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Voting is NOW OPEN and the first votes are in for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. opens it's new holiday musical, a?oeThe Gingerbreads of Broadwaya?? on Friday, December 6 at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford. The family-friendly production will play though December 22nd.

When I first saw Boston Lyric Opera's promotional images for Fellow Travelers, a new opera by Greg Pierce and Gregory Spears, in a production that premiered at Minnesota Opera, I was incredibly wary. Photos of conventionally attractive white men in their boxers clinging to each other in a fit of passion next to images of an un-subtle cross forebodingly hung on a stage used to advertise an opera (the art form relied upon to convey narratives of lovers separated by tuberculosis, conquests by Valkyries, and murders outside of bullfights) feels like an equation for overbearing reminders of overwrought queer storytelling tropes. My assumptions were proven resoundingly incorrect by what may well be the classiest gay porn to mask itself as high art since the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was completed in 1541. Based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel of the same name, Fellow Travelers tells the story of an ill-timed affair between government employees Timothy Laughlin and Hawkins Fuller during the 1953 Lavender Scare, in which Eisenhower's Executive Order 10450 required the firing of over 5,000 queer, ostensibly queer, or queer-adjacent government workers.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. has opened it's 2019-20 season with the return of it's popular family musical, “The Wicked Witch of the West: Kansas or Bust” at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford with performances through October 27th.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. opens it's 2019-20 season with the return of it's popular family musical, a?oeThe Wicked Witch of the West: Kansas or Busta?? on Friday, October 18 at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford.

HEARTBEAT OPERA announces its sixth season, featuring Heartbeat's hottest Drag Extravaganza yet with designer-extraordinaire Miodrag Guberinic riffing on the theme of Mother Earth; and two operatic masterpieces, reimagined, boldly staged, trimmed down, and re-orchestrated: Weber's DER FREISCH?oeTZ and Verdi's MACBETH (retitled LADY M). 

Pantochino Summer Teen Theatre will present the musical a?oeCry-Babya?? at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) in Downtown Milford for three performances, August 9-11th.

Jacob's Pillow presents the highly-anticipated world premiere of THE DAY, featuring world renowned cellist Maya Beiser and legendary dancer Wendy Whelan with choreography by the groundbreaking postmodern dance artist Lucinda Childs and music by Pulitzer Prize-winning David Lang in the Doris Duke Theatre, July 31-Aug 4. Co-commissioned by Jacob's Pillow, the multidisciplinary work explores memory, life's journey, resilience, and survival of the soul through the shared language of music and dance. 

Pantochino Productions Inc. original musical, "The Waffle House Five" continues performance at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford. The show continues through May 19.

Pantochino Productions Inc. presents it's original musical, "The Waffle House Five" opening April 26 at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford. The show continues through May 19.

Trinity Rep will continue its 2018-19 Season with the perennially-popular Little Shop of Horrors an award-winning musical that blends doo-wop, rock, and Motown in a totally twisted production about what lengths we are willing to go to when we are down on our luck.

In Sarah Ruhl's whimsical and hysterical play, 'How to Transcend a Happy Marriage,' two married couples explore polyamory and learn a thing or two about human desire and the sustainability of their own relationships.

With shows such as Robert Askins' Hand to God, Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, Ibsen's Peer Gynt, and now Sarah Ruhl's How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Black Box Performing Arts Center is quickly making a name for itself as the area's premiere destination for immersive and cutting-edge plays. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage is the second main stage show of 2019, following the NJ premiere of Significant Other by Joshua Harmon.

With shows such as Robert Askins' Hand to God, Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, Ibsen's Peer Gynt, and now Sarah Ruhl's How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Black Box Performing Arts Center is quickly making a name for itself as the area's premiere destination for immersive and cutting-edge plays. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage is the second main stage show of 2019, following the NJ premiere of Significant Other by Joshua Harmon.

With shows such as Robert Askins' Hand to God, Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, Ibsen's Peer Gynt, and now Sarah Ruhl's How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Black Box Performing Arts Center is quickly making a name for itself as the area's premiere destination for immersive and cutting-edge plays. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage is the second main stage show of 2019, following the NJ premiere of Significant Other by Joshua Harmon.

Pantochino Teen Theatre has added an additional performance of it's upcoming "Bubble Boy, The Musical" at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) in Downtown Milford. An 8pm performance has been added for Saturday, February 23rd by popular demand.

We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and voted on by you - the local theatergoers!

It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

Pantochino Productions Inc. continues it's original holiday musical, "Glitz! The Little Miss Christmas Pageant Musical" at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) on Railroad Avenue in Downtown Milford on stage now through December 23.