Monday, 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"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 10:37AMMonday, February 9, 2015
The show: "Familiar" at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AMFriday, February 6, 2015
NEW YORK CITY — The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the se…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMNEW YORK CITY - The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the sett…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMFriday, January 30, 2015
The show: “Dancing Lessons” at Hartford’s TheaterWorks.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMThe show: “Nice Work If You Can Get It” at Hartford’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMThe show: "Dancing Lessons" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMThursday, January 22, 2015
Danai Gurira is an amalgam of cultures, influences and identities that connects with the foreign as well as the familiar.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:13PMDanai Gurira is an amalgam of cultures, influences and identities that connects with the foreign as well as the familiar.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:13PMSunday, January 18, 2015
For most of her adult life, Paige Davis has been acting, singing and dancing in roles as varied as playing the feather duster in "Beauty and the Beast" to the fame-obsessed Roxie Hart in Bro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, January 15, 2015
The Mark Twain House & Museum will present "Twain On Stage Festival" that will present professional and local theater groups and performers, including Hal Holbrook at the Bushnell and The Ac…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PMSunday, January 11, 2015
If you think a married couple working together on a Noel Coward play about battling exes would be filled with tensions, bon mots, or at least a pitcher full of martinis, think again.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, January 8, 2015
The show: Dael Orlandersmith's "Forever" at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:03PMA show about the life and music of Tammy Wynette opens the 2015 season at the Essex's Ivoryton Playhouse.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:53AMMonday, December 29, 2014
Dael Orlandersmith is a familiar artist working on Long Wharf Theatre over the past decade or so, with "Yellowman," "The Gimmick" and "The Blue Album" (with David Cale) to her credits.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:04AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
What brings joy in the night and then disappears in a blink of an eye?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00PMSunday, December 7, 2014
On Thursday, Dec. 11, New Haven's Shubert Theatre will turn 100.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Everyone knows that Steve Martin is a very funny guy. Most might even know that he is a first-rate banjo musician and perhaps some are aware of his savvy work as a screen writer, novelist an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:21PMSunday, November 30, 2014
You're a theater-lover from Connecticut and you're taking a trip to Manhattan to catch some shows, or perhaps you're thinking of a holiday gift of tickets to someone. So you pick up a copy o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
In the late '70s, a new kind of touring show emerged, one that featured not one headliner but rather a quartet of female stars, each performing a set of songs as well as performing a number …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:49PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Tonya Pinkins says she's always been a kind of 'hmmmm' person.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:29PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Michael Gennaro, executive director of Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, R.I., is the new executive director of Goodspeed Musicals — its first new leader in nearly half a century.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AMThursday, October 30, 2014
What would you ask the wizard? Where did he get his magic? Is he returning to Oz anytime soon? And what do witches and nuns have in common?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:28PMThursday, October 23, 2014
The show: William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:37PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Want to know the ins and outs of the Broadway musical? Just ask Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:28PMFriday, October 17, 2014
The show: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:39PMThe show: "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
"It's been an emotional ride," says Christopher Gattelli who still gets moved when he talks about young people's responses to the Broadway musical "Newsies."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Six-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award-winner Audra McDonald will headline Long Wharf Theatre's 50th Anniversary Gala on June 5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:35PM 
