1,464 stories by "Frank Rizzo"
You're a theater-lover from Connecticut and you're taking a trip to Manhattan to catch some shows, or perhaps you're thinking of a holiday gift of tickets to someone. So you pick up a copy o…
In the late '70s, a new kind of touring show emerged, one that featured not one headliner but rather a quartet of female stars, each performing a set of songs as well as performing a number …
Tonya Pinkins says she's always been a kind of 'hmmmm' person.
Michael Gennaro, executive director of Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, R.I., is the new executive director of Goodspeed Musicals " its first new leader in nearly half a century.
What would you ask the wizard? Where did he get his magic? Is he returning to Oz anytime soon? And what do witches and nuns have in common?
The show: William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at Hartford Stage.
Want to know the ins and outs of the Broadway musical? Just ask Seth Rudetsky.
The show: Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
The show: "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
"It's been an emotional ride," says Christopher Gattelli who still gets moved when he talks about young people's responses to the Broadway musical "Newsies."
Six-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award-winner Audra McDonald will headline Long Wharf Theatre's 50th Anniversary Gala on June 5.
The show: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford.
To play the role of "Hamlet," one could quote from the Bard's title character and say, "The readiness is all."
For the season opener of Long Wharf Theater's 50th anniversary season, artistic director Gordon Edelstein wanted a work that not only made an artistic statement about the theater but one tha…
What makes a popular film a great musical?
The show: "Evita" at Bushnell in Hartford.
Giants, dinosaurs and circus performers are evoked in felt, plaster and shadows when the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at UConn in Storrs hosts its Fall Puppet Performance Series …
The seats are springier, the lobby is spiffier and the ambience is perfect for setting a scene " or a play.
Comedy is not always a laughing matter.
...to tell us the funniest person they've ever met.
Smart and sexy: Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven (Oct. 3 to 25). When Stoppard visited New Haven last week he said: "I don't have a hidden agenda. My plays ar…
Molly Glynn, 46Chicago-based actress Molly Glynn, who was born and raised in Hartford, died Saturday after being struck by a tree while out cycling with her husband. She was 46.
Call it "A Gentleman's Guide To Theater and Tourism."
Cast Set For His Play 'Arcadia' At Yale RepHis intelligence and wit are legendary. Now you can witness both for yourself when playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard presents a free lecture…
