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Richard Eyre's mesmerizing production of Georges Bizet's steamy melodrama Carmen returns to the Met with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will open their 2014-15 season with Olives and Blood at the Nafe Katter Theatre October 2nd - 12th.

After a successful first competition, The Bijou Theatre's 'Your Time to Shine' talent competition is returning for a second month on September 13, 2014 at 7:00pm, and the contestants have been selected.

On Friday, September 19, TheatreWorks New Milford will premiere the Award-winning musical comedy, AVENUE Q, with Book by Jeff Whitty and Music & Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the UConn Puppet Arts Program will present the 2014 UConn Fall Puppet Slam, on Saturday, September 13 at 8:00 p.

Today, the Connecticut Office of Tourism announced that from October 23-26, Connecticut's Flagship Producing Theatres will be hosting a vibrant weekend festival of plays, musicals and theatre events at six regional theatres across the state.

On Friday, September 19, the curtain will rise on DIVIDING THE ESTATE, a Texas-sized comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Horton Foote.

The Ridgefield Playhouse Fall Gala with headliner Willie Nelson and Family on Wednesday, September 17, has been just about sold out for several weeks, but the Gala Committee continues to focus on making this 14th Anniversary Fall Gala the best ever.

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Summer may be ending, but Town Players keeps the mood light and fun with its production THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE by Charles Ludlam, opening tonight, September 5.

The former co-host of "The View" Joy Behar brings two nights of standup comedy to Fairfield Theatre Company's StageOne at 7:30 p.

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As the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center plans for its 2015 summer season, what is the process for gathering and selecting the next great American plays and musicals?

Resident co-founder/co-artistic director Sean Harris will be directing the American masterpiece Angels in America: Part 1: Millennium Approaches to kick off Playhouse on Park's sixth season.

On Saturday, September 13 at 1 pm, the Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Summer Encore Series will present a re-broadcasting of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.

Fresh from their incredible performances on NBC's America's Got Talent Season 8 and from worldwide touring, Catapult Entertainment is bringing the world premiere of its newest show to the Warner Theater's Main Stage Friday, September 12 at 8 pm.

The Warner Stage Company's 2014-15 season opens with Reefer Madness in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre September 13th at 8 pm.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE opens its 2014-15 season with a new production of ARCADIA, the ravishingly romantic time-traveling masterpiece by Tom Stoppard, directed by James Bundy, October 3-25 at the University Theatre (222 York Street).

StagePass, a subscription package designed for young professionals ages 21-35, will go on sale September 2.

Using a cast entirely comprised of alumni and members of the community, Long Wharf Theatre begins its 50th anniversary season with Our Town by Thornton Wilder, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, from October 8 through November 2, 2014 on the Claire Tow Stage in the C.

Ever wanted to play improv games akin to those on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Great news for intermediate improvisation students- they can! Claire Zick is returning to the playhouse to teach adult intermediate improv classes this fall.

The Windham Theatre Guild will honor and remember those who sacrificed as rescuers on 9/11 by presenting a stage reading of The Guys, a masterfully written, powerful play centered around the heroes of 9/11, the firefighters of New York City.

For his first directing project since winning the 2014 Tony Award, Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak will helm Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet, playing only four weeks, from October 16 to November 16, at Hartford Stage.

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, in partnership with the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, will host Community Puppet-Building Workshops for area residents on Saturday, September 6 and Saturday, September 13 from 10 a.