This week's Courant's arts picks include an Audra McDonald fundraiser, a Temptations/Four Tops double bill, "RuPaul's Drag Race" queen Robin Fierce and musicals based on "The Secret Garden" …
Mark Lamos will leave Westport Country Playhouse, where he has been artistic director for 15 seasons, in January. He has been a major force in Connecticut theater since the 1980s.
Comedian, author and TV host Chelsea Handler still loves getting out in front of people. She brings her latest standup tour, "Little Big Bitch," to the Oakdale Theatre Sunday.
Christina Anderson's tale of Black community activism and related issues of family and the workplace has trouble connecting all the threads into a workable drama.
The town of Roxbury wants to add Arthur Miller's writing studio to the list of places where famous writers honed their crafts in Connecticut. Supporters of the playwright's legacy are raisin…
The Courant's arts picks for May 7-13 range from nostalgic acts like Kool & The Gang, a '90s rewind with Vanilla Ice, comedy from Kevin Hart and a festival of local bands in New Haven.
Jessica Dickey's funny and philosophical play "The Rembrandt," at TheaterWorks Hartford through May 14, is given not just a carefully balanced production but is augmented by its artful sceni…
Renowned filmmaker Spike Lee is delivering this year's Mary and Louis Fusco Distinguished Lecture at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven on Saturday at 7 p.m. The event, to be…
Four artworks that are assuredly not by Rembrandt but were once believed to be are on exhibit through July 23 at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
The 2023-24 Waterbury Palace Broadway season will include "Pretty Woman the Musical," "Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird," "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan," "Jesus C…
The annual Meriden Daffodil Festival, this weekend at Hubbard Park, features three stages of live Connecticut music acts.
Beloved actor Mandy Patinkin talks with the Courant about his decades-long singing career, an upcoming Showtime series and the state of his beard before Saturday's show at the Garde Arts Cen…
West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company has revived and revised its 2018 production of "Cinderella," blending fantasy, beauty, comedy, drag, pageantry and Prokofiev's sumptuous score into a b…
The classic musical "Gypsy," about famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and her pushy stage mother, is getting a fresh production at the Goodspeed Opera House. The director, Jenn Thompson…
The Courant's arts picks for April 23-29 include John Fogerty at Mohegan Sun, a Connecticut Audubon bird event at Infinity Hall Hartford and a new play about racial injustice at the Yale Rep…
Local poems and other writings about the COVID years, including pieces by several local poets laureate, have been collected in book form as "Coming Out of Covid: A Celebration of Poetry, Pro…
Director/choregrapher Jeffrey L. Page humanizes the "Fats" Waller tribute show "Ain't Misbehavin'" with modern flourishes and a focus on the Black condition.
Kelsey Blackstone had never been in a food fight before, then she found herself in the Olympia Diner in Newington in the middle of the night with fellow jazz musician Jason LaPierre, filming…
Jessica Dickey's play "The Rembrandt" examines why art is important and provocative. TheaterWorks Hartford is staging the Connecticut premiere from April 21 through May 14.
The latest Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concert beautifully pairs Smetana's "The Moldau" with the Chinese classic "The Yellow River" and Beethoven's nature-filled "Pastoral" symph…
The just-announced 2023-24 Broadway series at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven features new tours of "Company" and "Annie," long-touring shows "Come From Away" and "Chicago" and the second r…
The Courant's arts picks for April 16-22 include college or community productions of the musicals "Rent," "Beautiful" and "Cabaret" as well as a major national tour of "Jesus Christ Supersta…
"Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," a theatrical retelling of the life of the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," finds space for dynamic and dramatic performances by the entire cast at The Bushnell.
New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas announced its 2023 slate of over a hundred performances, talks and other events from June 10-25. The festival kicks off with Angelique …
The Connecticut contestants on the 15th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" got to share a last hurrah on the show's reunion episode, as well as a surprise message from members of the Connecticut…