I haven't heard the word "hootenanny" used since Lyndon Johnson was President, but there's some free-wheeling '60s-style jamming going on after Sunday matinee performances of "Woody Sez: The…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:29AMBio-Musical of Folk Legend Woody GuthrieThe show: "Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMShakespeare Classic At Edgerton Park In New Haven The 19-year-old Elm Shakespeare Company of New Haven goes off the greatest-hits grid to present a work by the Bard that is beguiling, charmi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:13AMOriginal Headline: Dr. Williams' Little Black Bag Holds Laughs Instead Of ProzacEditor's note : This interview with Robin Williams by arts writer Frank Rizzo ran Dec. 20, 1998. Williams was …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AM"Life's pretty tough," once said Woody Guthrie. "You're lucky if you live through it."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:49AMThe show: The musical "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PMThere are actors whose name you instantly recognize, the stars you know by a single monicker: Meryl, Julia, Debbie. Liza, Shirley.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMDaughter Directs Dad In 'Cedars' At Berkshire FestYou might be tempted to call the arts as the Naughton family business, but to this group of — relatively speaking — well-adjuste…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe show: "Fiddler on the Roof" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMEditor's note : Broadway actress and singer Elaine Stritch, 89, died on Thursday, July 17, at her home in Birmingham, Mich. Following is an interview by Hartford Courant theater critic Frank…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:05PMLinda Lavin, best known for the popular TV series "Alice" of the '70s and '80s — but a terrific Tony Award-winning Broadway and film actress, too — will be presenting her life an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AMThe show: "Gypsy" at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn campus in Storrs
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTevye may not be the only person talking to God in East Haddam.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMGoodspeed Celebrates 50 Years Of Sheldon Harnick's Musical, Which Runs Through Sept. 12A Broadway musical about a Jewish shtetl, a Russian pogrom and a poor milkman who talks to God? Sounds …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:42PMThere's a new Mama Rose in town.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:41AMSummer Theater In Massachusetts Berkshires In Full SwingThe show: "June Moon" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Mass.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:15PMFirst African-American To Play Iconic Role In 'Gypsy'Leslie Uggams is used to taking on roles that, in a different era, no one would expect an African-American actress to take on.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMA Girl-Group Musical, The Bikinis," Returns To ConnecticutThe Bikinis are back. The jukebox musical, which had a workshop production at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre last year in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMI love interviewing independent women in show business of a certain age who speak their minds. One of my favorite interviews was in 2002 was with composer-writer Mary Rodgers from his Centra…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:33PMThe show: "Traces," part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, at University Theatre in New Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMEugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford puts its 50th anniversay into high gear this week with the beginning of its National Music Theater Conference, running June 28 through to July 11, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMReceives U.S. Premiere At New Haven's International Festival Of Arts & IdeasThe show: "The Events," part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Have…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSplit Knuckle Theater Makes New Haven Bow At Long WharfThe show: "Endurance" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMPart Of New Haven's International Festival Of Arts & IdeasThe show: "Arguendo" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThey jump, they tumble, they climb on poles like monkeys on crack. They're the young, athletic and sexy performers in "Traces," from the hip Canadian cirque group Les 7 Doigts de la Main (Se…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMThe Folks From Split Knuckle Tell All
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMPhysical Company's Latest Exuberant Play Plays Long WharfFive years ago Greg Webster had a dream in which a man in a business suit stood atop a copier machine as he was being attacked by pap…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:33PMThe show: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:17PMThe show: "Ghost: The Musical" at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM'Anastasia,' "Campaign of the Century,' "Hamlet' -- And Partti LuPoneSo Darko Tresnjak, you’ve just won a Tony Award for outstanding director of a musical, what are you going to do n…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:02PMThe show: 'Fingers and Toes' at Ivoryton Playhouse
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