Monday, January 13, 2025
The second annual Afro Latino Film Festival, organized by the Pa'lante Theatre, offers around 40 films, most of them shorts, spread over five nights.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:45AMSunday, January 12, 2025
Autumn used to be the main thrust of the Connecticut theater season, but winter is now the core of it. Here's what to watch for.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAn installation by Alan Ruiz at the MATRIX gallery recalls a memorable time in the museum's history when there was a considerable debate over a renovation.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 11, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 12-18 include a concert by three legendary guitarists, Billy Joel's backup band and a night of music, art and spoken word in Bristol.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, January 10, 2025
Square One Theatre Company, a community-based theater in Stratford, will be ending its 35-year run.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, January 5, 2025
This year, Opus' Blizzard Bash metal festival has extended into a multi-state tour featuring Dead by Wednesday and California metal band Skinlab.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA.J. Croce celebrates the work of his father, folk and rock singer-songwriter Jim Croce, with a "Jim Croce's Birthday Bash" show Jan. 12 at the Warner Theatre in Torrington.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, January 4, 2025
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 5-11 include a whole lot of tribute bands, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" tour at Mohegan Sun and a garage punk show at Cafe Nine.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, December 30, 2024
The magic art wall digital mural display in Hartford will feature a countdown clock to count the minutes leading up to midnight on New Year's Eve.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:52PMSunday, December 29, 2024
The musical, which tells the tale of the six wives of King Henry VIII in the context of a present-day pop concert, returns to The Bushnell almost two years after it last played in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMJulia Choi has the task of bring Moana to life in “Disney on Ice: Into the Magic,” coming to Hartford’s XL Center for seven performances Jan. 2-5.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 28, 2024
The Courant's arts picks to ring in 2025 include a Pitbull party and New Year's Eve shows from an Elvis impersonator, DJs and stand-up comedians.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, December 26, 2024
The Bushnell is having great success with its current Broadway season, setting new records for the highest grossing weeks in the theater's history.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, December 22, 2024
The Courant's review of Connecticut theater in 2024 celebrates fantastic effects from such shows as "Frozen," "Fever Dreams," "A View from the Bridge" and "The Wolfman."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMany holiday productions may have come and gone, but others are waiting to work their magic as close to Christmas Day as possible. Here are 12 to get you in the spirit.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMJohn Gromada’s music and sound effects grace two very different visions of “A Christmas Carol” at Hartford Stage and Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 21, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Christmas week, Dec. 22-29, include concerts from Trey Songz, Kool & The Gang, Morris Day and The Time and Third Eye Blind.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
The 12th annual "Christmas on the Rocks" at TheaterWorks Hartford contains a new opening bit, a new scene and is as funny and festive as ever.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, December 15, 2024
"A Sherlock Carol," at Westport Country Playhouse for eight performances Dec. 17-22, brings together two of the most popular characters in literary history.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMA wild, adventurous and earsplitting arts weekend at Wesleyan was just what this writer needed to cleanse the palette during the season of holiday shows.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 14, 2024
The Courant's arts picks for Dec. 15-21 include concerts by revered local acts Christine Ohlman and Javier Colon and a Christmas spectacular with renowned vocalist Andrea Bocelli.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe series will return to the Center for Contemporary Culture space in the main downtown library building after it was moved this year following serious flooding at the library.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, December 13, 2024
"The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical" at West Hartford's Playhouse on Park is strange, unfettered and full of holiday fun.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, December 12, 2024
Khruangbin, Thundercat and Connecticut's own Sammy Rae & The Friends are also among the 14 bands for the 2025 Capitol Groove Music Festival in Bushnell Park.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PMThe Broadway musical "MJ," at The Bushnell through Dec. 15, offers a deep, dark look at a musical icon without losing its desire to be entertaining.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
Hartford Stage, which debuted its adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in 1998, continues to keep the show fresh and magical.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, December 9, 2024
Many of this year's Golden Globe nominees have performed, lived or gone to school in Connecticut. Here are ones to watch.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:28PMSunday, December 8, 2024
Over a dozen different dance companies are performing Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" ballet in Connecticut on the weekend of Dec. 13-15.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM"MJ the Musical," at The Bushnell in Hartford from Dec. 10-15, offers live renditions of Michael Jackson's lifetime of hit songs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2024
The Ivoryton Playhouse will start its 2025 season with "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," followed by "Tea at Five," about Katharine Hepburn, as well as four other plays.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe Courant's arts picks for Dec. 8-14 include Big Time Rush on Ice, Macaulay Culkin screening "Home Alone," R&B legend Babyface and hot jazz combo Squirrel Nut Zippers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
