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Review: FIFTH DATE at Nu Sass Theatre
by Roger Catlin - Oct 27, 2025

Dating is a whole different beast these days, fueled by phone apps, texts, Google checks, reality shows and who knows what else. It makes the goings on in the Nu Sass Theatre’s new production “Fifth Date” look positively quaint.

Capital Classics Reveals Full Festival Lineup For 2025 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jun 16, 2025

Capital Classics Theatre Company announced the complete lineup of activities and entertainment for the two productions that will comprise the 2025 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival.

Casts Set for Repertory Companies Of TWELFTH NIGHT and KING LEAR at Capital Classics
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 9, 2025

Capital Classics Theatre Company has revealed the repertory company of the two productions that will comprise the 2025 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Photos: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: IN CONCERT Rehearsals at Brief Cameo Productions
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 17, 2025

Brief Cameo Productions’ concert staging of The Drowsy Chaperone is scheduled to perform in February. Get a first look inside rehearsals here and learn more about the production!  

Brief Cameo Productions To Present THE DROWSY CHAPERONE In Concert
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 17, 2024

Brief Cameo Productions has announced its Fifth Anniversary production: The Drowsy Chaperone: In Concert. Performances of The Drowsy Chaperone will take place at The Centerbrook Meeting House, 51 Main Street, Centerbrook, CT.

Capital Classics Reveals Casting and Enhancements for 2024 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jun 18, 2024

Capital Classics Theatre Company announced the full casts and new enhancements for the expanded 2024 Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival.

THE GREAT GATSBY to Open at the Ivoryton Playhouse This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2022

No book has captured the essence of America in the 1920s with such damning insight as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY, opening on stage at the Ivoryton Playhouse on Thursday, September 29th.

THE GREAT GATSBY to be Presented at Ivoryton Playhouse This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 15, 2022

No book has captured the essence of America in the 1920s with such damning insight as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY, opening on stage at the Ivoryton Playhouse on Thursday, September 29th.

Photos: First Look at SWEENEY TODD at Madison Lyric Stage
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 1, 2022

Madison Lyric Stage will present Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd, June 9-19, inside their brand-new deluxe tent on the grounds of Madison’s Deacon John Grave House.

Madison Lyric Stage Presents SWEENEY TODD in June
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2022

Madison Lyric Stage will present Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller Sweeney Todd, June 9-19, inside their brand-new deluxe tent on the grounds of Madison's Deacon John Grave House.

Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards; SPONGEBOB Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 27, 2021

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards; Pantochino's SPONGEBOB Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 20, 2021

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Photo Flash: First Look at INTO THE WOODS at Madison Lyric Stage
by Stephi Wild - Jul 17, 2019

Madison Lyric Stage, an award-winning, professional theater company serving the Connecticut Shoreline, will present the fairytale musical Into the Woods July 18-28 in a storybook cottage setting inside the historic Deacon John Grave House in Madison, CT. This will be an audience-immersive production for a limited number of people per performance.

Photo Flash: Madison Lyric Stage Presents INTO THE WOODS
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 9, 2019

Madison Lyric Stage, an award-winning, professional theater company serving the Connecticut Shoreline, will present the fairytale musical Into the Woods July 18-28 in a storybook cottage setting inside the historic Deacon John Grave House in Madison, CT.  This will be an audience-immersive production for a limited number of people per performance.

BWW Review: GWEN AND IDA: THE OBJECT IS OF NO IMPORTANCE at Nu Sass At Caos On F
by Mary Lincer - Jun 21, 2019

GWEN AND IDA is a work of fiction, a fantasy. Any resemblance to actual human beings is purely coincidental,' concludes the program for Gwen and Ida: The Object is of No Importance, currently at Caos on F Street. Of course, the lives of painter Gwen John and actordirector Ida Lupino could each make a full length documentary of serious importance with slides of John's elegant paintings and clips of Lupino's always forceful acting (They Drive by Night [1940], While the City Sleeps [1956]) and the 1964 episode she directed of 'The Twilight Zone' ('The Masks'), the only woman ever to do so. Instead, David S. Kessler has written his fantasy which cannot help but distort the significance of the women's lives and careers.

Madison Lyric Stage Presents INTO THE WOODS
by Stephi Wild - Jun 17, 2019

Madison Lyric Stage, an award-winning, professional theater company serving the Connecticut Shoreline, will present the fairytale musical Into the Woods July 18-28 in a storybook cottage setting inside the historic Deacon John Grave House in Madison, CT. This will be an audience-immersive production for a limited number of people per performance.

Madison Lyric Stage Announces 2019 Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 5, 2019

Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company serving the Connecticut Shoreline, announced that its 2019 mainstage season will include: Carlisle Floyd's opera Of Mice and Men, based on the John Steinbeck classic, in May/June; the Stephen Sondheim fairy tale musical Into the Woods in July; and, for Halloween, Engelbert Humperdinck's enchanted opera Hansel and Gretel in October. All three productions will be directed by Marc Deaton.

BWW Review: HOBSON'S CHOICE at Quotidian Theatre Company
by Elliot Lanes - Feb 23, 2018

Last season on Broadway there was a play called Time and the Conways presented at Roundabout Theatre Company. The play hadn't been seen on Broadway since 1937 and after seeing it I understood why. That said, the production had a great look and a very good cast so you could forget about the stodginess of the script. Bethesda, Maryland-based Quotidian Theatre Company's current production of Hobson's Choice bears a resemblance to Time and the Conways because you don't ever see it performed. Unfortunately, the production values – a result of a limited budget – and some questionable casting can't hide all the warts of Harold Brighouse's over 100-year-old script.

Quotidian Theatre Company Presents Victorian Rom-Com HOBSON'S CHOICE
by Stephi Wild - Jan 15, 2018

Quotidian Theatre Company starts 2018 off right with the antidote to winter's cold: the heartwarming romantic comedy Hobson's Choice opening right around Valentine's Day.

BWW Review: CLARA BOW: BECOMING 'IT' BY LIVEARTDC at Capital Fringe
by Jenny Minich - Jul 11, 2017

LiveArtDC is unpredictable; grassroots theatre at its best. Clara Bow: Becoming 'It' is their Capital Fringe Festival 2017 offering.