Connecticut Theatre Newsroom

Discover the nominees for the Stephen Sondheim Awards 2024. Celebrating the best in Broadway, stay updated on the leading talents in the theatre industry.

Westport Country Playhouse has announced its upcoming 94th theater season, from October 2024 through April 2025, featuring three Playhouse-produced plays, each running three weeks, and two shorter-run productions, including a holiday offering and a musical revue.

The Mark Twain House & Museum's free upcoming Trouble Begins lecture series event featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Percival Everett on his latest novel James has been moved to a larger location due to unprecedented demand. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Disney's Newsies Jr. will open Friday, May 10th at the Burton Leavitt Theartre. 

Goodspeed Musicals will welcomes Tony award-winning playwright, composer and lyricist Rupert Holmes for a special talkback. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Shakespeare on the Sound will celebrate its 28th summer season with a very unique production of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Sean Harris, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Playhouse on Park and renowned audition coach, will be holding a week-long acting intensive for high school students through Playhouse Theatre Academy this summer.

Between all the constant assignments and exams, it’s incredibly easy to feel a phenomenon known as burnout. Burnout is very common in college, especially towards the end of the semester. I have lots of personal experiences with burnout, both in high school and college. I feel varying degrees of unmotivation at times, although there are some days that are way worse than others. The worst of it typically occurs towards the end of the semester, a time when I’m mentally exhausted. Burnout can be hard to navigate when all you feel like doing is laying down and doing nothing, but there are some workarounds.

The Palace Theater presents its 20th Anniversary 2024-2025 Webster Bank Broadway Series, with six exciting titles.

Discover the summer 2024 lineup for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, featuring programs and performances from Grammy-winning musicians, authors, lecturers, and renowned theater companies.

Watch as the cast of A Complicated Woman at Goodspeed Musicals discusses the show! Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Join 'r kids Family Center as they present THE GOOD ADOPTEE at Cabaret on Main in East Haven. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Get ready to swing back in time as Ivoryton Playhouse has announced the upcoming production of Swingtime Canteen, the second show in its 2024 season.

A recent article in The New York Times reported that high school theater is suffering because some parents and town bigwigs are putting pressure on administrators not to produce plays that may offend some people. Some people, being strait-laced, narrow-minded people. Fortunately, Stamford is populated by highly educated, highly diverse people who are open to new things and new ideas, so when it comes to high school theater, almost anything goes, and it goes spectacularly.

On Friday, April 5, The Palace Theatre in Stamford welcomed award-winning country trio Lady A for the nonprofit's 12th Annual Gala. The Palace's largest annual fundraiser, the event raised $155,000 to support the organization and its arts education programs.

Catch the compelling IMMIGRANT STORIES – IN THEIR OWN WORDS featuring Hossna Samadi at the Palace Theater, Waterbury on June 1, 2024.

Join Broadway legend Bernadette Peters for an unforgettable night at the Westport Country Playhouse on May 19. Don't miss this special performance by one of Broadway's finest talents.

Rising Stars Performing Arts specializes in nurturing top-tier talent with our quadruple threat method: singing, acting, dance, and musicianship. Our nonprofit school offers year-round classes, workshops, and a college-bound program that's placed students in leading BFA MT programs nationwide.

Watch the cast of Goodspeed's The Mystery of Edwin Drood perform the show's opening number 'There You Are.' Goodspeed Musicals is presenting The Mystery of Edwin Drood as its first production of the 2024 season - now on stage through June 2nd in East Haddam, Connecticut.

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG as performed at Center Stage Theatre, in Shelton, CT, has the most spectacular set I have ever seen!  Director Betsy Kelso helps bring out the best in this amazing cast!  It is clear that the entire cast is having as wonderful a time performing their roles as the audience is having watching them perform!

Everly: The Music of the Everly Brothers has enterted its final week of performances at Ivoryton Playhouse. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Arthur Miller's All My Sons at Hartford Stage

THE BOOK OF MORMON has announced a lottery ticket policy in Waterbury, CT playing at the Palace Theater on April 26, April 27, and April 28. A limited number of tickets will be available at $25 each. 

Join Ari Axelrod at the Westport Country Playhouse on May 8 for a special celebration of Jewish Broadway. Experience a memorable night of music and culture.

Long Wharf Theatre has announced its 2024/2025 season, with the theme Building Our Future Together. The 60th anniversary season is the theatre's second under its innovative new production model of presenting works across Greater New Haven to strengthen our civic bonds with the entire community.  Learn more about the lineup here!