The Bushnell is having great success with its current Broadway season, setting new records for the highest grossing weeks in the theater's history.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's review of Connecticut theater in 2024 celebrates fantastic effects from such shows as "Frozen," "Fever Dreams," "A View from the Bridge" and "The Wolfman."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMany holiday productions may have come and gone, but others are waiting to work their magic as close to Christmas Day as possible. Here are 12 to get you in the spirit.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMJohn Gromada’s music and sound effects grace two very different visions of “A Christmas Carol” at Hartford Stage and Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Christmas week, Dec. 22-29, include concerts from Trey Songz, Kool & The Gang, Morris Day and The Time and Third Eye Blind.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe 12th annual "Christmas on the Rocks" at TheaterWorks Hartford contains a new opening bit, a new scene and is as funny and festive as ever.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"A Sherlock Carol," at Westport Country Playhouse for eight performances Dec. 17-22, brings together two of the most popular characters in literary history.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA wild, adventurous and earsplitting arts weekend at Wesleyan was just what this writer needed to cleanse the palette during the season of holiday shows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Dec. 15-21 include concerts by revered local acts Christine Ohlman and Javier Colon and a Christmas spectacular with renowned vocalist Andrea Bocelli.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe series will return to the Center for Contemporary Culture space in the main downtown library building after it was moved this year following serious flooding at the library.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical" at West Hartford's Playhouse on Park is strange, unfettered and full of holiday fun.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMKhruangbin, Thundercat and Connecticut's own Sammy Rae & The Friends are also among the 14 bands for the 2025 Capitol Groove Music Festival in Bushnell Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PMThe Broadway musical "MJ," at The Bushnell through Dec. 15, offers a deep, dark look at a musical icon without losing its desire to be entertaining.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMHartford Stage, which debuted its adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in 1998, continues to keep the show fresh and magical.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMany of this year's Golden Globe nominees have performed, lived or gone to school in Connecticut. Here are ones to watch.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PMOver a dozen different dance companies are performing Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" ballet in Connecticut on the weekend of Dec. 13-15.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"MJ the Musical," at The Bushnell in Hartford from Dec. 10-15, offers live renditions of Michael Jackson's lifetime of hit songs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Ivoryton Playhouse will start its 2025 season with "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," followed by "Tea at Five," about Katharine Hepburn, as well as four other plays.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Dec. 8-14 include Big Time Rush on Ice, Macaulay Culkin screening "Home Alone," R&B legend Babyface and hot jazz combo Squirrel Nut Zippers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA star-studded cast including Tony Shalhoub, David Strathairn and Jill Eikenberry will perform in a reading of Elizabeth Diggs' play at the Mark Twain House & Museum in January.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:40AMThe Legacy Theatre in Branford has announced its 2025 season, which includes a drama, a comedy, a musical, a song revue and the return of the Sunday Broadway series.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:03AM"'Twas the Night Before...," Cirque du Soleil's first Christmas-themed show, looks different than a lot of the company's other tours but has its own colorful chaotic style.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:28AMJoey Batts' annual series of Hip Hop for the Homeless benefit concerts has hit another plateau, with 10 events happening in Connecticut and Massachusetts between Dec. 5 and 21.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWhitney White returns to New Haven to star in her distinctive take on a Shakespeare classic, "Macbeth in Stride," at the Yale Repertory Theatre Dec. 5-14.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThere are plenty of "Nutcracker" ballets happening around the state, but there are also several dance events on the weekend of Dec. 5-8 that are spreading holiday cheer.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThis year there's a wide range of Scrooges from immersive shows to musicals with songs by the composer of “The Little Mermaid” to one starring an actor from “Cheers.”
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Dec. 1-7 include stand-up comedy from Taylor Tomlinson and Tony Rock and live shows from the podcasts "Stiff Socks" and "Giggly Squad."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWest Hartford's April May Webb, who is in the local jazz duo S.O.A.R., was recently named the winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition in New Jersey.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"Christmas on the Rocks" returns to TheaterWorks Hartford Nov. 29 through Dec. 22 with a familiar cast but without one long-familiar scene.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Twas the Night Before…,” a holiday-themed Cirque du Soleil spectacular that has never played in Connecticut, is coming to the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford Nov. 29 through Dec. 8.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Nov. 24-30 include legendary local acts like Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez, Max Creek and the participants in Dean Falcone's annual Vomitorium show.
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