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What did our critic think of QUIET! THREE LADIES LAUGHING at Crystal Theatre?

Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Primary Trust, packs a great deal of power about loss, loneliness, courage, and connecting with people.

Music Theatre of Connecticut’s 39th season closes with Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 The Musical, a fun, energetic show that closely follows the story of the 1980 hit movie.

What did our critic think of THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY at Westport Community Theatre?

Robert Hawkins’s Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing! is here again! Three years ago, the play was produced as a rehearsed concert-reading at New Canaan Town Players Stage II and it’s back by popular demand as a full production in the 232-seat Crystal Theatre in Norwalk from April 30th to May 3rd.

Westport Country Playhouse will present Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Primary Trust. The production will be directed by Logan Vaughn and feature a cast led by Alphonso Walker Jr. The play explores themes of isolation, healing, and connection in a changing world.

What did our critic think of THE IRISH ... AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY at Music Theatre Of Connecticut?

To Fairfield County theater goers, Kate Morton is a performer whose work they already know. The rest of Connecticut BroadwayWorld readers will soon get their chance to discover her when she stars in Legally Blonde: The Musical at The Klein in Bridgeport in March.

What did our critic think of ASSASSINS at Brookfield Theatre?

If you love Broadway songs and Big Band music, you’re in for an amazing time with “Big Band Broadway,” starring Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte at the Westport Country Playhouse for five performances.

Connecticut has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to theater, and there is something for everyone at every level, price point, and every interest. Greenheart Productions, newly formed by Andrea Lynn Green and Susan Jacobson, is starting off with a bold first offering.

What did our critic think of CONSCIENCE at Westport Community Theatre?

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to dive straight into the Christmas season. What better way to do that than with A Sherlock Carol, back for its third production at the Westport County Playhouse.

You don’t have to know the first thing about golf or even like it about it to enjoy Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway, now playing at Connecticut Music Theatre.

Believe it or not, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is being presented for the first time at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Learn more about Requiem For a Bantamweight will be performed as a Scripts on Tap on November 3 at the Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford as. Requiem For a Bantamweight is produced and directed by Lynn Colatrella.

There’s nothing more exciting for serious theater lovers than to see new original plays. After last summer’s successful Broadway Bound Summer Festival, the creative team of the Theatre Artists Workship will present the plays on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 and Sunday, November 2 at 2:00. Here are the new shows.

A.C.T. of CT opened its 2025-2026 season with Almost Famous: The Musical in a masterful production. Long-time patrons of A.C.T. know they will get total professionalism from the cast and creative crew, but this production of Almost Famous has something extra. A.C.T.’s artistic director and director of this production, Daniel C. Levine, worked with Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitts on the revised book and score, which will be the new licensed version of Almost Famous going forward.

There probably isn’t a theatergoer who hasn’t already seen Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.

What did our critic think of REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT at Crystal Theatre? Rod Serling’s classic play, Requiem for A Heavyweight, well, packs a punch in Crystal Theatre’s production, now running through October 19. Yes, the pun was intended, but the play is perhaps even more powerful now than it was when Serling wrote it as a teleplay nearly 70 years ago