Thursday, November 8, 2018
New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre has selected Jacob G. Padrón, a major force in new play development, especially among minority writers, as its new artistic director. He begins his new job …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:55AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
An established comedy icon who came up on the old sitcom/“Tonight Show” route, and a member of the next generation, whose career took a similar trajectory during changing times, both hit…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMDominique Morisseau is one of the most produced playwrights in the country right now. TheaterWorks did Morisseau’s “Sunset Baby” last year. The hot Morisseau scripts this season are th…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMThursday, November 1, 2018
He’s done it all. He’s changed the face of world theater. And he’s still at it. Peter Brook’s latest work, “The Prisoner,” which he co-wrote and co-directed with his main collabo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:10AMCamille A. Brown and Dancers were already a known quantity in Connecticut — having performed at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Wesleyan University and elsewhere — when troup…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBartlett Sher is known for finding strong thematic connections between the stories from classic Broadway musicals and the world as it is today. He does this subtly, without hitting audiences…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Hartford-based Sonia Plumb Dance Company has a multimedia, multi-styled, military-themed event planned for 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford. More Veterans Day event…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAs a gypsy, Carmen really gets around. Connecticut Lyric Opera is the most mobile opera company in the state, bringing each of its shows to a variety of locations. Its production of Bizet’…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Lady Bunny founded the fabulous Wigstock Festival, a hallowed LGBTQ gathering that marked the end of summer in New York City from the mid-’80s the early ‘00s. Wigstock was magically revi…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Upward Hartford is proud of its recent renovations. It has more space now. So it’s hosting an avalanche. On Nov. 8, an ensemble of musicians from Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform M…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe magic of holograms brings opera singer Maria Callas to life for “Callas in Concert” Nov. 8 at Jorgensen Auditorium, 2132 Hillside Road on the UConn campus in Storrs. Callas was one o…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Michael Stotts, who has been the managing director of Hartford Stage since 2006, is leaving the theater at the end of January for a similar post at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, the t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Howie Mandel has been bringing his stand-up show to Connecticut since the late 1970s. During those decades he also became a ubiquitous presence on TV — first as a voice on the “Muppet Ba…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:35PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Eight young dancers form two lines. The only male dancer breaks from the pack and moves to center stage, where he’s joined by two more dancers, then others. They leap. They strut. They gli…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWhen he was 3 months old, Alex Alpharaoh was taken on a life-changing journey from Guatemala to the United States. Thirty-six years later, he’s travelling around the country to share his s…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Matthew Greene’s “Thousand Pines” is a new drama with a gun control theme. Westport Country Playhouse held a workshop of it last year, then decided to do a full production as part of i…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTracy Thorne’s contemporary drama “Good Children” is set in a “a society where the secrets of the past are closely guarded,” and a young man named Val learns some of those secrets …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 11, 2018
The V in "Henry V” at Hartford Stage could stand for "versatility.” In scanning the cast list for this new production of Shakespeare’s historical drama “Henry V,” what stands out i…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:15AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Alex Alpharaoh’s one-man show “Wet: A DACAmented Journey” chronicles his own adventures as an undocumented American. He was brought to the U.S. when he was just two months old and grew…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe 21st century hidden-camera prank show “Impractical Jokers” spawned a live stage show several years, which has gone through several different editions. There was the “Where’s Larr…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, October 8, 2018
The great Lily Tomlin has been enjoying a career renaissance thanks to her Netflix series “Grace and Frankie,” but in fact she’s had remarkable successes in each of the last six decade…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:15PMFriday, October 5, 2018
TheaterWorks’ drama “The River” is shrouded in mystery. ‘I can’t say too much,” the play’s star Billy Carter says, regretfully. “...There are elements of a ghost story and a …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:35PMThursday, October 4, 2018
‘There’s the challenge,” socially conscious choreographer Judy Dworin says. “How do I make this different from a news story you read on your phone?” Dworin has staged dance pieces …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:50PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Last year West Hartford’s Ballet Theatre Company organized a benefit dance concert to raise money for victims of the Las Vegas shootings. The event was so well-received that the the BTC ha…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:10PMSo you think you can see “So You Think You Can Dance” live in Connecticut? You happen to be right. The long-running TV competition visits Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasvil…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:35AMMonday, October 1, 2018
The ’70s have been good to Alice Cooper. Not just the 1970s, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer first achieved international success. It’s also his age. “I never thought I would be, …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:45AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Remember the whimsically grating voice of Yakko Warner, who with his siblings Wakko and Dot updated classic Warner Brothers cartoon wackiness for the mid-1990s as “The Animaniacs”? Rob P…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMConnecticut audience know Jen Silverman from the premiere of her brazen Gothic update “The Moors” at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016 and last year’s Connecticut Repertory Theatre produc…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 28, 2018
The Phoenix Theatre Company has been a most reliable purveyor of the perverse seasonal treat “The Rocky Horror Show.” The original stage version of the ghoulish counterculture spectacle …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 27, 2018
‘The Illusionists” is an internationally touring multi-magician spectacle that shorthands its performers with such intriguing nicknames as The Manipulator, The Inventor, The Mentalist, T…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:10PMHartford Stage has done a Shakespeare play, directed by Darko Tresnjak, every year since he became artistic director. This year is different. There will be a Shakespeare play, but instead of…
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