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Escape the heat and join us at Playhouse on Park for a cool night jam-packed with comedy! Improv fans have two chances to see a show, each featuring four improv groups from CT and beyond: Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27, both at 8pm.

The Windham Theatre Guild is excited to present live on stage Little Shop of Horrors opening Friday, July 22nd at the Burton Leavitt Theatre, 779 Main Street, Willimantic.

Come on out and laugh for a cause on Thursday, August 11, as Hartford's own funnyman Mike Jacobs takes the stage at Playhouse on Park.

'Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!' Take your seat as the Castle Craig Players present CABARET, the seductive, politically charged and daring Tony Award-winning musical for two weeks only - July 29-August 7!

Westport Country Playhouse will present a community engagement initiative, "Money, Power, and Belief:  Reflections on 'The Invisible Hand'," July 17 through August 8.

Music Mountain, America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, continues its 87th Anniversary Season with a Mid-Summer Benefit Concert on Sunday, July 31 (3PM) featuring the exquisite pianist Richard Goode performing an unforgettable program of Haydn; Janacek; Schumann; and Debussy.

This week I had the pleasure of discussing the progress of The Comedy of Errors as well as the progress of our Summer Youth Theatre production of Les Miserables School Edition, with West Haven Council on the Arts President, Barth McNeil.

On Friday, July 8, The Sherman Playhouse premiereD Moliere's 17th-century comedic farce, Tartuffe.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) presents the Broadway classic West Side Story with book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics byStephen Sondheim, and based on a concept ofJerome Robbins.

The East Haddam Stage Company presents William Gillette: Senator's Son to Super Sleuth for their 8th summer season of live outdoor theater at Gillette Castle State Park, 67 River Rd, East Haddam Connecticut.

New Britain Youth Theater will perform a "Tale as Old as Time" as it produces Disney's Beauty and the Beast Jr as its summer musical.

The Connecticut Cabaret Theatre presents THE FOREIGNER, a comedy by Larry Shue, directed by Kris McMurray, running tonight, July 8th, through August 6th, 2016.

As part of its popular Summertime Saturday Puppet Shows for family audiences by UConn Puppet Arts students, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present Victoria's Not So Bedtime Story by UConn Puppet Arts MFA students Shane McNeal and Krista Weltner on

The National Theatre of the Deaf is happy to announce its 5th Summer Season of TIP (Theatre Immersion Program) at Hygienic Art Park in New London, CT with seven performances of their newest Deaf family-oriented production It's in the Bag on August 14-21, 2016.

Freda & Carleigh Welsh of Levitt Pavilion, actor Klea Blackhurst and Hugh Hallinan, Executive Producer of Downtown Cabaret are featured this week (Friday, July 8) on State of the ARTS which airs LIVE every Friday from 12noon to 1pm onWPKN-FM (89.

As part of its popular Summertime Saturday Puppet Shows for family audiences by UConn Puppet Arts students, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present The Wonderful World of Wonder by UConn Puppet Arts MFA student Gavin Cummins and Philadelphia-b

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA announces the retirement of Professor Adjunct Edward A.

Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Simpkins and Managing Director Justin Ball, proudly presents the Tony Award-winning musical Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with performances July 21 through July 31 at Sharon Playhouse (49 Amenia Road).

The eight new plays in development at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference will feature Broadway actress Ali Stroker (Spring Awakening the Deaf West Broadway revival, The GLEE Project), Drama Desk Award-nominee Margo Seibert (ROCKY on Broadway), television's Jeremy Bo

Girl group revue is back by popular demand.

Six new members were elected to the board of trustees at Westport Country Playhouse at a June meeting.

Diving into week three of rehearsals with a bang! Between running lines and research to rehearsals with the whole cast, I discover new things about Luciana every single time.

The exuberant cast of BYE BYE BIRDIE will 'spread sunshine all over the place' in this summertime sensation directed by Jenn Thompson.

? On  Friday, July 15, TheatreWorks New Milford will debut the musical comedy [title of show] with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and book by Hunter Bell.

Everyone will love this fun-filled musical, running now through September 4 at The Goodspeed in East Haddam, Conn.