Jonathan Tolins' comedy "Buyer and Cellar" concerns a down-on-his-luck L.A. actor who gets a job tidying up the treasures in the basement of Barbra Streisand's Malibu house. The one-man show…
Elton John recorded "Step Into Christmas," but never followed it up with a New Year's song. Sir Elton did, however, play a memorable live New Year's Eve show just last year in Brooklyn, N.Y.…
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Scheuer's one-man theater piece "The Lion" is based on his relationship with his father and also concerns a series of medical problems that have aff…
It doesn't last until midnight, just 10 p.m. or so on New Year's Eve, but the First Night of Funny at the Shubert, 247 College St., New Haven, will end your year with a good mood " and give …
TheatreWorks New Milford suspended performances of its production "Bell, Book and Candle" last week after acknowledging their set designs were too closely "inspired by'' those developed for …
Few acts capture the Christmas spirit with as few clothes on as The Pontani Sisters. The old-school striptease artists, who have been among the leaders of a nationwide Burlesque revival, bri…
The misfits are taking over Christmas. A stage adaptation of the immortal Christmas TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" has taken the country by snowstorm, with two separate tours to…
After years of mirth and merriment, the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus' latest Christmas concert wants to remind us that the holiday season is also a time of warmth, community, harmony and gen…
We have magically entered the prime nutcracking period of the year, with presentations of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Ballet" rushing at you like so many mice with cute little swords. Here are…
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a leading light in the Connecticut arts scene these days. The original animated Rankin-Bass holiday classic has already aired on TV, but you can still fin…
"I never thought I'd be associated with a new Christmas tradition," Jenn Harris marvels. Yet it's true. She's in "Christmas on the Rocks," which saucily updates classic holiday tales from st…
When Julia Macchio learned that she was up for the role of Alex Owens, the steel welder who moonlights as a club dancer, in a new national tour of "Flashdance " The Musical," she rented the …
Lewis Black's back at the Oakdale with his latest dose of fed-up philosophizing, "The Emperor's New Clothes: The Naked Truth Tour." Black still rants occasionally on "The Daily Show," despit…
Charles Ross' One Man Star Wars Trilogy is a manic multi-styled low-budget solo interpretation of this immortal interplanetary saga that comes to the Stamford Palace On Nov. 12 With "The For…
The 30-year-old New York-based troupe David Dorfman Dance returns to Connecticut for a residency at Fairfield University, culminating in an 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, performance of the compan…
The Christmas shows are starting to arrive, with the national tour of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" flurrying into the Palace Theater, 100 East Main St., Waterbury, Friday to Sunday, Nov…
When "The Producers" first went on tour after winning 12 Tony Awards and becoming the first Broadway sensation of the 21st century, the show was such a big deal that it visited two major the…
April Macie, from the fourth season of TV's "Last Comic Standing," was the winner of Howard Stern's "Funniest, Hottest Comedienne" competition in 2008. She's a regular on Stern's radio show …
Comedy for a Cause comes to Hartford on Thursday, Oct. 22, with performances by a host of funny folks from Connecticut: the "suburban comedy" collective The Sticks, stand-up comedian Carolyn…
"What are the implications of these stories?" That's the open question underlying "Lore," which, with only 15 biweekly episodes to its name, has hit the top 20 on the iTunes Top Podcast char…
The Navarati Festival at Wesleyan University has been celebrating Indian music and dance with an annual slate of concerts, lectures, workshops and screenings for nearly four decades now. Hig…
Once upon a time there was a magical land known as Old Lyme, in which delightful little forest creatures dwelled. They were chased from their homes by the noise and machines of the modern ag…
The internationally renowned dance/movement troupe Pilobolus - formed at Dartmouth College in 1971 and based in Washington Depot ever since - has clung and stretched and crawled and clutched…
"Memphis the Musical" chronicles the birth of radio-friendly R&B music in the 1950s, replete with all the racism, corruption, deceptions, misunderstandings and - ahhhhh! - romance of the era.
Chazz Palminteri has carved out a fine TV and movie career as a character actor, mostly in gangster roles. He also, whenever he feels likes it, returns to performing the one-man show that pu…