Thursday, October 19, 2017
"I knew I had to direct it." Elizabeth Williamson has been with Hartford Stage for more than five years, originally as a dramaturg and director of new play development and since 2015 as the …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, October 13, 2017
Stephanie Dattellas moved to Connecticut from Syracuse, N.Y., just a few months ago to become the new artistic director of West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company in June. She looked forward …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:31AMThursday, October 12, 2017
The national tour of "The School of Rock" is so new that there aren't photos of it yet. The show, based on the 2003 Jack Black movie, has been running for nearly two years on Broadway and fo…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:02AMEdwin Sanchez has lots of connections to Connecticut theater. He attended the Yale School of Drama in the early 1990s. Two of his plays, "Clean" and "Diosa," had their premieres at Hartford …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMCompagnie Hervé Koubi, whose members hail from Algeria and West Africa, create fresh modern dances from hip-hop, capoeira, folk culture, classical ballet, and martial arts influences. The t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" still has life in it. First it was at Hartford Stage, which staged the homicidal musical's premiere in 2012. Then it went to the Old Globe Theatre in…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
"Rags" is one of those Broadway musicals famous for still having potential. About the American immigration experience in the early 20th century, the show was created by a team of Broadway al…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Le Patin Libre is French for "the free skate." It's the name of a Canadian movement troupe that develops avant-garde movement pieces for ice rinks. Le Patin Libre's signature piece "Vertical…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:24PMC.S. Lewis' series of stories about the enchanted land of Narnia began with "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." Four kids climb into some furniture and emerge in a magical realm where th…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00PM"Doc Foster's Twisted Tales: A Puppet Show for Grown-Ups" is described as "wickedly macabre," using puppets and live, creepily costumed actors to spin stories of "intrigue, love, betrayal an…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:39AMJane Alexander is staying at home for a change. Her onstage home, that is. The globetrotting, award-winning actress appears in "Fireflies," an adaptation of some writings by Annette Sanford.…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, October 2, 2017
"The Wolves" is a play about an indoor girls soccer team. In order to stage this buzz-laden teen drama as the opening shot of its 31st season, TheaterWorks had to make sure its own team was …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:49AMThursday, September 28, 2017
"I want to be careful with how I say this," Reg Rogers says, "but there's a quality here that's just a little — just a little bit, just a little, little bit — like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMKyle Abraham and his dance and movement troupe Abraham.In.Motion have visited Connecticut regularly over the years, mainly at Wesleyan University and New Haven's International Festival of Ar…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"The Importance of Being Earnest" opens the 2017-18 season at Connecticut Repertory Theatre, and there are some important names involved. Long upheld as one of the funniest comedies in the E…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMA Broken Umbrella Theatre devised its latest local-culture-based theater piece "Exchange" from some real-life history. The show explores the development of the first telephone switchboard in…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, September 22, 2017
Nick Cartell, who plays Jean Valjean in the new tour of the bread-stealing musical "Les Miserables," respects all those great talents who fashioned this mammoth work into the classic it is n…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
McQueen, the hard-to-pigeonhole multimedia comedy/music improviser, is late for our phone interview because his session with his chiropractor ran late. Which inspires this question: "How phy…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, September 18, 2017
"Farewell, Old World," Cunegonde sings in the finale to the first act of the musical "Candide." "Kiss today goodbye. Point me toward tomorrow," the hopeful auditioner Diana croons in "What I…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:07PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury opens its 2017-18 season with the one-man, five-character show "The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?" by Robert Dubac. The show, which ruminates on the age-old …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:36PM"Book of Mormon" makes its fourth visit to Connecticut, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 at the Shubert, 247 College St., New Haven. The "Book of Mormon" sold out every night of its two-week run at the Sh…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:23PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
What's my story? Stories. I hosted a storytelling series at a club in New Haven for a few years. All that speaking got in the way of my writing, so I took a break. End of story. A few weeks …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:42PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Trevor Noah performs in Connecticut rather often, but it seems that every time he visits he has another recent achievement to tout. This month marks the second anniversary of Noah becoming t…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWestport Community Theatre opens its fall season with one of the best-known works by longtime Roxbury resident and world-renowned playwright Arthur Miller. "A View From the Bridge" was writt…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, September 7, 2017
If you're going to stage Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," dream big. This is the romantic fantasy in which a magic spell changes lovers' affections, leading to merry chases. A man …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:22PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Hartford Stage has been doing Shakespeare plays since the theater was founded over half a century ago. In recent years, it has reliably done a Shakespeare script every season since 2010 — …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:36PMNew York City is a monarchy? No, of course not. Apparently it's a pentarchy, with five concurrent rulers. The New York Kings of Comedy eschew royal titles in favor of ordinary names like Rob…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Fall in Connecticut perenially offers familiar scenes and new ones, and it's no different on the state's stages. This autumn, audiences will see major national tours of long-established hits…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, August 24, 2017
Gabriel Iglesias is back in the Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino with a two-night stand of "Fluffy" stand-up Sept. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. The Californian comedian and actor's recent credit…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:17PMSee it for the balcony scene. Elm Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet" has some obvious and fairly understandable problems — a cast of wildly differing talents, design concepts th…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:21AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
Bess Wohl finds depth in high concepts. In her attention-grabbing ensemble drama "Small Mouth Sounds," there is almost no dialogue and very few sounds at all. The play, set at a wilderness r…
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