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The production at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam stars Klea Blackhurst in a down-to-earth version of the title role.
In a multilevel never-never land with hedges of artificial turf and whimsical, mixed-period costumes, "Twelfth Night" teems with mismatched romance and physical comedy. &nbs…
"Good News!" a 1927 musical comedy adapted Jeremy Desmon and being presented at the Goodspeed Opera House, combines all the trademarks of shows from that era.
"Ride the Tiger," at the Long Wharf Theater, spins a tale of Camelot, featuring Sinatra, the mob and a pretty girl.
A musical at Hartford Stage tells the story of the tenor Roland Hayes, the first African-American vocalist to receive international acclaim.
A revival of the musical whodunit "Something's Afoot" is playing at Goodspeed Opera House, where it was first staged in 1973, through Dec. 9.
Two biologists warily, testily, explore menstruation, menopause and other questions of female evolution in "The How and the Why," a smart, densely textured play by Sarah Treem.
"Hedda Gabler," Ibsen's classic about anomie and the bottomless misery of a stage monster, is being performed at Hartford Stage.
Tom Dudzick's backstage comedy "Don't Talk to the Actors" is now playing at Penguin Rep Theater in Rockland County.
"I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti" tosses a salad and tosses in heartbreak.
Louise Pitre steps into the title role of "Mame" " made famous by Angela Lansbury in 1966 " at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.
Taken from the text and copied in flowing Renaissance script, words pour down the back wall and across the stage floor in a performance of "The Tempest" at Hartford Stage.
Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" is presented by the Yale Repertory Theater at the University Theater in New Haven through April 7.
In Matthew Lopez's "The Whipping Man," two former slaves and their former master share a makeshift Passover meal.
"February House" is set in the 1940s, in a town house in Brooklyn Heights that served as an artists' commune.
Marc Camoletti's "Boeing-Boeing," about an American juggling three live-in stewardesses, is staged as a comedy in broad physical strokes at Hartford Stage.
The Yale Repertory Theater's production of Molière's classic comedy blends random snippets of pop culture with classic slapstick routines, forming a gleeful whirligig of song and shtick.
A misplaced hat raises questions of fidelity for a man who is trying to stay clean and sober.
There is mayhem in the arty, upscale living room of the Tony-winning comedy of bad manners, "God of Carnage."
The production of "Ain't Misbehavin' " at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven capitalizes on the timeless appeal of Fats Waller.
Richard Dresser's comedy "Rounding Third," playing in Stony Point, follows a Little League team coached by a mismatched pair: a jock and a preppy.
There are plenty of musicals with clever lyrics. Some offer clever books. A handful even manage clever melodies. "City of Angels" has all three.
This "Crucible" is still set in Massachusetts, but it lives several centuries removed from the long black frocks and stiff white collars of the original.
At the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, "Show Boat" has been reworked for 21st-century audiences and budgets, with no loss of impact.
Donald Margulies's "Shipwrecked!," an adaptation of the Victorian memoirs of Louis de Rougemont, plays through Sept. 4 at the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point.
