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No matter where you live you can learn from award-winning instructors from the comfort of your own home! The Ridgefield Playhouse continues to make their most popular classes available via Zoom this fall!

The Guilford Performing Arts Festival (GPAF) has named six Connecticut performing artists as recipients of its 2020 Artistsa?? Awards.

Due to long term planning requirements and continued concerns regarding COVID-19 StrawHat Auditions and New England Theatre Conference (NETC) are announcing that their 2021 auditions will be moving to a completely virtual format.

This year the BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! Eligibility is for productions which opened between 2011 and September 30th, 2020.

When Billy Joel sang a?oeIa??ve seen the lights go out on Broadwaya?? I dona??t think he meant this.

Whether your dance audition is online or in person this upcoming year, it is always important to be prepared.

Yale School of Drama, the only graduate-level professional conservatory in the English-speaking world to offer training in every theatrical discipline, announces newly promoted and newly appointed faculty members, effective for the 2020-21 academic year.

The Palace Theater recently recognized David Ioime, of  Cheshire, as Volunteer of the Year for 2020.

Many Connecticut theatres are adapting to new ways of operating in the midst of the pandemic, moving over membership structures as a more sustainable and profitable business model.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra is making the switch to a digital format.

Milford Arts Council, the MAC is excited to announce their first official live outdoor music festival on October 10th 4-7pm at Eisenhower Park, 780 North Street, Milford CT.

NORWALK, CT - Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional award-winning theatre company continues its 34th Season with RFK, the story of Robert F.

Goodspeed Musicals joins arts organizations around the nation to present the virtual concert event Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, streaming live from Chicago, Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 7:00pm ET.

TheaterWorks Hartford (TWH) Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero announced today that their 20/21 season will begin streaming Sunday, September 27, 2020.

Eastbound Theatre will present the first show of its 27th season, the compelling political drama, Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan, directed by Jeremy Funke.

HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford, CT's only community-based and ensemble theatre, announced today a diverse and provocative lineup of virtual and audio theatrical experiences for Fall 2020.

Nonprofit cultural organization Bethel Woods Center for the Arts opened its museum doors mid-July, and today announced a full calendar of programming through the fall at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival.

On Thursday, October 10 Playhouse on Park is bringing the filmed play KENNEDY: BOBBY'S LAST CRUSADE to Edmond Town Hall for The Ingersoll Auto Pop-Up Drive-In.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a?oePlayhouse at the Drive-in,a?? a one-night-only benefit event and screening of special filmed performances and a short-form documentary celebrating the theater's 90-season history, on Saturday, October 17, at the Remarkable Theater Drive-in, 47 Imperial Ave

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas and The Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph have joined forces to curate  performances by New Haven and Hartford artists to be presented as part of The Kennedy Center's Arts Across America series on Monday,

Join singers from past Playhouse on Park productions on Sunday, October 4th for a 90-minute cabaret

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas and The Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph have joined forces to curate performances by New Haven and Hartford artists to be presented as part of The Kennedy Centera??s Arts Across America series on Monday, Septemb

The Palace Theater management has announced that they are resuming the popular monthly tours of the historic venue beginning on Wednesday, October 14 at 11:00am.

Fairfield Center Stage, a local community theater group, will present an outdoor, socially-distanced ABBA-themed concert on the back lawn of The Scandinavian Club on Saturday, October 24th 2020 at 1:00 PM and 6:00 PM.

For most theatre lovers across the nation, the prospect of seeing live entertainment in the near future seemed uncertain.