The show: "The Cottage" at the Hayes Theatre (formerly the Helen Hayes Theatre) on Broadway What makes it special?: It's a new comedy and that's been a too-rare occurance on Broadway. Comed…
Post-pandemic audiences are returning in various degrees to Connecticut's largest presenting houses " The Bushnell in Hartford, Palace Theater in Waterbury and Shubert Theatre in New Haven. …
The show: "Here You Come Again" at the Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT. What makes it special?: It's a presentation of a show that's played a few times around the cou…
Yogi Berra said the future ain't what it used to be. We know how he feels. The Broadway arrival of the West End hit "Back to the Future" continues the march of Hollywood brand extensions to …
The show: "Summer Stock" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Ct. …
Amid the chaos of our great political and cultural divides, there is still one event that manages to unite people with the Ambien of sweet nostalgia, the calming embrace of family heritage a…
The show: "Days of Wine and Roses" at the Atlantic Theater Company …
Godrey Simmons, Artistic Director of Hartbeat Ensemble. and Bowdie. Simmons introduced Michael Price who then introduced animal; trrainer Bill Berloni who received the Tom Killen Award. All …
Here is my first interview with performance artist Taylor Mac. We talked in 2015 at The Study hotel in New Haven just prior to his show at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas that…
Photo by Frank Rizzo In 2015, I again interviewed Taylor Mac when he performed just one part of his legendary 24-hour maratho…
Sheldon Harnick, the great Broadway lyricist died earlier this month at the age of 99. Here is an interview I did with him from his Manhattan home in 2014 to advance a production off "Fiddle…
"To Kill a Mockingbird" For 65 years Richard Thomas has been a working actor, first making his Broadway debut when he was a se…
Enter Connecticut's waterfall wonderland and let your dreams take over. Take in the blurring cascades, the glistening moss, the summer leaves dotting the waters, the hypnotic swirls of an ed…
The show: "Gypsy" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam What makes it special?: It's the first time the classic musical from Broadway's Golden Age is being presented at the theater " whic…
There was Amethyst killing it on her first Lip Synch-For-Your-Life"and triumphing"after making the ultimate faux pas of wearing sneakers on the runway. Then there was Robin Fierce, trying to…
Look into their eyes, these tender young men of a century or two ago. In haunting vintage tintypes from the 1840s, secret snapshots taken in mirrors, clandestine shoots in bedrooms, narrow s…
The show: "White Girl in Danger" at the Tony Kiser Theater (305 West 43rd St.) in New York What makes it special?: The follow-up musical by Michael R. Jackson who won a Tony Award and a Pul…
Drag performances have been around the state for decades, but in the past few years the scene has flourished into a thriving business for performers, promoters and venues. For years the show…
After seeing nearly the full slate off Broadway shows this season, some thoughts on the Tony Award nominations that were announced on Tuesday: " She was robbed. I am shocked that Laura Linne…
The show: The Broadway musical "New York, New York" What makes it special?: Very loosely inspired from the 1977 Martin Scorsese film that starred Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro , this time…
Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. In "Summer, 1976," the new Broadwa…
All photos by Chelcie Parry The show: "Regretfully, So the Bird Are" at Playwrights Horizons by Julia Izumi, directed by Jenny Lo…
Photos by T. Charles Ericxkson The show: "The Coast Starlight" What makes it special: A new play by Keith Bunin. It also stars W…
In Aaron Sorkin's revised script for Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway production of "Camelot," the magic is missing " in more ways than one. The declared aim of the stage, TV and film w…
For more than two decades, New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas has brought theater, dance and music artists"as well as great thinkers and influencers"to the city from arou…