After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
All photos by Jeremy Daniel The show: "Queen" by Madhuri Shekar at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special?: It's a …
Michael Yeargan receiving a CCC Award from 2019's ceremony, Photo by Mara Lavett, After a three-year hiatus, the Connecticut Crit…
The show: The musical "Cabaret" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. What makes it special?: It's rare that Goodspeed presents something so seeming sexy and edgy (but really, it's a 60-y…
All Photos by Mike Marques. HUNTER RYAN HERDLICKA, BLAIR LEWIN and DANIEL JOSÉ MOLINA The show: "Zoey's Perfect Wedding" at The…
Now where were we? Ah, yes, sharing some pithy thoughts on shows that have opened this season for those Connecticut folks who want to take in a Broadway show after a long period of being wit…
Ah, May. Blossoms may be blooming around Connecticut but that's nothing like the shows that are bursting forth in New York City and that are now vying for Tony Awards and other end-of-seaso…
Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Billy Crystal starred in,…
"You ever feel like there's someone watching from the shadows?" asks Beanie Feldstein's Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star's past waft in and out in a kind of "Fa…
All photos are by T. Charles Erickson The show: "Lost in Yonkers" at Hartford Stage What makes it special?: Pulitzer Prize and Tony…
Photos by Carol Rosegg The show: "Next to Normal" What is it?: A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical. This is the second …
Financial realities " not just artistic re-envisioning " triggered the Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre's announcement in March that it will leave the physical complex it has called hom…
Photo by Joan Marcus The show: "Choir Boy" by Tarell Alvin McCraney What its it?: A drama with music that was a highlight of the 20…
Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is rece…
Alan Rust has led the theater division at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford for more than 20 years.
To get in the mood for Hartford Stage's upcoming production (March 19-April 19) of "The King's Speech" " David Seidler's play on which the 2010 film and his Oscar-winning screenplay are base…
Years after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, "Good Faith" checks in on a wounded city.
Critics raved over Anika Noni Rose's "lava-hot" performance this summer playing the title role in the off-Broadway musical revival of "Carmen Jones," Oscar Hammerstein's 1943 musical-theater…
The show: The Elm Shakespeare Company presents a free outdoor show of "Love's Labour's Lost" " a rarely produced early Shakespeare play " through Sept. 2 in Edgerton Park. First impressions:…
The unexpected exit of a lead actor in Goodspeed Musicals' "Cyrano," starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage has cause the production to cancel some performances and prematurely clos…
When Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the '60s TV series. "I wanted to be Buddy So…
It's now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn't go on.
Several times a year a new Clive Cussler book is released, followed by a full-page ad in the New York Times and then a speedy trip to the top of the best-sellers list. The books, with their …
The company honored its milestone last weekend with visits from past figures who lauded its history while expressing concern for regional theater's future.
This French singer-songwriter and actor wrote the score for this show, which opens this week in New Haven and features a crew of major Broadway names.