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The Long Wharf Theatre has announced its lineup for the 2024-25 season, which includes three shows, each performed at a different location in New Haven or Hamden.
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band featuring members of Toto, Average White Band, Edgar Winter Group and Men at Work will play at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sept. 20.
Movie star and comedian Kevin Hart will play Mohegan Sun Arena on July 19. It will be his fourth visit, and fourth venue, in Connecticut since May of last year.
Claire Kretzschmar is joining Ballet Hartford as its new artist director after more than a decade as a dancer with the New York City Ballet.
West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company has adapted their video production of "Snow White" from the early COVID era into a new stage production coming to The Bushnell.
"Bazzar," Cirque du Soleil's latest big top show in Hartford, features a comical ringmaster, a beat-crazy band and over a dozen astounding circus acts.
The Boston-based supper club Nia by Grace is opening a second location at Foxwoods in May with live music at the forefront.
Of the 188 people chosen to be Guggenheim Fellows in 2024, quite a few have ties to Connecticut. The awards are considered among the most prestigious honors given to leading figures in arts,…
This week's Courant arts picks include Bad Bunny at the XL Center, a two-night ska festival at the Space Ballroom, Beausoleil at The Kate and "Garden of Literacy" at the Stowe Center.
TheaterWorks' over-the-top production of "Sanctuary City" upends the sensitivity of Martyna Majok's drama of immigration struggles in the early 21st century.
Roger Daltrey of The Who will perform a solo concert at Mohegan Sun Arena on June 23, the first time he or the band have performed there since 2017.
Michael Gaston gets his dream role of Joe Keller, Marsha Mason plays his wife and Ben Katz his son in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at Hartford Stage beginning April 11.
The new exhibit "Styling Identities: Hair's Tangled Histories" explores the art and meaning of hair at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through Aug. 11.
The Courant's arts picks for April 7-13 include the Hartford and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, a male-cast "Golden Girls" and music acts from Bruce Springsteen to Cro-Mags.
The Hartford Improv Festival returns after a five-year hiatus with 19 shows involving nearly 50 comedy troupes, a dozen workshops and a handful of parties.
Comedian and actor Pete Davidson will play College Street Music Hall on June 23, his fourth visit to Connecticut in just over a year.
Rupert Holmes is a mystery. He also writes them. The Tony winner's 1985 Broadway hit "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is having a new production at the Goodspeed Opera House.
Cirque du Soleil's new tent show "Bazzar" sets up on Market Street in Hartford, while "Corteo" returns to Connecticut for four days at Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport.
The Courant's arts picks for March 31 through April 6 include the national tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and two huge back-to-back concerts at the XL Center with Nicki Minaj and AJR.
The Long Wharf Theatre has received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its efforts as a newly itinerant theater company dedicated building new audiences.
Hartford Stage is bringing another finely balanced program of new works, American classics, comedy and drama for its upcoming 2024-25 season.
Tlaloc Rivas successfully adapted George Bernard Shaw's play for UConn's Connecticut Repertory Theatre by reframing the moral argument about medical ethics and making it entertaining.
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture found its new executive director in Sarah Anita Clunis, who is shifting from academic institutions to the cultural hub at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Mötley Crüe will play Mohegan Sun Arena on Aug. 31. It's the '80s metal band's first show in the state since its "Final Tour" of 2015, though the band regrouped several years ago and did m…
The Bushnell's 2024-25 Broadway series includes "MJ," "Back to the Future," "Peter Pan," "Some Like It Hot," "The Wiz," "A Beautiful Noise" and "The Lion King."
