Kristin Wold directs the Connecticut Repertory Theatre production of "Sense and Sensibility," which runs Thursday, Feb. 25, through March 6 at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Univers…
The bar area in the lobby of the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury has always been called "The Devil's Corner." Lou Diamond Phillips feels right at home. He's playing Lucifer, the devil inca…
For a change, an orchestra playing lively show tunes will not be in a pit, invisible to the audience. The musicians instead will be the main attraction on Saturday, Feb. 20, when the "Hartfo…
"I've been privileged in my career," says Karen Finley, "that I can get attention." To those who remember the furor over the National Endowment for the Arts grant given to Finley in 1990, th…
The first question is the obvious one. Since Darko Tresnjak's new production of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" features African-American actors in four key roles " including Juliet and her f…
The Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage are co-producing a new production of "Having Our Say," which playwright and director Emily Mann adapted from the best-selling book that sisters "Mis…
The annual Shen Yun dance/music spectacle is always one of the most heavily promoted theater shows of the year. Thousands of fliers are passed out at theaters around the state. There are bil…
"No pictures," says the driver as Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw are ushered out of a hired van in front of Harvard University's Kirkland House. A few minutes later, O'Neal and MacGraw have jum…
In the past year, Jen Silverman has seen her plays performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia and Playwrights Horizon in New York City. She's an "aff…
Like so many of the metal bands it fondly mocks, the musical "Rock of Ages" had a turbulent trajectory from small clubs to major theaters to cinemas, then back down to appearances at small-c…
April Woodall bounces, giggles, confides freely and glides merrily through "Born Fat" as if she's among family. In a sense, she is. In this show, now at Seven Angels Theatre Jan. 29 through …
"The Projector Series 1.4" is a multidisciplinary light, sound, movement, art video, music, performance spectacle that also features, you guessed it, projections. Fittingly, one of the theme…
The national tour of "Once " The Musical" has already played Connecticut twice. But when the show returns to the Shubert in New Haven, from Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 28 to 31, it will ha…
Transgender activist Kate Bornstein gained national attention as a performance artist, including performances at Real Art Ways, in the early 1990s. She returns there Saturday, Jan. 30, to gi…
What a mouth on that guy! A thick, round tubular hole. A mouth disconnected from other parts of the face. A mouth that glides and dances, almost shouting, almost whistling, almost whispering…
Chaim Potok's novel "The Chosen," about two Brooklyn boys of different Jewish faiths growing up in the 1940s, was turned into a stage play by Aaron Posner in 1999. Ten years later, Posner ad…
It'll be an intimate New Year at local theaters. The shows opening this month at Hartford Stage, TheaterWorks and New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre have a grand total of four actors among them.…
The latest national tour of "Ragtime" dances into the Palace Theater, 100 East Main St., Waterbury, for three performance Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m.; and Saturday, Jan. 23, at 2 and 8 p.m. T…
Tom Lenk was part of a stellar TV ensemble in the 1990s as Andrew Wells on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." He was then part of the group that created the headbanging musical "Rock of Ages," for …
Dan O'Brien writes war-themed poetry, war-themed opera libretti and war-themed plays. Quite a few of them have been about the bond that O'Brien formed with the Canadian photojournalist Paul …
Goodspeed Musicals is known for its staging of new American musicals, from "The Man of La Mancha" to "Annie" to "Amazing Grace." That support often begins with workshops and readings of work…
Hartford-based playwright Jacques Lamarre has adapted the book "You Were Born Fat," the autobiography of weight-loss entrepreneur Elizabeth Petruccione, into the one-woman play "Born Fat," p…
Illeana Douglas has written a Hollywood book that's about the majesty of movies, but she shies away from proclaiming herself one of its princesses. "I Blame Dennis Hopper, and Other Stories …
There's a reason that Topher, the king's son in the new Broadway version of "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" is no longer known as Prince Charming. "He's not rude, but he's certainly n…
The steampunk movement brings a hip fashion sense and sensibility to the historical Industrial Age, and so does the New England Carousel Museum at 95 Riverside Ave. in Bristol. The Brass Rin…