The second annual 90s Con at the Hartford Convention Center March 17-19 is reuniting castmates from "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Clueless," "Full House," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "Hocus Pocu…
The 90s Con nostalgia fest is zipping back to the Hartford Convention Center in March with a hot number: 90210. It was announced on Monday that the convention " which celebrates TV shows, mu…
Some Broadway musicals based on classic Hollywood movies try to recapture the original's style as closely as humanly possible, the biggest changes being that the shows are live and the actor…
The national tour of the musical "Tootsie," at The Bushnell through Feb. 26, has great comic timing and great theatrical style. Making some big changes to the 1982 movie it's based on, the s…
John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, traveled to Turkey in September to perform "The Demons of Society" with the world-renown…
The director of the puppetry institute at UConn, John Bell, will talk about his experiences performing a political pageant in Turkey last fall at the first in this year's series of puppetry …
You don't have to wait until April Fool's Day to find comedy in Connecticut. The next six weeks will feature legendary comedians such as Robert Klein, as well as up-and-coming funny people l…
You don't have to wait until April Fool's Day to find comedy in Connecticut. The next six weeks or so brings some legendary comedians to clubs and theaters around the state, as well as intro…
The Broadway musical based on the 1982 movie comedy "Tootsie" will be at The Bushnell Feb. 21-26. Some of the scenes have changed, but the overall theme of gender disparity in the workplace …
"Tootsie" is all about change. A struggling male actor named Michael Dorsey changes himself into a female performer named Dorothy Michaels to make a point at an audition, then finds himself …
Jonathan Majors, the hot new villain in the highly anticipated "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," kick-started his career as an acting student at Yale.
Two Yale students and a Stamford resident are competing in the first "Jeopardy!" High School Reuinion Tournament, airing Feb. 20 through March 9.
Hilary Bettis' "Queen of Basel," at TheaterWorks Hartford through Feb. 26, takes some cues from August Strindberg's classic anti-romance "Miss Julie" and fashions a modern drama about class …
Real Art Ways is holding a night of Surrealist Games on Valentine's Day. The event is hosted by the celebrated musician and Surrealist art enthusiast Roger C. Miller.
Ventriloquist and comedian Jeff Dunham brings his gaggle dummies to the XL Center on Saturday for his "Still Not Canceled" tour.
Award-winning actress and Waterbury native Sheryl Lee Ralph, of TV's "Abbott Elementary" and the original Broadway "Dreamgirls," win perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the pregame ceremo…
The Connecticut-made summer camp horror film "She Came From the Woods" will be released on hundreds of screens nationwide on Friday.
Hartford drag icon Robin Fierce was eliminated from the "RuPaul's Drag Race" competition Friday. She is the second Connecticut-based contestant to have "sashayed away" from the show in the p…
The Courant talked to "Brooklyn" author Colm TóibÃn, who will be at the Mark Twain House and Museum on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m., about his wide-ranging output, what he's working on now and his…
Connecticut Ballet and Ballet Theatre Company are both offering romantic dance concerts near Valentine's Day.
"Wife/Worker/Whore," a new play getting its East Coast premiere at the community-based Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain, is a multi-part melodramatic meditation on women's struggles a…
Paula Vogel's "Indecent," at Playhouse on Park through Feb. 26, remains an important play about art, politics and religion, enlivened by klezmer music, a melodramatic play-within-a-play and …
Two graduates of Yale's graduate drama program, Angela Bassett and Brian Tyree Henry, have been nominated for Oscar awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their roles …
West Hartford drag queen Amethyst was the first of the three Connecticut-based contestants on this season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" to be eliminated from the competition.
Hillary Bettis' play, "Queen of Basel," at TheaterWorks Hartford on Feb. 3-26 is a modern take on August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," set at the Miami festival Art Basel.