Wednesday, August 12, 2015
"How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!," says Gonzalo, in "The Tempest."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
"Man of La Mancha" has noble Connecticut roots. The musical, based on Dale Wasserman's adaptation of Cervantes' "Don Quixote," with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, premiered a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:53PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, which rehearses and performs on the grounds of the old American Shakespeare Festival Theatre site at 1850 Elm St., Stratford, is presenting its second t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Mo'Nique is a Grammy-winning comedian who has also been a sitcom star ("The Parkers"). She has written both a memoir and a cookbook. She has hosted talk shows both on radio and TV and create…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Why is Connecticut so circus-savvy? Well, there's the legacy of Bridgeport icon P.T. Barnum and his "Greatest Show on Earth" bombast. Traditional three-ring circuses continue to visit the st…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
Just weeks after the national tour of "Kinky Boots" played the Bushnell, here's the other gay-tolerance musical with book by Harvey Fierstein based on a European comedy. "La Cage Aux Folles,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
From his early stand-up career to his iconic sitcom "Seinfeld" and his latest success, the web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld has gained the lasting respect of his…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
ArtFarm has been presenting family-friendly outdoor Shakespeare in the Grove shows for a decade now. This year, the arts collective offers a "circus-infused version" of "A Midsummer Night's …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
The small theater hit "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti" was adapted by Hartford playwright Jacques LaMarre from the memoir by Giulia Melucci about how large a role food can play in stimula…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The "site-responsive, immersive" theater piece "Tomorrow the World" is based on Aldous Huxley's futuristic classic "Brave New World."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
How kinky is "Kinky Boots"? Not as kinky as you may think. For for all its talk of how sexy footwear can be (including a passionate discourse on the allure of bright red, and a song called "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
The Yale Institute for Music Theater was founded in 2009 specifically to give a leg up to young composers, lyricists and book writers who were fresh out of graduate programs and needed a sup…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The Yale Institute for Music Theater was founded in 2009 specifically to give a leg up to young composers, lyricists and book writers who were fresh out of graduate programs and needed a sup…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
The Yale Center for British Art is known for its collection of paintings by J.M.W. Turner. Several are now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery while the YCBA is undergoing renovations…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
It's common to say that ensemble theater projects "grow organically" out of shared tastes and concerns for the subject matter. "Cry You One" takes that organic ideal to an extreme. The proje…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Mark Morris has been a world-renowned choreographer for over three decades. But he is now also well recognized as an opera director, a natural step for an artist who cares so much about musi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:32PM[SHARE]Mark Morris has been a world-renowned choreographer for more than three decades. But he is now also well recognized as an opera director, a natural step for an artist who cares so much about…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:32PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
The Yale Summer Cabaret opened its season with "Midsummer," which Sara Holdren, the company's artistic director, and Rachel Carpman, its associate artistic director, have adapted from Shakes…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
"The Crucible," by longtime Roxbury resident and world-renowned playwright Arthur Miller, deftly takes a propagandistic political issue from his own career " the red-baiting attacks of Sen. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:01PM[SHARE]"The Crucible," by longtime Roxbury resident and world-renowned playwright Arthur Miller, deftly takes a propagandistic political issue from his own career - the red-baiting attacks of Sen. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:01PM[SHARE]So many stage musicals have been adapted from movies these days that it's rare to find one that actually brings something new to the table. "Once" " adapted by edgy Irish playwright Enda Wal…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Big Jay Oakerson is a long-form jokester, telling involved stories about racism, daytime TV, sex, and why he refuses to travel to England ("Your country stinks"). His recent album is titled,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" won a Pulitzer Prize and popularized a new genre of memoir. The New York-based writer and artist's other work runs the gamut from '70s underground comix…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Carolyn Kirsch, who danced for Bob Fosse and was in the original Broadway cast of Michael Bennett's "A Chorus Line," has been doing small theater projects in Connecticut for decades.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
When "Camelot" was first conjured up 45 years ago, it must have felt bracingly fresh and fun-loving, even a bit saucy. It was composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's follow-u…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
First there was the Flapper Age of free-minded young women in the 1920s. Thirty years later, that era inspired 1956 London musical called "Chrysantheum." It waited more than 10 years to be t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
"America's Got Downton" … and the Downton they've got is just one silly British guy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:11AM[SHARE]"America's Got Downton" Â… and the Downton they've got is just one silly British guy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
"Next to Normal," the acclaimed pop/rock musical about a middle-aged woman's bipolar disorder by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (who went on to write "If/Then"), has begun a three-weekend run at …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:47PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
You don't have to know how to block an opponent at the snap to enjoy "Playing the Assassin"; the play shows you how, in elegant slow motion and up-close body-slamming action.
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