Thursday, May 26, 2022
Michael Yeargan receiving a CCC Award from 2019’s ceremony, Photo by Mara Lavett,
After a three-year hiatus, the Connecticut Cr…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:47PMThe show: The musical “Cabaret” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
What makes it special?: It’s rare that Goodspeed presents something so seeming sexy and edgy (but really, it’…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:09PMAll Photos by Mike Marques. HUNTER RYAN HERDLICKA, BLAIR LEWIN and DANIEL JOSÉ MOLINA
The show: “Zoey’s Perfect Wedding” at …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:36PMMonday, May 23, 2022
Now where were we?
Ah, yes, sharing some pithy thoughts on shows that have opened this season for those Connecticut folks who want to take in a Broadway show after a long period of being wit…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:41PMSunday, May 22, 2022
Ah, May. Blossoms may be blooming around Connecticut but that’s nothing like the shows that are bursting forth in New York City and that are now vying for Tony Awards and other end-of-sea…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:24PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Sometimes being nice has its rewards.
Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film “Mr. Saturday Night,” which Billy Crystal starred…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:56PMMonday, April 25, 2022
“You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?” asks Beanie Feldstein’s Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star’s past waft in and out in a kin…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:34AMMonday, April 18, 2022
All photos are by T. Charles Erickson
The show: “Lost in Yonkers” at Hartford Stage
What makes it special?: Pulitzer Prize and …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:40AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Photos by Carol Rosegg
The show: “Next to Normal”
What is it?: A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical. This is the sec…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:23PMFinancial realities — not just artistic re-envisioning — triggered the Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre’s announcement in March that it will leave the physical complex it has call…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:08AMThursday, April 14, 2022
Photo by Joan Marcus
The show: “Choir Boy” by Tarell Alvin McCraney
What its it?: A drama with music that was a highlight of th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:43AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg’s “Take Me Out,” his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:29PMSunday, March 1, 2020
Alan Rust has led the theater division at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford for more than 20 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMTo get in the mood for Hartford Stage’s upcoming production (March 19-April 19) of “The King’s Speech” — David Seidler’s play on which the 2010 film and his Oscar-winning screenp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Years after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, “Good Faith” checks in on a wounded city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Critics raved over Anika Noni Rose’s “lava-hot” performance this summer playing the title role in the off-Broadway musical revival of “Carmen Jones,” Oscar Hammerstein’s 1943 mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
The show: The Elm Shakespeare Company presents a free outdoor show of “Love's Labour’s Lost” — a rarely produced early Shakespeare play — through Sept. 2 in Edgerton Park. First im…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMMonday, August 13, 2018
The unexpected exit of a lead actor in Goodspeed Musicals’ “Cyrano,” starring “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage has cause the production to cancel some performances and premat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PMThursday, June 7, 2018
When Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the ‘60s TV series. “I wanted to be …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, April 13, 2018
It’s now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn’t go on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Several times a year a new Clive Cussler book is released, followed by a full-page ad in the New York Times and then a speedy trip to the top of the best-sellers list. The books, with their …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
The company honored its milestone last weekend with visits from past figures who lauded its history while expressing concern for regional theater’s future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMMonday, May 9, 2016
This French singer-songwriter and actor wrote the score for this show, which opens this week in New Haven and features a crew of major Broadway names.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMSunday, February 28, 2016
We sit backstage at a performance of Noises Off to find out.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
The show that was cut short on Broadway and never made its Off-Broadway transfer, goes on tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 14, 2016
What does it take to make love work? The famous Hollywood duo that tugged at heartstrings decades ago reunites onstage in Love Letters to tell a different love story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 29, 2015
It's been a hell of a theatrical run. After nearly 34 years, I am bringing the curtain down on my role as full-time theater writer for The Hartford Courant to pursue other cool projects.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Gone is the barber chair from the executive office at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, a seat of power, prestige and playfulness that became synonymous with the theater's longtime l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Fiasco Theatre is a feisty young theater company that has enchanted critics and audiences with a series of shows off-Broadway. Its acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Stephanie Zimbalist is no demanding diva for the Seven Angels Theatre production of "Living on Love" in Waterbury. At least off-stage, the star of the '80s hit TV series "Remington Steele" �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:34PM 
