TheaterWorks

Chris Rock back in 'Mother.... With the Hat' at L.A. Theatre Works

2012-10-26 12:07:00

Chris Rock will reprise his Broadway debut role in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Mother.... With the Hat" for six performances at L.A. Theatre Works, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The production will be a radio theater staging recorded in front of live audiences for...

Broadway's 'Memphis' coming to a movie theater near you

2011-01-13 16:32:52

What's really 'new' at New Musicals fest?

2008-07-01 00:00:00

As Southern California's inaugural Festival of New American Musicals winds to a close, some observers and participants are raising this question: How, exactly, does this festival define the word "new"? The wide-ranging event -- which began May 1 and...

'My Antonia' at Rubicon Theatre

2008-05-19 00:00:00

Adapt a classic novel for the stage and you're bound to come up with a few memorable moments of drama. It's like buying an artistic insurance policy -- no matter how badly your adaptation fails, the original novel is there to save you from total disaster....

Tim Altmeyer, Erika Rolfsrud, Cast in TheaterWorks' "Time Stands Still"

2013-05-22 14:46:00

Tim Alymeyer, who appeared in TheaterWorks’ “Three Days of Rain” and “Take Me Out,” is returning to the Hartford theater for Donald Margulies’ “Time Stands Still,” staged by artistic director Rob Ruggiero....

Knitting Groups To 'Knit Hit' Hartford On Sunday

2013-05-17 06:56:00

Several locations in downtown Hartford will be “Knit Hit” on Sunday, May 19, as the Greater Hartford Arts Council, knitting groups and fiber artists go “guerilla knitting” in a series of site-specific yarn installations all over...

Somerset County Where to Go for May 16

2013-05-15 12:50:00

Strawberry Festival A Strawberry Festival will start at 4 p.m. May 18 at the Shade Creek Ridge Church of the Brethren,1623 Ridge Road, Hooversville. Free will donations will be accepted. The proceeds will benefit the orphans in Honduras program. Fireman&...

Cheshire's Jonny Orsini To Receive Dorothy Loudon Award

2013-05-09 11:55:00

Cheshire’s Jonny Orsini, who is featured opposite Nathan Lane in Broadway’s “The Nance,” won TheaterWorld’s Dorothy Loudon Award for excellence in the theater on or off-Broadway. TheaterWorld annually honors debut...

Dina Silva Named Director Of Development At Hartford's TheaterWorks

2013-05-09 10:17:00

Hartford’s TheaterWorks has its first full-time development director Dina Silva has more than 10 years experience ten years of fundraising experience, previously working a development manager at both the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the...

A Heart To Heart With Stefanie Powers Of 'Looped'

2013-05-08 11:03:16

"There are lots of decisions you make that, if you think twice, you won't do them," says Stefanie Powers. The actress, best known for the popular TV detective series "Hart to Hart" with Robert Wagner, can't say exactly why she said yes when she got the...

Somerset County Where to Go for May 9

2013-05-08 11:02:00

Fireman’s Adventure Race The Fireman’s Adventure Race June 1, includes a 5 kilometer walk/run through town that will also include some off-pavement terrain. The start and finish for the 5k will be at the Rockwood Fire Department. Breakfast...

$9 Million Pulp-Fiction Illustration Collection Donated To NBMAA

2013-05-08 16:36:52

The days of pulp fiction are long past, but the bold artwork that graced the covers of work by struggling writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ray Bradbuy has found a home at the New Britain Museum of American Art. The museum has been...

TheaterWorks

2013-04-03 09:03:00

TheaterWorks duplicated in exact detail the motel room where Martin Luther King stayed the night before he was assassinated. Jamil A.C. Mangan plays King, and Courtney Thomas plays the maid, Camae.

2013-03-25 00:00:00

Yes, 'Almost, Maine" is a romantic comedy, but a very unsentimental one, says its playwright John Cariani. It plays at TheaterWorks in Hartford at 7:30 p.m. on Valentine's Day and runs through March 3.

2013-01-24 00:00:00