Radicals. Choirs. A billion nights. A big read. Whodini. Ruth B. Kaki King. A dance to the Beatles. Stories from survivors. Five merchants of Venice. The International Festival of Arts & Ide…
Rob Santos lives two lives. They're both pretty funny. You can glimpse both of them May 3, when two episodes of the local comedian's new web series "Beige on Both Sides" premiere in a specia…
Ballet Theatre Company recently brought on new artistic director Stephanie Dattellas, who is choreographing a new production of the Prokofiev ballet "Cinderella" as its big spring production…
Those who love David Yazbek's current Broadway hit "The Band's Visit" might want to check out his first " and very different " musical, "The Full Monty." It's based on the 1997 movie about s…
Evan Yionoulis is happy to talk about her exciting career transition, from longtime Yale School of Drama faculty member to the new head of the theater program at Juilliard. She's eager to di…
In recent weeks, Hartford Stage has mourned the deaths of two people who guided the theater through periods of great expansion and artistic growth, and who are considered key figures in the …
Laurie Berkner's latest appearance in Connecticut will be a different experience for the children's music star's fans, who are used to seeing her being chased around the stage and playing ot…
It was inevitable that the 1994 Australian movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" would become a musical. It contains all the ingredients necessary for modern musical theat…
Connecticut has heard quite a lot from Steve Martin in recent years. His play "Meteor Shower" premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre before it was done (with a different cast and director) on B…
Here's how "The Will Rogers Follies" ropes you in. The boisterous bio-musical, with a bouncy score by Cy Coleman and snappy lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was a Tony-winning Broadwa…
Hartford Stage has filled in the sole "to be announced" slot on its 2018-19 schedule, and it's a funny choice. A very, very, funny choice. What you might call an international laugh riot. Th…
Sonia Plumb thinks big and works hard to make her big thoughts happen. So it's not surprising that her latest work " "The Dance of da Vinci" " was inspired by one of the biggest thinkers in …
The final show of Connecticut Repertory Theatre's main school-year season is the Shakespeare comedy "As You Like It." That's the one where an ace wrestler named Orlando wanders into the fore…
Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" exquisitely evokes the rarified realm of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. Playwright Douglas McGrath and director Doug Hughes won't let…
As a cast member of "Crowns," a gospel play getting a major revival at the Long Wharf Theatre April 18 through May 13, actress Rebecca Covington wears a lot of hats. "With most shows," Covin…
Jesse Eisenberg, the actor known for everything from "The Social Network" to "The End of the Tour" to "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is also a playwright. His comic drama "The Revisio…
'Rent" is due again. The game-changing 1996 Broadway and off Broadway hit is credited with introducing younger, hipper audiences to musical theater. It also helped craft marketing tools that…
Five years of steady growth and better organization. How funny is that? When Hartford comedy group Sea Tea Improv started the Hartford Improv Festival in 2014, the event featured more than t…
Mike Vogel's "Second Chance" is a baby boomer-friendly comedy about a septuagenarian curmudgeon named Jack who is reluctantly placed into the assisted-living system by his middle-aged son. T…
Here's what you can expect to hear next season at Hartford Stage: Henry V's battle cry of "Once more unto the breach!" and the sage advice "Eat your halibut and mind your own business" from …
'I can understand why I'm mad at Dorothy. She dropped a house on my sister and stole my shoes!" The Wicked Witch of the West isn't all green skin and pointy hat. Emily Perzan, who plays the …
Two Nights, Eight Comics, Hartford's Bushnell Center of the Performing Arts offers back-to-back gaggles of stand-ups in the "Kings of Comedy" mold of multiple headliners sharing a stage for …
'Pepperland" is the name of the evil empire in the animated Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine." "Return to Pepperland" was a never-released (though much bootlegged) Paul McCartney solo album r…
Move over, Georgia, for a real queen. Varla Jean Merman is crashing TheaterWorks. TheaterWorks' new show, "The Legend of Georgia McBride," which runs March 16 to April 22, is about a young E…
Director Madeline Sayet knows something about rolling the dice and seeing which paths open up. "So I originally was supposed to be in London now, working on my PhD," she says during a recent…