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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. ...

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas


Hartford’s Beloved Holiday Tradition Returns this Christmas On a bleak and snowy Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge wants nothing more than to collect his debts. But ...

THE COTTAGE
1/16 - 2/8/2026


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 ...

The Cottage
The Cottage
1/6 - 2/8/2026


A comedy about doing the right thing with the wrong person. If six people are involved in a love triangle – does that make it ...

DEATH OF A SALESMAN
2/27 - 3/29/2026


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 ...

Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
2/27 - 3/29/2026


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 ...

NATIVE GARDENS
4/17 - 5/10/2026


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 ...

Native Gardens
Native Gardens
4/17 - 5/10/2026


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 ...

Sweeney Todd
6/5 - 7/5/2026


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 ...



A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS Cast Announced At Hartford Stage


by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2025

Hartford Stage will bring back its beloved holiday tradition A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas this November and December. Adapted and directed by Michael Wilson....

Hartford Stage Will Stage World Premiere of ROPE


by Stephi Wild - September 10, 2025

Hartford Stage will kick off its 2025/2026 season on October 10 with the highly anticipated world premiere of Rope, a gripping new adaptation by acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher....

Hartford Stage Company Youth Theatre Alumni Will Host Reunion


by Stephi Wild - August 26, 2025

Hartford Stage Company Youth Theatre (HSCYT), a little-known endeavor in the 1970s and 1980s, propelled hundreds of Hartford at-risk youth to pursue professional careers in the performing and visual arts and to achieve local, national, and international fame....

Ephraim Birney, Gus Birney and More to Star in Jeffrey Hatcher's ROPE Reading


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 14, 2025

A private industry reading of a new adaptation of Rope, penned by acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher will take place July 17 in New York City. Learn more!...

Ephraim Birney, Gus Birney and More to Star in Jeffrey Hatcher's ROPE Reading


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 14, 2025

A private industry reading of a new adaptation of Rope, penned by acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher will take place July 17 in New York City. Learn more!...

Hartford Stage to Present Breakdancing Shakespeare: HAMLET


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 23, 2025

 Hartford Stage will kick off its dynamic summer education programming with its 19th season of Breakdancing Shakespeare. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

FEVER DREAMS, RAGTIME and More Top 2025 Connecticut Critics Circle Nominations


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 02, 2025

Goodspeed Musicals’ production of “Ragtime” and two plays from TheaterWorks Hartford – “Fever Dreams” and “Primary Trust” - lead the shows nominated for the 33rd annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards.  ...

Hartford Stage To Host Tony Award Party Fundraising Event


by A.A. Cristi - May 06, 2025

Hartford Stage will celebrate the 78th Annual Tony Awards with a Red Carpet Party on Sunday, June 8, 2025, in their downtown theater at 50 Church Street in Hartford. ...

New Comedy HURRICAN DIANE Set To Blow Into Hartford Stage In June


by A.A. Cristi - May 06, 2025

Hartford Stage has announced the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Hurricane Diane, Madeleine George's provocative comedy that reimagines Greek mythology in a modern suburban, New Jersey setting. ...

VIDEO: First Look at Hartford Stage's ROMEO & JULIET


by Joshua Wright - April 25, 2025

Watch a first look at Hartford Stage’s upcoming production of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Artistic Director Melia Bensussen, running April 17–May 18, 2025....

Past Shows

Rope
Rope
10/10 - 11/2/2025


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 ...

ROPE
10/10 - 11/2/2025


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
6/5 - 6/29/2025


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
3/6 - 3/30/2025


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
1/23 - 2/16/2025


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 ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
10/10 - 11/3/2024


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 ...

Trouble in Mind
Trouble in Mind
5/25 - 6/18/2023


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 ...

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale


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 ...

The Art of Burning
The Art of Burning
3/2 - 3/26/2023


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 ...

Espejos: Clean
Espejos: Clean
1/12 - 2/5/2023


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 ...

The King's Speech
The King's Speech
3/19 - 4/19/2020


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 ...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
2/13 - 3/14/2020


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 ...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
2/13 - 3/14/2020


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 ...

Pike St.
Pike St.
1/9 - 2/2/2020


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 ...

A Christmas Carol-A Ghost Story of Christmas


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


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 ...

Cry it Out
Cry it Out
10/24 - 11/17/2019


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
Quixote Nuevo
9/19 - 10/13/2019


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


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 ...

Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle
4/5 - 4/29/2012


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 ...

Boeing-Boeing
Boeing-Boeing
1/12 - 2/5/2012


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 ...

Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful
10/20 - 11/14/2011


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 ...

Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful
10/20 - 11/13/2011


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 ...

The Crucible
The Crucible
9/1 - 9/25/2011


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 ...

I Wish You Love
I Wish You Love
7/6 - 7/24/2011


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 ...

Fräuline Maria
Fräuline Maria
6/15 - 6/26/2011


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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