Upcoming Shows
Death of a Salesman, directed by Melia Bensussen, will take the stage at Hartford Stage from February 27 to March 29, 2026. This classic drama...
A salesman has got to dream.This Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theater and...
Native Gardens is a contemporary comedy that dives into the humorous chaos that unfolds when good intentions collide with bad manners among neighbors. The story...
Good neighbors don’t grow on trees.What starts as a warm welcome for new neighbors quickly devolves into a flower-flinging backyard battle for the ages in...
Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford are collaborating on a co-production of Sweeney Todd, which will run from June 5 to July 5, 2026. Directed by...
Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford will co-produce Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Rob Ruggiero. This musical thriller, featuring music and...
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - February 15, 2026
What did our critic think of ASSASSINS at Brookfield Theatre?...
by Jared Reynolds - December 14, 2025
If I had a nickel for every time that I’ve reviewed the same show, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but I’m surprised that it took so long in my reviewing history to happen. It shouldn’t be a surprise, however, that in both cases, they are to review Christmas productions. For the fir...
by Jared Reynolds - December 12, 2025
Cozy, cute, and full of Christmas cheer. That’s what you get with Miracle on 34th Street. That was abound and aplenty at the Connecticut Theatre Company’s production of the motion picture classic! CTC’s production of Miracle on 34th Street kept the joy of the season at the heart of this produc...
by Jared Reynolds - December 06, 2025
Holiday traditions are sweet, but sometimes the stress of the holidays outweighs the joys. That's where Wreck the Halls comes in: It points out the pain of the holidays and is committed to making you laugh. And this raucous production of Wreck the Halls had the audience rolling!...
Past Shows
A comedy about doing the right thing with the wrong person.If six people are involved in a love triangle – does that make it a...
Set in a charming English cottage in 1923, The Cottage weaves a comedic tale of romance and betrayal among six entangled individuals. As Sylvia navigates...
Hartford’s Beloved Holiday Tradition Returns this ChristmasOn a bleak and snowy Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge wants nothing more than to collect his debts. But when...
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas brings Charles Dickens' classic tale to life on stage with an adaptation and direction by Michael Wilson....
Is there such thing as a perfect crime?The riveting crime thriller that inspired Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart in 1948 gets a tantalizing new adaptation...
Rope, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Melia Bensussen, will make its world premiere at Hartford Stage. The gripping crime thriller explores the aftermath...
Hurricane Diane is a provocative comedy by Madeleine George that reimagines Greek mythology within a modern suburban New Jersey context. The play delves into themes...
Laughs in Spanish is a contemporary comedy directed by Lisa Portes, set against the backdrop of Art Basel in Miami. The story explores mother-daughter dynamics...
Two Trains Running, directed by Gilbert McCauley, explores life in a Pittsburgh diner during the Civil Rights Era. This production highlights the stories of the...
Hartford Stage presents Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a psychological thriller adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella. The production features Nathan Darrow...
A 1950s landmark play that still rings true today. This dramatic satire tracks the nuanced, simmering tension between the artists of a biracial company working on a Broadway-bound premiere....
An awe-filled fable of fury and forgiveness. King Leontes, his pregnant wife Hermione, and their young son seem like a perfect royal family — until he’s...
An inspired new comedy exploring the love, rage, and responsibility that go with marriage and parenting in America. Mid-negotiation, modernist painter Patricia changes the terms of...
A groundbreaking bilingual tour de force.Una obra bilingüe que trasciende fronteras.Two worlds collide one evening at a high-end resort in Mexico, igniting a series of...
With international war looming, Englands King George V dies, leaving the Crown and the crisis to his youngest son Bertie. Shy, fragile and afflicted with...
By Charlotte BrontAdapted and Directed by Elizabeth WilliamsonOrphaned as a child, Jane takes a position working as governess at Thornfield Hall for the brooding Edward...
Orphaned as a child, Jane takes a position working as governess at Thornfield Hall for the brooding Edward Rochester. The strong-willed Jane falls in love...
In Pike St., Nilaja Sun vividly brings to life three generations of a Puerto Rican family on New Yorks Lower East Side. Evelyn, a mother...
The magic of Charles Dickens heartwarming classic returns for its 22nd season. Come see Connecticuts favorite family holiday tradition and spend some time with Ebenezer...
The Pansy Craze is a musical about female impersonators who lived and performed during the Jazz Age of 1920s America. (These gals sashayed way before...
An ode to modern-day motherhood, Cry it Out peers into the lives of four new parents with nothing in common except sleep deprivation, unreliable childcare...
Quixote Nuevo is set in the fictional modern-day border town of La Plancha, Texas, where Don Quixote loses himself in stories of chivalrous escapades and...
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin is the musical story of an immigrant boy who gave a country its voice. Reflecting upon Berlin's humble beginnings as...
Gillian is a smart and sultry witch who decides to cast a love spell on her upstairs neighbor. He is totally bewitched, and falls deeply...
The high-flying, Tony Award-winning comedy that had London and Broadway audiences airborne with laughter is taking off at Hartford Stage. Bernard, a successful American architect...
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that...
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that...
Presented for the first time at Hartford Stage, Arthur Miller’s gripping drama of a community stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a...
On television and radio, 1957 America was entertained by the sweet sounds and warm personality of Nat “King” Cole. His carefully manicured image distracted an...
Fräulein Maria celebrates Rodgers & Hammerstein’s timeless songs from The Sound of Music as re-imagined by acclaimed choreographer Doug Elkins. Set to the 1965 movie...
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