Thursday, June 22, 2017
The works of William Shakespeare have been around for about 500 years. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," a popular multistyled comic romp through those works, has been …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Ancient battles among gods will mingle with modern mortal realities when celebrated English storyteller Neil Gaiman returns to The Bushnell July 10. Gaiman has written some of the finest fan…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"Fun Home" is where the heart is. The national tour of "Fun Home" is a large, rich production of a musical known for its small, tender moments. It concerns a young woman coming of age and co…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
TheaterWorks has announced its 2017-18 season. All of the playwrights are new to TheaterWorks, but some are well-known from other theaters in Connecticut. The season opens in October with "T…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, June 15, 2017
"Fun Home" is the consummate "alternative" comic that became a maverick Broadway musical. The national tour of the show comes to The Bushnell June 20 through 25. The original format for "Fun…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMA.R. "Pete" Gurney not only lived in Connecticut, he became one of the most produced playwrights at the state's regional theaters. The eminent dramatist died Tuesday at the age of 86. He had…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
"(Be)Longing" belongs to two well-established traditions at New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas: it's a world premiere, and it tackles provocative social issues. The show, whi…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIn his native Mexico, Hiram Marina is a well-known theater director and producer who's helmed shows involving more than a hundred performers at once, for audiences that numbered in the tens …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Tony Awards were given Sunday night to several Broadway shows that were first seen or developed at Connecticut theaters. Rebecca Taichman won for directing "Indecent," the klezmer-scored his…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:08AMFriday, June 9, 2017
An insecure writer named Lucia is settling into her first real job, at a big TV studio. She shares her hopes and fears with a custodian, Abel, who comes in regularly to change the liners in …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, June 8, 2017
For nearly all of its 22-year existence, New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has been known for creating strong working relationships with the artists it presents. It arrange…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:35AMMonday, June 5, 2017
"Motown the Musical" is an ensemble drama roiling with temptations, miracles and all those other fantastic Detroit groups of the 1960s and '70s. The central characters in the musical are Ber…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:56AMMany aspects of the 2017 International Festival of Arts & Ideas will seem familiar — well-known bands playing for thousands of people on the New Haven Green, world-premiere music and theat…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
Tina Landau says she got involved with the new musical "Deathless" "roughly six months ago. I forget." She laughs. "In this show, time has no meaning." "Deathless" is a new musical at Goodsp…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:35AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
It's good to be "The King & I." The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that introduced the songs "I Whistle a Happy Tune," "Getting to Know You," "I Have Dreamed" and "Shall We Dance?" was give…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:01AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Rodgers and Hammerstein are busier in Connecticut now than they were 60 or 70 years ago, when their musicals routinely had out-of-town try-outs at the Shubert in New Haven. Tours of "Cindere…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Darko Tresnjak is looking forward to taking a break this summer. Hartford Stage's much-lauded artistic director spent the winter crafting his knockabout version of Shakespeare's "Comedy of E…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:51PMFriday, May 5, 2017
"Anastasia" is on the move again. The producers of the Broadway musical, which had its world premiere at Hartford Stage a year ago, announced plans Friday for the show to be seen internation…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:09PMCome on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. Shuffle off to Buffalo while you're at it. Mostly, enjoy the serendipity of hearing dozens of performers sing "We're in the Money" at a c…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, May 4, 2017
You never know who's going to walk into your restaurant. "The Most Beautiful Room in New York," a new musical premiering at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven through May 28, has some fasci…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Anastasia didn't get much recognition from the Tony Award nominating committees Tuesday morning. But her grandmother did all right. Mary Beth Peil was nominated for Best Featured Actress in …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:11AMMonday, May 1, 2017
"The whole point of communication," Alan Alda muses, "is not about what you have to say. It's about how you say it." The celebrated actor, writer, director, science advocate and activist sha…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:57AMThursday, April 27, 2017
"It's kind of a crazy story." No, it's actually very much like the story of the musical you're starring in. "Thoroughly Modern Millie," which opens Goodspeed Musicals' 2017 season, is the st…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 05:11PMSomebody left a light on at Infinity Hall in Hartford. Moths are circling. George Dawes Green, (pictured) who founded the groundbreaking live storytelling series "The Moth," is a special gue…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:58PMTommy Tune walks among the gods. He's that tall. And he dances so well. I've watched Tommy Tune pace the back of theater on opening night of a show he worked on. I've seen him command the st…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:58PMThe May 6 Connecticut Forum event at The Bushnell will feature Alan Alda instead of the previously announced film director and producer Rob Reiner. The other scheduled guest in the forum, fi…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, April 24, 2017
In its yearlong journey from Hartford to Broadway, "Anastasia" has found itself. When this sweet-natured musical of self-discovery premiered a year ago at Hartford Stage, it was just as lush…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:00PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Connecticut has welcomed some remarkable tours of the iconic 1990s New York starving-artist rock musical "Rent" over the years. When the first national tour played The Bushnell in 1998, it s…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:41PMLadies and gentlemen, two circuses cross paths in Hartford the same week — one, a new, modern vision of what a circus must have been like 114 years ago; the other among the final performan…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:38AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
When the Tony Award nominations are announced May 3, Connecticut will rejoice. So many Broadway shows this season had world premieres, readings or workshops in the state that some warm refle…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:11PMYou think you know Shrek? Big green guy. Enchanted. Talks to a donkey. The musical theater version of the DreamWorks fairytale movie isn't all that ancient or distant — its Broadway produc…
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