TheaterWorks has created a new membership model, offering a monthly "theatrical experience" (primarily online for the time being) for $20.21 per month. The theater is retaining a few offerin…
The musical "Cyrano," which was workshopped at the Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre in 2018, will become a star-studded MGM movie featuring Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett directed by Joe W…
Goodspeed Musicals has arranged a fortnight of outdoor concerts by The Playbillies, on the lawn outside the Goodspeed Opera House. These are the first public performance the Goodspeed has ho…
Over 40 Connecticut clubs and theaters have joined the new National Independent Venue Association and its "Save Our Stages" campaign. The venues are urging passage of a stimulus bill that in…
The Five Senses Festival ran through Aug. 2 in a sprawling wooded region in New Preston not far from the internationally renowned Pilobolus' home base in Washington Depot. The main event was…
Hartford Stage has canceled its announced 2020-21 season due to ongoing coronavirus concerns, and also canceled the shows it postponed from the 2019-20 season. The theater does not expect to…
A month after most of them were given the go-ahead to reopen, many Connecticut cinemas are still dark. The reasons range from ongoing coronavirus concerns to the lack of fresh films to show.
Hartford Symphony Orchestra will present a five-concert chamber music series, "Summer Splash!," starting with an HSO Brass Quintet concert July 30 at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center.…
The Bushnell has postponed yet another of the Broadway tours on its 2021-22 season, moving "Pretty Woman" from its originally scheduled February 2021 run to new dates over a year later: Apri…
Real Arts Ways is reopening its gallery space Thursday July 23, and making plans to offer outdoor film screenings in August.
A Black Lives Matter mural is now gracing the walls of the Swift Factory economic revitalization project in Hartford's North End. The mural will be officially unveiled with a ceremony and a …
The Bushnell has announced new dates for two of the spring shows it had to postpone. Blue Man Group is now coming May 28-30, 2021, and An Evening With Neil Gaiman has been rescheduled for Oc…
The Long Wharf Theatre helped start "Play at Home," an ingenious project which offers brand new short scripts by important American playwrights for people to perform in their own homes durin…
Black photographers share their experiences and emotions documenting the recent Black Lives Matter protests, rallies and marches in Connecticut.
The Hill-Stead Museum's new "From the Porch" summer series gives opportunities to theater and dance companies whose own spaces are still shuttered. Playhouse on Park, Sonia Plumb Dance Compa…
Celebrating the legacy of Margaret Holloway, New Haven's Shakespeare Lady and a true Connecticut theater icon.
While a few theaters are attempting to stage shows this summer, most are staying closed. Ivoryton Playhouse, Talcott Mountain Music Festival and Westport Country Playhouse are among the perf…
Brian Syms' short video "Dying Black Swans" uses classical ballet and other dance forms to make a strong non-verbal message about black lives, personal identity and survival, in response to …
Three teen brothers from Manchester are sharing their fears about the George Floyd cartoon through a political cartoon. Keyon, Korey and Kahari Franklin have self-published several books an…
The homegrown "Fatherhood Manologues" videos, posted June 21, offer diverse tales of black fatherhood today.
With the moving of "South Pacific" to next year, Goodspeed Musicals has now postponed or canceled every one of the shows it planned for its 2020 season.
The Bushnell continues to shuffle its schedule of Broadway tours. "Dear Evan Hansen" and "Hadestown" now have firm dates, but won't be coming to Hartford until over a year from now.
Hartford Public Library is restoring several services this month, including patrons' ability to reserve, pick up and return books at the main downtown building.
Connecticut theaters realize that words (onstage or off) are not enough, and are committing to concrete change in their organizations in the wake of the George Floyd protests and calls for a…
The Long Wharf Theatre has changed its 2020-21 season, relabeled it "One City, Many Changes," and plans to stage shows in "open spaces throughout New Haven."