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Goodspeed Musicals, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is proud to announce the cast of 42nd Street.

TheaterWorks presents acclaimed actor Annalee Jefferies in the Connecticut premiere of The Year of Magical Thinking, the stage adaptation of Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of the same name.

TheaterWorks Harford is set to premiere The Year of Magical Thinking.

Goodspeed Musicals, under the leadership of Michael P.

John Waters brings his 'This Filthy World' to The Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut on Friday, May 15th at 8 p.

MTC MainStage, Music Theatre of Connecticut's Professional Equity Acting Company, presents 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill' a play with music by Lanie Robertson and directed by Kevin Connors.

Violinist Mikhail Simonyan joins the spectacular, young National Philharmonic of Russia, under the direction of internationally acclaimed conductor Vladimir Spivakov, for a performance at UConn?s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, April 16, at 8 pm.

Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Wilson and Managing Director Michael Stotts, announced today that acclaimed actress Lois Smith will return to Hartford Stage in the role of matriarch Stella Gordon as she joins the Broadway cast of Horton Foote's hit comedy Dividing t

Goodspeed Musicals? song and dance extravaganza 42nd Street begins this Friday, April 17th.

Registration is underway for Westport Country Playhouse's three-week summer camp called 'Summer in the House,' for students entering grades two through five, Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 24.

Upcoming Events at The Hartt School for May 2009 The Hartt School Presents Hartt Dances The Hartt School presents Hartt Dances from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 3 at Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford's West Hartford campus.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA (James Bundy, Dean; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean) presents The Fourth Annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 8 to 17 at the New Theater, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven.

The Darien Arts Center's Cabaret presents the world premiere of 'FAMILY,' a new musical by Cici Hunt and Carole Claps, a Stamford native, with music and lyrics by Cici Hunt and the late Wes Caswell.

The Hartt School Dance Division presents Hartt Dances, Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, May 3, at 3 PM at Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford's West Hartford campus.

Executive Producer Hugh Hallinan and Artistic Director Bert Bernardi have announced the Downtown Cabaret Theatre Children's Company 2009-10 season.

The Hartt Percussion Ensemble presents a '57-Year Retrospective Musicircus of the Percussion Music of John Cage,' a seminal voice in American music and culture.

Executive Producer Hugh Hallinan and The Downtown Cabaret Theater Children's Company, the award-winning resident musical theatre for young audiences and families opens its new musical THE LITTLE MERMAID-A-GO-GO on Saturday, April 11th in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The Opera House Players' Spring musical will be family favorite 'The Sound of Music.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium, 'A Conversation with Mark Brown,' following the Sunday, April 26, 3 p.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present an original adaptation by Stefano Brancato and Michael Bush of the legendary myth of Icarus, March 26 - April 5 in the Studio Theatre on the Storrs campus.

Summer in the House is a 3-week program from July 6-July 24, 2009 (Monday-Friday) designed for students entering grades 2 through 5 through the Westport Country Playhouse Education Department.

Playhouse on the Green, Bridgeport's not-for-profit community theater, is pleased to announce that the author of the book to the Tony Award® winning musical The Wiz, William F.

Called 'the world's reigning male chorus' by the New Yorker magazine, Chanticleer brings its ringing tones to Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Connecticut in Storrs at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 2.

The Sherman Playhouse is seeking 13 men and 14 women for its summer production of the Tony Award-winning musical Mame, with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.

Violinist Mikhail Simonyan joins the spectacular, young National Philharmonic of Russia, under the direction of internationally acclaimed conductor Vladimir Spivakov, for a performance at UConn?s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, April 16, at 8 pm.