Hartford Stage has been doing Shakespeare plays since the theater was founded over half a century ago. In recent years, it has reliably done a Shakespeare script every season since 2010 " ju…
New York City is a monarchy? No, of course not. Apparently it's a pentarchy, with five concurrent rulers. The New York Kings of Comedy eschew royal titles in favor of ordinary names like Rob…
Fall in Connecticut perenially offers familiar scenes and new ones, and it's no different on the state's stages. This autumn, audiences will see major national tours of long-established hits…
Gabriel Iglesias is back in the Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino with a two-night stand of "Fluffy" stand-up Sept. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. The Californian comedian and actor's recent credit…
See it for the balcony scene. Elm Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet" has some obvious and fairly understandable problems " a cast of wildly differing talents, design concepts that…
Bess Wohl finds depth in high concepts. In her attention-grabbing ensemble drama "Small Mouth Sounds," there is almost no dialogue and very few sounds at all. The play, set at a wilderness r…
Norm Macdonald's been declared "a modern master of the long joke" (by the pop culture site Vulture) and "one subversive, hilarious dude" (by Paste magazine). A viral video of Macdonald telli…
"I think I'm typecast," says Phillip Huber. Fourteen years ago he was asked to supply a puppet dog for a new musical called "Road to Hollywood" at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre. T…
It had bangs and whimpering sounds, bullies and victims, politics and personal issues. It ended with a chef serving appetizers to the audience. Yes, with the world premiere of "Raging Skille…
Playhouse on Park is unveiling another of its bawdy "Mama D's" seasonal dance/comedy/revues. The latest saucy spectacle is "Mama D's Hot Summer Nights," conceived and directed by Mama D hers…
The Elm Shakespeare Company underwent the biggest change in its more than 20-year history last summer, when its founder James Andreassi passed on the artistic director reins to Rebecca Goodh…
Hershey Felder has made a career out of dramatizing the lives of famous composers. He dresses like them, plays their greatest works live on piano, and he brings out the real-life human stori…
The Glass Eye theater company, founded by Hartt School alumni and based in New York City, originally focused on new works. In recent years, however, the Glass Eye has added a touring outdoor…
Two dozen years ago, a Frank Sinatra concert opened the Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The spirit of Ol' Blue Eyes is returning to the Fox. Forty years ago in Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Pr…
John Davidson plays the seafaring pirate Captain Hook, who chases a flying child in "Finding Neverland." But he's got his feet firmly on the ground. "I like it when a character's objectives …
"Finding Neverland," the Broadway musical about how J.M. Barrie created Peter Pan, has been on a national tour since October 2016. That's long enough for it to have undergone a few cast chan…
In East Haddam, the wind goes sweeping down the Connecticut River rather than the plain. But Jenn Thompson is feeling right at home, bringing Rodgers and Hammerstein's game-changing 1943 mus…
The Capital Classics presentations at the University of St. Joseph are so simple, unassuming and unadorned that they're more about resting on a comfortable lawn than having to get too deeply…
For his third play about food, Jacques Lamarre wanted to whip up something fresh, try some fresh spices and increase the portion size. "Raging Skillet," having its world premiere at TheaterW…
"Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been." " Ebenezer Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens It's…
New "Newsies" is good "Newsies." The Disney musical about enterprising newsboys in early 20th-century New York played more than 1,000 performances on Broadway from 2012-14, then spent anothe…
The outdoor Shakespeare season is on! Middletown's Artfarm is staging "Hamlet" July 9 to 16 and July 19 to 23 as part of its Shakespeare in the Grove series. Director Dic Wheeler has describ…
"Grounded" is a dark, isolated, legal and social drama by George Brant. It's about war, sacrifice, personal ethics and clashes with the system. But director Liz Diamond beams. "I'm so enjoyi…
"Newsies" is still in circulation. Disney's decision not to continue doing national tours of its jaunty journalism musical after an initial two-year go-round (which played Connecticut twice)…
What would summer be without "West Side Story" at some small Connecticut theater? The Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim/Robbins street fight is at the Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton (E…