Elaine Calder, Former Hartford Stage Exec, Gets Shaw Gig by Frank Rizzo

Elaine Calder, who was managing director of Hartford Stage during Michael Wilson ’s first few years as artistic director, is the new executive director of the Shaw Festival in Ni…

National Playwrights Conference Kicks Off At O'Neill Theater Center by Frank Rizzo

The National Playwrights Conference kicks off Wednesday, July 4 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford and continues through July 28.

National High School Musical Competition Headed To PBS by Frank Rizzo

Winners Announced This WeekThere’s something incredibly moving watching talented high school students perform in their annual musical theater shows. I was knocked out seeing these youn…

My Interview With Nora Ephron by Frank Rizzo

Sad news  about the death of Nora Ephron at 71.

Tina Fabrique Joins Cast at O'Neill Music Theater Confeerence by Frank Rizzo

Tina Fabrique, who starred in multiple productions of “Ella,” is featured in the cast of “A Good Man,” which will receive a staged reading Saturday, June 30; Sun…

Louis C.K. Skips Bushnell Box Office; Sells Tickets Directly To Fans by Frank Rizzo

Emmy Award and Grammy Award winning comedian Louis C.K. is cutting out the middle man — in this case Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts box office and its fees &mda…

Maureen Anderman Brilliant In Didion Play by Frank Rizzo

'The Year Of Magical Thinking' At Westport   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinki…

Blythe Danner Returns To Williamstown For 'The Blue Deep' by Frank Rizzo

After 12-Year Absence, Veteran Actress Returns To Festival   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageBlythe Danner feels right at home on…

Scottish Folk Tales Go To Hell In "Prudencia Hart" at International Festival by Frank Rizzo

  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: The National Theatre of Scotland's production of "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" a…

Michael Yeargan To Co-Lead Design At Yale School of Drama by Frank Rizzo

"Loved/Lost/Spaghetti" Extends TheaterWorks Run by Frank Rizzo

The run of TheaterWorks' world premiere of "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti" is extended a week. The Hartford show, orioginally slated to end July 7, will now end on July 14.

Pat Sajak In 'Odd Couple' At Jorgensen by Frank Rizzo

It might seem at first like an odd coupling: the puckish host of "Wheel of Fortune," one of the longe…

Gregg Edelman, Maria Tucci Head Play Reading In Westport by Frank Rizzo

Tony Award-nominated actors Gregg Edelman (Broadway's "City of Angels,' "1776" and "Into the Woods" and Maria Tucc i (Broadway's "The Rose Tattoo," "A Lesson from Aloes") head the cast i…

Hana S. Sharif, Christopher Baker To Leave Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Christopher Bake r, senior dramaturg, and Hana S. Sharif, associate artistic director, will leave Hartford Stage this month to pursue other facets of their careers, according to an annou…

First Impressions: "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti" at TheaterWorks in Hartford by Frank Rizzo

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Martin Short Comedy Show Slated For Bushnell by Frank Rizzo

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Martin Short will bring his comedy concert, "A Musical Evening of Comedy" to Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 13

Watching the Tonys? Root For The Home Players by Frank Rizzo

Yale's Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Hartt's Phillip Boykin Contenders   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageConnecticut theater fans will ha…

A Funny Life: Jim Dale In Solo Show At Long Wharf Theatre by Frank Rizzo

Search For Laughter Propelled Jim Dale's Varied Career   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageJim Dale guides his guests into the stud…

Sheldon Harnick To Speak at Berkshire's "Fiddler" by Frank Rizzo

Sheldon Harnick, the three-time Tony Award winning lyricist of such shows as "Fiddler on the Roof," "She Loves Me," "The Apple Tree" and "Fiorello!" will talk about his life and caree…

Marc Kudisch, Mark Nelson To Star In "Tartuffe" at Westport Playhouse by Frank Rizzo

Three-time Tony Award-nominatee Marc Kudisch will play the title role in Westport Country Playhouse ’s production of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” staged by David Kenn…

My Top 10 Shows On Connecticut Stages This Season by Frank Rizzo

'Water By the Spoonful,' 'February House' and 'Realistic Joneses' Tops I remember this time last year when it came time to review the theater season in Connecticut. I felt pretty discouraged…

HartBeat's 'FlipSide' To Play At NYC Fringe Festival by Frank Rizzo

Directed by Gregory R. TateHartBeat Ensemble 's production of "FlipSide," which premiered in downtown Hartford last fall, will be presented at the New York International Fringe Festival …

What To Look For During The Tony Awards Telecast by Frank Rizzo

Just How Many 'Smash' Jokes Will There Be?Things to watch for on Sunday's Tony Awards telecast:

'Water By the Spoonful' Named Best Play By Connecticut Critics Circle by Frank Rizzo

Also Musicals 'Into the Woods' and 'Show Boat'The Connecticut Critics Circle named Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning  “Water by the Spoonful” the best play of …

Gregory Tate, Co-Founding Artistic Director of Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble, Dies by Frank Rizzo

Gregory R. Tate, a co-founding artistic direcvtor of Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble, died Sunday night in a cancer center outside of Chicago. Tate, who was birn and raised in Chicago, was 6…

Kathleen Turner To Star, Direct "Killing of Sister George" at Long Wharf by Frank Rizzo

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Spaghetti And Love At Theaterworks by Frank Rizzo

  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageAs Rob Ruggiero stirs a simmering spaghetti sauce, adding a touch of this and that, Antoinette LaVecc…

'Venus in Fur,' 'Almost, Maine,' 'Time Stands Still' Top TheaterWorks season by Frank Rizzo

A libidinous audition, an encounter between Martoin Luther King Jr. and a mysterious motel maid, life among residents of a Maine community and returning war correspondents are some of the s…

Musical, With Book By Yale Grad Marina Keegan, Gets Fundraising Boost by Frank Rizzo

"Spring Awakening"'s Lilli Cooper Announced In CastEfforts to raise funds to produce "Independents," the musical with a book by Marina Keegan , the journalist-playwright who died in a car…

Marina Keegan Musical Headed To NYC Festival by Frank Rizzo

"Independents" Written By Yale Grad Who Died In Crash   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook Page"Independents," a folk rock musical writt…

'Come Fly Away': Sinatra and Tharp Their Way by Frank Rizzo

  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe Show: "Come Fly Away" at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford/