Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Five of the seven shows in the Ivoryton Playhouse’s 2019 season will be musicals — including an unnamed new project from “Woody Sez” creator David Lutken, about a yet-to-be-divulged …
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New musicals about addiction, marriage and a lethal gambling club get single readings at the 14th annual Festival of New Musicals, hosted Jan. 18 to 20 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Hadda…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:30AMFriday, December 7, 2018
To mark six successful seasons of its unique holiday show “Christmas on the Rocks,” TheaterWorks is hosting a “Chaos, Curls & Cocktails” party Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. Hartford-based playwr…
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Theater producer Neil Goldberg could easily be mistaken for Santa Claus. A producer and director of modern circus entertainments, he delivers magic and wonderment around the country. This mo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Hartford Public Library has announced the 15 jazz acts playing in its free, Sunday-afternoon 2019 Baby Grand Jazz Series, which opens Jan. 6 with a special Three Kings Day concert featuring …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:55PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Ah, the sights and smells of “A Christmas Carol.” The snow is still falling on the audience. You can still smell the smoke when the Spirit of Christmas Present makes her grand misty entr…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMIt’s a Christmas miracle that “Christmas on the Rocks” has now entered its sixth season at TheaterWorks. We need its sweet insanity more than ever. The show, conceived and directed by …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, November 29, 2018
How does a fast-talking, awesome Broadway show — a hip-hop history of the American revolution — still going gangbusters, known around the world, immortal and beloved, find itself in Hart…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AM‘Hamilton” isn’t the only revolution coming to The Bushnell. The show’s popularity has added a virtual army of thousands of new subscribers to the theater's Broadway series. Beth Hyl…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Paula Vogel had her first Broadway production just a couple of years ago, with “Indecent,” a play-with-music concerning a famous theater censorship trial. But Vogel’s been a major pres…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, November 15, 2018
Hallelujah! A new ballet company is bringing a new Christmas dance tradition to town — Handel’s “Messiah.” Vivid Ballet, founded in 2016, changed its name recently to Ballet Hartford…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:20AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
There are some new gifts, as well as a sleigh-full of familiar Christmas comforts, in the Christmas shows returning to Connecticut theaters this holiday season. TheaterWorks' 'Christmas on t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre has selected Jacob G. Padrón, a major force in new play development, especially among minority writers, as its new artistic director. He begins his new job …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:55AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
An established comedy icon who came up on the old sitcom/“Tonight Show” route, and a member of the next generation, whose career took a similar trajectory during changing times, both hit…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMDominique Morisseau is one of the most produced playwrights in the country right now. TheaterWorks did Morisseau’s “Sunset Baby” last year. The hot Morisseau scripts this season are th…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMThursday, November 1, 2018
He’s done it all. He’s changed the face of world theater. And he’s still at it. Peter Brook’s latest work, “The Prisoner,” which he co-wrote and co-directed with his main collabo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:10AMCamille A. Brown and Dancers were already a known quantity in Connecticut — having performed at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Wesleyan University and elsewhere — when troup…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBartlett Sher is known for finding strong thematic connections between the stories from classic Broadway musicals and the world as it is today. He does this subtly, without hitting audiences…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Hartford-based Sonia Plumb Dance Company has a multimedia, multi-styled, military-themed event planned for 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford. More Veterans Day event…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAs a gypsy, Carmen really gets around. Connecticut Lyric Opera is the most mobile opera company in the state, bringing each of its shows to a variety of locations. Its production of Bizet’…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Lady Bunny founded the fabulous Wigstock Festival, a hallowed LGBTQ gathering that marked the end of summer in New York City from the mid-’80s the early ‘00s. Wigstock was magically revi…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Upward Hartford is proud of its recent renovations. It has more space now. So it’s hosting an avalanche. On Nov. 8, an ensemble of musicians from Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform M…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe magic of holograms brings opera singer Maria Callas to life for “Callas in Concert” Nov. 8 at Jorgensen Auditorium, 2132 Hillside Road on the UConn campus in Storrs. Callas was one o…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Michael Stotts, who has been the managing director of Hartford Stage since 2006, is leaving the theater at the end of January for a similar post at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, the t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Howie Mandel has been bringing his stand-up show to Connecticut since the late 1970s. During those decades he also became a ubiquitous presence on TV — first as a voice on the “Muppet Ba…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:35PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Eight young dancers form two lines. The only male dancer breaks from the pack and moves to center stage, where he’s joined by two more dancers, then others. They leap. They strut. They gli…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWhen he was 3 months old, Alex Alpharaoh was taken on a life-changing journey from Guatemala to the United States. Thirty-six years later, he’s travelling around the country to share his s…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Matthew Greene’s “Thousand Pines” is a new drama with a gun control theme. Westport Country Playhouse held a workshop of it last year, then decided to do a full production as part of i…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTracy Thorne’s contemporary drama “Good Children” is set in a “a society where the secrets of the past are closely guarded,” and a young man named Val learns some of those secrets …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
The V in "Henry V” at Hartford Stage could stand for "versatility.” In scanning the cast list for this new production of Shakespeare’s historical drama “Henry V,” what stands out i…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:15AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Alex Alpharaoh’s one-man show “Wet: A DACAmented Journey” chronicles his own adventures as an undocumented American. He was brought to the U.S. when he was just two months old and grew…
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