UConn Also To Produce "Winter's Tale" at the Same TimeRob Campbell and Susannah Schulman head the cast in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s "The Wint…
The City of Hartford and the Greater Hartford Arts Council will announce the recipients of the 2012 Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program, Phase 1, at the Isham-Terry House, a Connecticut L…
Connecticut Nun Returns To Hollywood For Oscars The news that Mother Dolores Hart will be attending Sunday's Oscars prompted me to dust off the story I wrote about the former Hollywood …
Celebrate Their 50th Anniversaries With A Gift that Keeps on GivingIn the midst of new plans and strategies for arts funding in the state, I'd like to suggest still another -- and it's offer…
Phase-In Of the Elimination of Earmarks Now ProposedFile this under: "The Devil Is in the Deatils"
It's been a long and hard — not to mention spooky and ooky — road to get "The Addams Family"musical first to Broadway and then on tour. The national road company opens its one-we…
Malloy Plan Giveth Modestly And Taketh Big TimeI attended two events Wednesday in Hartford about arts funding in Connecticut and taken together they speak of new -- and troubling -- ways the…
Hartford's Restructured Bated Breath Has New Artistic Director  Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDaniel Davis , veteran actor o…
"CQ/CX" by Gabe McKinley traces the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times.
Dressmaker and Friend to Mary Todd Lincoln Playwright-director Tazewell Thompson isn't the only theater artist who is inspired to create a stage work about the life of Elizabeth Keckly , …
“Mary T. and Lizzy K.,” a new play by Tazewell Thompson (“Constant Star”) will receive its world premiere in the 2012-13 season at Arena Stage in Washington D.C.…
Connecticut's Shakespeare on the Sound Offers Play with a Twist Guess who's coming to dinner? Romeo and Juilet and their whole damn families.
First come gets best seats.
The Ivoryton Playhous e’s 2012 season will be filled with music, comedy and Mrs. Robinson.
Mara Lieberman is the new artistic director Bated Breath Theatre Company , which is is restructuring as “a performance collective in order to bring a wide variety of cutting-edge per…
Barrington Stage Company , in Pittsfield, Mass. has replaced Arthur Miller’s "The Price" from its summer main stage lineup with Miller’s “All My Sons.”
 Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageIn the early 1940s, a group of artists — among them writer Carson McCullers, composer Benjami…
Darko Tresnjak Stages First Shakespeare Here As Artistic DirectorDaniel Davis, veteran actor of stage and TV, will play Prospero on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at Hartford Stag e…
"The Simpsons" Mike Reiss To Receive "Commie" Award The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the largest comedy film festival in the USA, will head East to Hartfiord's Mark Twain Ho…
Mac Wellman' s absurdist, psycho-sexual adaptation (we're there!) of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" will be presented Feb. 16 to 18 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven.
W. Kamau Bell Featured in ShowsHere's something a little bit different.
Gabriel Barre Directs New Show About Famous HymnThe musical workshop of “Amazing Grace,” based on the life of John Newton , the former slave trader who wrote the world's most …
'Grinch' Coming for the HolidaysTouring companies of Broadway's "Billy Elliot," "American Idiot," "Sister Act," and "Million Dollar Quartet" will make up much of the 2012-13 Broadway ser…
Ayckbourn's "House & Garden" To Be Presented Simultaneously In 2 TheatersWilliam Shakespeare's "King Lear" will kick off the 2012-13 season at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I…
Also Cast Is Thomas LevertonJonathan Epstein, a frequent actor in the Massachusetts Berkshires, stars as abstract artist Mark Rothko in John Logan 's Tony Award-winning play "Red." The…