2,240 stories by "Christopher Arnott"
Mark Morris has been a world-renowned choreographer for over three decades. But he is now also well recognized as an opera director, a natural step for an artist who cares so much about musi…
Mark Morris has been a world-renowned choreographer for more than three decades. But he is now also well recognized as an opera director, a natural step for an artist who cares so much about…
The Yale Summer Cabaret opened its season with "Midsummer," which Sara Holdren, the company's artistic director, and Rachel Carpman, its associate artistic director, have adapted from Shakes…
"The Crucible," by longtime Roxbury resident and world-renowned playwright Arthur Miller, deftly takes a propagandistic political issue from his own career " the red-baiting attacks of Sen. …
"The Crucible," by longtime Roxbury resident and world-renowned playwright Arthur Miller, deftly takes a propagandistic political issue from his own career - the red-baiting attacks of Sen. …
So many stage musicals have been adapted from movies these days that it's rare to find one that actually brings something new to the table. "Once" " adapted by edgy Irish playwright Enda Wal…
Big Jay Oakerson is a long-form jokester, telling involved stories about racism, daytime TV, sex, and why he refuses to travel to England ("Your country stinks"). His recent album is titled,…
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" won a Pulitzer Prize and popularized a new genre of memoir. The New York-based writer and artist's other work runs the gamut from '70s underground comix…
Carolyn Kirsch, who danced for Bob Fosse and was in the original Broadway cast of Michael Bennett's "A Chorus Line," has been doing small theater projects in Connecticut for decades.
"It's all about the music."
When "Camelot" was first conjured up 45 years ago, it must have felt bracingly fresh and fun-loving, even a bit saucy. It was composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's follow-u…
First there was the Flapper Age of free-minded young women in the 1920s. Thirty years later, that era inspired 1956 London musical called "Chrysantheum." It waited more than 10 years to be t…
"America's Got Downton" … and the Downton they've got is just one silly British guy.
"America's Got Downton" Â… and the Downton they've got is just one silly British guy.
"Next to Normal," the acclaimed pop/rock musical about a middle-aged woman's bipolar disorder by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (who went on to write "If/Then"), has begun a three-weekend run at …
You don't have to know how to block an opponent at the snap to enjoy "Playing the Assassin"; the play shows you how, in elegant slow motion and up-close body-slamming action.
Young playwrights who think they're edgy and modern because they use sharp language, expressionistic techniques, brash political posturing, harsh urban settings and outrageous humor in the m…
Young playwrights who think they're edgy and modern because they use sharp language, expressionistic techniques, brash political posturing, harsh urban settings and outrageous humor in the m…
The Russian National Ballet Theatre has been making regular stops in Connecticut for decades, and is one of the last great examples of what was once a thriving entertainment enterprise " the…
During the golden age of the Boston stand-up scene in the 1980s, Lenny Clarke was the undisputed king of the comedy clubs, whether the stage was a Chinese restaurant or the side room of a le…
Josh Radnor, the "How I Met Your Mother" star, is also now widely known as a Broadway actor and indie filmmaker. His New York credits include the stage version of "The Graduate," Ayad Akhtar…
Sometimes improv has to plan ahead.
The apocalyptic survival story. Allegory for the burdens of adulthood. Fictional test of the political ramifications of peacekeeping versus warmongering. Compulsory reading in the many high …
Is there anything we can say that makes Regis Philbin sound cool? Sure! In 1967, he made headlines when he quit his sidekick gig on Joey Bishop's talk show. Decades later, Philbin confessed …
Kathy Griffin can no longer pretend to be on the "D-List," but she continues to be an outspoken, earthily endearing comic presence. For all her no-holds-barred humor, knocking down the pedes…
