Gershwin is in the air. Just a few days before the national tour of "An American in Paris" hits The Bushnell, there's another dance spectacle visiting Connecticut that features the immortal …
"When I auditioned for this, I was told it was one of the hardest roles on Broadway," Garen Scribner says of his starring turn in the national tour of "An American in Paris." "There's a lot …
Let your vote count. Then laugh at it. TV networks have been providing live coverage of presidential election nights for decades. In recent years, it's also become common for late-night come…
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" has undergone a complete change of cast since the show played The Bushnell in Hartford last winter. (No, the actors did not turn into mice and lizards.) …
On his long-running, award-winning National Public Radio show "This American Life," Ira Glass often cedes the microphone to guests, who tell long stories about their experiences and beliefs.…
"I love to create as much as I love to perform. I just like to create, then walk away. I do something, then I leave it alone." That's the versatile Jon Peterson's musical-theater modus opera…
"I wrote a play I wanted to do," Paul Slade Smith explains. A steadily working actor, particularly in comedies and musicals, he had enjoyed performing in such grandly comic shows as "Lend Me…
One of the odder trends of Connecticut theater in 2016 is the rediscovery of Anthony Newley, the British entertainer whose diverse achievements include writing the classic movie songs "Goldf…
Bill Raymond is saying goodbye to "Bah! Humbug!" The venerable character actor, who has played Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" at Hartford Stage for 16 of…
The annual Navaratri Festival of Indian music and dance at the Wesleyan Center for the Arts is marking its 40th anniversary by acknowledging the 50th anniversary of special Indian-themed art…
For those of you of weaker constitution / For those of you who may be faint of heart / This is a tale of revenge and retribution / So if you're smart / Before we start / You'd best depart / …
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" first came to life at Hartford Stage in 2012, directed by the theater's artistic director, Darko Tresjnak. It returns to the city Oct. 25-30 at the B…
"La Ronde" is a world of your own making, cued by voices in your ears and paths on the floor of the Goffe Street Armory building in New Haven. The performance, created by the French theater …
Where is William Shatner boldly going now? To Connecticut, on the latest go-round of his one-man show, "Shatner's World… We Just Live In It." The erstwhile Captain Kirk (and T.J. Hooker an…
Do you believe in ghosts? Hartford Stage does. The theater is conjuring up "The Piano Lesson," one of the most haunted, and haunting, of the 10 dramas in August Wilson's legendary 10-play "C…
Hartford got to see Broadway veteran Anthony Rapp earlier when the national tour of "If/Then" visited the Bushnell. Rapp reprised the role of Lucas, which he originated in the show's Broadwa…
In Steve Martin's new play "Meteor Shower," some flashy celestial figures abruptly change the lives of four people at a backyard dinner party. Stars are aligning in curious ways for the play…
Sarah Ruhl formulates questions that are on the tip of our tongues " questions about the world around us and life itself. She articulates those thoughts, connects them to revolutionary perio…
Richard Dreyfuss redefined what it meant to be a leading man in the "New Hollywood" era of the 1970s, in such groundbreaking films as "Jaws," "American Graffiti," "The Apprenticeship of Dudd…
Scottish actors know all about heath and hard-blowing winds. It's Graeme Malcolm who endures the elements and compares his children to serpents' teeth in Connecticut Repertory Theatre's prod…
"A Room of My Own," a recent off-Broadway success that's now at Seven Angels Theatre with much of its original cast, is an old-fashioned melodrama " not far removed from "I Remember Mama" " …
"Everybody knows what happens to Judy Garland after 'The Wizard of Oz.' But nobody knows what happened before," says Tina Marie Casamento Libby. That kind of questioning spirit is right up t…
"Disenchanted!" takes some familiar fairy-tale princesses, the kind that you know from cartoon movies, and takes them places that may be even creepier than dark forests and castle towers. Th…
Autumn may be a time of darkness and dead leaves, but the theater season brings newness: world premieres, bright comedy and social issues torn from today's headlines. Hartford Stage's first …
The accomplished familiar cast VANESSA BUTLER, MARY BACON, CHARLOTTE MAIER, ALICE CANNON & HEIDI ARMBRUSTER fall effortlessly into a smooth ensemble.