Sunday, July 13, 2025
The newly acquired Stephen Sondheim collection at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. contains working drafts of many of his famous songs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe movie musical, directed by Evan Hoffmann and choreographed by Robert Mintz, is a refreshed version of the classic film featuring with an ensemble of just eight people.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMSaturday, July 12, 2025
The gallery's exhibit, "Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England," makes the 18th century artist's prison drawings and vivid illustrations seem modern.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for July 13-19 include arena rocker, 90s wonders, country crooners and classical concerts at Music Mountain and Simsbury Meadows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
A three-week concert series of major pop, hip-hop and reggaeton acts plus food and cultural events will take place starting this Thursday at Mill River Park in Stamford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, July 6, 2025
"Invitation to Engage: 60 Years of Long Wharf Theatre & Beyond," on display at the New Haven Museum through February, spotlights the company's connections with the city.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFrom classical music to the blues to pickles, here are 10 of the best Connecticut festivals to check out in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMSaturday, July 5, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for July 6-12 feature an outdoor orchestra, comedians, author Candace Bushnell, 1980s pop stars and a slew of death metal bands.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMReplay Records, which has served vinyl LP collectors and other music fans for 36 years, is closing its storefront at the end of July and will be selling records online instead.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra will provide live orchestral accompaniment for this year's Connecticut Ballet production of "The Nutcracker" for the first time in almost 20 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:01AMThe three main productions of the 2025-26 Westport Country Playhouse season are "The Importance of Being Earnest," "Primary Trust" and "Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, June 29, 2025
The Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festivals continues its new format of alternate performances of two shows as other outdoor companies offer everything from "Hamlet" to "As You Like It."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThis summer the center offers two new musicals getting their first public readings and a slew of cabaret performers trying out their new full-length concert acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMSaturday, June 28, 2025
Hans Holbein the Younger's famous "Portrait of Henry VIII" is on loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Italy.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for June 29 through July 5 include British rockers, Celine Dion and Lady Gaga and Whitney Houston impersonators and an annual Fourth of July concert.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
The 2025 International Festival of Arts & Ideas runs through June 28 in New Haven, including the final performances of the original family drama "Family Business: (A)Pizza Play" produced…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:06AMMonday, June 23, 2025
Gabe McKinley's "Long Days," a comedy about performing Eugene O’Neill’s downer of a drama “Long Day’s Journey Into Night," is having its world premiere at the Legacy Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, June 22, 2025
The festival features Khruangbin, Cake, Bleachers, Sammy Rae & the Friends, Steel Pulse and 10 other major music acts, plus a new second stage with eight local acts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDaniel Goldstein, who was part of the creative team when the musical premiered at Goodspeed Musicals in 2004, is directing a new version to mark the 20th anniversary of its Broadway run.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, June 21, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for June 22-28 includes a handful of metal banks including Incubus, indie pop bands Friendship and 2nd Grade, the violin trio Sons of Mystro and comedians Marlon Way…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, June 20, 2025
British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier is the first announced booking for 2025-26 season at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:21AMThursday, June 19, 2025
The internationally recognized event is a time when musicians of all kinds are encouraged to perform in their communities.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season of five plays. This is the final season to be planned under the leadership of James Bundy, who has led the Yale Rep as well as the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMThe Palace Theater in Waterbury recently announced the six shows in its 2025-25 Broadway season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
The Hartford Stage's season ends with the Madeleine George comedy about a mythic figure who seduces several women in modern-day New Jersey as a means of environmental activism.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:48AMMonday, June 16, 2025
Stevie Nicks will end her 2025 tour in Hartford with an Oct. 25 show at the PeoplesBank Arena, formerly the XL Center, in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMSunday, June 15, 2025
The 38th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, presented by OutFilm CT, celebrates Pride month with 90 films and shorts, some with in-person screening and others online.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMJoyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller "Fox" at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Shubert Theatre in New Haven unveiled a new mural by Eric March that celebrates its history with a montage of artists who performed at the venue before triumphing on Broadway.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:15AMSaturday, June 14, 2025
The decorative arts exhibit, showing through mid-July at the Wadsworth Atheneum & Museum in Hartford, covers centuries of the city's history and culture.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for June 15-21 include rock and blues legends, instrumental ensembles, comedy acts and Broadway cabaret performers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AM 
