Wednesday, October 26, 2022
The 2022 Hartford Fringe Festival is in its final days. The Courant reviewed several shows, some of which are scheduled for repeat performances, and the winners of an audience vote for Best …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:33PM"From the Mississippi Delta" is an elaborate staging of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland's autobiographical drama about coming of age during the 1960s civil rights struggle. The play is at Westpo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Director Jackson Gay and a well-picked cast of eight actors have taken a genre that these days is only known from parodies (think “Clue: On Stage”) and remind us why plays like this work…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:27AMSunday, October 23, 2022
The Courant's arts picks for this week include a reunited Dead Boys at Cafe Nine, live Halloween-themed concerts by Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Morricone Youth and the Hartford Fringe Fe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
The fall dance season in Connecticut welcomes the touring acts Ailey II and Garth Fagan Dance and big events at Wesleyan and the University of St. Joseph before yielding to a number of "Nutc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Screenings and live stagings of "Rocky Horror" have returned for the Halloween season. Among them is full staging of the original rock musical in Milford and a screening/shadow show hosted b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Choreographers' Showcase, which lets high school student dancers work with professional choreographers from major modern dance companies, returns for…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
The Hartford Fringe Festival is back, offering theater, storytelling, standup, cabaret, hip-hop, youth theater, opera, improv and more from Oct. 20-30 at the Carriage House theater on Farmin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, October 17, 2022
Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" gets a stunning, unnerving revival at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Oct. 29, directed by the theater's longtime artistic director James …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 15, 2022
“Feeding the Dragon,” a play that helped forge a stronger bond between Hartford Stage and Hartford Public Library five years ago, has inspired a new documentary that’s getting a local …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, October 14, 2022
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2023 season, including "Gypsy," Dreamgirls," "Summer Stock" and "The 12."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PM"Fun Home," the musical based on Alison Bechdel's "family tragicomic" graphic novel memoir, is at TheaterWorks Hartford through Oct. 30. The production unfortunately loses its plot and its b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
The late Angela Lansbury's long career as a stage performer included numerous appearances in Connecticut, including the U.S. premiere of two Edward Albee plays at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:04PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Agatha Christie's classic mystery "The Mousetrap" opens the Hartford Stage 2022-23 season beginning Wednesday through Nov. 6. It is directed by Yale graduate Jackson Gay, who describes "The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, October 8, 2022
The first Hartford Symphony Orchestra concert of the 2022-23 Masterworks season, "American Adventures," gives works by George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé and Aaron Copland the jazziness or folkin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMFriday, October 7, 2022
A new, carefully downsized version of the lavish musical "42nd Street," based on the 1933 movie about a new musical having troubles on its way to Broadway, is at the Goodspeed Opera House th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
HartBeat Ensemble is staging a revelatory revival of Athol Fugard's mid-1980s apartheid drama "My Children! My Africa!" through Oct. 9. The same director and cast first did the show in 2016 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
"Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" gives a balanced musical and dramatic portrayal of jazz legend Billie Holiday late in her career. Playhouse on Park's production of Lanie Robertson's …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:43PMMonday, October 3, 2022
TheaterWorks Hartford's new production of the musical "Fun Home" features a range of artistic images projected onto the show's lush funeral home setting. The show, directed by Rob Ruggiero, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:10PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Despite some technical difficulties, "Mean Girls the Musical" is a solid, worthy adaptation of the Tina Fey movie, though it tries to cram in too much of the plot and ups the number of posit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:56PMMonday, September 26, 2022
"Mean Girls the Musical" is at The Bushnell through Oct. 2. Prepare for it with some trivia about the differences between the movie and the play, what is the same and what's next for The Pla…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:22PM"The Purple Warp," one of the first mini-zines of the 1970s, is marking its 50th anniversary with a series of reprints. Alan Greenier published "The Purple Warp" as a teenager in Terryville.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, September 25, 2022
As the 2022 fall theater season kicks off in Connecticut, here are The Courant's 10 shows to look forward to, from "The Mousetrap" to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
Randy Skinner, who has been involved with every major production of the stage musical "42nd Street," is directing and choreographing a new, more "intimate" version of the show for the Goodsp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
The fourth annual Hartford Book Festival takes place at the Hartford Public Library and the Free Center. The local literary gathering includes readings from a variety of Connecticut writers …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:11PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Underground comics pioneer Diane Noomin, who died this month, remained a powerful feminist voice in comics for decades. Part of the legendary San Francisco comics scene in the 1970s, Noomin …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:34AM"Our Town: Simsbury," a modern contemporary drama about the Connecticut town in 2018 with a nod to Thornton Wilder’s classic drama, is premiering at Simsbury's Eno Memorial Hall on Thursda…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:23AMSunday, September 18, 2022
The Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum has assembled a cutting-edge exhibit of contemporary glass art. "Fired Up: Glass Today" is on display through Feb. 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 16, 2022
The Hartford Dance Collective's interpretation of songs by The Beatles with a live accompaniment from the Meadows Brothers band will take place on Saturday at the Mortensen Riverfront Plaza …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
The latest Connecticut HorrorFest convention scares up panel discussions on "Friday the 13th" series, "The Haunting of Hill House," "Re-Animator" and the original "Night of the Living Dead,"…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Singer-songwrite Jill Sobule returns to the Mark Twain House for a solo concert in the house itself, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:52PM 
