Pledge allegiance to the band. Get on your feet. Own the night. Welcome to the Renaissance. That's what is being asked of Bushnell audiences this fall and next year. The Bushnell announced i…
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's envelope-pushing 1990 musical "Assassins" offers a nightmarish gathering of men from throughout American history who have one thing in common: They tried …
He coaxed Norm McDonald into describing the worst moments of his gambling addiction. He patched up an old friendship with Louis C.K., in a conversation that Slate magazine deemed "the best p…
Mention to Charlotte Maltby that "The Sound of Music" had its premiere at New Haven's Shubert theater in 1959 and she'll tell you she's heard all about it. Her father, the Broadway lyricist …
'Smart People," Lydia Diamond's drama about psychology and academia had its premiere nearly three years ago at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, just a few miles from the Harvard campus w…
The Albano Ballet Company celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. The Hill-Stead Museum turned 70 last year. These two institutions know something about elegant artistic traditions. On Ma…
You feel you know Faust? Not so fast. The immortal legend of eternal damnation has taken many forms, including plays, operas and musicals. It'll take a new one March 10 to 12 at Hartford Sym…
The Omaticaya, Tawkami and Anurai clans live! The Sky People breathe! Pandorian animals frolic! Na'vi is spoken! In Hartford! When James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" appeared in t…
Great music has been written by deaf people, including Ludwig van Beethoven. Great music is also being written for deaf people. Cuatro Puntos, an innovative Hartford-based classical music en…
An actor in the current Hartford Stage production of "Cloud 9" was injured Thursday, causing the cancellation of performances this weekend.Performances are expected to resume Tuesday, Feb. 2…
Editor's note: Hartford Stage released the following press release. "Due to the injury of an actor, Hartford Stage's performance of "Cloud 9" scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, has bee…
Connecticut has a special ear for "The Sound of Music." The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical " about a nun/nanny, the adorable kids she cares for and the gruff captain with a heart, a…
The title "Riverdance " 20th Anniversary Tour" is getting a little old. When it played The Bushnell last May, it was firmly in the zone, coming two decades and two months after the Irish dan…
Raphael Xavier feels that he's taking break dancing to places it has never been before. "I'm still a breaker, man," he says in a recent phone interview. "As a 46-year-old breaker, I'm not su…
"Waiting for Lefty" is the stuff of political theater legend, right up there with "The Cradle Will Rock" and "The Crucible." Clifford Odets' Depression-era drama, staged as a series of short…
Don't worry, you're not late to the ball. The national tour of "Cinderella" has already parked its pumpkin coach in Connecticut twice " just over a year ago at The Bushnell in Hartford and (…
Karin Coonrod found Queen Elizabeth I to be such a compelling subject that she needed four actresses, and four thrones, to contain her. "I totally get her spirit," Coonrod said in a recent, …
It bodes well for a good time in the theater that when the star of the show is asked to name one of its funniest bits, he mentions one of its first moments. "The first time I ring a doorbell…
They're together again: George and Gracie! And Bruce and Semina! Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury has fashioned a stage production "George and Gracie: The Early Years" out of classic routin…
"Hello! My Name is Elder Price! And I would like to share with you the most amazing book." "The Book of Mormon" returns to The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave. in Hartford, Feb. 14 to 19, with a l…
The Hartford theater scene has been good to Matthew Macca. Six years ago, when he was still in high school, he landed the plum role of Eugene in the Neil Simon play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" …
You may know "Menopause the Musical" from several summer rental engagements at the Long Wharf Theatre in the past decades. It returns to New Haven, in a larger production, for three performa…
HARTFORD " Hundreds of people stood outside Hartford theaters Thursday night. They shined flashlights, battery-operated candles and cellphones in what was intended as a collective artistic s…
The graduate thesis projects for the students in the directing program at the Yale School of Drama are large-scale productions. The acting students at the school spend a year on mastering El…
In October, Connecticut audiences got to see comic writer and performer Mike Birbiglia's full-length performance "Thank God for Jokes" at College Street Music Hall in New Haven. That show, a…