Review: 'Gilbert the Great' -- If You Build It, They Will Have Fun by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Gilbert the Great" by Broken Umbrella Theater at Erector Square in New Haven.

High School Musical Awards At The Palace by Frank Rizzo

It's one of my favorite theater events of the year: the annual Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards. This year, 23 schools from around the state will compete on Monday, June 2, at …

Cast Set For Connecticut Rep 'Chorus Line' at UConn by Frank Rizzo

Opener For Nutmeg Summer Series Of Musicals

Monkee's Mickey Dolenz To Star In New Comedy By 'Simpsons' Writer by Frank Rizzo

Premiere of Mike Reiss' 'Comedy Is Hard" at Ivoryton Playhouse

Leslie Hendrix Of 'Law & Order' Joins Soap Hunk David Gregory At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Christopher Durang's Gang Talks About Sex, Lunacy In 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'Life is more fun outside the morgue, says Leslie Hendrix.

'TheaterWorks' Love/Sick': Bittersweet Tales Of Love, Marriage And Family, With A Twist by Frank Rizzo

Top Nominees Announced For Ct High School Musical Theater Awards by Frank Rizzo

The nominees are announced for the Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards which will be given out at the Palace Theater i n Waterbury on Monday, June 2.

TheaterWorks Announces 2014-15 Season by Frank Rizzo

TheaterWorks 2014-15 five-play subscription season will open with a new play by the writer of “ The Other Place” which recently played the theater.

Long Wharf's 'The Last Five Years': Looking At Love From Separate Couches by Frank Rizzo

Two Person Musical By Jason Robert Brown Receives RevivalThe show: "The Last Five Years" at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.

Adam Heller Heads Cast For Goodspeed's 'Fiddler on the Roof' by Frank Rizzo

Adam Heller will be Tevye in the 50th anniversary production of "Fiddler on the Roof" which plays Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. The production, directed by Rob Ruggiero ("Show…

Karen Akers Heads Cast Of 'Sing For Your Shakespeare' by Frank Rizzo

Karen Akers (Broadway's "Grand Hotel") heads the cast of the premiere of the musical revue, "Sing for Your Shakespeare" at the Westport Country Playhouse. The production featuring a cas…

The Power Of Love Takes Center Stage At Long Wharf Theatre, TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

"Under my hard candy shell I am a deeply mushy romantic," says composer Jason Robert Brown.

Connecticut Theater Needs? It's All A Facade by Frank Rizzo

More Dramatic Needs Are Yet To Be Met

Carlotta Festival: Three New Plays At Yale by Frank Rizzo

Graduating Playwrights Present Their Work At School Of DramaWant to know what's on the mind of playwrights emerging from the Yale School of Drama? Then check out the Ninth Annual Carlotta Fe…

Long Wharf Theatre To Open 50th Season With Diverse 'Our Town' by Frank Rizzo

Also Three New Plays Featured

CT Actress Anika Noni Rose Hopes To Inspire Youth On Her Visit Home by Frank Rizzo

Bloomfield Native To Be One Of Three Guests At Charter Oak Visions Gala Some actors who win Tony Awards, become stars in films, TV and on the concert stage, don't look back from where they b…

'Goodspeed's 'Damn Yankees': Red Sox Twist Yes, But Plenty of Heart, Too by Frank Rizzo

The show:  "Damn Yankees" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.

'The Last Five Years': A Musical Love Story At Long Wharf by Frank Rizzo

Before composer Jason Robert Brown's musicals "Parade" and "13" and his current Broadway musical "The Bridges of Madison County," which received two Tony Award nominations this week for its …

10 Tony Award Noms For Hartford Stage's 'A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder' by Frank Rizzo

Darko Tresnjak Gets First Best Director Nod "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the modest musical comedy that was developed and premiered at Hartford Stage in 2012, beat out its high-…

Some Tony Nomination Fearless Predictions by Frank Rizzo

Some Connecticut ConnectionsquAs any theater obsessive knows, it's hard not to get swept up in Tony fever so in advance of Tuesday morning's announcement of this year's nominees, here's a fe…

Goodspeed's 'Damn Yankees' Has A New Spin by Frank Rizzo

Revamped Musical Taps Into Devilish Red Sox 'Curse'If you asked true blue Boston Red Sox fans during much of the 20th century if they would sell their soul to the devil in order to lift the …

'The House That Will Not Stand:' One Tasty Gumbo Of A Production At Yale Rep by Frank Rizzo

The show: "The House That Will Not Stand" at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre

Meryl Streep Basks In Glow Of Playwrights Kushner, Shanley, Letts by Frank Rizzo

And Memories Of Summer Of '75 In Connecticut

'We Will Rock You' At Shubert by Frank Rizzo

P.J. Griffith Rocks The Bad-Guy Role There's something about P.J. Griffith that keeps him being cast as the bad boy. The Hartford-born, South Windsor-raised actor and singer most recently st…

Meryl Streep''s Summer At The O'Neill by Frank Rizzo

Actress Talks About Where She Got Her Start On The Eve Before Receiving Monte Cristo Award Before her three Oscars and 18 nominations, before her Emmys, medals, honorary degrees and lifetime…

Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Meryl Streep? by Frank Rizzo

For nearly 40 years, Meryl Streep has been making her mark on stage, screen and television, becoming a familiar presence in our entertainment lives. But how much do you really know about the…

Leslie Uggams To Star In 'Gypsy' In Connecticut by Frank Rizzo

Headlining At Nutmeg Summer Series At UConn In StorrsLeslie Uggams, the Tony and Emmy Award winning actress will be starring as Rose in Connecticut Repertory Theatre ’s (CRT) product…

Betty Buckley Heads O'Neill Cabaret Lineup This Summer by Frank Rizzo

Also Mimi Hines, The Shivvies And New FacesTony Award winning actor-singer Betty Buckley will present her cabaret show Aug. 1 at the 2014 Cabaret & Performanmce Conference at the Eugene…

'A Gentleman's Guide' Leads In Outer Critics Circle Nominations by Frank Rizzo

Anika Noni Rose of Bloomfield Receives Nomination For 'Raisin In The Sun'

Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare . Looking Good At 450 by Frank Rizzo

Hartford Celebration Planned

Book, Exhibit To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of The O'Neill by Frank Rizzo