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Hartford Stage welcomes back theatergoers with ‘a different experience than any show we’ve done...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Sept. 17, Hartford Stage is opening its doors for theater, music, dancing and much more — and the season hasn’t even begun yet. Saturday’s event is an open house with four hours of events ...
Hartford Stage’s Melia Bensussen appointed artistic director of National Playwrights Conference
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMelia Bensussen is now the artistic director of two major Connecticut theater institutions. On Thursday, she was named the new artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference at the ...
Hartford Stage’s Rachel Alderman named associate artistic director at Long Wharf Theatre
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRachel Alderman is leaving Hartford Stage, where she’s been involved in shows for over a decade, to become the new associate artistic director at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. There has not ...
Theater review: Hartford Stage’s ‘The Art of Burning’ a hot take on gender issues
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“The Art of Burning” seems like an unassuming, vaguely comical break-up play. It quickly flames into something much deeper and wilder and greater. Kate Snodgrass’ new play is getting a premiere ...
Theater review: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ moves from parodic to romantic at Hartford Stage
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIt’s Hartford Stage’s turn to stage Kate Hamill’s very popular adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” and this may be the most ostentatious one yet. The show, directed by Tatyana-Marie ...
How Hartford Stage, Long Wharf joined regional theaters throughout the U.S. to support fired fellow...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Ken-Matt Martin was fired from his job as artistic director of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre, other theater leaders found a novel way of expressing their outrage. They have commissioned ...
It’s gala season as CT theaters throw fundraisers featuring fabulous stars and open bars
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIt’s gala season for Connecticut’s theaters. Many of the state’s regional theaters (ones that produce their own plays and musicals like Hartford Stage or the Long Wharf Theatre) and “presenting ...
There is much ado about Shakespeare in CT this summer
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWatching a William Shakespeare play is as big an outdoor summertime activity in Connecticut as swimming or hiking. Some of the state’s summer Shakespeare companies have been around for 30 years ...
A CT actress got her start here. She now stars in Aloha Heart, newest Hallmark movie
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA budding actress who became a TikTok sensation along the way has landed her biggest feature film role yet, portraying a nervous bride in “Aloha Heart,” a soon to be released original Hallmark ...
TheaterWorks Hartford wins Obie Award for ‘Russian Troll Farm’
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTheaterWorks Hartford’s politically charged 2020 virtual theater production “Russian Troll Farm” has won an Obie Award, one of the highest American theater honors. The dark comedy by Sarah Gancher ...