The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Connecticut.
How do we costume ourselves for public representation? For friends and lovers? What's essential to identity and what can be shed? Can we take on aspects of cultural heritages other than our own without exploitation? DISGRACED, which won the Pulitzer in 2013, takes up the dynamics of cultura
What a time for Music Theatre of Connecticut to revive this musical, bringing the 'circus' that is how we the people view seemingly larger-than-life characters into its snug Norwalk space.
It's a tricky thing when a popular film is adapted for the musical stage.
The title character of THIRD is male: Woodson Bull III, called 'Third' for short.
Don't believe me, just watch.
Westport Country Playhouse closed its season by honoring the centennial of Pultizer prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller with his 1994 play, Broken Glass.
Hartford, Connecticut's Sonia Plumb Dance Company is celebrating its 25th anniversary season with an ambitious original production: THE ODYSSEY: AN EPIC DANCE JOURNEY.
At the beginning of the premiere production of Playhouse on Park's seventh season, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, we learn that we are present for the last class taught by Morrie Schwartz, and that Mitch Albom, the author of the book on which the play is based, will be the sole student.
At the top of Christopher Shinn's new play at Hartford Stage, AN OPENING IN TIME, the lights never dim to blackout.
Alan Ayckbourn makes another delightful, not-so-clean comedy sweep at Westport Country Playhouse with Bedroom Farce.
Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 play, Bedroom Farce, is as good as it gets at the Westport Country Playhouse.
'They put the laughter in manslaughter' is the tagline for Murder for Two, the new musical playing at The Long Wharf Theatre through August 30.
TheaterWorks in Hartford is closing out its 29th season with the one-woman talk fest based on one of Hollywood's first female super agents: Sue Mengers.
Playhouse on Park lets their freak flag fly.
More energy than you think.
Hartford's a good city for a production of David Lindsay-Abaire's play GOOD PEOPLE, which centers on questions of class in America: how is it that some people get out of the 'hood' and get ahead while others who work plenty hard don't?
Not about justice, but about doing right.
Director Darko Tresnjak, who won big with A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER on Broadway last season, has masterminded another Broadway-style musical confection with his new production of KISS ME KATE at the Hartford Stage Company.
Madame President
David Ives meets Pierre Corneille, William Shakespeare and David Hirson
The current production of GUYS AND DOLLS at Goodspeed is infectious, fast, and smart.
I have been a fan of Music Theatre of Connecticut for a while now, so when I entered their Melissa & Doug theater on opening night of Little Shop of Horrors, I was looking forward to a wonderful evening with this classic piece of musical theatre.
Community violence affects everyone differently.
Impassioned and topical, David Robson's new play at TheaterWorks in Hartford offers a gripping confrontation between two men: one a former football legend, the other a generation younger.
Historically accurate, THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE at Hartford Stage Company is genuinely uplifting due to the tremendous virtuosity of Mona Golabek, the sole performer.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM CURTAIN CALL'S SHAKESPEARE ON THE GREEN (7/09-7/19) |
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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Kweskin Theatre (8/06-8/15) |
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Madison Lyric Stage (7/17-7/26) |
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The Prom The Little Theatre of Manchester (11/06-11/22) |
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S'Wonderful with Christine Andreas Music Theatre of CT (7/18-7/18) |
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Girls Night - The Musical Bushnell/ Belding Theater (1/23-1/23) |
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Grease Opera House Players (8/07-8/16) |
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Broadway in the Vines 2026 Live & In Color (7/27-7/27) |
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Multi-Platinum Rock Legends Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms Announce Return To The Road For Co-Headlining Summer Tour With Special Guest Spin Doctors Mohegan Sun (7/31-7/31) |
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Auntie Mame Brookfield Theatre (6/26-7/18) |
