Saturday, April 20, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for April 21-27 include "The Far Country" at Yale Rep, comedy from Randy Rainbow and music from Mexican pop superstars Los Tigres del Norte.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 19, 2024
The Long Wharf Theatre has announced its lineup for the 2024-25 season, which includes three shows, each performed at a different location in New Haven or Hamden.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band featuring members of Toto, Average White Band, Edgar Winter Group and Men at Work will play at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sept. 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:34PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Movie star and comedian Kevin Hart will play Mohegan Sun Arena on July 19. It will be his fourth visit, and fourth venue, in Connecticut since May of last year.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:07AMClaire Kretzschmar is joining Ballet Hartford as its new artist director after more than a decade as a dancer with the New York City Ballet.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, April 14, 2024
West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company has adapted their video production of "Snow White" from the early COVID era into a new stage production coming to The Bushnell.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Bazzar," Cirque du Soleil's latest big top show in Hartford, features a comical ringmaster, a beat-crazy band and over a dozen astounding circus acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Boston-based supper club Nia by Grace is opening a second location at Foxwoods in May with live music at the forefront.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 13, 2024
Of the 188 people chosen to be Guggenheim Fellows in 2024, quite a few have ties to Connecticut. The awards are considered among the most prestigious honors given to leading figures in arts,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThis week's Courant arts picks include Bad Bunny at the XL Center, a two-night ska festival at the Space Ballroom, Beausoleil at The Kate and "Garden of Literacy" at the Stowe Center.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, April 12, 2024
TheaterWorks' over-the-top production of "Sanctuary City" upends the sensitivity of Martyna Majok's drama of immigration struggles in the early 21st century.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:11PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Roger Daltrey of The Who will perform a solo concert at Mohegan Sun Arena on June 23, the first time he or the band have performed there since 2017.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:02PMSunday, April 7, 2024
Michael Gaston gets his dream role of Joe Keller, Marsha Mason plays his wife and Ben Katz his son in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at Hartford Stage beginning April 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe new exhibit "Styling Identities: Hair's Tangled Histories" explores the art and meaning of hair at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through Aug. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 6, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for April 7-13 include the Hartford and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, a male-cast "Golden Girls" and music acts from Bruce Springsteen to Cro-Mags.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
The Hartford Improv Festival returns after a five-year hiatus with 19 shows involving nearly 50 comedy troupes, a dozen workshops and a handful of parties.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:04AMComedian and actor Pete Davidson will play College Street Music Hall on June 23, his fourth visit to Connecticut in just over a year.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Rupert Holmes is a mystery. He also writes them. The Tony winner's 1985 Broadway hit “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is having a new production at the Goodspeed Opera House.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMCirque du Soleil's new tent show "Bazzar" sets up on Market Street in Hartford, while "Corteo" returns to Connecticut for four days at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 30, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for March 31 through April 6 include the national tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and two huge back-to-back concerts at the XL Center with Nicki Minaj and AJR.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 29, 2024
The Long Wharf Theatre has received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its efforts as a newly itinerant theater company dedicated building new audiences.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:22AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Hartford Stage is bringing another finely balanced program of new works, American classics, comedy and drama for its upcoming 2024-25 season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:01PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Tlaloc Rivas successfully adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play for UConn's Connecticut Repertory Theatre by reframing the moral argument about medical ethics and making it entertaining.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:38AMThe Amistad Center for Art & Culture found its new executive director in Sarah Anita Clunis, who is shifting from academic institutions to the cultural hub at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Mötley Crüe will play Mohegan Sun Arena on Aug. 31. It's the '80s metal band's first show in the state since its "Final Tour" of 2015, though the band regrouped several years ago and did m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:11PMMonday, March 25, 2024
The Bushnell's 2024-25 Broadway series includes "MJ," "Back to the Future," "Peter Pan," "Some Like It Hot," "The Wiz," "A Beautiful Noise" and "The Lion King.”
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:58PMSunday, March 24, 2024
The spring brings hundreds of concerts to Connecticut music venues from legendary punk bands such as the Descendents to top acts like Bruce Springsteen, Bad Bunny and Nicki Minaj.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Sanctuary City" is being staged by TheaterWorks Hartford March 28 through April 25. The theater is amplifying the play's immigration themes with special discussions and an art exhibit.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 23, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for March 24-30 include comedians Jo Koy and Fortune Feimster, blues guitarist Robert Cray, country stars and a high-powered tribute to the Allman Brothers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 22, 2024
The Shubert's 2024-25 Broadway series will features “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Clue,” “Mean Girls" and “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life & Times of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:33AMMonday, March 18, 2024
Nick Carter is returning to Connecticut for two solo shows on Nov. 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Mohegan Sun’s intimate 400-seat Cabaret Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:57PM 
