Friday, April 7, 2023
Hartford Stage has received $100,000 from the federal government to support its summer arts education programs. While the funding won’t alter the existing programs, it will be helping regr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:08AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
Great musicians are feted on theater stages this week. Westport Playhouse offers a new look at the revue of “Fats” Waller songs “Ain’t Misbehavin.’” Local jazz musicians play son…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:02PMSunday, April 2, 2023
Hundreds of works by prisoners in the Connecticut correctional system are on view at the Eastern Connecticut State University art gallery in Willimantic.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's latest Masterworks concerts brings a fresh springtime feel to Bologne's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Saint-Saëns' Violin Concert No. 3 in B Minor and Mozart's ra…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:27AMThe Courant's arts picks for April 2-8 include major acts like Lewis Capaldi and Kenny Chesney as well as comedy shows at the Funny Bone and Playhouse on Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 31, 2023
Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman's violent political drama "Death and the Maiden" gets a compelling, thought-provoking production at Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:34AMThursday, March 30, 2023
"Pride and Prejudice," Simona's Search," "The Hot Wing King," "All My Sons," "2.5 Minute Ride" and the return of "A Christmas Carol" are all part of the 2023-24 Hartford Stage season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:55PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Bushnell's 2023-24 Broadway series will start in October with "Miss Doubtfire," followed by "Moulin Rouge," "Frozen," "The Cher Show," "Wicked," "Beetlejuice" and "Funny Girl."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:29PMMonday, March 27, 2023
Ansonia native Loosey LaDuca lost the lip-synch showdown on the 13th episode of the 15th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," the last of the three Connecticut-based contestants to leave the show.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:39PMSaturday, March 25, 2023
Hartt School saxophone professor Carrie Koffman has embarked on a years-long performance art project performing on mountain tops.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFrom singer/songwriters to an authorized "Bat Out of Hell" tribute and a legendary comedy tour, entertainment comes in many sizes this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, March 24, 2023
A new survey from CT Humanities and the Connecticut Office of the Arts shows overwhelming support for art and culture activities and the state's funding for them.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, March 19, 2023
Spring is a time of newness, of rebirth, of brightness and joy, and Connecticut’s theaters are happy to accommodate this season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, March 11, 2023
March 12 marks the return of Bruce Springsteen to Connecticut, but that’s not the only legendary music act visiting the state this week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play Connecticut for the first time in six years at Mohegan Sun Arena on March 12.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:07AMSunday, March 5, 2023
Broadway musical "Hadestown" plays The Bushnell March 7-12. Director Rachel Chavkin explains how the show came to be and how it stays fresh.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, February 27, 2023
A thematic stamp collection highlighting the “postal history” of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries is heading to auction in March after winning several major awards. A result of ye…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMA prize-winning stamp collection focused on the history of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries will be disassembled and sold in an auction next month. The collector, Anthony Dewey, has b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThree "Jeopardy!" High School Reunion Tournament contestants with ties to Connecticut talk about how seeing and playing against each other again was more important than winning or losing.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Jeopardy!,” the long-running TV quiz show, is in the midst of a brand-new High School Reunion Tournament. For the three Connecticut-based contestants in the competition, the operative w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, February 26, 2023
Kate Snodgrass' new play about modern society, "The Art of Burning," comes to Hartford Stage March 2-26 after a run earlier this year at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. It's directed by Ha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe new play “The Art of Burning” has a plot and a lot of action, but according to its playwright Kate Snodgrass, it grew out of a general feeling of distress about the world today rathe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, February 24, 2023
TheaterWorks Hartford is sharing an Obie Award for its 2020 premiere of Sarah Gancher's virtual play "Russian Troll Farm," which it co-produced with the Arkansas company TheatreSquared and t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMTheaterWorks Hartford‘s politically charged 2020 virtual theater production “Russian Troll Farm” has won an Obie Award, one of the highest American theater honors. The dark comedy by S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMThursday, February 23, 2023
The second annual 90s Con at the Hartford Convention Center March 17-19 is reuniting castmates from "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Clueless," "Full House," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "Hocus Pocu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:19PMThe 90s Con nostalgia fest is zipping back to the Hartford Convention Center in March with a hot number: 90210. It was announced on Monday that the convention — which celebrates TV shows, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:19PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The national tour of the musical "Tootsie," at The Bushnell through Feb. 26, has great comic timing and great theatrical style. Making some big changes to the 1982 movie it's based on, the s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PMSome Broadway musicals based on classic Hollywood movies try to recapture the original’s style as closely as humanly possible, the biggest changes being that the shows are live and the act…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:20PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, traveled to Turkey in September to perform “The Demons of Society” with the world-re…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:31PMThe director of the puppetry institute at UConn, John Bell, will talk about his experiences performing a political pageant in Turkey last fall at the first in this year's series of puppetry …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:46AMMonday, February 20, 2023
You don’t have to wait until April Fool’s Day to find comedy in Connecticut. The next six weeks will feature legendary comedians such as Robert Klein, as well as up-and-coming funny peop…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM 
