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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
The Westport Country Playhouse's 2016 season opens with a colorful blend of two modern plays about modern art. The shows have separate casts and are performed on different days. "Art," the i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
The Carlotta Festival of New Plays at Yale is nigh " May 6 through 14 at the university's Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven. That means it's the end of the school year as well. The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:15PM[SHARE]When the Irish dance sensation "Riverdance" first came to these shores 20 years ago, it played the vast concert stage at the Oakdale in Wallingford. It took several years of touring before t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:13PM[SHARE]Dianne Wiest is waist-deep in work. The award-winning star of stage, screen and (soon) a sitcom, she's tackling the taxing, intractable role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days." The c…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Connecticut Ballet is putting the glass slippers on again. Artistic Director Brett Raphael first staged and choreographed Prokofiev's "Cinderella" for the company in 2006. He returned to it …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
Southern folklorist and raconteur Tim Lowry headlines the 35th annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, in the College Center at Crozier Williams, on th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
"Matilda The Musical," which swings into The Bushnell April 26 through May 1 on its first national tour, is famously full of spectacle. There are wild children, bright lights, towering sets,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:13PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
To promote its production of the opera "Rigoletto," Connecticut Lyric Opera is using an image of Quasimodo from a well-known painting by Antoine Wiertz. There certainly are similarities betw…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
When Daniel Goldstein was asked the direct "Anything Goes" at the Goodspeed Opera House, he didn't feel "anything goes" about it. He had conditions. "I refused to do it with an all-white cas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:17PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Larry Kramer has already made history " as a playwright ("A Normal Heart"), screenplay writer ("Women in Love"), novelist ("Faggots"), essayist ("The Tragedy of Today's Gays") and renowned g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
The Illusionists, that illustrious ensemble of seven conjurers, return to Connecticut for two shows on Sunday, April 17, at 4:30 and 8 p.m., in the Toyota Oakdale Theatre, 95 S. Turnpike Roa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
Get realish. Awkward social encounters, fashion disasters, drunken confessions and unrestrained egomaniacal outbursts happen everywhere. "Real Housewives," for instance, have been found in O…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Say what? "Having Our Say" is a special sort of show. Part storytelling revue, part civil rights drama, part housekeeping ritual. A co-production of Hartford Stage and the Long Wharf Theatre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Can we get some suggestions from the audience, please? Be creative. We need the names of nine states, plus a country to the north of us. Next, we'll need several dozen funny names. These can…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
Hartbeat Ensemble builds community through theater projects about the communities it knows best. The company's new show "Gross Domestic Product" is about women in the workplace and centers o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
There's a rule in theater that's credited to the great Anton Chekhov: If you show a gun onstage, then that gun must be fired before the play is over. Yet when Samuel D. Hunter wrote a play s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Arts & Ideas has the funk. Not to mention the Polish jazz, the political documentaries, "Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour," and dozens of other cultural happenings. The International Festival…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:53AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
It's good to be the king. Especially when you're a female actor. "I've done a ton of Shakespeare," says Kathryn Meisle. "Cymbeline is a role to which I have never aspired. But now the whole …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:39PM[SHARE]"Love Letters" is in the air. A national tour of A.R. Gurney's epistolary romance, in which a lifetime of correspondence is warmly recited onstage by actors who sit at a table, was at The Bu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Having Our Say" is not finished having its say. The two-woman show, directed by Jade King Carroll and based on a best-selling 1993 book by the centenarian Delany Sisters, played the Long Wh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Let the music do the acting. There is lots of rock- or pop-themed entertainment this week, and it's not even "Rocky Horror" season. The Real Thing Hot on the heels of "Motown The Musical," w…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2016
I have strong memories of the National Theatre of Scotland performing the U.S. premiere of "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" at New Haven's Wicked Wolf Tavern for the International Fes…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]When is it exactly that the sun will come out? Oh, yeah, tomorrow. The latest national tour of the indomitable comic-strip musical "Annie" comes to the Shubert Theatre, 247 College St., New …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
Much has been made of how "Motown the Musical" crams more than 50 R&B, soul and rock classics into a single two-and-a-half-hour show. But that's just the half of it. The show also encapsulat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
"Motown the Musical" revisits the history of the famed Detroit musical empire Motown Records, based on a memoir by the company's founder Berry Gordy. Actors portray stars as luminous as Dian…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Robert Wilson needs more time. The eminent theater artist, known for his languorous, meditative, shape-shifting productions is in a meeting Monday afternoon and asks me to call again in 15 m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:46PM[SHARE]Laura Eason has written one of the most-produced plays in the country right now, "Sex With Strangers." She's a writer and producer on one of the most-talked-about TV series of the last few y…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
Swwoopp. Swwoopp. Shhhshhhhshhh. Whackawhackawhacka. Tch-tch-tch. Scrattcch. Bam! Slam! Bump. Yes, it's the return of the uproarious nonverbal rhythmic/physical spectacle, "Stomp," Friday th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:56AM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2016
New Haven Theater Company has had some success with ensemble-based shows about American small-town communities, including "Our Town" and "Almost, Maine." William Inge's "Bus Stop," about a b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
Kristin Wold directs the Connecticut Repertory Theatre production of "Sense and Sensibility," which runs Thursday, Feb. 25, through March 6 at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Univers…
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