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Alan Rust has led the theater division at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford for more than 20 years.
To get in the mood for Hartford Stage's upcoming production (March 19-April 19) of "The King's Speech" " David Seidler's play on which the 2010 film and his Oscar-winning screenplay are base…
Years after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, "Good Faith" checks in on a wounded city.
Critics raved over Anika Noni Rose's "lava-hot" performance this summer playing the title role in the off-Broadway musical revival of "Carmen Jones," Oscar Hammerstein's 1943 musical-theater…
The show: The Elm Shakespeare Company presents a free outdoor show of "Love's Labour's Lost" " a rarely produced early Shakespeare play " through Sept. 2 in Edgerton Park. First impressions:…
The unexpected exit of a lead actor in Goodspeed Musicals' "Cyrano," starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage has cause the production to cancel some performances and prematurely clos…
When Mike Reiss was a kid growing up in Bristol, he loved "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and dreamed of being one of the comedy writers as portrayed in the '60s TV series. "I wanted to be Buddy So…
It's now a classic, with a splashy revival about to open on Broadway. But in 1956, a nervous leading man and technical troubles meant the show almost didn't go on.
Several times a year a new Clive Cussler book is released, followed by a full-page ad in the New York Times and then a speedy trip to the top of the best-sellers list. The books, with their …
The company honored its milestone last weekend with visits from past figures who lauded its history while expressing concern for regional theater's future.
This French singer-songwriter and actor wrote the score for this show, which opens this week in New Haven and features a crew of major Broadway names.
We sit backstage at a performance of Noises Off to find out.
The show that was cut short on Broadway and never made its Off-Broadway transfer, goes on tour.
What does it take to make love work? The famous Hollywood duo that tugged at heartstrings decades ago reunites onstage in Love Letters to tell a different love story.
It's been a hell of a theatrical run. After nearly 34 years, I am bringing the curtain down on my role as full-time theater writer for The Hartford Courant to pursue other cool projects.
Gone is the barber chair from the executive office at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, a seat of power, prestige and playfulness that became synonymous with the theater's longtime l…
Fiasco Theatre is a feisty young theater company that has enchanted critics and audiences with a series of shows off-Broadway. Its acclaimed production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure,…
Stephanie Zimbalist is no demanding diva for the Seven Angels Theatre production of "Living on Love" in Waterbury. At least off-stage, the star of the '80s hit TV series "Remington Steele" "…
Though the name on the marquee of the sold-out run of this world premiere at Connecticut's Hartford Stage is Kevin Bacon, the real stars of "Rear Window" are the windows -- not to mention th…
"It's like putting on 'King Lear,' 'Othello' and 'Macbeth' in one evening," says Alan Rust, director of the theater division at the University of Hartford's Hartt School and one of three dir…
South African artist William Kentridge collaborated with a composer, a choreographer, a video designer and a physicist. The result? "Refuse the Hours," a multimedia chamber opera that is par…
So you think there's no way to get tickets for the sold-out run of the world premiere of "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage starring Kevin Bacon? Think again. Every Monday the theater will dete…
Steve Martin will be back at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, this time with a world premiere play, described as "an off-beat and absurdist look at the comic anxiety lurking just beneath the …
All eyes are usually on Kevin Bacon. "The second I step out of my house, it happens," says the prolific actor at the offices of Hartford Stage, where he is rehearsing for his starring role i…
Actors who arrive at the Goodspeed Opera House are often overwhelmed by the beauty of the rural surroundings as they cross the swing bridge to East Haddam and see the glistening white theate…
