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Hartford Stage is hosting its inaugural American Voices New Play Festival, showcasing works by Latinx and Hispanic writers, June 23-26.
Local playwright Cin Martinez has gotten strong support from TheaterWorks Hartford for the workshop production of her new play about friendship, "Moonlighters." The theater has connected Mar…
A street in Middletown is a backdrop " substituted for L.A. amid the Rodney King riots " for the Oddfellows Playhouse's current production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," which the teen tr…
Foxwoods Resort Casino has reopened at full capacity, bringing back its spa, zipline ride, Pequot Museum. The two main performance venues have been renamed, with the Grand Theater becoming t…
Students at Conard High School in West Hartford used a theater project to revisit a controversy that roiled the school just five years ago, when the Conard sports team name and mascot was ch…
Hartford has earned the top spot on rent.com's list of "50 Best Cities for Artists in America." Three other Connecticut cities also landed on the list.
Sea Tea Improv is preparing to roar back to life this summer, holding live improv comedy classes again in June and reopening its Sea Tea Comedy Theater in July.
Married actors Ken Robinson and Christina Acosta Robinson met and fell in love at the Yale School of Drama a decade ago, moved back to New Haven a year ago and have done a virtual musical "d…
The Playhouse on Park production of "The Revolutionists" in 2019. The playhouse has planned a busy summer, with a staging of the drama "Kill Move Paradise," about violence against Black men…
West Hartford native Sarah Drake, now a resident of London, has put together a virtual charity benefit concert for struggling actors, with help from friends from Broadway and the West End. "…
Connecticut theaters are braving the great outdoors this summer, with provocative shows about the environment, gun violence, the L.A. riots and Black identity.
Center Stage Theatre in Shelton has announced a full indoor summer season of four musicals and one comedy play, starting June 11.
"Coming Alive Again," a charming and timely concert of uplifting and anxiety ridden showtunes sung by Christiane, was produced jointly by Goodspeed Musicals and TheaterWorks Hartford. It str…
Canton resident and LEGO enthusiast Palas Patani will appear in the second season of the "LEGO Masters" TV show. In Connecticut, Patani runs education programs where he uses LEGO blocks to t…
The 10th Trinity Film Festival is mostly online again this year, but opened with a night of screenings for a small audience at Cinestudio and will end May 8 with a live awards ceremony that …
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has extended Carolyn Kuan's contract through May of 2024. She has been the symphony's music director since 2011.
The Warner Theatre in Torrington canceled a production of the drama "I Am Not My Own Wife" due to complaints that the actor in the one-person drama was not transgender.
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a mix of live and virtual this year. Concerts on the Green (including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ladama, a Fantasia drag imperson…
Geoffrey Owens, a well-known actor whose work experiences off the stage started a national dialogue about the value of steady employment, was in Connecticut this month paying tribute to work…
A major new small professional theater in the state, the Legacy Theatre in Branford, opened Friday. The theater building is the former Stony Creek Puppet House, a landmark used in the past b…
The applicant process for grants to help shuttered arts venues crashed on its first day of use, two weeks ago. The application portal for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program will reo…
New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has announced the "Ideas" slate for its 2021 festival. All the Ideas events are virtual this year. The performance events, some of whic…
Shakespeare theater companies in the state are wrestling with a second summer of COVID complications. Several are returning to live performance, with some alterations.
TheaterWorks' latest staged-to-stream production, of Adam Rapp's trenchant teacher/student drama "The Sound Inside," incorporates a filmmaker on its creative team. It's a subtle, deep, distu…
Three arts venues with a reputation as summer arts destinations face different challenges in reopening this year, after all being shuttered last year due to COVID.
