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The musical that brought Ariana Grande from her Florida home to Broadway had a pre-Broadway tryout at Goodspeed Musicals' Terris Theatre.
The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 16-22 include Boston-based hip-hop and blues acts, a benefit for trans rights, The Lox anniversary tour and legendary rocker Billy Joel.
Scottish rock band Travis makes a rare Connecticut appearance at District Music Hall on Sunday playing classic hits and songs from its recent album "L.A. Times."
Current cast members Colin Jost, Marcello Hernández and James Austin Johnson will do a show together at Mohegan Sun Arena on April 26.
"Citizen James, or the Young Man without a Country," a portrait of writer James Baldwin playing at HartBeat Ensemble, offers a bridge that connects the past to today.
Rajiv Joseph's "King James," at TheaterWorks Hartford through March 2, is a night well spent watching a couple of nice guys talk sports and live life.
Celebrate love with a variety of events including a screening of a 1987 horror comedy to the Yale Cabaret Dragaret to Connecticut Ballet's "Be My Valentine" concerts.
"It Happened in Hartford" honors the happy home life the Twains experienced in Hartford with a museum exhibit and walking tour.
The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 9-15 include bluegrass bands, country star Kelsea Ballerini and singer/songwriter Eric Bellinger.
"Ricky," the first feature film by Hartford native Rashad Frett, won a directing award at the Sundance Festival in Utah and earned rave reviews from film critics.
A new tour of the 1954 musical "Peter Pan" has a modern sensibility, a stronger ensemble feel and grander spectacle but retains the show's classic feel.
The intriguing new production of August Wilson's "Two Trains Running," at Hartford Stage through Feb., 16, offers a more optimistic and community-oriented feel.
Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival will be at Hartford's Xfinity Theatre in September with Willie Nelson & Friends, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee and Madeline Edwards.
Connecticut theaters are presenting works by or about Black writers including August Wilson, Steve Carter and James Baldwin during Black History Month.
The new version of the 70-year-old musical "Peter Pan," at The Bushnell Feb. 4-9, is set in modern times with care taken to discourage outdated stereotypes.
"Paper, Color, Line" is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a thousand European works that span more than 500 years.
The Courant's arts picks for Feb. 2-8 includes an immigration-themed concert, country crooners and a side of comic relief.
The Podium Players are producing a staged reading of "Amy's House," about a woman who poisoned dozens of residents at her nursing home between 1907 and 1916.
Jacques Cartier, who made the dream of bringing a professional theater company to Hartford come true in 1963, died recently at 94.
"Eden," Steve Carter's melodrama about clashes between two Black families in 1927 New York, gets a deluxe revival at Yale Repertory Theatre through Feb. 8.
Rajiv Joseph's "King James," about a couple of Cleveland fans of LeBron James, is at TheaterWorks Hartford Jan. 30 through March 2.
West Hartford's stop/time troupe is celebrating its 22-year history with its final show, "OUR SHOW: The stop/time Story," Jan. 29 through Feb. 9 at Playhouse on Park.
The Courant's arts picks for Jan. 26 through Feb. 2 include an additional spate of tribute bands and a range of original acts such as Ollabelle, American Football and Drive-By Truckers.
Judging from the first play in Pa'lante's new space in Waterbury, it is clear that the Afro-Latine company is a magnet for local theater talent.
The Hartford Film Showcase at Real Art Ways on Feb. 1 will screen eight shorts and three features, all made in Hartford and released in the last year or so.
