Kevin Connors News

Ohio University Lancaster Theatre, The Lancaster Playhouse, and Garret Players presents 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.' Adapted by Joe Landry, Music by Kevin Connors. PLOT: This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve. It's a Wonderful Life is based on the story, 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern, Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. TICKETS, $10. https://commerce.cashnet.com/oul-theatre

The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage will continue their 36th MainStage Season with the hilarious Tony Award winning play, Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig. Lend Me A Tenor will run three weekends from November 4th – 20th, 2022 with performances on Fridays & Saturday at 8pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm.

Director Kevin Connors (also the Artistic Director of MTC) has worked wonders adapting big Broadway shows to fit, literally and artistically, into his intimate theatre space, which has the audience on three sides of a postage stamp stage. His GYPSY was superb, as he understood that this is essentially a mother-daughter drama; and he created what would seem the impossible in such a space with a beautiful production of RAGTIME. He has done the same with others.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional award-winning theatre company opens their 36th MainStage Season with Sunset Boulevard.

Still, ain't we got fun? From September 22 to October 1, 2022, at the Legacy Theatre in Branford, F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved classic comes to life as a 1940s radio broadcast in The Great Gatsby: A Live Radio Play!

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Burry Fredrik Foundation championing the growth and continuing health of Connecticut's non-profit professional producing theaters. Since 2012, the Foundation has granted over $3 million to a dozen Connecticut theaters with a proven track record of accomplishments. In 2022, $500,000 will be awarded. The Foundation was established by Burry Fredrik (1925-2012), a Tony Award-winning producer and noted director, who lived in Weston, CT.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional award-winning theatre company concludes its 35th Anniversary Season with the rockin' and rollin' musical, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story by Alan James with music and lyrics by Buddy Holly.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional, award-winning theatre company continues its 35th Anniversary Season with the one-woman comedy, Who’s Holiday!, written by Matthew Lombardo.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional, award-winning theatre company continues its 35th Anniversary Season with the one-woman comedy, Who's Holiday!, written by Matthew Lombardo. The play re-introduces audiences to Cindy Lou Who many years after How The Grinch Stole Christmas as she drinks, jokes, and stumbles her way through the rocky retelling of her life since then.

After an inaugural season full of uplifting, intriguing, and inspiring productions and performances, Legacy Theatre is thrilled to finally announce their 2022 season. The company will present a 'series of series' in the new year. Four productions will take the stage as part of Legacy's 2022 Mainstage Series, a lineup that already has audiences excited!

Herstory Theater will bring A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A LIVE RADIO PLAY by Joe Landry with music by Kevin Connors to Little Theater of Manchester on Thursday, December 9, at 7:30 pm.

As part of their 49th holiday season in Barboursville, Four County Players and Orange County Virginia Tourism are proud to present IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY adapted by Joe Landry, opening November 19th on the Mainstage. 'It's A Wonderful Life' is based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional, award-winning theatre company continues its 35th Anniversary Season with the musical, Falsettoland, written by William Finn and James Lapine with music and lyrics by William Finn.

The story of an A-list star twice over at the Music Theatre of Connecticut's MainStage.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage will begin its 35th Anniversary Season with an exhilarating and inspiring musical biography, Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical, written by Janet Yates Vogt & Mark Friedman.

Moonstone Connections episode 8 is now available. The episode features Executive Artistic Director of the Music Theatre of Connecticut, Kevin Connors.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage will present Tru, a witty and down-to-earth one-man play about one of America's most brilliant writers, Truman Capote. The show allows for audiences to experience Capote's over-the-top public personality while also pulling back the curtain and revealing the toll his life and work took on him.

Music Theatre of Connecticut (MTC), currently in its 34th season, presents a fundraiser event with a virtual reading of, Stage Fright: An Interactive Musical Thriller on March 18th at 7pm and March 19th & 20th at 8pm.

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's professional award-winning theatre company continues its 34th Season with Becoming Dr. Ruth, the true, lesser known story of Dr Ruth Westheimer, America's most famous sex therapist.