Theater producer Neil Goldberg could easily be mistaken for Santa Claus. A producer and director of modern circus entertainments, he delivers magic and wonderment around the country. This mo…
Hartford Public Library has announced the 15 jazz acts playing in its free, Sunday-afternoon 2019 Baby Grand Jazz Series, which opens Jan. 6 with a special Three Kings Day concert featuring …
Ah, the sights and smells of "A Christmas Carol." The snow is still falling on the audience. You can still smell the smoke when the Spirit of Christmas Present makes her grand misty entrance…
It's a Christmas miracle that "Christmas on the Rocks" has now entered its sixth season at TheaterWorks. We need its sweet insanity more than ever. The show, conceived and directed by the th…
How does a fast-talking, awesome Broadway show " a hip-hop history of the American revolution " still going gangbusters, known around the world, immortal and beloved, find itself in Hartford…
'Hamilton" isn't the only revolution coming to The Bushnell. The show's popularity has added a virtual army of thousands of new subscribers to the theater's Broadway series. Beth Hyland, The…
Paula Vogel had her first Broadway production just a couple of years ago, with "Indecent," a play-with-music concerning a famous theater censorship trial. But Vogel's been a major presence o…
Hallelujah! A new ballet company is bringing a new Christmas dance tradition to town " Handel's "Messiah." Vivid Ballet, founded in 2016, changed its name recently to Ballet Hartford. The co…
There are some new gifts, as well as a sleigh-full of familiar Christmas comforts, in the Christmas shows returning to Connecticut theaters this holiday season. TheaterWorks' 'Christmas on t…
New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre has selected Jacob G. Padrón, a major force in new play development, especially among minority writers, as its new artistic director. He begins his new job …
An established comedy icon who came up on the old sitcom/"Tonight Show" route, and a member of the next generation, whose career took a similar trajectory during changing times, both hit Con…
Dominique Morisseau is one of the most produced playwrights in the country right now. TheaterWorks did Morisseau's "Sunset Baby" last year. The hot Morisseau scripts this season are the thre…
He's done it all. He's changed the face of world theater. And he's still at it. Peter Brook's latest work, "The Prisoner," which he co-wrote and co-directed with his main collaborator of the…
Camille A. Brown and Dancers were already a known quantity in Connecticut " having performed at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Wesleyan University and elsewhere " when troupe le…
Bartlett Sher is known for finding strong thematic connections between the stories from classic Broadway musicals and the world as it is today. He does this subtly, without hitting audiences…
The Hartford-based Sonia Plumb Dance Company has a multimedia, multi-styled, military-themed event planned for 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford. More Veterans Day event…
As a gypsy, Carmen really gets around. Connecticut Lyric Opera is the most mobile opera company in the state, bringing each of its shows to a variety of locations. Its production of Bizet's …
Lady Bunny founded the fabulous Wigstock Festival, a hallowed LGBTQ gathering that marked the end of summer in New York City from the mid-'80s the early '00s. Wigstock was magically revived …
Upward Hartford is proud of its recent renovations. It has more space now. So it's hosting an avalanche. On Nov. 8, an ensemble of musicians from Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform Mis…
The magic of holograms brings opera singer Maria Callas to life for "Callas in Concert" Nov. 8 at Jorgensen Auditorium, 2132 Hillside Road on the UConn campus in Storrs. Callas was one of th…
Michael Stotts, who has been the managing director of Hartford Stage since 2006, is leaving the theater at the end of January for a similar post at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, the the…
Howie Mandel is at Foxwoods' Fox Theater Nov. 2.
Howie Mandel has been bringing his stand-up show to Connecticut since the late 1970s. During those decades he also became a ubiquitous presence on TV " first as a voice on the "Muppet Babies…
Eight young dancers form two lines. The only male dancer breaks from the pack and moves to center stage, where he's joined by two more dancers, then others. They leap. They strut. They glide…
When he was 3 months old, Alex Alpharaoh was taken on a life-changing journey from Guatemala to the United States. Thirty-six years later, he's travelling around the country to share his sto…