Ha-ha, Happy New Year! You've heard the jokes: "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." "A New Year's resolution is a fragile bit of crockery fashioned…
Ebenezer Scrooge can now balance a turkey on his chin. If you want to know the biggest difference between Michael Preston's portrayal of the "Bah! Humbug!" icon at Hartford Stage when contra…
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's "Holiday Cirque Spectacular" has been an annual tradition since shortly after Carolyn Kuan became the symphony's music director. This is the sixth year that the…
When Tig Notaro took part in Connecticut Forum's "Laughter, Anyone?" event at The Bushnell a few weeks ago, she got her first laughs within seconds of strolling onstage. With her natural gra…
There are bountiful reasons to see "The Color Purple" when it arrives at The Bushnell for its six-day run Dec. 5 to 10. It's the national tour of a Tony-winning hit. It's a revival of a show…
For grown-ups, much of the fun of the nationally touring shows based on animated children's shows is seeing the manner in which they've jumped from one form of entertainment to another. "PAW…
'A Connecticut Christmas Carol" transports Charles Dickens' Olde England to a little town called East Haddam in New England. The show, though set at the Goodspeed Opera House, is having its …
"A Christmas Carol" has been a Hartford Stage standard for 20 years now. The production was brought to the theater by its adaptor Michael Wilson shortly after he became Hartford Stage's arti…
In the past year you might have seen Mike Birbiglia on "Orange Is the New Black" (as Danny Pearson), or in the movie he wrote and directed and starred in, "Don't Think Twice" (about an impro…
You know how some people buy their gifts from nationwide chain stores, while others make them by hand? And both are well worth having? Connecticut Christmas theater is like that, too. Just a…
The new Broadway hit "The Band's Visit" is the story of a snappily dressed Egyptian police band whose travel plans go awry. They find themselves in Bet Hatikva, a desolate Israeli town intro…
A funny thing is happening on the way to Connecticut Forum. If you were looking for three people to demonstrate the changing face of American comedy today, you might well decide upon Fred Ar…
The latest "Christmas Carol" in Connecticut transports Dickens' holiday story across the ocean, setting it in the East Haddam home of famed early 20th actor William Gillette. The 90-minute, …
What's up with Whitney Cummings? The comedian's own sitcom "Whitney" lasted only two seasons 2011 to13, but "Two Broke Girls," which she created around the same time, lasted six seasons, end…
Remember "The Charter Boys," that action-packed TV detective drama that aired on UPN, then the WB, for most of the 1990s? Of course you don't. It's a spoof, a parody. But "The Charter Boys: …
"The Phannnnntom of the opera is therrrrree…" Oh, and over here as well. It's important to know that the tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" coming to the Palace in Wa…
The second-ever production at Quinnipiac University's Theatre Arts Center is the 17th-century French playwright Moliere's timely medical-care comedy "The Imaginary Invalid." One of the best-…
Classic drama has plenty to say about modern times. Sometimes the connections are made glaringly obvious by directors and designers. Other times there's a subtlety, an underlying sensation t…
Prolific local playwright Jacques Lamarre has had his scripts produced at TheaterWorks, Seven Angels and Hole in the Wall Theatre in recent seasons. His latest premiere is the socioreligious…
Taking the 1986 Broadway misfire "Rags" out of mothballs was a risk. Refashioning it fully, with two of its original creators (lyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer Charles Strouse) on boar…
Rock star-styled illusionist Criss Angel regularly disappears at Foxwoods, whether on his own or as the co-creator of the ensemble magic spectacle "The Supernaturalists." Angel's latest "Min…
It's rare that a major national tour of a classic musical will come to Connecticut without playing The Bushnell. "The Sound of Music" has now done that twice. It seems you don't have to clim…
When does five times five equal 15? When the locally rooted 5X5 Dance Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary Nov. 4 with a full day of performance activities in and around Bruyette Athenae…
After numerous tours through the state, not to mention club and concert appearances by members of the original New York cast, "Million Dollar Quartet" is now rocking the state's smaller thea…
Connecticut theatergoers remember Jen Silverman from her Gothic pastiche "The Moors" at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016. Her "Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties" premiered at Washington,…