Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Playhouse on Park christened its new scene shop on Anderson Street in West Hartford Tuesday night with a holiday party.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:35PMTheater review: The holiday hit "Christmas on the Rocks" is live onstage at TheaterWorks through Jan. 4.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:42PMThe Bennet sisters from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" find a fresh romantic adventure in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley," at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford through Dec. 23.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:24PMThursday, December 2, 2021
A new "Cirque Dreams Holidaze" tour, with a musical theater style and over a dozen circus acts, is at the Oakdale in Wallingford Dec. 10-11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:41AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
New video displays outside The Bushnell are being used to showcase local artists.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, November 28, 2021
The movie bio "Pep," about legendary local boxer Willie Pep, filmed its final scenes Tuesday night at the Polish National Home of Hartford. The last scenes filmed were set in the 1960s offic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, November 27, 2021
The Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim died in his Connecticut home Friday. Several of his shows had their very first performances in Connecticut, and the state's theaters have staged his work…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:36AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
The Courant's arts picks for Nov. 28 through Dec. 4 include the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller and the Hartford Symphony.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PMHartford Stage keeps its tradition of holiday shows alive with "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play," Nov. 26 through Dec. 26.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:17PMMonday, November 22, 2021
The Wadsworth has a new board president, Gerard Lupacchino.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:38PMHow has the theatergoing experience changed since the end of the COVID shutdown? There are plenty of new rules and customs, but people are following them.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Two paintings by the 18th century Italian artist Rosalba Carriera have been loaned to the Wadsworth, where they have been reunited with the other two paintings in the same series, as part of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:51PMThe Christmas shows are upon us. A eclectic list of 25 upcoming holiday theater shows, dances and concerts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Joey Batts' "Hip Hop for the Homeless" series will return in December, for seven concerts in seven Connecticut cities, with proceeds going directly to homeless shelters in those cities.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:52PMThe calm, contemplative musical of cross-cultural harmony "The Band's Visit" is at The Bushnell through Nov. 21. It's a rare sort of sweet, human-sized musical that rarely comes around.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:23PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
The legendary freeform radio station WPKN is marking its move to a new studio near Bridgeport's Bijou Theater with a Nov. 19 gala featuring a premiere performance by komungo virtuoso Jin Hi …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:06PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Local artist Tao LaBossiere has created a massive mixed-media mural along the wall of The 224 EcoSpace in Asylum Hill.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PMFriday, November 12, 2021
"Doubt" at the Westport Playhouse raises questions about its choice of how to present John Patrick Shanley's award-winning drama about suspicions at a Catholic school.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:22PMThursday, November 11, 2021
"The Band's Visit" finally arrives at The Bushnell, Nov. 16-21. The Tony-winning musical was originally scheduled to hit Hartford in April 2020 and the tour was continually postponed due to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:33PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has split its accustomed leadership position of CEO/Director into two separate positions. It has made Jeffrey Brown the new CEO and is continuing the sea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
The movie "Pep" has been filming in Hartford for a week now. On Monday scenes were shot at St. Francis Hospital and at a private home in West Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMMonday, November 8, 2021
Stephen Graham Jones' "The Only Good Indians" has won the 2021 American Voice in Literature award from the Mark Twain House and Museum, which includes a cash prize of $25,000.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PM"Christmas on the Rocks" returns live this year to TheaterWorks Dec. 2-23, with two of the cast members from the 2019 and 2020 renditions, Ted Lange and Randy Harrison, and Jennifer Cody now…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:19AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
An HSO concert of American composers gets earthy, outrageous and invigorating.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:11PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
Sonia Plumb's new dance "Penelope's Dream," premiering Nov. 5 and 6 at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, takes Odysseus' patient wife from the Odysseus and makes her the central char…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:51PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Five upcoming Christmas movies were made in Connecticut, including one where Hartford was made up to resemble Harlem.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:05PM"Rent" is returning to The Bushnell, maybe for the last time in a while. The musical are downtown NYC bohemians in the early '90s plays Nov. 5-7.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PMEight small or mid-sized Connecticut arts organizations received $5,000 to $20,000 each, from the latest round of New England Arts Resilience Fund grants.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMFriday, October 29, 2021
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2022 season, a return to the usual format of three full musical theater productions. The shows next year are "Cabaret," the world premiere of "Ann…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:57PMThursday, October 28, 2021
"The Top Ten Book of Horror Lists," by Connecticut-based convention and tour promoter Charles Rosenay!!!, contains creepy contributions from dozens of celebrities. Most of them list their fa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:51PMThe 5x5 Dance Festival at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford had to go virtual last time, but returns for its 20th anniversary with live performances and master classes featuring …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:17PM 
