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Goodspeed Musicals is celebrating holidays with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas as its final production of the 2025 season.

Connecticut Theatre Company will present its upcoming production of the beloved holiday classic, Miracle on 34th Street the Play, running for a limited engagement.

What did our critic think of CONSCIENCE at Westport Community Theatre?

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand reading of the boundary-breaking, Obie Award-winning play, “What the Constitution Means to Me,“ written by Heidi Schreck, directed by Amanda Charlton, and starring Nina Hellman, Jeremy Shamos, and Jocelyn Shek, on Monday, December 1, at 7

In 2026, Ivoryton Playhouse will present a very special season, an American celebration to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Palace Theater is inviting families to enjoy Children’s Storytime, a free series where Connecticut-based children's authors bring their stories to life with humor, heart, and interactive fun.

The Sherman Players will present Brad Blake's gloriously 'naughty' holiday revue 'Wreck the Halls' weekends at Sherman Playhouse.

Conceived and directed by Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero, Christmas on the Rocks features work from six playwrights, each adding their own spin to the canon of holiday traditions past.

BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage, Broadway's biggest national competition for high school and college students, returned to reveal the Top 15 performers in both age groups.

Little Theatre of Manchester (LTM) at Cheney Hall has announced their lineup of shows and events to carry audiences through the holiday season.

The critically-acclaimed Beatles vs.

Who will make the Top 15 of BroadwayWorld's Next On Stage? You'lll have to tune in tonight, November 21 (High School: 7pm ET, College: 9pm ET), to find out!

Ivoryton Playhouse will present the world premiere of PLAYHOUSE HOLIDAY JAMBOREE, a new variety-style holiday production created by Ben Hope and Katie Barton.

Voting is now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards.

On the heels of their sold-out show at Lexington Village Theatre in Lexington, Michigan, Adrenalize: The Ultimate Def Leppard Experience is bringing that arena-sized energy to Daryl's House.

As part of its 2025 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host 'Image, Magic, and Objects: The Art of Maureen McCabe.

The North American tour of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS will play The Bushnell in Hartford from June 2–7, 2026.

Black Rock Theater will present A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE MUSICAL at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne from December 12–14, 2025.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre is presenting AS YOU LIKE IT, the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery.

On Sunday, November 16th, I had the pleasure of seeing yet another first-rate production put on by Fairfield Center Stage, ANNIE! The venue is at Wakeman Hall inside First Church Congregational of Fairfield, a location that has become common for Fairfield Center Stage productions.

On Saturday, November 15, at 7:00 P.

Connecticut Theatre Exchange, based in Washington, CT, will gather the community for the third annual Winter Interchange on December 20, from 5 p.

Goodman Theatre’s Centennial 25/26 Season will continue with Holiday, adapted by the late Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg in a contemporary reimagining of Philip Barry’s classic Roaring Twenties love story

 For the holiday season, TheatreWorks New Milford wil present the return of a local holiday favorite, ‘What The Dickens? A Christmas Carol For Any Scrooge', written and directed by local playwright and comedian Matt Austin.

Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: JUKEBOX, to Westport Country Playhouse for one performance only.