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The 2025 International Festival of Arts & Ideas runs through June 28 in New Haven, including the final performances of the original family drama "Family Business: (A)Pizza Play" produced…
Gabe McKinley's "Long Days," a comedy about performing Eugene O'Neill's downer of a drama "Long Day's Journey Into Night," is having its world premiere at the Legacy Theatre.
The festival features Khruangbin, Cake, Bleachers, Sammy Rae & the Friends, Steel Pulse and 10 other major music acts, plus a new second stage with eight local acts.
Daniel Goldstein, who was part of the creative team when the musical premiered at Goodspeed Musicals in 2004, is directing a new version to mark the 20th anniversary of its Broadway run.
The Courant's arts picks for June 22-28 includes a handful of metal banks including Incubus, indie pop bands Friendship and 2nd Grade, the violin trio Sons of Mystro and comedians Marlon Way…
British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier is the first announced booking for 2025-26 season at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs.
The internationally recognized event is a time when musicians of all kinds are encouraged to perform in their communities.
The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season of five plays. This is the final season to be planned under the leadership of James Bundy, who has led the Yale Rep as well as the…
The Palace Theater in Waterbury recently announced the six shows in its 2025-25 Broadway season.
The Hartford Stage's season ends with the Madeleine George comedy about a mythic figure who seduces several women in modern-day New Jersey as a means of environmental activism.
Stevie Nicks will end her 2025 tour in Hartford with an Oct. 25 show at the PeoplesBank Arena, formerly the XL Center, in Hartford.
The 38th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, presented by OutFilm CT, celebrates Pride month with 90 films and shorts, some with in-person screening and others online.
Joyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller "Fox" at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.
The Shubert Theatre in New Haven unveiled a new mural by Eric March that celebrates its history with a montage of artists who performed at the venue before triumphing on Broadway.
The decorative arts exhibit, showing through mid-July at the Wadsworth Atheneum & Museum in Hartford, covers centuries of the city's history and culture.
The Courant's arts picks for June 15-21 include rock and blues legends, instrumental ensembles, comedy acts and Broadway cabaret performers.
An android and a woman in need of medical assistance make an odd couple in "Your Name Means Dream" at TheaterWorks Hartford through July 6.
The Long Wharf Theatre has announced a three-show 2025-26 season of plays by Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Sanaz Toossi and August Wilson.
The latest tour by classic British rockers Yes will be devoted to the band's 1971 album "Fragile," with the first stop scheduled at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford.
"The Baroness" which could more accurately be called "The Baroness and Rolf," builds up two minor characters from the Rodgers & Hammerstein hit "The Sound of Music" and takes their wilde…
At least eight artists with connections to Connecticut shows, theaters or schools were honored at the 78th annual Tony Awards on Sunday.
Semina De Laurentis is leaving her position of artistic director at Seven Angels Theater, a company she founded in the late 1980s, but not before it hosts a celebration in her honor.
There are dozens of exceptional double or triple or quadruple or sextuple bills happening in Connecticut this summer featuring everything from 80s and 90s rockers to musical outlaws.
The Courant's arts picks for June 8-14 include Halsey, Steve Earle, Steve Conte, Chris Redd, Ringo Starr, a local talent showcase, a Queen tribute band, a musical about The Temptations and a…
The award is presented annually to an individual who "embodies the spirit, independence and character of the legendary actress" during The Kate's fundraising gala.