Tuesday, November 28, 2017
For grown-ups, much of the fun of the nationally touring shows based on animated children's shows is seeing the manner in which they've jumped from one form of entertainment to another. "PAW…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2017
'A Connecticut Christmas Carol" transports Charles Dickens' Olde England to a little town called East Haddam in New England. The show, though set at the Goodspeed Opera House, is having its …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2017
"A Christmas Carol" has been a Hartford Stage standard for 20 years now. The production was brought to the theater by its adaptor Michael Wilson shortly after he became Hartford Stage's arti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]In the past year you might have seen Mike Birbiglia on "Orange Is the New Black" (as Danny Pearson), or in the movie he wrote and directed and starred in, "Don't Think Twice" (about an impro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]You know how some people buy their gifts from nationwide chain stores, while others make them by hand? And both are well worth having? Connecticut Christmas theater is like that, too. Just a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The new Broadway hit "The Band's Visit" is the story of a snappily dressed Egyptian police band whose travel plans go awry. They find themselves in Bet Hatikva, a desolate Israeli town intro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2017
A funny thing is happening on the way to Connecticut Forum. If you were looking for three people to demonstrate the changing face of American comedy today, you might well decide upon Fred Ar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:35PM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
The latest "Christmas Carol" in Connecticut transports Dickens' holiday story across the ocean, setting it in the East Haddam home of famed early 20th actor William Gillette. The 90-minute, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]What's up with Whitney Cummings? The comedian's own sitcom "Whitney" lasted only two seasons 2011 to13, but "Two Broke Girls," which she created around the same time, lasted six seasons, end…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Remember "The Charter Boys," that action-packed TV detective drama that aired on UPN, then the WB, for most of the 1990s? Of course you don't. It's a spoof, a parody. But "The Charter Boys: …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:46AM[SHARE]"The Phannnnntom of the opera is therrrrree…" Oh, and over here as well. It's important to know that the tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" coming to the Palace in Wa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2017
The second-ever production at Quinnipiac University's Theatre Arts Center is the 17th-century French playwright Moliere's timely medical-care comedy "The Imaginary Invalid." One of the best-…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PM[SHARE]Classic drama has plenty to say about modern times. Sometimes the connections are made glaringly obvious by directors and designers. Other times there's a subtlety, an underlying sensation t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
Prolific local playwright Jacques Lamarre has had his scripts produced at TheaterWorks, Seven Angels and Hole in the Wall Theatre in recent seasons. His latest premiere is the socioreligious…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AM[SHARE]Rock star-styled illusionist Criss Angel regularly disappears at Foxwoods, whether on his own or as the co-creator of the ensemble magic spectacle "The Supernaturalists." Angel's latest "Min…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]It's rare that a major national tour of a classic musical will come to Connecticut without playing The Bushnell. "The Sound of Music" has now done that twice. It seems you don't have to clim…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]When does five times five equal 15? When the locally rooted 5X5 Dance Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary Nov. 4 with a full day of performance activities in and around Bruyette Athenae…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Taking the 1986 Broadway misfire "Rags" out of mothballs was a risk. Refashioning it fully, with two of its original creators (lyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer Charles Strouse) on boar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
After numerous tours through the state, not to mention club and concert appearances by members of the original New York cast, "Million Dollar Quartet" is now rocking the state's smaller thea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Connecticut theatergoers remember Jen Silverman from her Gothic pastiche "The Moors" at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016. Her "Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties" premiered at Washington,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
"I knew I had to direct it." Elizabeth Williamson has been with Hartford Stage for more than five years, originally as a dramaturg and director of new play development and since 2015 as the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
Stephanie Dattellas moved to Connecticut from Syracuse, N.Y., just a few months ago to become the new artistic director of West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company in June. She looked forward …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
The national tour of "The School of Rock" is so new that there aren't photos of it yet. The show, based on the 2003 Jack Black movie, has been running for nearly two years on Broadway and fo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:02AM[SHARE]Edwin Sanchez has lots of connections to Connecticut theater. He attended the Yale School of Drama in the early 1990s. Two of his plays, "Clean" and "Diosa," had their premieres at Hartford …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Compagnie Hervé Koubi, whose members hail from Algeria and West Africa, create fresh modern dances from hip-hop, capoeira, folk culture, classical ballet, and martial arts influences. The t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" still has life in it. First it was at Hartford Stage, which staged the homicidal musical's premiere in 2012. Then it went to the Old Globe Theatre in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
"Rags" is one of those Broadway musicals famous for still having potential. About the American immigration experience in the early 20th century, the show was created by a team of Broadway al…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
Le Patin Libre is French for "the free skate." It's the name of a Canadian movement troupe that develops avant-garde movement pieces for ice rinks. Le Patin Libre's signature piece "Vertical…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:24PM[SHARE]C.S. Lewis' series of stories about the enchanted land of Narnia began with "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." Four kids climb into some furniture and emerge in a magical realm where th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]"Doc Foster's Twisted Tales: A Puppet Show for Grown-Ups" is described as "wickedly macabre," using puppets and live, creepily costumed actors to spin stories of "intrigue, love, betrayal an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:39AM[SHARE]Jane Alexander is staying at home for a change. Her onstage home, that is. The globetrotting, award-winning actress appears in "Fireflies," an adaptation of some writings by Annette Sanford.…
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