The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has split its accustomed leadership position of CEO/Director into two separate positions. It has made Jeffrey Brown the new CEO and is continuing the sea…
The movie "Pep" has been filming in Hartford for a week now. On Monday scenes were shot at St. Francis Hospital and at a private home in West Hartford.
Stephen Graham Jones' "The Only Good Indians" has won the 2021 American Voice in Literature award from the Mark Twain House and Museum, which includes a cash prize of $25,000.
"Christmas on the Rocks" returns live this year to TheaterWorks Dec. 2-23, with two of the cast members from the 2019 and 2020 renditions, Ted Lange and Randy Harrison, and Jennifer Cody now…
An HSO concert of American composers gets earthy, outrageous and invigorating.
Sonia Plumb's new dance "Penelope's Dream," premiering Nov. 5 and 6 at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, takes Odysseus' patient wife from the Odysseus and makes her the central char…
Five upcoming Christmas movies were made in Connecticut, including one where Hartford was made up to resemble Harlem.
"Rent" is returning to The Bushnell, maybe for the last time in a while. The musical are downtown NYC bohemians in the early '90s plays Nov. 5-7.
Eight small or mid-sized Connecticut arts organizations received $5,000 to $20,000 each, from the latest round of New England Arts Resilience Fund grants.
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2022 season, a return to the usual format of three full musical theater productions. The shows next year are "Cabaret," the world premiere of "Ann…
"The Top Ten Book of Horror Lists," by Connecticut-based convention and tour promoter Charles Rosenay!!!, contains creepy contributions from dozens of celebrities. Most of them list their fa…
The 5x5 Dance Festival at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford had to go virtual last time, but returns for its 20th anniversary with live performances and master classes featuring …
A movie about champion boxer Willie Pep which has been in the works for 13 years, starts filming in Hartford next week. The Middletown native and longtime Hartford County resident held the W…
Melia Bensussen delivers a smartly underplayed, multi-ethnic, entirely admirable "Ah, Wilderness!" at Hartford Stage through Nov. 7.
Larry Rifkin's book "No Dead Air" chronicles his long career in radio and television, including how he introduced Barney the dinosaur to the airwaves and got public television to air UConn w…
TheaterWorks presents a ghost story, "Someone Else's House," as the first show of its 2021-22 season, through Oct. 31.
The first and second stops of the second national tour of the musical "Anastasia" are in Connecticut, at the Palace in Waterbury through Oct. 21 and the Shubert in New Haven Oct. 22-24. The …
"The Chinese Lady," Lloyd Suh's two-person biographical drama (with fictional and fantastical elements) is an even deeper theatrical experience than it might have been pre-COVID. The play is…
TheaterWorks' latest offering is a haunted house story, told virtually from the house itself by performer and technical theater innovator Jared Mezzocchi, who grew up hearing the story and i…
The national tour of the Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville" is the first Broadway show at The Bushnell since COVID. It's an escapist lark set on a romantic island. It r…
Melia Bensussen chose Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" as the first play she's directing at Hartford Stage since becoming its artistic director nearly three years ago. It's a new, m…
The first national Broadway musical tour to play The Bushnell since the COVID shutdown opens in Hartford Tuesday. One of the stars is a Hartt grad.
"Kiss My Aztec!" will closed the 2021-22 Hartford Stage season in June. The comic musical, which plays fast and loose with Latin American history, was co-created by the comic actor and write…
"By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Itay 1500-1800," at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through Jan. 9, brings together around 60 artworks drawn from around 30 mus…
"A Grand Night for Singing" is the first live show at the Goodspeed Opera House since COVID. It's a relatively low-key revue of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, given conceptual twists by a …