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Connecticut native Mic Nickels has released a new hip-hop album as well as a memoir about his time growing up in Hartford.
The Baby Grand Jazz series at Hartford Public Library has announced its 2022 line-up. The series runs from January through April and can be seen in-person or via livestream.
"Who's Holiday," having its Connecticut premiere at Music Theatre of Connecticut in Norwalk through Dec. 19, grew from a scene in TheaterWorks Hartford's "Christmas on the Rocks."
Sea Tea Comedy Theater has resumed its annual "Improvised Christmas Carol," in which the Dickens tale is infested with 20 or so helpful suggestions from the audience.
Local theaters are reconsidering their use of playbills, and the reasoning has little to do with COVID-19.
"It's a Wonderful Life" is performed as if it were a live radio broadcast, in a charming holiday production at Hartford Stage through Dec. 26.
Playhouse on Park christened its new scene shop on Anderson Street in West Hartford Tuesday night with a holiday party.
Theater review: The holiday hit "Christmas on the Rocks" is live onstage at TheaterWorks through Jan. 4.
The Bennet sisters from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" find a fresh romantic adventure in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley," at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford through Dec. 23.
A new "Cirque Dreams Holidaze" tour, with a musical theater style and over a dozen circus acts, is at the Oakdale in Wallingford Dec. 10-11.
New video displays outside The Bushnell are being used to showcase local artists.
The movie bio "Pep," about legendary local boxer Willie Pep, filmed its final scenes Tuesday night at the Polish National Home of Hartford. The last scenes filmed were set in the 1960s offic…
The Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim died in his Connecticut home Friday. Several of his shows had their very first performances in Connecticut, and the state's theaters have staged his work…
The Courant's arts picks for Nov. 28 through Dec. 4 include the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller and the Hartford Symphony.
Hartford Stage keeps its tradition of holiday shows alive with "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play," Nov. 26 through Dec. 26.
The Wadsworth has a new board president, Gerard Lupacchino.
How has the theatergoing experience changed since the end of the COVID shutdown? There are plenty of new rules and customs, but people are following them.
Two paintings by the 18th century Italian artist Rosalba Carriera have been loaned to the Wadsworth, where they have been reunited with the other two paintings in the same series, as part of…
The Christmas shows are upon us. A eclectic list of 25 upcoming holiday theater shows, dances and concerts.
Joey Batts' "Hip Hop for the Homeless" series will return in December, for seven concerts in seven Connecticut cities, with proceeds going directly to homeless shelters in those cities.
The calm, contemplative musical of cross-cultural harmony "The Band's Visit" is at The Bushnell through Nov. 21. It's a rare sort of sweet, human-sized musical that rarely comes around.
The legendary freeform radio station WPKN is marking its move to a new studio near Bridgeport's Bijou Theater with a Nov. 19 gala featuring a premiere performance by komungo virtuoso Jin Hi …
Local artist Tao LaBossiere has created a massive mixed-media mural along the wall of The 224 EcoSpace in Asylum Hill.
"Doubt" at the Westport Playhouse raises questions about its choice of how to present John Patrick Shanley's award-winning drama about suspicions at a Catholic school.
"The Band's Visit" finally arrives at The Bushnell, Nov. 16-21. The Tony-winning musical was originally scheduled to hit Hartford in April 2020 and the tour was continually postponed due to …
