\What to do with the 60 acres of open waterfront space on the Hartford-Windsor border that Riverfront Recapture acquired last year? The private, nonprofit organization is planning a riverwal…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:08PMSusan Haefner receiving her honor for “Tenderly.” All photos by Mara Lavitt NEW HAVEN — The U.S. premiere of “Walden” at…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:35AMSad news about the death of James Rado, co-creator of “Hair.” I interviewed the 90-year-old Rado for a story for Encore Monthly magazine last fall. Joan Marcus took this terrific portrai…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:34PMIn 1988, Eric Marcus was working as an associate producer at CBS when he left his position to embark on an oral history project that would change his life—and affect the lives of so many o…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:55PMI never thought I’d do drag for a living,” says the six-foot-two muscleman wearing a Meat Rack cap, industrial strength necklace, a black tank-top and an anchor tattoo on his bulging bic…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:45PMAfter the Great Recession of ’08 — not to mention anxiety about the current economy — will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:27AMAll photos by Jeremy Daniel The show: “Queen” by Madhuri Shekar at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special?: It�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:32AMMichael Yeargan receiving a CCC Award from 2019’s ceremony, Photo by Mara Lavett, After a three-year hiatus, the Connecticut Cr…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:47PMThe show: The musical “Cabaret” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. What makes it special?: It’s rare that Goodspeed presents something so seeming sexy and edgy (but really, it’…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:09PMAll Photos by Mike Marques. HUNTER RYAN HERDLICKA, BLAIR LEWIN and DANIEL JOSÉ MOLINA The show: “Zoey’s Perfect Wedding” at …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:36PMNow where were we? Ah, yes, sharing some pithy thoughts on shows that have opened this season for those Connecticut folks who want to take in a Broadway show after a long period of being wit…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:41PMAh, May. Blossoms may be blooming around Connecticut but that’s nothing like the shows that are bursting forth in New York City and that are now vying for Tony Awards and other end-of-sea…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:24PMSometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film “Mr. Saturday Night,” which Billy Crystal starred…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:56PM“You ever feel like there’s someone watching from the shadows?” asks Beanie Feldstein’s Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star’s past waft in and out in a kin…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:34AMAll photos are by T. Charles Erickson The show: “Lost in Yonkers” at Hartford Stage What makes it special?: Pulitzer Prize and …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:40AMPhotos by Carol Rosegg The show: “Next to Normal” What is it?: A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical. This is the sec…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:23PMFinancial realities — not just artistic re-envisioning — triggered the Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre’s announcement in March that it will leave the physical complex it has call…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:08AMPhoto by Joan Marcus The show: “Choir Boy” by Tarell Alvin McCraney What its it?: A drama with music that was a highlight of th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:43AMPublic and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg’s “Take Me Out,” his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:29PMAlan Rust has led the theater division at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford for more than 20 years.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMTo get in the mood for Hartford Stage’s upcoming production (March 19-April 19) of “The King’s Speech” — David Seidler’s play on which the 2010 film and his Oscar-winning screenp…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMYears after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, “Good Faith” checks in on a wounded city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMCritics raved over Anika Noni Rose’s “lava-hot” performance this summer playing the title role in the off-Broadway musical revival of “Carmen Jones,” Oscar Hammerstein’s 1943 mus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMThe show: The Elm Shakespeare Company presents a free outdoor show of “Love's Labour’s Lost” — a rarely produced early Shakespeare play — through Sept. 2 in Edgerton Park. First im…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMThe unexpected exit of a lead actor in Goodspeed Musicals’ “Cyrano,” starring “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage has cause the production to cancel some performances and premat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:50PMWhen Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the ‘60s TV series. “I wanted to be …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIt’s now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn’t go on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMSeveral times a year a new Clive Cussler book is released, followed by a full-page ad in the New York Times and then a speedy trip to the top of the best-sellers list. The books, with their …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe company honored its milestone last weekend with visits from past figures who lauded its history while expressing concern for regional theater’s future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMThis French singer-songwriter and actor wrote the score for this show, which opens this week in New Haven and features a crew of major Broadway names.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMWe sit backstage at a performance of Noises Off to find out.
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