1,459 stories by "Frank Rizzo"
Oh, to return to the days of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical in the '40s and '50s and '60s when future classics first got their acts together in out-of-town places like New Haven's Sh…
"My best wish was to ignore it," says Hal Holbrook referring to his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 17. "I don't like the sound of 9-oh."
"My best wish was to ignore it," says Hal Holbrook referring to his 90th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 17. "I don't like the sound of 9-oh."
The show: "Familiar" at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre.
NEW YORK CITY - The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the sett…
NEW YORK CITY " The modest four-room East Side Manhattan apartment of Ming Cho Lee and his wife Betsy is quiet now, but in its day it was a hive of domestic and theatrical activity, the sett…
The show: "Dancing Lessons" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
The show: "Dancing Lessons" at Hartford's TheaterWorks.
The show: "Nice Work If You Can Get It" at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Danai Gurira is an amalgam of cultures, influences and identities that connects with the foreign as well as the familiar.
Danai Gurira is an amalgam of cultures, influences and identities that connects with the foreign as well as the familiar.
For most of her adult life, Paige Davis has been acting, singing and dancing in roles as varied as playing the feather duster in "Beauty and the Beast" to the fame-obsessed Roxie Hart in Bro…
The Mark Twain House & Museum will present "Twain On Stage Festival" that will present professional and local theater groups and performers, including Hal Holbrook at the Bushnell and The Ac…
If you think a married couple working together on a Noel Coward play about battling exes would be filled with tensions, bon mots, or at least a pitcher full of martinis, think again.
The show: Dael Orlandersmith's "Forever" at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre.
A show about the life and music of Tammy Wynette opens the 2015 season at the Essex's Ivoryton Playhouse.
Dael Orlandersmith is a familiar artist working on Long Wharf Theatre over the past decade or so, with "Yellowman," "The Gimmick" and "The Blue Album" (with David Cale) to her credits.
What brings joy in the night and then disappears in a blink of an eye?
On Thursday, Dec. 11, New Haven's Shubert Theatre will turn 100.
Everyone knows that Steve Martin is a very funny guy. Most might even know that he is a first-rate banjo musician and perhaps some are aware of his savvy work as a screen writer, novelist an…
You're a theater-lover from Connecticut and you're taking a trip to Manhattan to catch some shows, or perhaps you're thinking of a holiday gift of tickets to someone. So you pick up a copy o…
In the late '70s, a new kind of touring show emerged, one that featured not one headliner but rather a quartet of female stars, each performing a set of songs as well as performing a number …
Tonya Pinkins says she's always been a kind of 'hmmmm' person.
Michael Gennaro, executive director of Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, R.I., is the new executive director of Goodspeed Musicals " its first new leader in nearly half a century.
What would you ask the wizard? Where did he get his magic? Is he returning to Oz anytime soon? And what do witches and nuns have in common?
