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Westport Country Playhouse announces its 2013-14 Family Festivities Series beginning in the fall, featuring musicals based on children's classic stories, including "Madeline and the Bad Hat," and an adaptation of Broadway's "Seussical," as well as daredevil acrobatics, magic, puppetry, and glowing e

A brand new play from one of the writers of The Simpsons, I'm Connecticut - opening at the Ivoryton Playhouse tonight, June 5th - is a wacky, fast-paced, sweet, romantic comedy about Marc, a Connecticut native who struggles with relationships and feelings of inadequacy - why? Because he comes from C

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced the 23rd Annual National Puppetry Conference.

If your kids love theatre and want to learn more about acting and being onstage sign up for Playhouse on Park's Young Actor Training Summer Program! July 1st through July 12nd and July 29th through August 9th, 2013 Playhouse on Park is offering three levels of actors' training programs for kids K-8

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced cast members for the 2013 National Music Theater Conference.

Tom Butterworth of New Canaan has reinvented himself as an actor after 20 years as a lawyer then business consultant and his next stage appearance is in Shakespeare on the Sound's production of 'As You Like It' June 13-30 in Rowayton's Pinkney Park.

Just as Motown The Musical is taking Broadway by storm, Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Theatre is offeringForever Motown featuring a fabulous cast of four male and three female vocalists, backed by a band of incredible musicians, represents Motown Royalty when they take the stage of Bridgeport's Down

Long Wharf Theatre, in conjunction with Supreme Talent International will present Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, on the Mainstage as part of its summer season.

The Sherman Chamber Ensemble is pleased to announce its 2013 summer songwriting and musical theater camps.

This summer, TheatreWorks New Milford is honored to host the world premiere of the musical comedy EARNEST OR WHAT'S IN A NAME?, an original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Long Wharf Theatre and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas will present Stuck Elevator, written by New Haven resident Aaron Jafferis, with music by Byron Au Yong, directed by Chay Yew, from June 20-29.

TheatreWorks Kids registration is now open for the summer production of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, led by veteran instructor Amy Emke for children ages 7 to 14.

The Ridgefield Playhouse has announced its upcoming music acts for next week.

From the creators of The Fantasticks! comes this fun musical comedy about the ups and downs of marriage - and you don't want to miss it! With Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt, based on the play Fourposter by Jan de Hartog, I DO! I DO! is directed by Richard Grasso with musical

Debra Jo Rupp stars in Becoming Dr.

The Westport Community Theatre has postponed their SWING INTO SUMMER cabaret, originally scheduled for tomorrow, May 31.

These three performers present a most unpredictable mixture of brilliant, beguiling music that spans across three generations of influences.

Comix will welcome the extremely talented Whitney Cummings to the Fox Theater stage at Foxwoods Resort Casino on Saturday, July 20 at 8 p.

Becoming a sponsor for Playhouse on Park's 5th Anniversary Season is a fantastic way to direct your philanthropic corporate goals towards a local arts organization that provides educational, entertaining, and exciting opportunities for all ages in your community.

Sunday June 9 The Hartford Chorale Chamber Singers will present AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE concert 3 PM at Center Church, 675 Main St (at Gold St), Hartford.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present The Drowsy Chaperone, starring Pat Sajak as the Man in the Chair, as the first of its three-show Summer Nutmeg Summer Series, June 6 - 15 in the Harriet S.

Beginning on Wednesday June 12th, 2013, Playhouse on Park presents the Tony Award winning musical 'Cabaret' book by Joe Masteroff, Music by John Kander and Lyrics by Fred Ebb.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc, the ridiculously entertaining non-profit theatre company specializing in theatre for family audiences has announced plans for its 2013/14 season which includes three new musicals and the Connecticut premiere of a recent off-Broadway hit.

The true story of a teenager who plays a game of Catch Me if You Can with the FBI is already larger than life, but this musical, making a tour stop at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, takes it way over the top by adding full-scale musical numbers, kick-line choreography and g

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