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The Huntington announces its 2022-2023 season, featuring 8 shows including 2 jubilant new musicals, 3 world premiere plays, one recent Broadway hit, and an outstanding revival of an August Wilson classic.   

Hartford Stage has announced director Christopher D. Betts as the Joyce C. Willis Fellow through the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons, made possible through a generous grant from The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.

Four time Academy Award-nominated actor and director Marsha Mason will co-direct and star in Hartford Stage's forthcoming production of Neil Simon's classic comedy Lost in Yonkers. 

Hartford Stage announced today the artistic team for their upcoming production of Dishwasher Dreams, written and performed by Alaudin Ullah and directed by Chay Yew. This timely comedy, which is presented in association with Writers Theatre and features live tabla music composed and performed by percussionist Avirodh Sharma, runs at the Tony Award-winning theatre in downtown Hartford starting February 24 through March 20, 2022.

On Monday, December 6, Situation, in collaboration with The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, invites the next generation of changemakers to peek behind the curtain of Broadway’s vast job market in this special, virtual “open house” for college students, recent grads, and aspiring young professionals.

Hartford Stage rings in the holiday season with a new production of the perennial holiday film classic, It's a Wonderful Life. In this stage adaptation, Connecticut playwright Joe Landry has refashioned the 1946 Jimmy Stewart movie into a play reminiscent of the Golden Age of Radio.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the theatrical union that unites, empowers, and protects professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States, announced the results of its 2021 Executive Board election at its Annual Membership Meeting on November 15, 2021. 

On Thursday, October 28, Situation, in collaboration with The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, invites the next generation of changemakers to peek behind the curtain of Broadway’s vast job market in this special, virtual “open house” for college students, recent grads, and aspiring young professionals.

Hartford Stage announced today that the musical Kiss My Aztec! will be the final production of the Tony Award-winning regional theatre's 2021-2022 season, running June 2 through 26, 2022. This hilarious and irreverent new musical features a book by Tony and Emmy Award-winner John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone, music by Benjamin Velez, and lyrics by David Kamp, Velez, and Leguizamo.

RED BULL THEATER has announced the cast for the New York premiere of a brand new English-language translation of Sor Juana’s play Amor es más laberinto – Love is the Greater Labyrinth: Oge Agulué, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Cecil Baldwin, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Carson Elrod, Ryan Garbayo, Sam Lilja, Juliana Aidén Martinez, Ismenia Mendes & more.

Most widely recognized by her inspiring presence and performance in the Broadway documentary Every Little Step, triple-threat and three-time Helen Hayes Award winner Natascia Diaz has released the first episode in her new online talk series, 'TashTalk.'

Hartford Stage, raises the curtain on its 2021-2022 season with Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill's only full-length comedy, Ah, Wilderness!

RED BULL THEATER today announced that the 2021-’22 Season will kick off with HISPANIC GOLDEN AGE CLASSICS | SOR JUANA, a four-part series of online events that will focus on Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, the playwright, poet, and nun who was writing in Mexico in the latter half of the 17th Century. 

The $1,000,000 Challenge match was a major component of the $6 million Raise the Curtain fundraising campaign established to sustain Hartford Stage during the pandemic and provide a foundation for reopening this Fall.

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced its continuation of the Walking Plays audio series titled, The Greenway Series.

Hartford Stage has released the full schedule for the American Voices New Play Festival, running June 23-26, 2021. Get full details.

Today, Hartford Stage announced plans to reopen the theatre to in-person performances for the 2021/2022 Season beginning in October 2021. The theater will produce a 5-play Mainstage season plus a holiday performance. All performances will be held at Hartford Stage on 50 Church Street in Hartford.

Boston Ballet has announced that its production of The Nutcracker will return this November. The production will kick off the holidays, running November 26-December 26 at the Citizens Bank Opera House.

Hartford Stage has announced the launch of the inaugural American Voices New Play Festival. The virtual festival will feature three new American plays by writers with Latinx and Hispanic roots.

The Huntington announces the launch of four additional titles to its series of short audio plays by local playwrights entitled Dream Boston.