Connecticut Ballet is putting the glass slippers on again. Artistic Director Brett Raphael first staged and choreographed Prokofiev's "Cinderella" for the company in 2006. He returned to it …
Southern folklorist and raconteur Tim Lowry headlines the 35th annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, in the College Center at Crozier Williams, on th…
"Matilda The Musical," which swings into The Bushnell April 26 through May 1 on its first national tour, is famously full of spectacle. There are wild children, bright lights, towering sets,…
To promote its production of the opera "Rigoletto," Connecticut Lyric Opera is using an image of Quasimodo from a well-known painting by Antoine Wiertz. There certainly are similarities betw…
When Daniel Goldstein was asked the direct "Anything Goes" at the Goodspeed Opera House, he didn't feel "anything goes" about it. He had conditions. "I refused to do it with an all-white cas…
Larry Kramer has already made history " as a playwright ("A Normal Heart"), screenplay writer ("Women in Love"), novelist ("Faggots"), essayist ("The Tragedy of Today's Gays") and renowned g…
The Illusionists, that illustrious ensemble of seven conjurers, return to Connecticut for two shows on Sunday, April 17, at 4:30 and 8 p.m., in the Toyota Oakdale Theatre, 95 S. Turnpike Roa…
Get realish. Awkward social encounters, fashion disasters, drunken confessions and unrestrained egomaniacal outbursts happen everywhere. "Real Housewives," for instance, have been found in O…
Say what? "Having Our Say" is a special sort of show. Part storytelling revue, part civil rights drama, part housekeeping ritual. A co-production of Hartford Stage and the Long Wharf Theatre…
Can we get some suggestions from the audience, please? Be creative. We need the names of nine states, plus a country to the north of us. Next, we'll need several dozen funny names. These can…
Hartbeat Ensemble builds community through theater projects about the communities it knows best. The company's new show "Gross Domestic Product" is about women in the workplace and centers o…
There's a rule in theater that's credited to the great Anton Chekhov: If you show a gun onstage, then that gun must be fired before the play is over. Yet when Samuel D. Hunter wrote a play s…
Arts & Ideas has the funk. Not to mention the Polish jazz, the political documentaries, "Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour," and dozens of other cultural happenings. The International Festival…
It's good to be the king. Especially when you're a female actor. "I've done a ton of Shakespeare," says Kathryn Meisle. "Cymbeline is a role to which I have never aspired. But now the whole …
"Love Letters" is in the air. A national tour of A.R. Gurney's epistolary romance, in which a lifetime of correspondence is warmly recited onstage by actors who sit at a table, was at The Bu…
"Having Our Say" is not finished having its say. The two-woman show, directed by Jade King Carroll and based on a best-selling 1993 book by the centenarian Delany Sisters, played the Long Wh…
Let the music do the acting. There is lots of rock- or pop-themed entertainment this week, and it's not even "Rocky Horror" season. The Real Thing Hot on the heels of "Motown The Musical," w…
I have strong memories of the National Theatre of Scotland performing the U.S. premiere of "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" at New Haven's Wicked Wolf Tavern for the International Fes…
When is it exactly that the sun will come out? Oh, yeah, tomorrow. The latest national tour of the indomitable comic-strip musical "Annie" comes to the Shubert Theatre, 247 College St., New …
Much has been made of how "Motown the Musical" crams more than 50 R&B, soul and rock classics into a single two-and-a-half-hour show. But that's just the half of it. The show also encapsulat…
"Motown the Musical" revisits the history of the famed Detroit musical empire Motown Records, based on a memoir by the company's founder Berry Gordy. Actors portray stars as luminous as Dian…
Robert Wilson needs more time. The eminent theater artist, known for his languorous, meditative, shape-shifting productions is in a meeting Monday afternoon and asks me to call again in 15 m…
Laura Eason has written one of the most-produced plays in the country right now, "Sex With Strangers." She's a writer and producer on one of the most-talked-about TV series of the last few y…
Swwoopp. Swwoopp. Shhhshhhhshhh. Whackawhackawhacka. Tch-tch-tch. Scrattcch. Bam! Slam! Bump. Yes, it's the return of the uproarious nonverbal rhythmic/physical spectacle, "Stomp," Friday th…
New Haven Theater Company has had some success with ensemble-based shows about American small-town communities, including "Our Town" and "Almost, Maine." William Inge's "Bus Stop," about a b…