Wednesday, October 19, 2016
For those of you of weaker constitution / For those of you who may be faint of heart / This is a tale of revenge and retribution / So if you're smart / Before we start / You'd best depart / …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" first came to life at Hartford Stage in 2012, directed by the theater's artistic director, Darko Tresjnak. It returns to the city Oct. 25-30 at the B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]"La Ronde" is a world of your own making, cued by voices in your ears and paths on the floor of the Goffe Street Armory building in New Haven. The performance, created by the French theater …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
Where is William Shatner boldly going now? To Connecticut, on the latest go-round of his one-man show, "Shatner's World… We Just Live In It." The erstwhile Captain Kirk (and T.J. Hooker an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
Do you believe in ghosts? Hartford Stage does. The theater is conjuring up "The Piano Lesson," one of the most haunted, and haunting, of the 10 dramas in August Wilson's legendary 10-play "C…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PM[SHARE]Hartford got to see Broadway veteran Anthony Rapp earlier when the national tour of "If/Then" visited the Bushnell. Rapp reprised the role of Lucas, which he originated in the show's Broadwa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
In Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower," some flashy celestial figures abruptly change the lives of four people at a backyard dinner party. Stars are aligning in curious ways for the play…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
Sarah Ruhl formulates questions that are on the tip of our tongues " questions about the world around us and life itself. She articulates those thoughts, connects them to revolutionary perio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
Richard Dreyfuss redefined what it meant to be a leading man in the "New Hollywood" era of the 1970s, in such groundbreaking films as "Jaws," "American Graffiti," "The Apprenticeship of Dudd…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:21AM[SHARE]Scottish actors know all about heath and hard-blowing winds. It's Graeme Malcolm who endures the elements and compares his children to serpents' teeth in Connecticut Repertory Theatre's prod…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
"A Room of My Own," a recent off-Broadway success that's now at Seven Angels Theatre with much of its original cast, is an old-fashioned melodrama " not far removed from "I Remember Mama" " …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
"Everybody knows what happens to Judy Garland after 'The Wizard of Oz.' But nobody knows what happened before," says Tina Marie Casamento Libby. That kind of questioning spirit is right up t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:28PM[SHARE]"Disenchanted!" takes some familiar fairy-tale princesses, the kind that you know from cartoon movies, and takes them places that may be even creepier than dark forests and castle towers. Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:31PM[SHARE]Autumn may be a time of darkness and dead leaves, but the theater season brings newness: world premieres, bright comedy and social issues torn from today's headlines. Hartford Stage's first …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
The accomplished familiar cast VANESSA BUTLER, MARY BACON, CHARLOTTE MAIER, ALICE CANNON & HEIDI ARMBRUSTER fall effortlessly into a smooth ensemble.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:17AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Joseph Voelker invokes the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's essay "Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles" in discussing how he came to set up a six-hour symposium on "Politic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]The dance scene has changed deeply in just a couple of decades. National touring troupes are fewer, some local dance companies have been around long enough to become institutions and many sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Live comedy in Connecticut this fall can be scripted, improvised, musicalized, politicized, feminized, interactive … whatever makes you laugh. The state has more comedy venues than it's ha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower" is a comedy about a couple of married couples contemplating life, love and the cosmos while having dinner and drinks in a spacious Los Angeles backyar…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The HartBeat goes on. Fifteen years after it was founded, HartBeat Ensemble's pulse is felt throughout the city. The politically aware, community-conscious theater troupe marks its decade-an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
"Development" is the watchword of the regional theater community. In past decades, that could mean the building of repertory acting companies, loyal subscriber bases or new performance space…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Chasing Rainbows," at the Goodspeed Opera House Sept. 16 through Nov. 27, is a new musical with a lot of familiar faces and tunes you can hum on your way into the theater. The characters in…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
A few weeks before the Yale Repertory Theatre season begins in earnest, the Rep's "No Boundaries" performance series brings in Carrie Mae Weems' cutting-edge, current-events multi-media perf…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]T.D. Mitchell's "Queens for a Year," having its world premiere at Hartford Stage Sept. 8 through Oct. 2, is about women in the military. It's also, behind the scenes, about women in the thea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss will star as Albert Einstein in a TheaterWorks production of the play "Relativity" this fall. The show will open the TheaterWorks 2016-17 season,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
E = MC, squared. The Big E (that multi-state state fair officially known as the Eastern States Exposition) is turning C (that's 100 in Roman numerals). The fair has resided for that entire c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
Comedian Chris D'Elia of TV's "Undateable," not to mention the 2015 Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber, is at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Manchester at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. Lik…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]David Pittsinger has distinguished himself both in new operas ("The Crucible," "Appomattox") and in classic American musicals ("South Pacific," "Kiss Me Kate"). Pittsinger's tackling the lea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
Julia Pistell, managing director of Sea Tea Improv, improvises a sigh of relief. "We're done! We're doooonnnnne!" The Hartford-based sketch comedy troupe has completed work on its new year-r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:08PM[SHARE]"Riverdance" began in 1994, and first toured the U.S. in 1996 (as those who saw the anniversary tour at the Bushnell in May can tell you). But what of all the Irish Europop spectacles that f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:40PM[SHARE]Actors, comedians and spouses Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally worked together on Offerman's TV series "Parks and Recreation," on Mullally's series "Will and Grace" (in 2001, two years befor…
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