'I teach her work passionately. I have a special access to it that I want to share." Liz Diamond " who chairs the directing department at the Yale School of Drama and is a resident director …
Bianca Del Rio earned her crown as the sixth-season winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race" by deftly brandishing her sharp, biting sense of humor. Her funniness does not come from cattiness or petti…
The Bushnell has announced that the hip-hop musical sensation "Hamilton" will be playing that historic Hartford venue Dec. 11 to 30 as part of the show's national tour. We don't yet know whe…
The revolution is nigh. "Hamilton" is finally coming to Hartford, for a three-week run Dec. 11 to 30. The Bushnell announced its 2018-19 season Monday night at a special event for subscriber…
Samite Mulondo, a Ugandan musician who performs internationally as Samite, has picked up a new instrument: his speaking voice. The internationally acclaimed flutist has recorded with Paul Si…
Darko Tresnjak, artistic director of Hartford Stage since 2011, will step down from that position in June of 2019, the theater announced Thursday. Â The news was not unexpected. Tresnjak'…
Colin Quinn helps the world make sense for those of us who really need it to. His incisive long-form satirical take-downs of society, government and other faulty systems can be dispiriting a…
Matthew Lopez's empowering comedy "The Legend of Georgia McBride" is a celebration of drag culture. At the intimate TheaterWorks, which will be staging the play March 16 through April 22, th…
And a one, and a two and a…. Now keep tapping until you reach 15. The stop/time dance theater, resident dance company of Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, turns 15 this year. That's six …
On the phone Friday from his offices in Florida, Cirque Dreams founder and director Neil Goldberg is worried about flying. Windstorms forced airlines to cancel flights, and he needs to be in…
'This is what real sex is like," says "Awkward Sex… and the City" creator Natalie Wall. The show is a thematic stand-up comedy/storytelling event featuring four female comedians and one ma…
In the wake of "Riverdance," there were lots of pretenders to the Irish stepdance-spectacle throne. Only the strongest have remained. Like "Riverdance," "Rhythm of the Dance" has a loose the…
'Million Dollar Quartet" has been so popular for the last few years " off Broadway, on Broadway, on numerous national tours and most recently in the regional theater realm " that the word "m…
Currently in Hartford but where it really wants to be is Broadway! The whole cast is on Ken Ludwig's wavelength. There are twists and turns and laughs aplenty on this intrigue-filled intern…
Alex Moggridge has become a familiar face in Connecticut regional theater. Now he's playing one of the most famous characters in all of literature. Moggridge is Sherlock Holmes in "Baskervil…
For its show "Constellations," which ends its run Feb. 22, TheaterWorks cleverly redesigned its performance space from a proscenium to an arena. Now the entire building is getting a real lon…
In the wake of the high-school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week, singer/actress Deborah Cox is unable to perform at tonight's opening performance of "The Bodyguard The Musical" at The B…
There are lots of reasons to revisit Arthur Miller's retelling of the Salem Witch Trials, "The Crucible." McCarthyism and other political witch-hunts " the metaphorical underpinning of Mille…
What's it like to star in the first U.S. tour of musical "The Bodyguard"? For Deborah Cox, who'll play the role of Rachel Marron " made famous by Whitney Houston " when the musical plays The…
Ken Ludwig is ubiquitous. He's in Hartford. He's in New Haven. He's on a train. His game is afoot. Ludwig's one of the most popular playwrights in the world today. This month, two major Conn…
The National Endowment of the Arts has awarded nearly a quarter of a million dollars to 10 nonprofit Connecticut arts organizations this week, with the largest amount going to the Eugene O'N…
Steve Martin: "We're coming up on 80." Martin Short: "Steve, he didn't ask how old you were. He asked how many shows we've done." Short and Martin explained during a recent phone interview h…
"Murder on the Orient Express" is Ken Ludwig's comic adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel about a murder committed on a transcontinental train trip. The victim is an infamous crimi…
When Sharon McNight brings her Sophie Tucker tribute "Red Hot Mama" to theaters around the country, she is often introducing Tucker's work to people who have have never heard of the once wor…
Please read Sam Wasson's history of improvisational theater "Improv Nation " How We Made a Great American Art." It describes how small theater troupes of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Comp…