Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The national tour of "Elf the Musical" returns to Connecticut after a three-year COVID-era hiatus with four performances Friday and Saturday at the Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:22PMFriday, November 11, 2022
The new national tour of "Disney's Aladdin" brings spectacle, adventure and pageantry to The Bushnell through Sunday.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:22AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Paul Reiser's known for everything from "Diner" to "Aliens" to "Mad About You" to "Stranger Things," but his roots are in stand-up comedy, He returns to the stage Saturday at The Bushnell's …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Over 200 state arts non-profits received Supporting Arts Grants this year from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. Individual grants ranged from $1,000 to $10,000.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMPlayhouse on Park's production of August Wilson's "Fences" honors the text but has some weaknesses. The show runs through Nov. 20 in West Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, November 6, 2022
The new national tour of the Disney musical "Aladdin" comes to The Bushnell Nov. 8-13. For this go-round, the tour was almost completely recast with new faces and has been on the road just a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, November 3, 2022
The Seery family of Bristol have created "Game On!: The Musical," an original show about tolerance and same-sex issues. The musical has its premiere this weekend at Canton Town Hall.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, October 31, 2022
Matt Amodio, the Yale graduate student who became one of the top contestants on “Jeopardy!,” is returning to the game show next week for its Tournament of Champions as well as for a spec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:08PMSaturday, October 29, 2022
Southington writer Phil Hall was not short of material for his new book “100 Years of Wall Street Crooks.” published this month by Bicep Books.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
The 2022 Hartford Fringe Festival is in its final days. The Courant reviewed several shows, some of which are scheduled for repeat performances, and the winners of an audience vote for Best …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:33PM"From the Mississippi Delta" is an elaborate staging of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland's autobiographical drama about coming of age during the 1960s civil rights struggle. The play is at Westpo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Director Jackson Gay and a well-picked cast of eight actors have taken a genre that these days is only known from parodies (think “Clue: On Stage”) and remind us why plays like this work…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:27AMSunday, October 23, 2022
The Courant's arts picks for this week include a reunited Dead Boys at Cafe Nine, live Halloween-themed concerts by Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Morricone Youth and the Hartford Fringe Fe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
The fall dance season in Connecticut welcomes the touring acts Ailey II and Garth Fagan Dance and big events at Wesleyan and the University of St. Joseph before yielding to a number of "Nutc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Screenings and live stagings of "Rocky Horror" have returned for the Halloween season. Among them is full staging of the original rock musical in Milford and a screening/shadow show hosted b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Choreographers' Showcase, which lets high school student dancers work with professional choreographers from major modern dance companies, returns for…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
The Hartford Fringe Festival is back, offering theater, storytelling, standup, cabaret, hip-hop, youth theater, opera, improv and more from Oct. 20-30 at the Carriage House theater on Farmin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, October 17, 2022
Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" gets a stunning, unnerving revival at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Oct. 29, directed by the theater's longtime artistic director James …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 15, 2022
“Feeding the Dragon,” a play that helped forge a stronger bond between Hartford Stage and Hartford Public Library five years ago, has inspired a new documentary that’s getting a local …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 14, 2022
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2023 season, including "Gypsy," Dreamgirls," "Summer Stock" and "The 12."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PM"Fun Home," the musical based on Alison Bechdel's "family tragicomic" graphic novel memoir, is at TheaterWorks Hartford through Oct. 30. The production unfortunately loses its plot and its b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
The late Angela Lansbury's long career as a stage performer included numerous appearances in Connecticut, including the U.S. premiere of two Edward Albee plays at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:04PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Agatha Christie's classic mystery "The Mousetrap" opens the Hartford Stage 2022-23 season beginning Wednesday through Nov. 6. It is directed by Yale graduate Jackson Gay, who describes "The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 8, 2022
The first Hartford Symphony Orchestra concert of the 2022-23 Masterworks season, "American Adventures," gives works by George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé and Aaron Copland the jazziness or folkin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMFriday, October 7, 2022
A new, carefully downsized version of the lavish musical "42nd Street," based on the 1933 movie about a new musical having troubles on its way to Broadway, is at the Goodspeed Opera House th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
HartBeat Ensemble is staging a revelatory revival of Athol Fugard's mid-1980s apartheid drama "My Children! My Africa!" through Oct. 9. The same director and cast first did the show in 2016 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
"Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" gives a balanced musical and dramatic portrayal of jazz legend Billie Holiday late in her career. Playhouse on Park's production of Lanie Robertson's …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:43PMMonday, October 3, 2022
TheaterWorks Hartford's new production of the musical "Fun Home" features a range of artistic images projected onto the show's lush funeral home setting. The show, directed by Rob Ruggiero, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Despite some technical difficulties, "Mean Girls the Musical" is a solid, worthy adaptation of the Tina Fey movie, though it tries to cram in too much of the plot and ups the number of posit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:56PMMonday, September 26, 2022
"Mean Girls the Musical" is at The Bushnell through Oct. 2. Prepare for it with some trivia about the differences between the movie and the play, what is the same and what's next for The Pla…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:22PM"The Purple Warp," one of the first mini-zines of the 1970s, is marking its 50th anniversary with a series of reprints. Alan Greenier published "The Purple Warp" as a teenager in Terryville.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
