Sunday, March 1, 2020
Alan Rust has led the theater division at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford for more than 20 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMTo get in the mood for Hartford Stage’s upcoming production (March 19-April 19) of “The King’s Speech” — David Seidler’s play on which the 2010 film and his Oscar-winning screenp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Years after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, “Good Faith” checks in on a wounded city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Critics raved over Anika Noni Rose’s “lava-hot” performance this summer playing the title role in the off-Broadway musical revival of “Carmen Jones,” Oscar Hammerstein’s 1943 mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
The show: The Elm Shakespeare Company presents a free outdoor show of “Love's Labour’s Lost” — a rarely produced early Shakespeare play — through Sept. 2 in Edgerton Park. First im…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMMonday, August 13, 2018
The unexpected exit of a lead actor in Goodspeed Musicals’ “Cyrano,” starring “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage has cause the production to cancel some performances and premat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PMThursday, June 7, 2018
When Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the ‘60s TV series. “I wanted to be …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
It’s now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn’t go on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Several times a year a new Clive Cussler book is released, followed by a full-page ad in the New York Times and then a speedy trip to the top of the best-sellers list. The books, with their …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
The company honored its milestone last weekend with visits from past figures who lauded its history while expressing concern for regional theater’s future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMMonday, May 9, 2016
This French singer-songwriter and actor wrote the score for this show, which opens this week in New Haven and features a crew of major Broadway names.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMSunday, February 28, 2016
We sit backstage at a performance of Noises Off to find out.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
The show that was cut short on Broadway and never made its Off-Broadway transfer, goes on tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 14, 2016
What does it take to make love work? The famous Hollywood duo that tugged at heartstrings decades ago reunites onstage in Love Letters to tell a different love story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 29, 2015
It's been a hell of a theatrical run. After nearly 34 years, I am bringing the curtain down on my role as full-time theater writer for The Hartford Courant to pursue other cool projects.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Gone is the barber chair from the executive office at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, a seat of power, prestige and playfulness that became synonymous with the theater's longtime l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Fiasco Theatre is a feisty young theater company that has enchanted critics and audiences with a series of shows off-Broadway. Its acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Stephanie Zimbalist is no demanding diva for the Seven Angels Theatre production of "Living on Love" in Waterbury. At least off-stage, the star of the '80s hit TV series "Remington Steele" …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:34PMThursday, October 29, 2015
"It's like putting on 'King Lear,' 'Othello' and 'Macbeth' in one evening," says Alan Rust, director of the theater division at the University of Hartford's Hartt School and one of three dir…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSouth African artist William Kentridge collaborated with a composer, a choreographer, a video designer and a physicist. The result? "Refuse the Hours," a multimedia chamber opera that is par…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
So you think there's no way to get tickets for the sold-out run of the world premiere of "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage starring Kevin Bacon? Think again. Every Monday the theater will dete…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Steve Martin will be back at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, this time with a world premiere play, described as "an off-beat and absurdist look at the comic anxiety lurking just beneath the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:03AMAll eyes are usually on Kevin Bacon. "The second I step out of my house, it happens," says the prolific actor at the offices of Hartford Stage, where he is rehearsing for his starring role i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Actors who arrive at the Goodspeed Opera House are often overwhelmed by the beauty of the rural surroundings as they cross the swing bridge to East Haddam and see the glistening white theate…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:41PMMonday, October 12, 2015
"Menopause the Musical," the little show that proves there's life and laughs amid big changes, is coming back to The Bushnell's Belding Theater on Friday, Oct.16, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:23PMIt was a happy day in mid-July for fans of the long-gone comic strip "Bloom County" when they opened Facebook and saw the return of Berkeley Breathed's beloved and honored creation. Since th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PMFriday, October 9, 2015
The show: Yale Repertory Theatre co-production of "Indecent" by Paula Vogel at the University Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special: The world premiere will play La Jolla [Calif.] Play…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMMonday, October 5, 2015
The road to Oz is heading to Goodspeed Opera House. A new musical about the pre-"Oz" life of Judy Garland will be a highlight of the 2016 lineup of five shows produced by Goodspeed Musicals.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00PMThursday, October 1, 2015
When the Matt Stone and Trey Parker — the creators of TV "South Park" — announced they were going to write a Broadway musical, a lot of people laughed, and not in a good way. But look wh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PM"It took 30 seconds" for playwright Paula Vogel to say yes when she was asked to collaborate with director Rebecca Taichman on "Indecent," a new work about events surrounding the provocative…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:01PM 
