Thursday, July 19, 2018
Kids scramble up ladders and across bridges. Muttering, mutton-chopped authority figures wave their staffs (or even their spoons) menacingly. There are drinking songs and horseplay and expre…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:45PMPilobolus sees things differently than others do. When the internationally renowned dance/movement troupe decided to start an arts festival in its Connecticut hometown of Washington, it wasn…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:25PMMonday, July 16, 2018
Jesus Christ is super stressed out, man. Connecticut Repertory Theatre has restored Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s raucous religious rock opera to its 1970s origins, with a chorus of h…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:00PM‘I had the most wonderful mother.” Now there’s a statement you rarely hear in the American theater. It’s how Mona Golabek opens “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” which she has bro…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:15PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Four “Saturday Night Live” veterans, including one of the show’s longest-serving members, are at Mohegan Sun Arena at 8 p.m. July 28. Jon Lovitz, active on “SNL” from 1985-90, was …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Eight extra performances have been added to the run of the new musical “Cyrano” at Godspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre in Chester. The show, which opens Aug. 3 and was originally s…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:50AMThursday, July 12, 2018
‘Hand to God” is a harrowing, hilarious, hand-wringing comedy with tragic elements about a young man whose life is changed — and endangered — by an unhinged, demonically possessed ha…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:55AM‘The Lion King” still rules. The circle of life brings Julie Taymor’s acclaimed stage version of the 1994 animated Disney feature back to The Bushnell for a two-and-a-half-week engagem…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:25AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Theaters know something about second acts. The Palace Theater in Waterbury is giving the stage to Connecticut residents who have created second acts in their own lives. The inaugural Second …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:05PMFolks used to mock ventriloquists mercilessly as outdated, unfunny relics of comedy as it was a century ago. Then came Jeff Dunham. He’s made the ancient art of voice-throwing contemporary…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:35PMYes, Shakespeare has lurked in more than a few castles and dungeons. But most of the bard’s plays celebrate the outdoors — and in the summertime, that’s where you’re most likely to f…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
From demon barber to son of God. Fresh from his triumph in the title role of “Sweeney Todd” for Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s Nutmeg Summer Series, Terrence Mann now disappears backs…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:00AMNew England natives dominate the comedy clubs this week. Emma Willmann, who’s from Maine, has become a New York fixture, performing at clubs throughout the city and making her late-night T…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:50AMMonday, July 2, 2018
The Kids Company at Goodspeed Musicals may be new, but the youngsters already — as a particular set of lyrics from “Oliver!” goes — “consider themselves one of the family.” The n…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:35PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
In Connecticut, Mona Golabek has become a familiar face thanks to her one-woman show “The Pianist of Willesden Lane.” But that face really belongs to her mother. Golabek dons a red wig t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:25PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
The Ivoryton Playhouse, in a bucolic village of Essex, has cornered the market on musicalized urban teen angst. In recent summers, the theater has staged “Rent,” “West Side Story” an…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMStars of two groundbreaking TV comedy shows are in Connecticut this week — on the same night, at competing casino theaters. It’s been 20 years since the “Seinfeld” sitcom ended its n…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Within a few notes of the orchestra starting up, and a deep-voiced chorus member exhorting me to “attend the tale of Sweeney Todd,” I knew I was safe. Which is a funny word to use regard…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:25PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
‘Please sir, I want some more.” That’s the phrase that sets “Oliver Twist” in motion. It proclaims the title character’s innocence, his politeness, his meekness, his forthrightne…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMGary “G-Thang Johnson” has an intriguing name, an intriguing film resume (“Moneyball” and “Disaster Movie”), and last year he starred in the TV series “Grown Folks.” He does …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, June 18, 2018
Mark Morris laughs when asked if he enjoys coming to the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven because it’s not so close to the Brooklyn headquarters of his internationally r…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
‘You saw me onstage at the Tonys, didn’t you?” Thomas Perakos says gleefully during a phone interview between late-night airplane flights Wednesday. Last weekend was a whirlwind for Pe…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:15AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Internationally renowned post-modern theater artist Karin Coonrod says she knows “there’s no ghetto in this play. It’s something people rush to tell me, that I know already.” Yet Coo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:05AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
An internal review by New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre of its sexual harassment policies has found no fault with management or the board of directors over alleged misconduct by its former ar…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:35PM“My fans,” Gloria Estefan shares during a phone interview, “know me like Emilio knows me. For decades, they’ve been listening to my innermost being.” Apparently, fans think the bio…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:15AM‘I really cut my teeth as a director” at TheaterWorks, says Rob Ruggiero, where in the past quarter-century he’s directed more than 60 shows. Ruggiero — who also directs regularly at…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:40AMMonday, June 11, 2018
You can find four famous comedians spread out over three separate shows, in three different performance spaces at two Connecticut casino complexes, on the same hilarious Saturday night — J…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:50PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
He squints his eyes. He knows no boundaries. In other media, he has portrayed a parrot (in Disney’s “Aladdin”) and a duck (in old insurance company ads). He co-hosts his own “Amazing…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:36AMOn Broadway, Terrence Mann is best known for being feline, French and furry. He was Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats,” Javert in “Les Miserables” and the Beast in “Beauty and the Beast.” …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:05AMMonday, June 4, 2018
The 2018 International Festival of Arts & Ideas kicks off in and around downtown New Haven June 9 and continues through June 23. The festival has a pronounced theme this year: immigration. T…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:30PMSaturday, June 2, 2018
Until his “Hamilton” changed all the rules of what a hit musical could be, Lin-Manuel Miranda had a notable hit with “In the Heights.” The show ran on Broadway for three years, winni…
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