Wednesday, March 21, 2018
'I can understand why I'm mad at Dorothy. She dropped a house on my sister and stole my shoes!" The Wicked Witch of the West isn't all green skin and pointy hat. Emily Perzan, who plays the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:35AM[SHARE]Two Nights, Eight Comics, Hartford's Bushnell Center of the Performing Arts offers back-to-back gaggles of stand-ups in the "Kings of Comedy" mold of multiple headliners sharing a stage for …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
'Pepperland" is the name of the evil empire in the animated Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine." "Return to Pepperland" was a never-released (though much bootlegged) Paul McCartney solo album r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
Move over, Georgia, for a real queen. Varla Jean Merman is crashing TheaterWorks. TheaterWorks' new show, "The Legend of Georgia McBride," which runs March 16 to April 22, is about a young E…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:50PM[SHARE]Director Madeline Sayet knows something about rolling the dice and seeing which paths open up. "So I originally was supposed to be in London now, working on my PhD," she says during a recent…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PM[SHARE]'I teach her work passionately. I have a special access to it that I want to share." Liz Diamond " who chairs the directing department at the Yale School of Drama and is a resident director …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Bianca Del Rio earned her crown as the sixth-season winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race" by deftly brandishing her sharp, biting sense of humor. Her funniness does not come from cattiness or petti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Bushnell has announced that the hip-hop musical sensation "Hamilton" will be playing that historic Hartford venue Dec. 11 to 30 as part of the show's national tour. We don't yet know whe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:20PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
The revolution is nigh. "Hamilton" is finally coming to Hartford, for a three-week run Dec. 11 to 30. The Bushnell announced its 2018-19 season Monday night at a special event for subscriber…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:00PM[SHARE]Samite Mulondo, a Ugandan musician who performs internationally as Samite, has picked up a new instrument: his speaking voice. The internationally acclaimed flutist has recorded with Paul Si…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
Darko Tresnjak, artistic director of Hartford Stage since 2011, will step down from that position in June of 2019, the theater announced Thursday. Â The news was not unexpected. Tresnjak'…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Colin Quinn helps the world make sense for those of us who really need it to. His incisive long-form satirical take-downs of society, government and other faulty systems can be dispiriting a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:05PM[SHARE]Matthew Lopez's empowering comedy "The Legend of Georgia McBride" is a celebration of drag culture. At the intimate TheaterWorks, which will be staging the play March 16 through April 22, th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PM[SHARE]And a one, and a two and a…. Now keep tapping until you reach 15. The stop/time dance theater, resident dance company of Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, turns 15 this year. That's six …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
On the phone Friday from his offices in Florida, Cirque Dreams founder and director Neil Goldberg is worried about flying. Windstorms forced airlines to cancel flights, and he needs to be in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PM[SHARE]'This is what real sex is like," says "Awkward Sex… and the City" creator Natalie Wall. The show is a thematic stand-up comedy/storytelling event featuring four female comedians and one ma…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
In the wake of "Riverdance," there were lots of pretenders to the Irish stepdance-spectacle throne. Only the strongest have remained. Like "Riverdance," "Rhythm of the Dance" has a loose the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]'Million Dollar Quartet" has been so popular for the last few years " off Broadway, on Broadway, on numerous national tours and most recently in the regional theater realm " that the word "m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Currently in Hartford but where it really wants to be is Broadway! The whole cast is on Ken Ludwig's wavelength. There are twists and turns and laughs aplenty on this intrigue-filled intern…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Alex Moggridge has become a familiar face in Connecticut regional theater. Now he's playing one of the most famous characters in all of literature. Moggridge is Sherlock Holmes in "Baskervil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
For its show "Constellations," which ends its run Feb. 22, TheaterWorks cleverly redesigned its performance space from a proscenium to an arena. Now the entire building is getting a real lon…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PM[SHARE]In the wake of the high-school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week, singer/actress Deborah Cox is unable to perform at tonight's opening performance of "The Bodyguard The Musical" at The B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
There are lots of reasons to revisit Arthur Miller's retelling of the Salem Witch Trials, "The Crucible." McCarthyism and other political witch-hunts " the metaphorical underpinning of Mille…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2018
What's it like to star in the first U.S. tour of musical "The Bodyguard"? For Deborah Cox, who'll play the role of Rachel Marron " made famous by Whitney Houston " when the musical plays The…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:25PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
Ken Ludwig is ubiquitous. He's in Hartford. He's in New Haven. He's on a train. His game is afoot. Ludwig's one of the most popular playwrights in the world today. This month, two major Conn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
The National Endowment of the Arts has awarded nearly a quarter of a million dollars to 10 nonprofit Connecticut arts organizations this week, with the largest amount going to the Eugene O'N…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:50AM[SHARE]Steve Martin: "We're coming up on 80." Martin Short: "Steve, he didn't ask how old you were. He asked how many shows we've done." Short and Martin explained during a recent phone interview h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:20AM[SHARE]"Murder on the Orient Express" is Ken Ludwig's comic adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel about a murder committed on a transcontinental train trip. The victim is an infamous crimi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AM[SHARE]When Sharon McNight brings her Sophie Tucker tribute "Red Hot Mama" to theaters around the country, she is often introducing Tucker's work to people who have have never heard of the once wor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2018
Please read Sam Wasson's history of improvisational theater "Improv Nation " How We Made a Great American Art." It describes how small theater troupes of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Comp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2018
After several seasons of branding itself as a 20th anniversary event, the national tour of "Riverdance" is back to its unadorned one-word title. The producers have nicknamed the U.S. tour "S…
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