1,459 stories by "Frank Rizzo"
We sit backstage at a performance of Noises Off to find out.
The show that was cut short on Broadway and never made its Off-Broadway transfer, goes on tour.
What does it take to make love work? The famous Hollywood duo that tugged at heartstrings decades ago reunites onstage in Love Letters to tell a different love story.
It's been a hell of a theatrical run. After nearly 34 years, I am bringing the curtain down on my role as full-time theater writer for The Hartford Courant to pursue other cool projects.
Gone is the barber chair from the executive office at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, a seat of power, prestige and playfulness that became synonymous with the theater's longtime l…
Fiasco Theatre is a feisty young theater company that has enchanted critics and audiences with a series of shows off-Broadway. Its acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure,…
Stephanie Zimbalist is no demanding diva for the Seven Angels Theatre production of "Living on Love" in Waterbury. At least off-stage, the star of the '80s hit TV series "Remington Steele" "…
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
"It's like putting on 'King Lear,' 'Othello' and 'Macbeth' in one evening," says Alan Rust, director of the theater division at the University of Hartford's Hartt School and one of three dir…
South African artist William Kentridge collaborated with a composer, a choreographer, a video designer and a physicist. The result? "Refuse the Hours," a multimedia chamber opera that is par…
So you think there's no way to get tickets for the sold-out run of the world premiere of "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage starring Kevin Bacon? Think again. Every Monday the theater will dete…
Steve Martin will be back at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, this time with a world premiere play, described as "an off-beat and absurdist look at the comic anxiety lurking just beneath the …
All eyes are usually on Kevin Bacon. "The second I step out of my house, it happens," says the prolific actor at the offices of Hartford Stage, where he is rehearsing for his starring role i…
Actors who arrive at the Goodspeed Opera House are often overwhelmed by the beauty of the rural surroundings as they cross the swing bridge to East Haddam and see the glistening white theate…
"Menopause the Musical," the little show that proves there's life and laughs amid big changes, is coming back to The Bushnell's Belding Theater on Friday, Oct.16, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 1…
It was a happy day in mid-July for fans of the long-gone comic strip "Bloom County" when they opened Facebook and saw the return of Berkeley Breathed's beloved and honored creation. Since th…
The show: Yale Repertory Theatre co-production of "Indecent" by Paula Vogel at the University Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special: The world premiere will play La Jolla [Calif.] Play…
The road to Oz is heading to Goodspeed Opera House. A new musical about the pre-"Oz" life of Judy Garland will be a highlight of the 2016 lineup of five shows produced by Goodspeed Musicals.…
When the Matt Stone and Trey Parker " the creators of TV "South Park" " announced they were going to write a Broadway musical, a lot of people laughed, and not in a good way. But look who's …
"It took 30 seconds" for playwright Paula Vogel to say yes when she was asked to collaborate with director Rebecca Taichman on "Indecent," a new work about events surrounding the provocative…
Nearly four years ago, Conor Hamill was a freshman college intern at Hartford's TheaterWorks, assisting with props, reading scripts and doing assorted go-fer jobs around the office.
Was it really nearly 20 years ago when Adam Pascal made his Broadway debut in Jonathan Larcen's watershed musical "Rent" about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with …
Christopher Shinn sits on a park bench on the long narrow green of Old Wethersfield, surrounded by large lush lawns, historic homes and an atmosphere of small-town serenity, just a short wal…
Will he or won't he?
How's tricks? Big, bold and hip, at least that's how "The Illusionists" - seven men in all - are branding themselves as they tour the country following its hit Broadway run last year. (Andre…
