Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Matthew Greene's "Thousand Pines" is a new drama with a gun control theme. Westport Country Playhouse held a workshop of it last year, then decided to do a full production as part of its 201…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tracy Thorne's contemporary drama "Good Children" is set in a "a society where the secrets of the past are closely guarded," and a young man named Val learns some of those secrets about his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
The V in "Henry V" at Hartford Stage could stand for "versatility." In scanning the cast list for this new production of Shakespeare's historical drama "Henry V," what stands out is that mos…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Alex Alpharaoh's one-man show "Wet: A DACAmented Journey" chronicles his own adventures as an undocumented American. He was brought to the U.S. when he was just two months old and grew up wi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]The 21st century hidden-camera prank show "Impractical Jokers" spawned a live stage show several years, which has gone through several different editions. There was the "Where's Larry?" tour…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
The great Lily Tomlin has been enjoying a career renaissance thanks to her Netflix series "Grace and Frankie," but in fact she's had remarkable successes in each of the last six decades. Sta…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2018
TheaterWorks' drama "The River" is shrouded in mystery. 'I can't say too much," the play's star Billy Carter says, regretfully. "...There are elements of a ghost story and a gothic thriller …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
'There's the challenge," socially conscious choreographer Judy Dworin says. "How do I make this different from a news story you read on your phone?" Dworin has staged dance pieces about slav…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Last year West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company organized a benefit dance concert to raise money for victims of the Las Vegas shootings. The event was so well-received that the the BTC has …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PM[SHARE]So you think you can see "So You Think You Can Dance" live in Connecticut? You happen to be right. The long-running TV competition visits Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
The '70s have been good to Alice Cooper. Not just the 1970s, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer first achieved international success. It's also his age. "I never thought I would be, at 70,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2018
Remember the whimsically grating voice of Yakko Warner, who with his siblings Wakko and Dot updated classic Warner Brothers cartoon wackiness for the mid-1990s as "The Animaniacs"? Rob Pauls…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Connecticut audience know Jen Silverman from the premiere of her brazen Gothic update "The Moors" at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016 and last year's Connecticut Repertory Theatre production o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
The Phoenix Theatre Company has been a most reliable purveyor of the perverse seasonal treat "The Rocky Horror Show." The original stage version of the ghoulish counterculture spectacle that…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
'The Illusionists" is an internationally touring multi-magician spectacle that shorthands its performers with such intriguing nicknames as The Manipulator, The Inventor, The Mentalist, The D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PM[SHARE]Hartford Stage has done a Shakespeare play, directed by Darko Tresnjak, every year since he became artistic director. This year is different. There will be a Shakespeare play, but instead of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
'This anniversary is a time to appreciate where we are, but also look to the future," says Hartford Symphony Music Director Carolyn Kuan, the 10th person and first woman to hold that positio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Goodspeed actors agree: "There's a little Man in Chair in all of us." John Scherer and John Rapson each utter that illuminating comment in separate phone interviews, describing the musical "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
The classic 1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" became an award-winning stage play in 1988, adapted by Frank Galati for the ensemble-based Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. It's an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2018
The Spanish dancer and choreographer Eduardo Guerrero has rethought flamenco dancing for the 21st century, but he also understands the traditions and history of this remarkable art form. Com…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood can't stop clowning around " though they need your input on what exactly to be funny about. They were regulars on the original British version of the improv s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]'Altar Boyz" is a feisty, funny musical theater piece that slyly sends up boy bands and fundamentalist Christianity at the same time. The show purports to be the final concert of the Christi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2018
The Mischief Theatre has gone too far, but then that's what they're known for. In its native England, the comedy troupe has created three smash theater hits in a row. The first of these, "Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PM[SHARE]Aziz Ansari was doing stand-up comedy long before he became a household name thanks to the sitcoms "Parks and Recreation" and his own "Master of None." Like many comedians, Ansari uses club …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:05PM[SHARE]TheaterWorks will stage at least two of the shows in its 2018-19 season in the Wadsworth Atheneum's theater space while its usual Pearl Street space is undergoing extensive renovations in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2018
What else could possibly go wrong? The fall theater season is a delirious mash-up of missteps, miscommunications and mistakes " expertly devised for maximum entertainment value. Among the in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
'The Drowsy Chaperone" is a musical about musicals, for people who really love musicals. It's a great fit for the musical theater specialists at Goodspeed Opera House, which is staging the s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Iliza, the 2008 "Last Comic Standing" winner who has hosted a TV dating show, a game show and a talk show, brings her "Elder Millennial Tour" (she's 35) to Foxwoods Resort Casino's Fox Theat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]'The Play That Goes Wrong" has been going wrong for so long that somebody must be doing something right. It's currently the longest-running non-musical play currently on Broadway, where it's…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]'Man of La Mancha" is the latest classical musical to be scaled down for a smaller orchestra, a smaller cast and a more intimate presentation by adventurous director Mark Lamos at the Westpo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
Tens of thousands of "Hamilton" fans won the battle. Tickets to the Hartford stop on the Broadway hit's national tour went on sale Saturday morning and within a few hours, the least expensiv…
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