2022
The “Punk is Coming” exhibit at MoCA Westport is an amazing explosion of work that concentrates on the early years of punk. The show runs through June 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Courant arts picks for April 3-9 include Diana Krall, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and indie rock exemplars Spoon.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:03PMA prank with higher pretensions, the American Museum of the Free Publication Distribution Box draws attention to derelict newspaper vending boxes on Hartford streets. A project by local come…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, March 30, 2022
The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival returns March 31 through April 3 with dozens of live musicians, rappers, dancers, graffiti artists, speakers, historians and filmmakers. The festiv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PMThe national tour of "Dear Evan Hansen" provides all the gravitas, angst and lilting melodies that first drew audiences to this downbeat Broadway hit five years ago. The show is at The Bushn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:45PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Mike Miller, who helped boost community spirits in Hartford when he worked with Billing Forge, now lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he's using those same skills to promote the peo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PM 
