Thursday, December 10, 2015
Few acts capture the Christmas spirit with as few clothes on as The Pontani Sisters. The old-school striptease artists, who have been among the leaders of a nationwide Burlesque revival, bri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
The misfits are taking over Christmas. A stage adaptation of the immortal Christmas TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" has taken the country by snowstorm, with two separate tours to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:22PM[SHARE]After years of mirth and merriment, the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus' latest Christmas concert wants to remind us that the holiday season is also a time of warmth, community, harmony and gen…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
We have magically entered the prime nutcracking period of the year, with presentations of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Ballet" rushing at you like so many mice with cute little swords. Here are…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a leading light in the Connecticut arts scene these days. The original animated Rankin-Bass holiday classic has already aired on TV, but you can still fin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
"I never thought I'd be associated with a new Christmas tradition," Jenn Harris marvels. Yet it's true. She's in "Christmas on the Rocks," which saucily updates classic holiday tales from st…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
When Julia Macchio learned that she was up for the role of Alex Owens, the steel welder who moonlights as a club dancer, in a new national tour of "Flashdance " The Musical," she rented the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Lewis Black's back at the Oakdale with his latest dose of fed-up philosophizing, "The Emperor's New Clothes: The Naked Truth Tour." Black still rants occasionally on "The Daily Show," despit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Charles Ross' One Man Star Wars Trilogy is a manic multi-styled low-budget solo interpretation of this immortal interplanetary saga that comes to the Stamford Palace On Nov. 12 With "The For…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
The 30-year-old New York-based troupe David Dorfman Dance returns to Connecticut for a residency at Fairfield University, culminating in an 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, performance of the compan…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PM[SHARE]The Christmas shows are starting to arrive, with the national tour of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" flurrying into the Palace Theater, 100 East Main St., Waterbury, Friday to Sunday, Nov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
When "The Producers" first went on tour after winning 12 Tony Awards and becoming the first Broadway sensation of the 21st century, the show was such a big deal that it visited two major the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:55PM[SHARE]April Macie, from the fourth season of TV's "Last Comic Standing," was the winner of Howard Stern's "Funniest, Hottest Comedienne" competition in 2008. She's a regular on Stern's radio show …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Comedy for a Cause comes to Hartford on Thursday, Oct. 22, with performances by a host of funny folks from Connecticut: the "suburban comedy" collective The Sticks, stand-up comedian Carolyn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
"What are the implications of these stories?" That's the open question underlying "Lore," which, with only 15 biweekly episodes to its name, has hit the top 20 on the iTunes Top Podcast char…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Navarati Festival at Wesleyan University has been celebrating Indian music and dance with an annual slate of concerts, lectures, workshops and screenings for nearly four decades now. Hig…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
Once upon a time there was a magical land known as Old Lyme, in which delightful little forest creatures dwelled. They were chased from their homes by the noise and machines of the modern ag…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
The internationally renowned dance/movement troupe Pilobolus - formed at Dartmouth College in 1971 and based in Washington Depot ever since - has clung and stretched and crawled and clutched…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PM[SHARE]"Memphis the Musical" chronicles the birth of radio-friendly R&B music in the 1950s, replete with all the racism, corruption, deceptions, misunderstandings and - ahhhhh! - romance of the era.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
Chazz Palminteri has carved out a fine TV and movie career as a character actor, mostly in gangster roles. He also, whenever he feels likes it, returns to performing the one-man show that pu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM[SHARE]Dorrance Dance/New York, the troupe founded by accomplished tap dancer Michelle Dorrance in 2011, taps into a whole new consciousness of tap. The company performs some of its signature works…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM[SHARE]You can see Kathleen Madigan's latest comedy special, "Madigan Again," on Netflix. You can see Madigan again as a regular panelist on "The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore" on Comedy Central.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM[SHARE]The show that led to the creation of Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury was a December 1989 production of the wacky Catholic comedy "Nunsense."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
The Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival is well remembered in Hartford for its 2013 edition, when headliner Dave Chappelle walked offstage mid-set.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:48PM[SHARE]A lot of performers get called unpredictable, but just take a gander at John Leguizamo's resume:
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:42PM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Baltimore native Mike E. Winfield has told jokes on Letterman, Arsenio, Comedy Central, BET and Fuse, plus he had a memorable scene as an outspoken warehouse worker on "The Office."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Donald Margulies, the Pulitzer-winning playwright ("Dinner With Friends") who lives in New Haven and teaches at Yale, is receiving acclaim for his sensitive portrayal of writers in the film …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:09PM[SHARE]Eddie Izzard, the comedian, actor, activist and marathon runner whose TV and movie credits include "Ocean's Twelve," "Across the Universe," "Hannibal," "The Riches" and "Powers," has been to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AM[SHARE]Comedian Annie Lederman has lit up cable TV, from regular appearances on "Chelsea Lately" and "Girl Code" to the pilot for her own E! talk show.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
The Little Theatre of Manchester does a summertime production of Neil Simon's snowy, February-set New York walk-up apartment newlywed comedy "Barefoot in the Park."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
"How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!," says Gonzalo, in "The Tempest."
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