Hartford Public Library's Big Read for 2021 is Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street." The library has planned weeks of events around the book (as well as this year's youth selec…
The puppet-filled community arts spectacular Night Fall returns outdoors for its annual celebration of fall, Oct. 9 at the Ridgefield St. entrance of Hartford's Keney Park. There are pre-sho…
Matt Amodio has now won the second most consecutive games in "Jeopardy!" history: 33.
"Two Jews Walk Into a War..." is a clever, uncompromising, relentlessly comic and catastrophic 90-minute philosophical argument is at Playhouse on Park through Oct. 8.
Six Connecticut performing arts centers, including The Bushnell, have formed a new coalition in order to cross-promote their shows and announce that live theater has returned to the state.
The largest exhibit of Sol Lewitt prints ever mounted is at the New Britain Museum of American Art through Jan. 9. The artist, who died in 2007, grew up in New Britain, and the museum has th…
Former Hartford Stage Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson was acknowledged by name for her contributions to the Best Play Tony winner "The Inheritance" Sunday night, by playwrig…
Oscar Guerra, a human rights activist and documentary filmmaker who teaches at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, is nominated for two national Emmy Awards this week.
Scholar and TV political commentator Eddie S. Glaude Jr. accepted the 2021 Stowe Prize from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford. The Sept. 23 presentation, which includes a discussi…
"A Grand Night for Singing," comprised of songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals, is the first live show at the Goodspeed Opera House since COVID. Director Rob Ruggiero has assembled …
The Connecticut Office of the Arts announced three separate groups of awards on Tuesday: the first round of the new Artists Respond grants, the 15 people who will receive free training for t…
Known as the voice of Southern New England, radio broadcaster Bob Steele died nearly 19 years ago, but Paul Hensler is determined to keep his memory alive. Hensler will discuss Steele's life…
Susan Schoenberger's new novel "The Liability of Love" uses Hartford, and its insurance industry, as a backdrop for a literary romance set in the 1980s.
Changes in the TheaterWorks season: The first show of the 2021-22 season, "Monster Songs," will be moved to 2022-23 but will hold a private workshop in Hartford this month that will be docum…
Connecticut Repertory Theatre has scheduled three shows for its fall semester, its first live shows since the COVID shutdown in the spring of 2020.
Connecticut's own "Jeopardy!" champion Matt Amodio shares his feelings about returning for the new season, being the face of the show on TV ads and his wish that they'd ask more math questio…
Kids can visit the New Britain Museum of American Art for free. Using its own resources, the museum will continue a policy begun over the summer through an initiative launched by the state o…
Westport Country Playhouse suffered flood damage to its basement level during heavy rains from Hurricane Ida on Sept. 1 as a concert performance was taking place upstairs. Cost for repairs a…
Christina Forrer's large contemporary conflict-ridden tapestries are juxtaposed with items from several Wadsworth Atheneum collections for the latest transcendent exhibit in the museum's MAT…
The Courant's arts picks for Sept. 5-11 include Ben Folds, Dead & Co., Yung Bleu and a new play at TheaterWorks Hartford.
Ed Asner, who died Sunday, entertained Connecticut theater audiences for 60 years off and on, starting with a stint in the American Shakespeare Theatre company and ending with a slew of one-…
A free New Haven Symphony Orchestra concert hosted by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas on New Haven Green for Labor Day weekend was switched to a "Vaccines & Vibes" event, …
UConn's School of Fine Arts has named the new head of its Dramatic Arts department: Megan Monaghan Rivas, a playwright and dramaturg who has spent the last seven years at Carnegie Mellon Uni…
A spate of cancellations and postponements of concerts and shows " some due to COVID-19, others to Tropical Storm Henri " have marred the lead-in to the fall arts season and a general retu…
Chandra Prasad's new Young Adult novel "Mercury Boys" is set in the fictional town of Coventon, Connecticut, but references many real-life places in the state in telling the story of a teen …