Wednesday, February 24, 2016
The show that was cut short on Broadway and never made its Off-Broadway transfer, goes on tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 14, 2016
What does it take to make love work? The famous Hollywood duo that tugged at heartstrings decades ago reunites onstage in Love Letters to tell a different love story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 29, 2015
It's been a hell of a theatrical run. After nearly 34 years, I am bringing the curtain down on my role as full-time theater writer for The Hartford Courant to pursue other cool projects.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Gone is the barber chair from the executive office at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, a seat of power, prestige and playfulness that became synonymous with the theater's longtime l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Fiasco Theatre is a feisty young theater company that has enchanted critics and audiences with a series of shows off-Broadway. Its acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Stephanie Zimbalist is no demanding diva for the Seven Angels Theatre production of "Living on Love" in Waterbury. At least off-stage, the star of the '80s hit TV series "Remington Steele" �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:34PMThursday, October 29, 2015
"It's like putting on 'King Lear,' 'Othello' and 'Macbeth' in one evening," says Alan Rust, director of the theater division at the University of Hartford's Hartt School and one of three dir…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSouth African artist William Kentridge collaborated with a composer, a choreographer, a video designer and a physicist. The result? "Refuse the Hours," a multimedia chamber opera that is par…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
So you think there's no way to get tickets for the sold-out run of the world premiere of "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage starring Kevin Bacon? Think again. Every Monday the theater will dete…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Steve Martin will be back at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, this time with a world premiere play, described as "an off-beat and absurdist look at the comic anxiety lurking just beneath the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:03AMAll eyes are usually on Kevin Bacon. "The second I step out of my house, it happens," says the prolific actor at the offices of Hartford Stage, where he is rehearsing for his starring role i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Actors who arrive at the Goodspeed Opera House are often overwhelmed by the beauty of the rural surroundings as they cross the swing bridge to East Haddam and see the glistening white theate…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:41PMMonday, October 12, 2015
"Menopause the Musical," the little show that proves there's life and laughs amid big changes, is coming back to The Bushnell's Belding Theater on Friday, Oct.16, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:23PMIt was a happy day in mid-July for fans of the long-gone comic strip "Bloom County" when they opened Facebook and saw the return of Berkeley Breathed's beloved and honored creation. Since th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PMFriday, October 9, 2015
The show: Yale Repertory Theatre co-production of "Indecent" by Paula Vogel at the University Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special: The world premiere will play La Jolla [Calif.] Play…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMMonday, October 5, 2015
The road to Oz is heading to Goodspeed Opera House. A new musical about the pre-"Oz" life of Judy Garland will be a highlight of the 2016 lineup of five shows produced by Goodspeed Musicals.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:00PMThursday, October 1, 2015
When the Matt Stone and Trey Parker — the creators of TV "South Park" — announced they were going to write a Broadway musical, a lot of people laughed, and not in a good way. But look wh…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00PM"It took 30 seconds" for playwright Paula Vogel to say yes when she was asked to collaborate with director Rebecca Taichman on "Indecent," a new work about events surrounding the provocative…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:01PMThursday, September 24, 2015
Nearly four years ago, Conor Hamill was a freshman college intern at Hartford's TheaterWorks, assisting with props, reading scripts and doing assorted go-fer jobs around the office.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:26PMThursday, September 17, 2015
Was it really nearly 20 years ago when Adam Pascal made his Broadway debut in Jonathan Larcen's watershed musical "Rent" about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PMChristopher Shinn sits on a park bench on the long narrow green of Old Wethersfield, surrounded by large lush lawns, historic homes and an atmosphere of small-town serenity, just a short wal…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:11PMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
How's tricks? Big, bold and hip, at least that's how "The Illusionists" - seven men in all - are branding themselves as they tour the country following its hit Broadway run last year. (Andre…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMThursday, September 3, 2015
Comedian, writer, producer, actor and musician Steve Martin has been a presence at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven for several seasons with productions of his comedies "The Underpants" and "…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:08PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
There's nothing like star power to rev up a box office - even during the dog days of summer.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:50PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
One of my favorite Merl Reagle moments was when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in support of the 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary about the world of crossword puzzles, "Wordplay."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:07AMKevin Bacon will play the lead in Hartford Stage's premiere of "Rear Window," adapted by Keith Reddin and staged by the theater's artistic director, Darko Tresnjak.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Another British invasion? A new tradition? A mini-rep company? Maybe it's just a reunited gang of terrific actors that John Tillinger has worked with over four very funny British comedies by…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Summer's nearly over, which means it's the last chance to check out warm-weather programming around the state.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:02PMThursday, August 13, 2015
Women playwrights are counting on parity when artistic directors at not-for-profit theaters across the country choose a season - but so far the numbers haven't added up.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:24PM 
