1,464 stories by "Frank Rizzo"
How about some international theater? The Indian Ensemble of Bangalore is coming to Hartford and New Haven with the U.S. premiere of "Thook" ("Spit"). First stop is the HartBeat Ensemble's C…
The show: "Things We Do For Love" at Westport Country Playhouse
Ed Asner 'In Conversation' At Sacred Heart University Yale School of Drama grad Zach Appelman (Broadway's "War Horse," Julie Taymor's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the title …
What Ever Happened To The Concept Of Previews?When I was a kid growing up outside Boston, I would make it a point to see "preview" performances of Broadway-bound shows, in part because the t…
Nafe Katter, longtime Connecticut actor, retired director of the University of Connecticut's acting program died Wednesday at a hospice facility in Summerfield, Fla., following a stroke Aug.…
I haven't heard the word "hootenanny" used since Lyndon Johnson was President, but there's some free-wheeling '60s-style jamming going on after Sunday matinee performances of "Woody Sez: The…
Bio-Musical of Folk Legend Woody GuthrieThe show: "Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
Shakespeare Classic At Edgerton Park In New Haven The 19-year-old Elm Shakespeare Company of New Haven goes off the greatest-hits grid to present a work by the Bard that is beguiling, charmi…
Original Headline: Dr. Williams' Little Black Bag Holds Laughs Instead Of ProzacEditor's note : This interview with Robin Williams by arts writer Frank Rizzo ran Dec. 20, 1998. Williams was …
"Life's pretty tough," once said Woody Guthrie. "You're lucky if you live through it."
The show: The musical "The Visit" at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
There are actors whose name you instantly recognize, the stars you know by a single monicker: Meryl, Julia, Debbie. Liza, Shirley.
Daughter Directs Dad In 'Cedars' At Berkshire FestYou might be tempted to call the arts as the Naughton family business, but to this group of — relatively speaking — well-adjuste…
The show: "Fiddler on the Roof" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam.
Editor's note : Broadway actress and singer Elaine Stritch, 89, died on Thursday, July 17, at her home in Birmingham, Mich. Following is an interview by Hartford Courant theater critic Frank…
Linda Lavin, best known for the popular TV series "Alice" of the '70s and '80s — but a terrific Tony Award-winning Broadway and film actress, too — will be presenting her life an…
The show: "Gypsy" at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn campus in Storrs
Tevye may not be the only person talking to God in East Haddam.
Goodspeed Celebrates 50 Years Of Sheldon Harnick's Musical, Which Runs Through Sept. 12A Broadway musical about a Jewish shtetl, a Russian pogrom and a poor milkman who talks to God? Sounds …
There's a new Mama Rose in town.
Summer Theater In Massachusetts Berkshires In Full SwingThe show: "June Moon" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Mass.
First African-American To Play Iconic Role In 'Gypsy'Leslie Uggams is used to taking on roles that, in a different era, no one would expect an African-American actress to take on.
A Girl-Group Musical, The Bikinis," Returns To ConnecticutThe Bikinis are back. The jukebox musical, which had a workshop production at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre last year in …
I love interviewing independent women in show business of a certain age who speak their minds. One of my favorite interviews was in 2002 was with composer-writer Mary Rodgers from his Centra…
The show:Â "Traces," part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, at University Theatre in New Haven.
