An internal review by New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre of its sexual harassment policies has found no fault with management or the board of directors over alleged misconduct by its former arti…
"My fans," Gloria Estefan shares during a phone interview, "know me like Emilio knows me. For decades, they've been listening to my innermost being." Apparently, fans think the biographical …
'I really cut my teeth as a director" at TheaterWorks, says Rob Ruggiero, where in the past quarter-century he's directed more than 60 shows. Ruggiero " who also directs regularly at the Goo…
You can find four famous comedians spread out over three separate shows, in three different performance spaces at two Connecticut casino complexes, on the same hilarious Saturday night " Jun…
He squints his eyes. He knows no boundaries. In other media, he has portrayed a parrot (in Disney's "Aladdin") and a duck (in old insurance company ads). He co-hosts his own "Amazing Colossa…
On Broadway, Terrence Mann is best known for being feline, French and furry. He was Rum Tum Tugger in "Cats," Javert in "Les Miserables" and the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast." At UConn's C…
The 2018 International Festival of Arts & Ideas kicks off in and around downtown New Haven June 9 and continues through June 23. The festival has a pronounced theme this year: immigration. T…
Until his "Hamilton" changed all the rules of what a hit musical could be, Lin-Manuel Miranda had a notable hit with "In the Heights." The show ran on Broadway for three years, winning Tony …
Some changes in "The Invisible Hand" are very invisible indeed. Following its initial success at Westport Country Playhouse in 2016, Ayad Akhtar's gripping drama has been remounted at Theate…
Grandiose and grotesque, lush and lurid, strange and familiar, "Love Never Dies" lets its phantasmic freak flag fly through Sunday at The Bushnell. The romantic potboiler is Andrew Lloyd Web…
"A Lesson From Aloes" gives us one more reason to miss Darko Tresnjak when he leaves his post as artistic director of Hartford Stage at the end of next season. We know that Tresnjak will alw…
Love may never die, but voices can change. Actress Karen Mason plays Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his greatest hit, "The Phantom of the Opera." In "Phantom," Giry is the he…
"Chicago" is a model of urban redevelopment. The musical, based on a 1926 play by Maurine Dallas Watkins (based in turn on actual sordid events that occurred in Chicago while Watkins was a j…
Janis Joplin's life was short but packed with incident. She fronted a few different bands, had two hit albums and appeared at Woodstock, Monterey and other major rock festivals, all in the s…
Westport Country Playhouse's 2018 season opens with the popular melodrama "Flyin' West" by famed feminist novelist, playwright and essayist Pearl Cleage. The play " May 29 through June 16 " …
Ayad Akhtar's follow-the-money hostage drama "The Invisible Hand" continues to strike Connecticut theatergoers. The play had a successful production at the Westport Country Playhouse in the …
'It's the renovation season," declares Rob Ruggiero, TheaterWorks' producing artistic director. Which means it's also the relocation season. Theaterworks has announced five of the six shows …
In February of 1961, South African playwright Athol Fugard jotted down in his diary an eight-paragraph description of an argument he'd witnessed during "a party at the flat of a Catholic wom…
Trixie Mattel, who recently won on the third season of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars," has released two albums in the past two years. Last year she started a web series called "UNHhhh," with…
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has regularly turned to Broadway musicals for its concert content. On May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall, the affectionate topic is "Love on…
Who's still on the short list of rock and roll stars who haven't had a musical written about them? Dion DiMucci, who in September of 1961 introduced us to "Runaround Sue" and then two months…
'Comedians" is a cunning sociopolitical drama from 1975 by British playwright Trevor Griffiths. The drama is set in a class for aspiring comedians, and the second act shows the students perf…
'Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical" is an allegory about segregation and dealing with prejudice. The story, which is also about friendship and being accepted by one's peers, concerns an 8-yea…
Connecticut Ballet calls its spring concert "Russian Classics!" but also notes that two of these three classics have not been danced in Connecticut before. Old and famous, then, but perhaps …
The national tour of the Broadway hit "Motown the Musical" played The Bushnell in the spring of 2016, then returned to Broadway shortly afterward, where it added another few weeks to its nea…