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Theater review: Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival offers entertaining comedy or tragedy
The 2024 Great Hartford Shakespeare Festival's presentations of "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew" mixes enthusiastic amateurs with some striking performances in the lead roles.
Get in the groove with a flurry of outdoor summer music festivals to close out July
As the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz ends, half a dozen other big Connecticut music festivals are ready to go from Black-Eyed & Bluesfest to Jam at the Dam to...
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‘The One Who’ offers a transformative outdoor theater experience that wants to soothe your soul
"The One Who," a spiritual, socially conscious outdoor theater experience from Marcella Trowbridge, has two performances at The Sanctuary in East Haddam on July 27.
It’s all the big things this week in CT from blink-182 to Phish to Jerry Seinfeld
The Courant's arts picks for July 21-27 include comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Vicki Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, blink-182, Sammy Hagar and Loverboy and Phish.
Colin Jost, Samara Joy, Michael Feinstein to perform at UConn’s Jorgensen Center this fall
UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs has announced its fall 2024 season of concerts, children's theater shows, comedy and more.
A new Cirque du Soleil holiday show is coming to the Oakdale Theatre this year
A new Christmas-themed Cirque du Soleil will play Nov. 29 through Dec. 8 at a venue the company has never visited before, the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford.
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Theater review: Playhouse on Park nails comedy, sentimentality of culture clash musical ‘The Prom’
"The Prom" is another strong summer musical choice for Playhouse on Park, and the final show of the theater’s 2023-24 season.
New musical comedy ‘Ask for the Moon’ brings director Darko Tresnjak back to a Connecticut stage
Three-actor, opera-loving musical comedy "Ask for the Moon" debuts at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester July 19 through Aug. 11.
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O.A.R. bassist uses voice to create conversations on mental health and methods to regain strength
When Benj Gershman picks up his bass to play with O.A.R. on July 21 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, you can see it as another jam but also as...
Theater review: Goodspeed’s ‘South Pacific’ highlights everyday folks in extraordinary situations
Director Chay Yew brings a special down-to-earth feel to Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1949 hit "South Pacific," at the Goodspeed Opera House through Aug. 11.