The Courant's arts picks for April 9-15 include Girl Named Tom at UConn, the latest Hartford Symphony Masterworks concert, an all-female Iron Maiden tribute band in Norwalk and the national …
Hartford Stage has received $100,000 from the federal government to support its summer arts education programs. While the funding won't alter the existing programs, it will be helping regrow…
Great musicians are feted on theater stages this week. Westport Playhouse offers a new look at the revue of "Fats" Waller songs "Ain't Misbehavin.'" Local jazz musicians play songs associate…
Hundreds of works by prisoners in the Connecticut correctional system are on view at the Eastern Connecticut State University art gallery in Willimantic.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's latest Masterworks concerts brings a fresh springtime feel to Bologne's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Saint-Saëns' Violin Concert No. 3 in B Minor and Mozart's …
The Courant's arts picks for April 2-8 include major acts like Lewis Capaldi and Kenny Chesney as well as comedy shows at the Funny Bone and Playhouse on Park.
Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman's violent political drama "Death and the Maiden" gets a compelling, thought-provoking production at Connecticut Repertory Theatre.
"Pride and Prejudice," Simona's Search," "The Hot Wing King," "All My Sons," "2.5 Minute Ride" and the return of "A Christmas Carol" are all part of the 2023-24 Hartford Stage season.
The Bushnell's 2023-24 Broadway series will start in October with "Miss Doubtfire," followed by "Moulin Rouge," "Frozen," "The Cher Show," "Wicked," "Beetlejuice" and "Funny Girl."
Ansonia native Loosey LaDuca lost the lip-synch showdown on the 13th episode of the 15th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race," the last of the three Connecticut-based contestants to leave the show.
Hartt School saxophone professor Carrie Koffman has embarked on a years-long performance art project performing on mountain tops.
From singer/songwriters to an authorized "Bat Out of Hell" tribute and a legendary comedy tour, entertainment comes in many sizes this week.
A new survey from CT Humanities and the Connecticut Office of the Arts shows overwhelming support for art and culture activities and the state's funding for them.
Spring is a time of newness, of rebirth, of brightness and joy, and Connecticut's theaters are happy to accommodate this season.
March 12 marks the return of Bruce Springsteen to Connecticut, but that's not the only legendary music act visiting the state this week.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play Connecticut for the first time in six years at Mohegan Sun Arena on March 12.
Broadway musical "Hadestown" plays The Bushnell March 7-12. Director Rachel Chavkin explains how the show came to be and how it stays fresh.
A thematic stamp collection highlighting the "postal history" of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries is heading to auction in March after winning several major awards. A result of years …
A prize-winning stamp collection focused on the history of Hartford in the 18th and 19th centuries will be disassembled and sold in an auction next month. The collector, Anthony Dewey, has b…
Three "Jeopardy!" High School Reunion Tournament contestants with ties to Connecticut talk about how seeing and playing against each other again was more important than winning or losing.
"Jeopardy!," the long-running TV quiz show, is in the midst of a brand-new High School Reunion Tournament. For the three Connecticut-based contestants in the competition, the operative word …
Kate Snodgrass' new play about modern society, "The Art of Burning," comes to Hartford Stage March 2-26 after a run earlier this year at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. It's directed by Ha…
The new play "The Art of Burning" has a plot and a lot of action, but according to its playwright Kate Snodgrass, it grew out of a general feeling of distress about the world today rather th…
TheaterWorks Hartford's politically charged 2020 virtual theater production "Russian Troll Farm" has won an Obie Award, one of the highest American theater honors. The dark comedy by Sarah G…
TheaterWorks Hartford is sharing an Obie Award for its 2020 premiere of Sarah Gancher's virtual play "Russian Troll Farm," which it co-produced with the Arkansas company TheatreSquared and t…