Sherry Shameer Cohen

What did our critic think of CONSCIENCE at Westport Community Theatre?

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to dive straight into the Christmas season. What better way to do that than with A Sherlock Carol, back for its third production at the Westport County Playhouse.

You don’t have to know the first thing about golf or even like it about it to enjoy Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway, now playing at Connecticut Music Theatre.

Believe it or not, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is being presented for the first time at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Learn more about Requiem For a Bantamweight will be performed as a Scripts on Tap on November 3 at the Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford as. Requiem For a Bantamweight is produced and directed by Lynn Colatrella.

There’s nothing more exciting for serious theater lovers than to see new original plays. After last summer’s successful Broadway Bound Summer Festival, the creative team of the Theatre Artists Workship will present the plays on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 and Sunday, November 2 at 2:00. Here are the new shows.

A.C.T. of CT opened its 2025-2026 season with Almost Famous: The Musical in a masterful production. Long-time patrons of A.C.T. know they will get total professionalism from the cast and creative crew, but this production of Almost Famous has something extra. A.C.T.’s artistic director and director of this production, Daniel C. Levine, worked with Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitts on the revised book and score, which will be the new licensed version of Almost Famous going forward.

There probably isn’t a theatergoer who hasn’t already seen Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.

What did our critic think of REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT at Crystal Theatre? Rod Serling’s classic play, Requiem for A Heavyweight, well, packs a punch in Crystal Theatre’s production, now running through October 19. Yes, the pun was intended, but the play is perhaps even more powerful now than it was when Serling wrote it as a teleplay nearly 70 years ago

Got plans for the last weekend in September? Change them. You must meet the renowned newspaper writer Finley Peter Dunne in Westport Community Theatre’s opening show Dooley at The Bar.

Although Stephanie Zimbalist is mostly associated with Hollywood, her heart is in the theater. Zimbalist will be back at the Westport Country Playhouse on September 27th in the one night only performance of The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music, which also stars Alec Baldwin.

As if wasn’t enough to for the Westport Country Playhouse to have a unique history, charm, and an ability to draw incredible talent to its stage (and backstage) and loyal audiences for 94 years, the gods of theater blessed it with Mark Shanahan as its artistic director.

Read our review of the classic musical Pippin at The Off-Beat Players. Pippin will run through August 2 at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center of Greenwich Country Day School.

If you saw Native Gardens at the Westport Country Playhouse earlier this year you will remember Linedy Genao’s dynamic performance as a new homeowner of a suburban fixer upper. On Tuesday, August 12, Genao returns to the Playhouse for one evening only in her show, Songs From My Sala.

Everyone knows the beloved story of Camelot – the rise and fall of the legendary and idealistic King Arthur and the heartbreaking betrayals by his wife, his best knight, and his illegitimate son. The musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe never gets tired and seeing it again at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts is more than just a pleasant theater experience.

In Shakespeare’s time, a black flag would be raised over the theatre to indicate a tragedy. Well, a tragedy happened just before Shakespeare on The Green’s production of King Lear was to open. As King Lear himself put it, “Such groans of roaring wind … I never remember to have heard.”

You can see the Falcone Repertory Theatre’s script-in-handing reading of Tina Howe’s Painting Churches at the Pine Brook Theater in Trumbull (the old Group Theater's summer home).

Even if you saw the movie, don't miss this rarely performed play at The Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny Park, New Canaan.

There is probably no contemporary playwright who writes better theatrical farces than Ken Ludwig. What better way to close Westport Community Theatre’s 67th season than with Ludwig’s The Gods of Comedy?

Deep in the winding paths of Ridgefield is one of the best theaters you probably never knew existed: A.C.T. of Connecticut (A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut).