Monday, February 12, 2024
The Lindsay Joelle buddy comedy/drama "The Garbologists" at TheaterWorks Hartford delivers a neat and tidy play about two troubled sanitation workers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:46AM[SHARE]West Hartford native Arielle Haller-Silverstone used her experiences running a small business as the basis for her new romantic comedy "Love... Reconsidered."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
Connecticut is breaking out into dance, with Connecticut Ballet's latest Valentine's concert, two modern dance companies at UConn and a Misty Copeland-hosted "Cinderella."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
The Courant's arts picks from Feb. 11-17 include the metal bands 311, Sevendust and Static-X, the comic rock band Wolves of Glendale and the Celtic punk act Flogging Molly.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
After some rough years, comedian Kathy Griffin is back on the road for the first time in six years with her "My Life on the PTSD-List" tour, coming to The Bushnell Feb. 17
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
A three-day "Gilmore Girls" fan convention that has been happening for a decade returns to Connecticut this year, Oct. 18-20, in Guilford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Janet Lawler's new children's book, "There's No Place Like Hope," universalizes the need to overcome the feeling of hopelessness with hope.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
The cello/guitar duo Boyd Meets Girl, featuring West Hartford native Laura Metcalf, joins the Hartford Symphony to premiere a new concerto at the upcoming "Enduring Love Stories" concert.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Broadway musical "Frozen" is at The Bushnell in Hartford Feb. 4-18. The show features a large cast, major special effects and two characters portrayed by puppets.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 3, 2024
A national tour of "Company" drops the New York pretense for a frisky, often wildly comic take on Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 musical about love and marriage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 4-10 includes music from Connecticut-rooted acts Sammy Rae, Funky Dawgz, Jelly and Red Matter and a local rendition "The Gentleman's Guide to Love & Mur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
Too many clashing plots and themes clutter Kate Hamill's "Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson: Apt. 2B," at Playhouse on Park in which the sleuth and sidekick are played as modern-day women.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2024
"Simona's Search" by MartÃn Zimmerman is an intense family drama about self-discovery at Hartford Stage through Feb. 11.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
"The Garbologists," a two-character comedy about New York sanitation workers, is at TheaterWorks Hartford Feb. 1-25.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Broadway star Judy McLane is on tour playing Joanne in "Company," coming to the Shubert Theatre in New Haven from Jan. 31 through Feb. 4.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 28 through Feb. 3 include an Elton John tribute, pianist Brad Mehldau, the Metalcore Dropouts tour and comedian Ari Shaffir.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2024
My Morning Jacket, Celisse, Ozomatli, The Suffers and Vincent Lima were added to the lineup for June's Capitol Groove music festival in Hartford's Bushnell Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:54PM[SHARE]Melia Bensussen tabbed to run the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center while remaining artistic director at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a total of $200,000 in grants to 12 Connecticut arts organizations, including the Amistad Center in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Some movies nominated for Academy Awards on Tuesday are still in local theaters, playing on big screens. Here's where to catch them in Connecticut.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:10PM[SHARE]At least 10 people who received Oscar nominations Tuesday have connections to Connecticut, whether they grew up here, lived here or worked here.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
Before he was a movie star, Paul Giamatti starred on the star at Yale. Here are some of Courant writer Christopher Arnott's most memorable Giamatti performances.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]A new comedy mystery from Kate Hamill takes the male-dominated story of Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson and flips the script at Playhouse on Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2024
TheaterWorks Hartford named Jeff Griffin its first managing director. Griffin has held similar positions at theaters in New York City and Washington D.C.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM[SHARE]This week's Courant arts picks include a female-focused Ramones tribute act, rocker Grace Potter and stand-up comedians Sommore and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
Local filmmaker Gary Hochman's documentary "Deadly Deception at Sobibor," about the excavation of a Nazi extermination site, is screening Sunday at the Mandell JCC.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]FIDLAR frontman Zac Carper talks about the band's new approach to touring and recording, memories of New Haven and his recovery from substance abuse.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
The national tour stop of the Broadway hit "Hairspray" at the Palace Theater in Waterbury benefited from being rough and earthy instead of slick and shiny.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Three new musicals, including "A Complicated Woman" and "Ask for the Moon," will be workshopped at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester this year.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The Connecticut Emerge Festival is returning after nearly a decade off with a new goal of buying time in a professional recording studio for local musicians.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:03AM[SHARE]A new leg of Janet Jackson's Together Again tour has been announced, including a June 29 date at the Xfinity Theater in Hartford.
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