Wednesday, June 23, 2021
A community-based "Godspell" in Shelton gives clues as to what live theater will be like in the next few months.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PMThe racial injustice drama "Kill Move Paradise" is being staged by Playhouse on Park in Hartford's Bushnell Park through June 25, then will stream in July. The show covers some of the same t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:08AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
This year Juneteenth — which commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States in the 1860s — will be especially grand in five Connecticut cities, where giant murals have be…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The “Goodspeed by the River” concert series, which kicked off last week, is the Goodspeed doing what it can do until it can be the Goodspeed again.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 11, 2021
New Haven's Shubert and the Palace Theater in Waterbury have both announced their Broadway seasons, and four tours ("Anastasia," "Waitress," "An American in Paris" and "Beautiful") have land…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PM"South Pacific," long promised as the first musical the Goodspeed Opera House would produce when the theater reemerged following the COVID crisis, has fallen off the schedule entirely now. "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:25PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Hartford Stage's 2021-22 season will feature "Ah, Wilderness!," "Lost in Yonkers," “Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous” and the new play “Dishwasher Dreams" -- but not the season…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMThe Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center continues to expand its operations. This summer it will present concerts by Darius Rucker and the U.S. Coast Guard Band and others, plus new comed…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PMMonday, June 7, 2021
A new 150,000 gallon seal tank, named Pinniped Cove, has opened at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. The grand opening is June 8, World Oceans Day.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Hartford Stage is hosting its inaugural American Voices New Play Festival, showcasing works by Latinx and Hispanic writers, June 23-26.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 4, 2021
Local playwright Cin Martinez has gotten strong support from TheaterWorks Hartford for the workshop production of her new play about friendship, "Moonlighters." The theater has connected Mar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, May 27, 2021
A street in Middletown is a backdrop — substituted for L.A. amid the Rodney King riots — for the Oddfellows Playhouse’s current production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” which t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:32PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
Foxwoods Resort Casino has reopened at full capacity, bringing back its spa, zipline ride, Pequot Museum. The two main performance venues have been renamed, with the Grand Theater becoming t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:37PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Students at Conard High School in West Hartford used a theater project to revisit a controversy that roiled the school just five years ago, when the Conard sports team name and mascot was ch…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PMSunday, May 23, 2021
Hartford has earned the top spot on rent.com's list of "50 Best Cities for Artists in America." Three other Connecticut cities also landed on the list.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:57AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Sea Tea Improv is preparing to roar back to life this summer, holding live improv comedy classes again in June and reopening its Sea Tea Comedy Theater in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:17AMFriday, May 14, 2021
Married actors Ken Robinson and Christina Acosta Robinson met and fell in love at the Yale School of Drama a decade ago, moved back to New Haven a year ago and have done a virtual musical "d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMThursday, May 13, 2021
The Playhouse on Park production of "The Revolutionists" in 2019. The playhouse has planned a busy summer, with a staging of the drama "Kill Move Paradise," about violence against Black men…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:28AMWest Hartford native Sarah Drake, now a resident of London, has put together a virtual charity benefit concert for struggling actors, with help from friends from Broadway and the West End. "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Connecticut theaters are braving the great outdoors this summer, with provocative shows about the environment, gun violence, the L.A. riots and Black identity.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMCenter Stage Theatre in Shelton has announced a full indoor summer season of four musicals and one comedy play, starting June 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05PM"Coming Alive Again," a charming and timely concert of uplifting and anxiety ridden showtunes sung by Christiane, was produced jointly by Goodspeed Musicals and TheaterWorks Hartford. It str…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AMSaturday, May 8, 2021
Canton resident and LEGO enthusiast Palas Patani will appear in the second season of the "LEGO Masters" TV show. In Connecticut, Patani runs education programs where he uses LEGO blocks to t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
The 10th Trinity Film Festival is mostly online again this year, but opened with a night of screenings for a small audience at Cinestudio and will end May 8 with a live awards ceremony that …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has extended Carolyn Kuan's contract through May of 2024. She has been the symphony's music director since 2011.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:16PMMonday, May 3, 2021
The Warner Theatre in Torrington canceled a production of the drama "I Am Not My Own Wife" due to complaints that the actor in the one-person drama was not transgender.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:41PMThursday, April 29, 2021
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a mix of live and virtual this year. Concerts on the Green (including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ladama, a Fantasia drag imperson…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:01PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Geoffrey Owens, a well-known actor whose work experiences off the stage started a national dialogue about the value of steady employment, was in Connecticut this month paying tribute to work…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:36AMSunday, April 25, 2021
A major new small professional theater in the state, the Legacy Theatre in Branford, opened Friday. The theater building is the former Stony Creek Puppet House, a landmark used in the past b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:47PMFriday, April 23, 2021
The applicant process for grants to help shuttered arts venues crashed on its first day of use, two weeks ago. The application portal for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program will reo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:56PMNew Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has announced the "Ideas" slate for its 2021 festival. All the Ideas events are virtual this year. The performance events, some of whic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:37AM 
