Thursday, December 15, 2022
The show: “Christmas in Connecticut” at Goodspeed Opera House
What makes it special?: It’s a new musical based on the 1945 film starring Barbara Stanwyck.
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Sunday afternoon was the final performance of the Broadway run of the musical “KPOP” at the Circle in the Square Theater on 50th Street. Though it was a hit when it was an experiential p…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:22PMSunday afternoon was the final performance of the Broadway run of the musical “KPOP” at the Circle in the Square Theater on 50th Street. Though it was a hit when it was an experiential p…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:06PMSunday afternoon was the final performance of the Broadway run of the musical “KPOP” at the Circle in the Square Theater on 50th Street. Though it was a hit when it was an experiential p…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:25AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Taking a classic film comedy — especially one that plays fast and loose with gender and sexuality — and turning it into a big Broadway musical is far from a sure thing in these contempor…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:08PMSaturday, December 10, 2022
Need an escape from the realities of the world, a nostalgic visit to reconnect with childhood friends, or a quick rescue from a superhero or two? Then perhaps you need to step into another u…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:34AMSing hallelujah because gospel music is finally getting its due. Yale University is aiming to be the academic center of the gospel music world with its new interdisciplinary Program in Music…
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Estelle Parsons sits in her sunny living room in her Upper West Side apartment, taking an afternoon break from preparations for her annual trip to New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, where…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:31PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Six years ago Ricardo Gutiérrez was in Connecticut for a business meeting at a design firm for which is he was doing graphic work.
But when the young Colombian visual artist stepped off the…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:12PMPicture this.
You’re entering a world-famous museum say the Yale University Art Gallery or Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum—and you’re feeling overwhelmed, intimidated, and you just don…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:47AMThursday, November 3, 2022
Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist’s coming-of-age in the ’70s, “Almost Famous,” lands pretty much intact in Broadway’s latest …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:03PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
ALL PHOTOS BY JOAN MARCUS.
The show: “Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee at Yale Repertory T…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:30PMMonday, October 24, 2022
The show: “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie. I mean “Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie at Hartford Stage.
What makes it special? Did I mention Agatha Christie? A…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:01PMThe show: “42nd Street” at Goodspeed opera House in East Haddam
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:09AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
When Mike Reiss takes a vacation, he often skips over the tried and true and heads for global hotspots like Iraq, Libya and North Korea. And cold-spots, too, like the Antarctica, Lizzie Bord…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:15PMWhat a fab Fall 2022 season! How can we choose from the wealth of theater, music and dance events throughout the state? Let us help with a highly opinionated and very user-friendly guide to …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:01PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Take two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway’s most iconic roles, which in her mind — or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV…
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As the pandemic continues to fade and most Connecticut theaters lift COVID-19 restrictions, there’s a…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:29PMThursday, October 6, 2022
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of “1776” makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signers of the Declara…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:48PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Pun Bandhu confesses to having been naive when he graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2000. After having no difficulty being cast in a wide variety of roles in plays while at school, …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:21PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
It was sometime in the late 1970s when I attended my first show at Long Wharf Theatre.
I was new to New Haven and only knew of the theatre—then just a dozen years old—by its reputation f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:26PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
It’s taken more than two years but the Yale University Art Gallery has finally returned to pre-pandemic attendance numbers, a significant accomplishment in the arts industry, which was hit…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:15PMTuesday, August 30, 2022
ALL PHOTOS BY JOAN MARCUS
Get thee to Arden — or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted music…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:33PMSunday, August 28, 2022
Here’s a bunch of pictures from photographer Steve James off the 8th Annual Middlebury Filmmakers Festival which concludes today in this charming Vermont college town.,
Amtrak’s Ethan …
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The second day of the festival was also filled with film, films and more films, both short and feature length from the U.S. as well as from around the world. What I liked about these films w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:38PMFriday, August 26, 2022
When our friends invited us up from New Haven to Middlebury, Vermont, it did’t take long to dash and buy our Amtrak tickets to the town’s new train stop on the Ethan Allen line (leavin…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:53PMSunday, August 14, 2022
Transformative changes are ahead for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, fueled by a historic multimillion-dollar gift that will create new outreach initiatives and a new home for its performa…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:27AMSunday, August 7, 2022
The show: ”Secondo” at TheaterWorks Hartford
What is it?: Jacques Lamarre’s sequel to his play-with-food show, “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti,” based on the stories of author G…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:26AMSaturday, August 6, 2022
The show: “Anne of Green Gables” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:59PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
Connecticut VOICE, the state’s premier magazine dedicated exclusively to the LGBTQ+ community, will present the Inaugural Connecticut VOICE Honors Gala on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m., at…
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NEW YORK—The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) and Foundation ATCA have announced the first recipient of the ATCA Helbing fellowship for LGBTQ+ theater writers. Members of the He…
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