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This week's Courant arts picks include two concerts at Hartford's Infinity Hall: Bettye Lavette on Jan. 30 and Marc Cohn on Feb. 4.
"What the Constitution Means to Me" is a sparsely staged, small cast theater event which nevertheless fills The Bushnell with big ideas and unpredictable show-within-a-show antics while cele…
Goodspeed Musicals' annual Johnny Mercer Grove retreat for musical theater creators is returning as an in-person event, as busy as it ever was with 30 participants crafting 15 new musicals. …
Pearl Cleage'snew play "Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous" is a life-affirming comedy about issues affecting women in the theater (and elsewhere), at Hartford Stage through Feb. 6.
Capital Classics is starting its new Contemporary Classics Conversations series with a production of Lynn Nottage's "Sweat," interspersed with live discussions of key issues in the drama.
Theater review: 1990s racial drama 'Fires in the Mirror' given a new look and feel at Long Wharf
Heidi Schreck's debate-driven Broadway hit "What the Constitution Means to Me" comes to The Bushnell on tour Jan. 26-30.
Hole in the Wall Theater offers a rare production of Sam Shepard's 2012 "Heartless," which is startling appropriate for our current isolated and anxious times.
Folksinger (and firefighter) Charlie Diamond drives his truck around New England looking for out-of-the-way places to share his songs. He's releasing an album next week, "From One Place to t…
Musicians are suffering anew from setbacks caused by the COVID pandemic. The Boston-based New England Musicians Relief Fund is among those trying to help musicians in need.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra has postponed its Jan. 14-16 Masterworks concert at The Bushnell due to the surge of the omicron COVID variant.
Benedict Arnold, the Connecticut native whose name has been synonymous with the word traitor for 240 years, is getting a fairer shake thanks to a new movie.
Pearl Cleage's new play "Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous" is at Hartford Stage Jan. 13 through Feb. 6.
Streaming theater isn't the force it once was (and may be again), but there are still plenty of virtual offerings from Connecticut theater.
CT Humanities has distributed $16 million to 640 Connecticut arts and culture organizations, to help them recover from financial losses and other hardships incurred during the COVID crisis.
Seasoned stand-up comics, celebrity dancers from TV, accomplished musicians who give old songs a new spin, and two feminist icons (Pearl Cleage and Riane Eisler) are all on the list this wee…
Magical moments recalled from a theater year that barely got going due to COVID but provided many strong memories nonetheless.
The Wadsworth Atheneum is closing for the weekend of Dec. 31 through Jan. 2 due to staffing issues and COVID concerns. Several other art museums in the state will also be closed this weekend.
A spate of event cancellations has begun in the wake of the latest COVID surge.
The Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA unions have extended the agreement they made allowing theaters to record or livestream performances during the pandemic. Offering online versions of current p…
The Hartford performance of the four-stop CT Lyric Opera tour of "Die Fledermaus," Dec. 30 at The Bushnell, has a special appearance by dancers
Connecticut Repertory Theatre had to make changes in its fall semester productions due to COVID concerns. The theater will announce its spring shows in January.
The state of CT has launched its first winter tourism campaign in years, "The State I'm In," running now through the end of March.
A reading of a new play-in-progress about Gwen Reed, the celebrated Hartford-based actor and literacy activist from the 1940s to 1960s, takes place at the Free Center on Dec. 20.
"The Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" has filled a storefront on Trumbull Street with sets and screens, and is performing excerpts from the local holiday favorite Thursday through Sunday until …
