Thursday, August 18, 2016
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Rebecca Goodheart became the new producing director of the Elm Shakespeare Company last year, after two decades of leadership by the company's founder James Andreassi. Goodheart's off to a g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
"It's very immediate here. Nobody's lying around," declares cabaret performance icon John McDaniel, currently holding forth at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford. That's a funny …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
"If/Then," the thought-provoking, consciousness-shifting Broadway musical, has made Hartford the next to last stop on its national tour. Oh, how different our lives would be if it hadn't com…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
The Quebec-based circus theater troupe Cirque Eloize has been tumbling and twirling into Connecticut for decades. The troupe's first show, which toured internationally in the 1990s, was simp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2016
Fifty years ago, it was common for someone who had starred in a hit musical on Broadway to continue with the show when it went on its first national tour. Now such continuity is almost incon…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AM[SHARE]The comedian Hannibal Buress already had a career, including a Comedy Central special, TV writing gigs and stand-up tours, but he blew up big time after some remarks in his stand-up routine …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
When it was newly born, it was small and adorable and made a lot of noise. In its early years, it was a bit of a loner, finding its voice. In its teens, it was able to hang with the cool kid…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
For outdoor summer Shakespeare companies, the place is the thing. As usual, William Shakespeare said it best. In "Love's Labour's Lost," the Bard of Avon wrote, "They have measured many a mi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:16PM[SHARE]"If/Then" is Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's follow-up to their Pulitzer-winning hit "Next to Normal" (about bi-polar depression) and it doesn't find the maverick musical-makers playing it any s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
Fourteen years ago this summer, at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Robert Lopez thought his career might be over before it had started. The first public reading of "Avenue Q,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:41PM[SHARE]The issue-driven local modern dance company TNMOT AZTRO performed the first installment of "Black Boy Jungle" last year at Town & Country Club. Part Two is now ready, and debuting at the sam…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
"In my cabaret show," the legendary Chita Rivera reminisces, "I talk about seeing a poster for 'Bye Bye Birdie,' then a bus driving by with a sign on it for 'West Side Story,' and thinking "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:47PM[SHARE]"Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres," wrote Shakespeare. In the summer, numerous Connecticut theater companies invoke the Bard of Avon at outdoor shows. Artfarm's Shakespear…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]David Greig is known to Connecticut audiences as the writer of the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally touring production of the creepy, boozy odyssey "The Strange Undoing of Prud…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
In "Anastasia " The Musical," a Russian princess takes a trip from St. Petersburg to Paris. Now the show itself is assured an adventurous journey of its own " leaping from Hartford Stage to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
We're already onto the third, and biggest, of the four prestigious "conference" workshop retreats at the bucolic Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Writers prepare their new projects with the as…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:58PM[SHARE]When Conrad Birdie sings "You've got to be sincere" to his adoring fans, he's not being sincere. The Elvis Presley-esque heartthrob is swiveling his hips and curling his lip in a cool, calcu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Middletown's Wesleyan University has created the Hamilton Prize for Creativity, a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to be awarded to an "incoming student (beginning in the class of 2021) w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2016
You know something's gone a little wild in the world when both Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil pull into downtown Hartford. Make the most of the altered sensory perceptions. Blue Man Gro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
The 2016 International Festival of Arts & Ideas in downtown New Haven comes with plentiful musical accompaniment. After 21 years, Arts & Ideas has this whole festival thing down to a science…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:31PM[SHARE]The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has always boasted that the vast majority of its offerings are free. This year, that includes: >>Headline concerts on New Haven Green by George Cli…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:27PM[SHARE]"Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour" is about a group of rural Scottish schoolgirls who get a chance to run down the avenues of the big city of Edinburgh, on a weekend trip to a national singin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:27PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
"The Roar of the Greasepaint " The Smell of the Crowd." The very title of this 1964 cult musical by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse would seem to disparage theater audiences. But director…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:19PM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2016
"It's NOT my life by the way. Thanks for not asking that." Eleanor Bergstein explains how she went about turning her screenplay for the classic romance "Dirty Dancing" into a stage show. "I …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Connecticut-based (and beyond) dance and theater companies are on the move this summer. The Evjen Academy of Performing Arts Studio Showcase, offering "a spectrum of dance styles" June 3 and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:24AM[SHARE]"Summer's lease hath all too short a date," according to a Shakespeare sonnet. The Bard of Avon is well represented on the summer theater schedule, but so are many contemporary playwrights a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
Jenn Thompson has plenty of reasons to feel good about directing "The Call" at TheaterWorks. It's about family issues that are close to her heart. It brings her back to Connecticut, where sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PM[SHARE]In 2002, the American Film Institute surveyed "a blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community" and declared Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" to be the funnie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:47PM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
Whose Paris is it, anyway? Alfred Uhry, the playwright and screenwriter, has driven Miss Daisy, abetted the Robber Bridegroom, served Mystic Pizza and shaken up Angel Reapers. Now, at Long W…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
"Anastasia" lives! The irresistible 20th-century legend of a young princess who escapes execution at the hands of Russian revolutionaries, then finds adventure and romance in Paris, has been…
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