Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us.
In “Summer, 1976,” the new Bro…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:02PMSaturday, April 22, 2023
All photos by Chelcie Parry
The show: “Regretfully, So the Bird Are” at Playwrights Horizons by Julia Izumi, directed by Jenn…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:12PMSunday, April 16, 2023
Photos by T. Charles Ericxkson
The show: “The Coast Starlight”
What makes it special: A new play by Keith Bunin. It also sta…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:51AMFriday, April 14, 2023
In Aaron Sorkin’s revised script for Lincoln Center Theater’s new Broadway production of “Camelot,” the magic is missing — in more ways than one.
The declared aim of the stage, TV …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:00AMTuesday, April 11, 2023
For more than two decades, New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas has brought theater, dance and music artists—as well as great thinkers and influencers—to the city fro…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 05:51PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Earlier this winter the Yale Center for British Art closed its doors for 2023 — and which will remain closed until next year.
While the temporary closing for a building conservation projec…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:41PMThursday, April 6, 2023
The show: ”The Wanderers” off Broadway
What is it?: New pay by Anna Ziegler, directed by Barry Edelstein for Roundabout Theatre Company
What makes it special?: It stars Katie Holmes. It�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:26PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Some Broadway wags might have scoffed at the idea of a cornpone musical comedy and its punny promotions. But with its exuberance, heart and non-stop yucks, “Shucked” is the surprise deli…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:41PMSunday, March 26, 2023
All photos by Julieta Cervantes
The show: “Wolf Play” at Manhattan Class Company by Hansol Jung,previously presented at at S…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:08AMFriday, March 17, 2023
All photos by Joan Marcus.
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mend…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 04:36AMMonday, March 13, 2023
Anthony McDonald of the Shubert Theatre in New Haven
Could the wave of new housing developments in downtown New Haven be a potent…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:00PMMonday, March 6, 2023
For 14 seasons we’ve watched the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul‘s Drag Race showcase queens from such states as New York, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina—even Arkansas. But after…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:32AMThere’s a show-stopping moment in the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot, based on the classic 1959 film comedy.
In the new show, Jerry and Joe are two musicians in Depression-era Chicago w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:14AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
The show: “Pictures from Home” by Sharr White (“The Other Place.,” “The Snow Geese” and the Netflix limited series “Halston.”
What is it?: A new Broadway play inspired by La…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:32PMThursday, 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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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:09AMMonday, December 12, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:18AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
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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