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"Our Town" and "Hamlet," two of the English language's most popular and most frequently performed dramas, are both currently being staged in Connecticut.
"The God Game," produced by Hudson Stage, considers whether answering a call to higher public office means betraying private beliefs.
Stormy weather for one family in "Extreme Whether," a coproduction of Theater Three Collaborative and Theater for the New City.
The Irish Repertory Theater presents "Port Authority," Conor McPherson's award-winning play about three troubled men, at the DR2 Theater.
In "Intimate Apparel," at the Westport Country Playhouse, intricate plotting carries a lonely African-American across the boundaries of color and class.
Tony Kushner's landmark AIDS drama "has difficult subject matter," says Sean Harris, its director at Playhouse on Park, in West Hartford. "But it's an important story."
Alex Roe has revived "Icebound," which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
In Kim Davies's "Smoke," two strangers engage in erotic power games in a kitchen at an uptown sex party.
"Things We Do for Love," which was first produced in Britain in 1997, is at the Westport Country Playhouse.
In the comic "Barceló con Hielo," a man from the Dominican Republic awaiting surgery misses everything about home except the corruption.
Davis McCallum, the new artistic director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, has been immersing himself in the company and its work.
Audiences may no longer be dancing in the aisles, but "Mamma Mia!" is still a joy 13 years later.
A production at the Westport Country Playhouse of "Nora," the 1981 adaptation by Ingmar Bergman of "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, has a modern look and an inspired ending.
In the plot-filled comedy "Drop Dead Perfect," Everett Quinton plays a spinster in the Florida Keys.
"The Snow Queen: A New Musical," based on the same fairy tale as the movie "Frozen," has kooky characters, scary plotting and potent rock numbers.
"Picture Ourselves in Latvia" is a comedy set in a British psychiatric hospital where everyone is needy and selfish.
"ValueVille," with the New York Musical Theater Festival, tells of employees suffering through their work at a chain store.
"Sex and Education" is making its New York premiere as part of Penguin Repertory Theater's 37th season in Stony Point.
Oliver, a 65-pound mutt, plays Crab, who has a scene in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," in Pinkney Park, Rowayton.
Karen Akers both stands out from and blends in with an ensemble cast in "Sing for Your Shakespeare," a high-concept musical revue.
"Luv," Murray Schisgal's three-character play about unhappiness set in 1964, the same year it opened on Broadway, provides physical and cultural comedy at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton F…
You could call John Cariani an absurdist, but his work so far is distinguished equally by another factor: shortness. "Love/Sick," his latest, is being staged now through June 22 at TheaterWo…
In "The Last Five Years," an intimate musical now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, one career soars, one fails to take off and a marriage sours.
"Family Reunion" in Briarcliff Manor is an evening of two British one-acts " "A Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter and "A Number" by Caryl Churchill.
"The House That Will Not Stand" at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven serves as something of a lesson in the custom of plaçage, in which black, American Indian or Creole women were "plac…
