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Matthew Greene's "Thousand Pines" is a new drama with a gun control theme. Westport Country Playhouse held a workshop of it last year, then decided to do a full production as part of its 201…
Tracy Thorne's contemporary drama "Good Children" is set in a "a society where the secrets of the past are closely guarded," and a young man named Val learns some of those secrets about his …
The V in "Henry V" at Hartford Stage could stand for "versatility." In scanning the cast list for this new production of Shakespeare's historical drama "Henry V," what stands out is that mos…
Alex Alpharaoh's one-man show "Wet: A DACAmented Journey" chronicles his own adventures as an undocumented American. He was brought to the U.S. when he was just two months old and grew up wi…
The 21st century hidden-camera prank show "Impractical Jokers" spawned a live stage show several years, which has gone through several different editions. There was the "Where's Larry?" tour…
The great Lily Tomlin has been enjoying a career renaissance thanks to her Netflix series "Grace and Frankie," but in fact she's had remarkable successes in each of the last six decades. Sta…
TheaterWorks' drama "The River" is shrouded in mystery. 'I can't say too much," the play's star Billy Carter says, regretfully. "...There are elements of a ghost story and a gothic thriller …
'There's the challenge," socially conscious choreographer Judy Dworin says. "How do I make this different from a news story you read on your phone?" Dworin has staged dance pieces about slav…
Last year West Hartford's Ballet Theatre Company organized a benefit dance concert to raise money for victims of the Las Vegas shootings. The event was so well-received that the the BTC has …
So you think you can see "So You Think You Can Dance" live in Connecticut? You happen to be right. The long-running TV competition visits Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, …
The '70s have been good to Alice Cooper. Not just the 1970s, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer first achieved international success. It's also his age. "I never thought I would be, at 70,…
Remember the whimsically grating voice of Yakko Warner, who with his siblings Wakko and Dot updated classic Warner Brothers cartoon wackiness for the mid-1990s as "The Animaniacs"? Rob Pauls…
Connecticut audience know Jen Silverman from the premiere of her brazen Gothic update "The Moors" at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2016 and last year's Connecticut Repertory Theatre production o…
The Phoenix Theatre Company has been a most reliable purveyor of the perverse seasonal treat "The Rocky Horror Show." The original stage version of the ghoulish counterculture spectacle that…
'The Illusionists" is an internationally touring multi-magician spectacle that shorthands its performers with such intriguing nicknames as The Manipulator, The Inventor, The Mentalist, The D…
Hartford Stage has done a Shakespeare play, directed by Darko Tresnjak, every year since he became artistic director. This year is different. There will be a Shakespeare play, but instead of…
'This anniversary is a time to appreciate where we are, but also look to the future," says Hartford Symphony Music Director Carolyn Kuan, the 10th person and first woman to hold that positio…
Goodspeed actors agree: "There's a little Man in Chair in all of us." John Scherer and John Rapson each utter that illuminating comment in separate phone interviews, describing the musical "…
The classic 1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" became an award-winning stage play in 1988, adapted by Frank Galati for the ensemble-based Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. It's an…
The Spanish dancer and choreographer Eduardo Guerrero has rethought flamenco dancing for the 21st century, but he also understands the traditions and history of this remarkable art form. Com…
Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood can't stop clowning around " though they need your input on what exactly to be funny about. They were regulars on the original British version of the improv s…
'Altar Boyz" is a feisty, funny musical theater piece that slyly sends up boy bands and fundamentalist Christianity at the same time. The show purports to be the final concert of the Christi…
The Mischief Theatre has gone too far, but then that's what they're known for. In its native England, the comedy troupe has created three smash theater hits in a row. The first of these, "Th…
Aziz Ansari was doing stand-up comedy long before he became a household name thanks to the sitcoms "Parks and Recreation" and his own "Master of None." Like many comedians, Ansari uses club …
TheaterWorks will stage at least two of the shows in its 2018-19 season in the Wadsworth Atheneum's theater space while its usual Pearl Street space is undergoing extensive renovations in th…
