Tom Cridland, a British fashion entrepreneur, learned piano as a way to stop drinking and has turned his love for Elton John into a tribute act, which performs Aug. 21 at Simsbury Meadows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Aug. 18-24 features legendary rock, blues and hip-hop double bills, rapper Childish Gambino and pop-punk artist Avril Lavigne.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLegendary rockabilly band Stray Cats ends its current reunion tour in Bridgeport at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater on Aug. 17.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDozens of major comic book talents, movie and TV stars, and even some wrestlers, are the special guests at this year's TerrifiCon at Mohegan Sun Expo Center Aug. 16-18.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Aug. 11-17 include Canadian pop stars and a rapper, Keanu Reeves and Dogstar and comedians Fred Armisen, Zarna Garg and Shane Gillis.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM“Ask for the Moon," a new musical farce at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre, is making the theater world safe again for jokes about Nazi-styled villains, dirty old men and mangled …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Chameleons are coming to the Space Ballroom on Friday with a live rendition of its 1986 "Strange Times" album. The British post-punk band has also been working on new recordings.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThere’s a nice range of Country and loud rock music this week on Connecticut stages. Dierks Bentley is at Mohegan Sun, Roseanne Cash is at Ridgefield Playhouse and there’s a strong Ameri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMIt’s August already, but it’s feeling a lot like June – national Pride Month – or maybe September or October, which is when Hartford holds many Pride events. There are numerous LGBTQ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe last few weeks have been an intense period of political theater, the kind that comes from the political side of that well-worn phrase. We’ve had one major party convention with another…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMGoodspeed Musicals, the famed East Haddam theater institution that specializes in classic and brand new American musicals, has announced that its current (and first-ever) managing director D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"School of Rock: The Musical," featuring a live band of local 11 and 12 year olds, will be performed Aug. 2-11 at the Warner Stage Company in Torrington.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:05PMThe Turtles, now featuring singer Ron Dante of The Archies, brings its latest "Happy Together" tour to the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford on Aug. 3.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThis week's Courant arts picks offer a throwback to the '70s, '80s and '90s with Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul, DJ Jazzy Jeff, SWV, Xscape and Slash.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe 2024 Great Hartford Shakespeare Festival's presentations of "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew" mixes enthusiastic amateurs with some striking performances in the lead roles.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAs the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz ends, half a dozen other big Connecticut music festivals are ready to go from Black-Eyed & Bluesfest to Jam at the Dam to the Charles Ives Music …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"The One Who," a spiritual, socially conscious outdoor theater experience from Marcella Trowbridge, has two performances at The Sanctuary in East Haddam on July 27.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for July 21-27 include comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Vicki Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, blink-182, Sammy Hagar and Loverboy and Phish.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMUConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs has announced its fall 2024 season of concerts, children's theater shows, comedy and more.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA new Christmas-themed Cirque du Soleil will play Nov. 29 through Dec. 8 at a venue the company has never visited before, the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"The Prom" is another strong summer musical choice for Playhouse on Park, and the final show of the theater’s 2023-24 season.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThree-actor, opera-loving musical comedy "Ask for the Moon" debuts at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester July 19 through Aug. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWhen Benj Gershman picks up his bass to play with O.A.R. on July 21 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, you can see it as another jam but also as a personal triumph.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMDirector Chay Yew brings a special down-to-earth feel to Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1949 hit "South Pacific," at the Goodspeed Opera House through Aug. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for July 14-20 include comedian Kevin Hart, the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, the Hartford Latino Fest and Joshua Quimby's Back Home Fest.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLegendary British band Duran Duran, which continues to release new albums and shake up its set lists, will play Mohegan Sun Arena on Oct. 25.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:38AMA documentary about Max Corvo, who lived in Middletown and conducted espionage missions in Italy during World War II, will be screened Wednesday at Middletown High School.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe LGBTQ-themed musical comedy "The Prom" is the summer musical offering at Playhouse on Park. The show was a hit on Broadway in 2018 and was made into a movie in 2020.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe popular biographical revue "Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie" returns to TheaterWorks Hartford for a three-week run July 13-28.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMConnecticut, with its wide range of historic rail museums with operational locomotives and trolleys, is featuring a number of special train events in July.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBands announced for this year's free Hartford Live series outside the Old State House include The New Pornographers, Ripe and Connecticut's own Max Creek and Eggy.
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