The first Highly Caffeinated 5K & Music Festival happens Aug. 21, with the 5K run happening at 10 a.m., followed at 11 a.m. by eight music acts, including the Connecticut-based national …
Live Nation, which operates some of the largest concert venues in Connecticut, will implement a policy on Oct. 4 requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for staff, artists and audience membe…
Ballet Theatre Company in West Hartford is hiring dancers for a new resident dance company. Auditions are being held Aug. 27 and the dancers will allow BTC to expand its season and the range…
"Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical" is being workshopped before attentive audiences as part of the Goodspeed by the River series at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam through Aug. 29.…
The Courant's arts picks for Aug. 15-21.
TheaterWorks Hartford has announced its 2021-22 season of four plays plus the live return of "Christmas on the Rocks."
To stage Amy Berryman's relationship drama "Walden," which is set in a tiny house in a grassy wooded area, TheaterWorks Hartford has built a tiny house in a grassy wooded area on the newest …
The Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival returns with "As You Like It," through Aug. 15 on the University of St. Joseph lawn in West Hartford.
The Courant's art picks for Aug. 8-14 includes three small-cast theater shows, the Podunk Bluegrass festival and several free concerts.
Playhouse on Park's first Connecticut Shakespeare Festival offers an earthy "Into the Woods" that depends more on emotional truth than special effects.
Theaters are reopening. Some have COVID safety guidelines thrust upon them by unions and trade associations. Others are figuring it out as they go along.
As a gift to fans, the Hartford Yard Goats is hosting a concert by DJ Funk Flex following the final Saturday home game of the season, Sept. 18. Admission to the concert is free with a ticket…
As of Thursday night, Yale grad student Matt Amodio won seven straight matches on TV's "Jeopardy!" His $268,800 total thus far makes him the ninth highest earning player in the show's histor…
The Long Wharf Theatre has announced the four mainstage shows in its next season. But you can't buy a subscription. In one of the biggest changes in marketing and programming that the Tony-w…
Arts highlights for the week of Aug. 1-7.
The Garde Arts Center in New London has reopened its box office with special promotional events like in-person discounts on Tuesday "Golden Hours" evenings. The 1450-seat theater has been dr…
The Black-Eyed & Blues Fest returns to Bushnell Park Pavilion July 31 and Aug. 1, with an all-local line-up plus food booths for Black-Eyed Sally's restaurant and Ben & Jerry's.
An autumnal romance TV-movie for Hallmark was filmed last week at Meadowbrook Farm in Marlborough.
TheaterWorks Hartford is presenting Amy Berryman's new play "Walden" in a small cabin on Riverfront Recapture property on the Hartford/Windsor line. The environmental drama has live performa…
"Bloom," an outdoor "art safari" by the dance/movement troupe Pilobolus, takes place in the ponds, fields and forests of Sunny Meadow Farms in Bridgewater.
At its annual meeting, the Hartford Stage board of directors elected Jack Sennott as its new president.
Ten arts highlights for the week of Aug. 25-31, including two Shakespeare festivals, the Black-Eyed and Blues Festival and the SHAG Festival.
The Spring Hill Arts Gathering (SHAG) is a celebration of modern art, music, ideas and food. Building on the Five Senses Festival which happened on the same location in recent summers, SHAG …
Two dozen more Connecticut-based arts venues (or production companies, or promoters or other arts-themed businesses) received Shuttered Venue Operator Grants this week. This is the fourth ro…
The first Connecticut Paranormal Convention, also known as ParaConn, is happening July 24 and 25 at the Ansonia Armory. The gathering for those interested in the supernatural includes over a…