Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Come closer, kiddies, and gather round to listen to the sometimes wicked, sometimes wondrous and altogether off-center, youngster-empowering stories of Roald Dahl, who continues to enchant g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:31PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
The show: "The Liar" at Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Warm-weather theater highlights begin early with Hartford Stage's first big musical since "A Gentleman's Guide to Love
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:25AMWarm-weather theater highlights begin early with Hartford Stage's first big musical since "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," followed by the national tour of "Matilda" stopping by the S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:25AMMonday, May 4, 2015
Kristina Newman-Scott, Hartford's marketing, events and cultural affairs director, is now Connecticut's new director of culture.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:03PMSunday, May 3, 2015
Margaret Colin feels right at home in the White House.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
The show: "Elevada" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, April 30, 2015
Goodspeed Musicals gala fundraising event will have star power this year.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:12PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
The show: “Guys and Dolls” at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:41PMThursday, April 23, 2015
A new musical inspired by the legend of a surviving member of the Royal Romanov family will make its world premiere at Hartford Stage in the spring of 2016, making it the theater's first ori…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Don Stephenson knows "Guys and Dolls" inside and out. After all, his father-in-law — Frank Loesser — wrote the score.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:57PMDon Stephenson knows "Guys and Dolls" inside and out. After all, his father-in-law - Frank Loesser - wrote the score.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:57PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Late one night last year at New Haven's Anchor bar, playwright and TV writer Rolin Jones and his theater pals, jazzed by the excitement they were having with the "These Paper Bullets!" produ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMFriday, April 10, 2015
Late one night last year at New Haven's Anchor bar, playwright and TV writer Rolin Jones and his theater pals, jazzed by the excitement they were having with the "These Paper Bullets!" produ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:28AMSunday, April 5, 2015
The Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" has recouped its $7.5 million capitalization after playing in New York more than 16 months.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55PMFriday, April 3, 2015
Before there were drones, there were binoculars.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:31PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Anastasia Barzee will be Lilli/Kate (Broadway's "Urinetown") and Mike McGowan will be Fred/Petruchio (Broadway's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") in the Hartford Stage revival of Cole Po…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PMAnastasia Barzee will be Lilli/Kate (Broadway's "Urinetown") and Mike McGowan will be Fred/Petruchio (Broadway's "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") in the Hartford Stage revival of Cole Port…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PMThursday, March 26, 2015
The idea of the new play "brownsville song (b-side for tray)" began during the summer of 2012 when playwright Kimber Lee came across a one-page blog about a youth in the east side of Brookly…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:42PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Free outdoor concerts on the New Haven Green by Lucinda Williams, Darlene Love, Angélique Kidjo, Ibeyi, and Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra will be among the highlights of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMFriday, March 20, 2015
A world premiere of a play by Christopher Shinn set in a central Connecticut suburb will open the 2015-16 season in a newly renovated Hartford Stage this fall.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PMThree world premieres by a trio of female playwrights and directors — including a new work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel — are among the highlights of the 2015-16 season announc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PMThree world premieres by a trio of female playwrights and directors - including a new work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel - are among the highlights of the 2015-16 season announced f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Mona Golabek remembers taking piano lessons from her mother when she was a child and being told, "Each piece of music tells a story, Mona, but you have to discover what that story is."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
The Shubert Theatre in New Haven is ending its 100th anniversary season with an announcement of some major touring shows for its 101st .
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:25PMMonday, March 16, 2015
It will be an especially family-friendly Broadway series for Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:05PMThursday, March 5, 2015
It was yet another major winter snow storm when roads shut down, classes are canceled and events are postponed and yet here at Music Haven, a modest arts school tucked away between a pizza j…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:22PMSunday, February 22, 2015
In talking to Luke Macfarlane, the TV, film and stage actor, about furniture making, which is just one of his passions, you also get a window into his art, and his life.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Oh, to return to the days of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical in the '40s and '50s and '60s when future classics first got their acts together in out-of-town places like New Haven's Sh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:11AMThursday, February 12, 2015
"My best wish was to ignore it," says Hal Holbrook referring to his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 17. "I don't like the sound of 9-oh."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:37AM 
