Friday, September 13, 2024
The Mark Twain House & Museum is holding a day-long celebration for the historic building's 150th anniversary on Saturday with music, readings and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Several key shows in James Earl Jones' career, including one that became his Broadway debut, happened in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:04AMMonday, September 9, 2024
Billy Joel will return to Mohegan Sun Arena on Feb. 22, 2025 with presale tickets going on sale Tuesday and tickets for the general public on Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PMSunday, September 8, 2024
There are three key music stages at The Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts this year, with bands ranging from local Connecticut acts to legends like Chubby Checker, Public Enemy and Ludacri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe upcoming theater season is full of scares from "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" to "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors" to "Hocus Pocus Live!" and many versions of the ghostly "A Christmas Carol."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 7, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 8-14 include concert acts Kehlani, Pleasure P and Dashboard Confessional, as well as comedians Jon Stewart and Wanda Sykes.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Maggie," co-written by musician Johnny Reid and premiering at the Goodspeed, tells empowering tale of a family who fights through uncertainly and loss.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 6, 2024
Macaulay Culkin is set to attend a screening of his biggest hit film, "Home Alone," at the Oakdale Theatre on Dec. 14 and engage in a Q&A session with the audience.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:47PMJack White is playing at Toad’s Place in New Haven on Sept. 10, with tickets going on sale Friday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:33AMSeven Angels Theatre in Waterbury announced its four-show 2024-25 season, after which artistic director Semina De Laurentis said she plans to retire after 35 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:33AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
The live touring show of "The Price is Right" will bring its games to Bridgeport's Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater and New London's Garde Arts Center.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AMMonday, September 2, 2024
The adventurous, community-based, volunteer-run Dionysus Theatre Company has found a new location in the Enfield Square Mall and will hold its first show in October.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, September 1, 2024
Big-name comics from Donnell Rawlings to Wanda Sykes to Chelsea Handler to Jon Stewart and more are playing Connecticut in September.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe 2024 Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo kicks off the fall festivals on Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at New Haven's Edgerton Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 31, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 1-7 include folk festivals, hardcore punk pioneers, country crooners and legendary rockers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2024
Kit Ingui, who has been at the Long Wharf in various managing director positions since 2017, helped shape the image of the New Haven-based theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 25, 2024
The Connecticut Renaissance Faire has been around for a quarter of a century and is still growing. This year's festival now runs eight weekends from Aug. 31 through Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMElm Shakespeare Company brings depth and clarity to a timely "Richard III," a play about abrupt transfers of power, lies, family issues and the power of personality.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 26-31 include festivals, comedy, local death metal acts, outlaw country crooners, rappers and rockers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
A Connecticut couple are scheduled to appear on "The Wall" on Aug. 26, as they answer trivia questions and make wagers for the chance to win thousands.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Beloved by fans of Southern rock, female rock vocalists and jam bands, the Tedeschi Trucks Band has entertained many different Connecticut audiences at many venues for decades.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Conor Galvin, who studied physical therapy at Sacred Heart University and lives in West Haven, is the latest Connecticut athlete to make the finals for this season of "American Ninja Warrior…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Canadian singer/songwriter Johnny Reid has co-written "Maggie," a musical based on his Scottish grandmother making its U.S. debut Aug. 23 through Oct. 20 at the Goodspeed Opera House.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTom Cridland, a British fashion entrepreneur, learned piano as a way to stop drinking and has turned his love for Elton John into a tribute act, which performs Aug. 21 at Simsbury Meadows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 17, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 18-24 features legendary rock, blues and hip-hop double bills, rapper Childish Gambino and pop-punk artist Avril Lavigne.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 11, 2024
Legendary rockabilly band Stray Cats ends its current reunion tour in Bridgeport at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater on Aug. 17.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDozens of major comic book talents, movie and TV stars, and even some wrestlers, are the special guests at this year's TerrifiCon at Mohegan Sun Expo Center Aug. 16-18.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 11-17 include Canadian pop stars and a rapper, Keanu Reeves and Dogstar and comedians Fred Armisen, Zarna Garg and Shane Gillis.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, August 9, 2024
“Ask for the Moon," a new musical farce at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre, is making the theater world safe again for jokes about Nazi-styled villains, dirty old men and mangled …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
The Chameleons are coming to the Space Ballroom on Friday with a live rendition of its 1986 "Strange Times" album. The British post-punk band has also been working on new recordings.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, August 4, 2024
There’s a nice range of Country and loud rock music this week on Connecticut stages. Dierks Bentley is at Mohegan Sun, Roseanne Cash is at Ridgefield Playhouse and there’s a strong Ameri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
