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Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 5:33 pm

There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home.
"Look, they don't break...

Absolutely 'Fabulous'

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 5:29 pm

In "The Fabulous Lipitones," a long-running singing group loses a member and has to scurry to find a fill-in in time for Nationals. Much comedy ensues - especially since this show is created by John Markus, who was the head writer for...

Saturday night live at Foxwoods, with Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller and Kevin Nealon

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Live! From Foxwoods! It's Saturday niiiiiiiiight!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

How could I, considering that Saturday at MGM Grand at Foxwoods, three of "Saturday Night Live's" alums team up for a night of stand-up.

Dana...

Groton's Kate MacCluggage stars in Hartford Stage's "Twelfth Night"

 May 18, 2013; Updated: 5:33 pm

Last time Kate MacCluggage starred in a show at Hartford Stage, it was 2012's romantic comedy "Bell, Book and Candle." And here's what the New York Times critic had to say about her turn as good witch Gillian: "As played by the...

Penn & Teller perform at MGM Grand at Foxwoods

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Timing is everything in magic - and, really, in all forms of entertainment.

So how perfectly synergistic that Penn & Teller are performing Saturday at MGM Grand at Foxwoods - just two weeks after Penn Jillette's team won a challenge...

Eastern Connecticut Ballet debuts "Ballerina Swan"

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

The facts: Eastern Connecticut Ballet gives the debut performance of "Ballerina Swan" Sunday at the Garde Arts Center.

The creators: Gloria Govrin, who is ECB's artistic director, choreographed "Ballerina Swan," based...

Fun time: George Lopez at MGM Grand at Foxwoods

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Comic George Lopez is everywhere.

Go to the bookstore and see a copy of his just-released "I'm Not Gonna Lie: And Other Lies You Tell When You Turn 50," a follow-up to his New York Times bestselling autobiography "Why You Crying: My Long,...

Garde welcomes Step Afrika!

 May 16, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Step by step: When Step Afrika! formed in 1994, it became the first professional company anywhere dedicated solely to stepping. Stepping, if you didn't know, is a percussive dance that began in African-American...

Eastern Connecticut Ballet debuts ‘Ballerina Swan’

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 5:13 pm

Eastern Connecticut Ballet's newest piece, "Ballerina Swan," has quite a lofty pedigree.

It's both adapted for the stage and based on a book written by celebrated former New York City Ballet soloists for whom the legendary George Balanchine...

Note to 'Don Giovanni' director: Never skip the chorus of demons

 May 11, 2013; Updated: 12:30 am

Friday night at the Garde, the Connecticut Lyric Opera ended its 10th season a performance that succeeded by riding the momentum of Mozart's long ensembles and weaving voices into the action while the music hurtles the plot forward.

Emerson Theater Collaborative presents 'Protest'

 May 10, 2013; Updated: 4:37 pm

In "The Protest of the Pharaoh's Daughter," a pharaoh's daughter struggles with her relationship with her father and his treatment of the Jews in ancient Egypt. The Emerson Theater Collaborative is performing this Amy Reifsnyder play at...

"The Fabulous Lipitones" opens at Norma Terris

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

John Markus might be best-known for his TV work. He was, after all, head writer for "The Cosby Show" and a writer/producer for "The Larry Sanders Show." But his latest creative enterprise is a little something for the stage.

It's the...

On script: The O'Neill's Young Playwrights Festival

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

The O'Neill's Young Playwrights Festival seems to just keep getting more popular.

This year, 142 scripts were submitted by local student writers. That's the largest number since the festival began eight years ago.

From those,...

Goodspeed begins 50th season with 'Good News!'

 May 7, 2013; Updated: 12:12 am

It's amazing to think that the musical "Good News!" opened on Broadway in 1927, just a couple of months before that little game-changer known as "Show Boat."

"Traces" takes acrobatics to new heights

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:25 pm

Performing in "Traces" is not for wimps.
During the 90-minute show, performers fire off mind-bogging acrobatics.
One guy suspends upsidedown on a pole, hanging on...

"Philco Blues" opens at Spirit of Broadway Theater

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:18 pm

It might sound like "Bridges of Madison County" ... mixed with a touch of "Love Letters" ... only involving a soap star.

But, truly, it's a concoction that's entirely its own.

"Philco Blues" - a musical by Jan Warner and Kathe...

Cashing in with "Other People's Money" at Ivoryton Playhouse

 April 30, 2013; Updated: 4:15 pm

Watching Larry the Liquidator scheme to take over a small-town company that still makes a physical product is both repulsive and fascinating in Jerry Sterner's "Other People's Money," directed by Maggie McGlone Jennings on the Ivoryton...

'Kinky Boots' gets a leading 13 Tony Award nods

 April 30, 2013; Updated: 10:13 am

The Cyndi Lauper-scored "Kinky Boots" has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import "Matilda: The Musical" close behind with 12.

Conn College talent scouts scour globe for Center Stage

 April 27, 2013; Updated: 12:17 am

Globe-trotting teams will recommend who they think the New London college should bring to America to perform later this year. Ultimately, six to eight ensembles from the three countries will be selected.

Art in Motion and Mystic Ballet

 April 25, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Looking ahead: This summer, Mystic Ballet will perform at the esteemed Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., and at an international ballet gala in South America. First, though, the group will stage those same works...

Stonington Players stage the comedy "An Ignorant Man"

 April 25, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

You want a little theatrical frisson, you put two opposites in close proximity. Say, for instance, a hard-driving female ad exec and a reclusive poet become neighbors in a New York co-op. Say, oh, I don't know, you throw into the mix a...

"Hair" at the Garde

 April 25, 2013; Updated: 2:23 pm

Flashback: "Hair" - about a gaggle of young folks who are all about pacificism and free love in Vietnam War-era America - plays the Garde Arts Center on Sunday.

Revival: The musical premiered four decades ago and was...

Young playwrights selected for festival

 April 22, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced five plays to be developed and presented during its eighth annual Young Playwrights Festival from May 10 to 12. The festival received 142 submissions this year; the highest number to date.

The...

O'Neill selects plays for NPC

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 5:37 pm

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced eight plays to be developed at the 2013 National Playwrights Conference.
They are: "The Solid Sand Below" by Martín Zimmerman; "Samsara" by Lauren...

Steven Wright deadpans it at Foxwoods

 April 18, 2013; Updated: 1:44 pm

Steven Wright's comedy is so distinctive that, for a while, one-liners attributed to him - but not actually by him - were popping up on the Internet.

Here are a few quirky observations that are, truly, by Wright:

"A lot of...

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