Elections Through Wrench In Theater Programming by Frank Rizzo

For many Connecticut theatergoers, the best show around during a presidential election is not on local stages -- which may account for some disappointing box office figures when expectations…

Jeff Kready Is Crumpet in Hartford's TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

David Sedaris' "The Santaland Diaries" ReturnsJeff Kready ,  who played the lovably square Mr. Snow in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel" at the Goodspeed Opera House , will play Crumpet…

Frances Sternhagen Stars in Comedy Play Reading At Westport Playhouse by Frank Rizzo

Hal Holbrook To Be Honored At Mark Twain House In Hartford by Frank Rizzo

Great Hall To Be Renamed Hal Holbrook HallHal Holbrook, the Tony, Emmy Award winning (and Oscar-nominated) actor will be in Hartford later this month when the Mark Twain House & Museum de…

John Waters To Talk Of Filthy Life In New London by Frank Rizzo

"This Filty World," John Water 's stand-up show about his life and career and overall observations, will be presented at the Garde Arts Center,  325 State St. in New London on Friday, No…

"Marie Antoinette" at Yale Rep: The Girl Just Can't Help Herself by Frank Rizzo

The show: World premiere of "Marie Antoinette" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven

Julie Andrews Directs Goodspeed Show by Frank Rizzo

'The Great American Mousical' Based On Her Children's Book   Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageJulie Andrews is wearing a white cap…

"West Side Story" Set for Waterbury's Palace by Frank Rizzo

The non-Equity national tour of the Broadway revival of West Side Story will stop at Waterbury's Palace Theater for four performances on Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 24 and 25.

How Connecticut Theaters Are Handing Storm's Aftermath by Frank Rizzo

Hurricane Sandy was very theater-friendly.

Laurence Luckinbill Stars as Clarence Darrow in South Windsor by Frank Rizzo

“Clarence Darrow Tonight!,” the award-winning one-man show created and performed by Laurence Luckinbill, will receive a special benefit performance on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 …

Goodspeed Withstands Storm To Theater, New Housing by Frank Rizzo

Performance Begins Wednesday for "Something's Afoot"A spokesman for the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam reported that no damage occured to the theater, which is located on the banks o…

Shoreline's Long Wharf Theatre Weathers The Weather by Frank Rizzo

"Satchmo at the Waldorf" Performance On TonightLong Wharf Theater, located just off Long Island Sound in New Haven, reports that their facility, which is undergoing interior and exterior …

Long Wharf Theater's Shore-Set Home Warily Eyes Sandy by Frank Rizzo

Decision Tuesday Afternoon on Performance Tomorrow NightThe execs at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, located just off I-95 and just off the waves crashing from Long Island Sound , are ke…

The Quicksilver Experience of Yale Cabaret: by Frank Rizzo

Revisiting And Rethinking Sam Shepard And Patti SmithIn a week where I saw a musical revival at Goodspeed, a touring road show, and a dance event, my favorite going-out experience was an int…

U.S. Premiere of Christopher Shinn's "Now or Later" by Frank Rizzo

The show:  Christopher Shinn's "Now of Later" by the Huntington Stage Company, at Wimberly Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts.

"Chicago" with Christie Brinkley at the Bushnell in Hartford: Celebrating Celebrity by Frank Rizzo

The show:   "Chicago" tour with Christie Brinkley at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford.

"Glee"'s Matthew Morrison In Concert At Hartford's Bushnell by Frank Rizzo

Show To Be Taped For CPTVEmmy, Tony, and Golden Globe-nominated star, Matthew Morrison, best known as the perpetually optimistic best know as high school teacher Will Schuester on Fox TV…

Student Winners Named For Hartford Stage's "Write On" Contest by Frank Rizzo

Abigail Kehoe , Alyssa Slotnick , Christopher Snow , Joe Buchek and Jonas Shivers are the winners of Hartford Stage's "Write On" contest, its annual young playwrights' competition fo…

A Proposal For a New Way Theaters Can Eliminate Subscriptions, Get Advance Bucks and Make Everyone Happy by Frank Rizzo

Creating The Theater Bank Account. Is There An App For That?The mixed-but-very-vocal reaction in the blogasphere surrounding the concept of premium pricing for not-for-profit theaters (l…

Trinity College Students To Present "Rent" At Austin Arts Center by Frank Rizzo

The 1996 musical “Rent,” will be staged -- free! -- by the Trinity College Department of Music and run Thursday Oct. 25 to Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7;30 p.m. in the Austin Art…

British Actress Miriam Margolyes Performs Dickens' Characters at Yale by Frank Rizzo

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"The Trojan Women," SITI-Style, At Connecticut College by Frank Rizzo

The Siti Company ’s production “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” will be presented Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at Connecticut College’s Palmer Auditorium in New Lo…

National Theatre's "Timon of Athens" With Simon Russell Beale On State Screens by Frank Rizzo

The National Theatre of London’s acclaimed contemporary staging of William Shakespeare's  “Timon of Athens” will be presented as a National Theatre Live in HD event …

"Miss Saigon" At Hartt School, Staged By One Who Knows by Frank Rizzo

Kevin Gray knows a few things about the musical "Miss Saigon." After all he played the lead role of The Engineer in the Los Angeles and Toronto productions of the show.

Murder Mystery Musical "Something's Afoot:: Deadly by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Something's Afoot" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam

Brian Hutchison Re-teams With Valerie Harper In "Looped" at Bushnell by Frank Rizzo

Brian Hutchison will play opposite Valerie Harper in the Matthew Lombardo play, "Looped" when the play comes to the Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts …

"Spank!" Musical Parody Set For Bushnell by Frank Rizzo

Haven't heard enough "50 Shades of Gray" jokes?

New York Theater Casting With Connecticut Connections by Frank Rizzo

Recent Yale School of Drama grad Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Tony nominee for “Ghost”), Chris Bauer (“True Blood”), Aimee Carrero (Cartoon Network’s live-acti…

Bated Breath To Present "Toulouse-Lautrec Project" at Atheneum by Frank Rizzo

Picture this: A site-specific theatrical work by the Hartford-based Bated Breath Theatre Company will be presented Thursday Nov. 1 at 6:30 and 7:30 p,.m. and Friday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at th…

Cindy Williams Stars in "Nunset Boulevard" at Waterbury's Palace by Frank Rizzo

Cindy Williams ( TV’s “Laverne and Shirley”) will star in Dan Goggin’s “Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show,” which will be presented at …

"Venus in Fur" Extended For Hartford's TheaterWorks by Frank Rizzo

The run of David Ives ' comedy "Venus in Fur" at Hartford's TheaterWorks is extending one week.