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Theater is progress. Theater is always moving forward. Always innovating. Always creating something new. New Works are the lifeblood of the Theatre. Whenever a new play is given a World Premiere, it should be celebrated. TheatreWorks presented the world premiere of Upstate to great success.

What's worse then being at a wedding that you're clearly not welcome at? Being at a wedding you're clearly not welcome at because you're still madly in love with the bride!

You are cordially invited to the best day of someone else's life…but what if it's also the worst day of yours? Come see 'At The Wedding' on stage at Brookfield Theatre opening April 25.

If one has never seen Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, then now is your chance. The Town Players of Newtown, under the direction of Alexis M. Vournazos, have brought Frayn’s raucous masterpiece of “and then it went wrong” to life and left the audience in stitches!

The Hole in the Wall Theater showed commitment, passion, and heart in bringing The Ferryman to the stage, and it’s a performance well worth seeing. The double doors opened, and the audience is greeted with the authentic interior of the Carney household. This cluttered, yet familiar space immediately brought to mind a large, multi-generational family, rife with chaos, love, and fits of shouting. My goodness, how accurate that turned out to be.

A flea was put in my ear to get to Brookfield Theater. I was late to the party and tickets were going fast, but I was able to make it to closing weekend of their production of A Flea in her Ear and boy, was it worth it.

Steel Magnolias at the Connecticut Theater Company runs from March 14 – 23, with performance on Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm. Check here for the review.

They say that limitations encourage creativity, not stifle it. It may not look the way you envisioned it, but with the right people, you can make it happen. The determination from the entire production created a beautiful production that left the audience enthralled.

When it comes to a show like A Christmas Carol, you need to have heart and soul, and the cast and crew of Connecticut Theatre Company’s production of A Christmas Carol got my holiday season off to a great start.

Where to even begin? Brookfield Theatre brought together a stellar cast and crew who bought into the vibes and committed to the comedy that Mel Brooks laid to paper. The success of the humor in The Producers comes from the authenticity of the absurdity, and it's the cast's commitment to the absurd that sells it to the audience!

Nothing ever goes according to plan, but you make do with what you have, and you make it work. Written by a local playwright through New Milford’s Playwriting Group, Oat Squares is jam packed with jokes, irony, and visual gags, leaving the audience falling in love with every character.

What do you get when you cross a stage director, a burgeoning film industry, exotic plants, and time-travelling characters? Why, you get Shakespeare in Hollywood! This play is a riotous time for Shakespeare nerds and People-Who’ve-Never-Read-Shakespeare alike.

'Wait Until Dark' plucks the strings of your anxieties one by one until your muscles are screaming for the inevitable crash of expectation that comes at the end of a thrilling work of art. But a script can’t do it on its own. It needs the right cast, the right crew, and the right moment to come to life and enrapture an audience in the way that only live theater can.

Nostalgia is a powerful tool. It can bring back memories that you had long forgotten, and it can make you smile with fondness. Everyone experiences nostalgia differently, but at its core, its job is to make us feel. The cast and crew come together to bring the joy of the Peanuts to life at Brookfield Theatre with You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

The dramas of my childhood years seem so small now, so insignificant, like a trivial problem today felt like the end of the world back then, and that’s exactly what the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee dug out of the depths of my brain like a repressed memory.

We all have those shows that cut you to your core in a way that few other things can, and based on the opening night audience at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, Fun Home is that show for a lot of people. From the moment the band walked on stage, the cast and crew of Brookfield Theatre’s Fun Home had the audience caught: hook, line, and ring of keys.

The Brookfield Theatre of the Arts’ 3X3 Festival continues with August Wilson’s 'How I Learned What I Learned.' Following in the footsteps of Jay Presson Allen’s Tru, How I Learned What I Learned finds August Wilson- played by Jeramie Gladman- reflecting on his upbringing, his friends, and his career through a series of stories and events that shaped his life, his relationships, and his professional development. Jeramie's passion is infectious in this exploration of Wilson's life.