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Two Trains Running
1/23 - 2/16/2025


Two Trains Running, directed by Gilbert McCauley, explores life in a Pittsburgh diner during the Civil Rights Era. This production highlights the stories of the ...


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Cast & Creative Team Set for TWO TRAINS RUNNING at Hartford Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 13, 2024

Hartford Stage has revealed the artistic team for its upcoming production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running directed by Gilbert McCauley. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets. ...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns To Hartford Stage This Season


by A.A. Cristi - October 28, 2024

Experience the return of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Hartford Stage this season, offering a classic holiday experience for audiences. ...

Hartford Stage Launches $20M Set The Stage Fundraising Campaign


by Stephi Wild - October 15, 2024

Hartford Stage has announced that their Set the Stage fundraising campaign has surpassed $9 million dollars thanks to the early support from Hartford's corporate community and generous individuals. ...

Hartford Stage Launches $20M Fundraising Campaign


by Blair Ingenthron - October 13, 2024

According to Harvard Business Journal, Hartford Stage has launched a $20M fundraising campaign, which has already raised more than $9M....

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Opens At Hartford Stage In October


by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2024

Hartford Stage has announced the opening of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE on October 18. ...

Hartford Stage Announces DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Cast and Creative Team


by A.A. Cristi - September 17, 2024

Hartford Stage announced the cast for DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, running from Oct. 10 to Nov. 3. ...

Hartford Stage Teen Company to Perform URINETOWN


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 01, 2024

Hartford Stage’s 2024 Summer Studio program will culminate in a performance by their Teen Company of Urinetown, The Musical. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Hartford Stage Presents BREAKDANCING SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING


by A.A. Cristi - July 12, 2024

Hartford Stage has announced unique Breakdancing Shakespeare performances, blending classic Shakespearean plays with modern breakdancing....

Cast and Creative Team Set For Hartford Stage's 2.5 MINUTE RIDE


by Stephi Wild - May 06, 2024

Hartford Stage announced the cast and creative team for the Tony Award-winning theatre's 60th anniversary season finale, Lisa Kron's 2.5 Minute Ride. ...

Marsha Mason and Michael Gaston to Star in ALL MY SONS at Hartford Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 14, 2024

Marsha Mason and Michael Gaston will lead the cast of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Hartford Stage. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets....

Past Shows

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
10/10 - 11/3/2024


Hartford Stage presents Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a psychological thriller adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella. The production features Nathan Darrow ...

Urinetown
8/9 - 8/10/2024


Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of ...

2.5 Minute Ride
2.5 Minute Ride
5/30 - 6/23/2024


Lisa is making a video about her dad. She’s capturing the big and small moments: from the annual amusement park family vacations to the father-daughter ...

The Hot Wing King
The Hot Wing King
2/29 - 3/24/2024


This Pulitzer Prize-winning play celebrates the families we make and the risks we take. With only days to go until Memphis’s annual “Hot Wang Festival,” ...

Trouble in Mind
Trouble in Mind
5/25 - 6/18/2023


A 1950s landmark play that still rings true today.  This dramatic satire tracks the nuanced, simmering tension between the artists of a biracial company working on a Broadway-bound ...

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale


An awe-filled fable of fury and forgiveness.  King Leontes, his pregnant wife Hermione, and their young son seem like a perfect royal family — until ...

The Art of Burning
The Art of Burning
3/2 - 3/26/2023


An inspired new comedy exploring the love, rage, and responsibility that go with marriage and parenting in America.   Mid-negotiation, modernist painter Patricia changes the ...

Espejos: Clean
Espejos: Clean
1/12 - 2/5/2023


A groundbreaking bilingual tour de force. Una obra bilingüe que trasciende fronteras. Two worlds collide one evening at a high-end resort in Mexico, igniting a ...

A Community Carol
12/17 - 12/21/2020


Hartford Stage has announced a new digital holiday offering, A Community Carol - a virtual storytelling experience created in partnership with our beloved returning Christmas ...

Legally Blonde
8/7 - 8/8/2020


Elle Woods, a bubbly sorority girl known for her love of pink and all things fashion, isn't taken seriously. But when her boyfriend Warner dumps ...

The King's Speech
The King's Speech
3/19 - 4/19/2020


With international war looming, Englands King George V dies, leaving the Crown and the crisis to his youngest son Bertie. Shy, fragile and afflicted with ...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
2/13 - 3/14/2020


By Charlotte BrontAdapted and Directed by Elizabeth WilliamsonOrphaned as a child, Jane takes a position working as governess at Thornfield Hall for the brooding Edward ...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
2/13 - 3/14/2020


Orphaned as a child, Jane takes a position working as governess at Thornfield Hall for the brooding Edward Rochester. The strong-willed Jane falls in love ...

Pike St.
1/9 - 2/2/2020


Nilaja Sun; dir: Ron Russell. Main Stage:...

Pike St.
Pike St.
1/9 - 2/2/2020


In Pike St., Nilaja Sun vividly brings to life three generations of a Puerto Rican family on New Yorks Lower East Side. Evelyn, a mother ...

A Christmas Carol-A Ghost Story of Christmas


The magic of Charles Dickens heartwarming classic returns for its 22nd season. Come see Connecticuts favorite family holiday tradition and spend some time with Ebenezer ...

The Pansy Craze


The Pansy Craze is a musical about female impersonators who lived and performed during the Jazz Age of 1920s America. (These gals sashayed way before ...

Cry it Out
Cry it Out
10/24 - 11/17/2019


An ode to modern-day motherhood, Cry it Out peers into the lives of four new parents with nothing in common except sleep deprivation, unreliable childcare ...

Quixote Nuevo
Quixote Nuevo
9/19 - 10/13/2019


Quixote Nuevo is set in the fictional modern-day border town of La Plancha, Texas, where Don Quixote loses himself in stories of chivalrous escapades and ...

Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin


Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin is the musical story of an immigrant boy who gave a country its voice. Reflecting upon Berlin's humble beginnings as ...

The Flamingo Kid
5/9 - 6/9/2019


Hartford Stage: David Goodale, Robert Goodale; dir: Sean Foley....

Detroit '67
2/14 - 3/10/2019


Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....

The Engagement Party
1/10 - 2/3/2019


Hartford Stage: Samuel Baum; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

Henry V
10/11 - 11/11/2018


William Shakespeare; dir: Elizabeth Williamson....


Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but ...

Feeding the Dragon
1/11 - 2/4/2018


Sharon Washington. World Premiere...

Seder
10/19 - 11/12/2017


Sarah Gancher; dir: Elizabeth Williamson. World Premiere...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
9/7 - 10/8/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

Our Great Tchaikovsky
8/19 - 8/27/2017


Hershey Felder; book: Hershey Felder; dir: Trevor Hay. Lyceum Stage Theatre:...

Heartbreak House
5/11 - 6/11/2017


George Bernard Shaw; dir: Darko Tresnjak....


One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of Leonard Pelkey, a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant fourteen-year-old ...

Cloud 9
2/23 - 3/19/2017


Caryl Churchill; dir: Elizabeth Williamson....

The Comedy of Errors
1/12 - 2/12/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Darko Tresnjak....


August Wilson; dir: Jade King Carroll....


August Wilson; dir: Jade King Carroll....

Queens for a Year
9/8 - 10/2/2016


T.D. Mitchell; dir: Lucie Tiberghien....

Queens for a Year
9/8 - 10/2/2016


T.D. Mitchell; dir: Lucie Tiberghien....

Anastasia
5/12 - 6/12/2016


book: Terrence McNally; lyrics: Lynn Ahrens; music: Stephen Flaherty; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

Having Our Say
3/21 - 4/24/2016


Emily Mann; dir: Jade King Carroll....

Romeo & Juliet
2/11 - 3/20/2016


This tragedy tells the story of two “star-cross'd lovers” from feuding families. During a party, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. They meet secretly until ...

The Body of an American
1/7 - 1/31/2016


Dan O'Brien; dir: Jo Bonney....

Rear Window
10/22 - 11/15/2015


adapt: Keith Reddin; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

An Opening in Time
9/17 - 10/11/2015


Christopher Shinn; dir: Oliver Butler. World Premiere...

Kiss Me Kate
5/15 - 6/7/2015


book: Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack; lyrics: Cole Porter; music: Cole Porter; dir: Darko Tresnjak....


ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents The Pianist of Willesden Lane. Set in Vienna in 1938 and London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden ...

Reverberation
2/19 - 3/15/2015


Matthew Lopez; dir: Maxwell Williams....

Private Lives
1/8 - 2/1/2015


Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ...

Somewhere
4/3 - 4/27/2014


A World Premiere play from Old Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez, whose The Whipping Man was a smash hit at the Globe and then New York. ...

A Song at Twilight
2/20 - 3/16/2014


Main Stage: - Noel Coward....

The Underpants
1/9 - 2/2/2014


Steve Martin; dir: Gordon Edelstein....


adapt: Michael Wilson; dir: Maxwell Williams....

La Dispute
La Dispute
9/12 - 11/10/2013


adapt: Darko Tresnjak, Elizabeth Williamson; trans: Elizabeth Williamson; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

Macbeth
Macbeth
9/14 - 11/10/2013


dir: Darko Tresnjak....

The Tempest
The Tempest
5/18 - 6/3/2012


By William Shakespeare | Directed by Darko Tresnjak One storm rages on the sea. Another storm rages inside of a man. Will Prospero, the banished ...

Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle
4/5 - 4/29/2012


Gillian is a smart and sultry witch who decides to cast a love spell on her upstairs neighbor. He is totally bewitched, and falls deeply ...

The Whipping Man
The Whipping Man
2/23 - 3/18/2012


By Matthew Lopez Directed by Hana S. Sharif In the aftermath of the Civil War, three men are at a crossroads—a Jewish Confederate soldier who ...

Boeing-Boeing
Boeing-Boeing
1/12 - 2/5/2012


The high-flying, Tony Award-winning comedy that had London and Broadway audiences airborne with laughter is taking off at Hartford Stage. Bernard, a successful American architect ...

Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful
10/20 - 11/14/2011


Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that ...

Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful
10/20 - 11/13/2011


Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that ...

The Crucible
The Crucible
9/1 - 10/8/2011


Presented for the first time at Hartford Stage, Arthur Miller's gripping drama of a community stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a ...

The Crucible
The Crucible
9/1 - 9/25/2011


Presented for the first time at Hartford Stage, Arthur Miller’s gripping drama of a community stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a ...

I Wish You Love
I Wish You Love
7/6 - 7/24/2011


On television and radio, 1957 America was entertained by the sweet sounds and warm personality of Nat “King” Cole. His carefully manicured image distracted an ...

Fräuline Maria
Fräuline Maria
6/15 - 6/26/2011


Fräulein Maria celebrates Rodgers & Hammerstein’s timeless songs from The Sound of Music as re-imagined by acclaimed choreographer Doug Elkins. Set to the 1965 movie ...

Gem of the Ocean
Gem of the Ocean
5/12 - 6/5/2011


Set in 1904, this tale of a spiritually tormented young man is the first installment of Wilson's decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle of the 20th century, The ...

Videos


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SIX (Boleyn Tour) in Connecticut SIX (Boleyn Tour)
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts [Mortensen Hall] (12/31 - 1/5)
Come From Away (Non-Equity) in Connecticut Come From Away (Non-Equity)
Palace Theater (4/4 - 4/5)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde in Connecticut THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde
Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny Park (4/25 - 5/11)
Jesus Christ Superstar in Connecticut Jesus Christ Superstar
TheatreWorks New Milford (12/6 - 12/28)
The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical in Connecticut The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical
Playhouse on Park (12/4 - 12/22)
The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: An evening of Songs & Stories featuring Aztec Two-Step 2.0 with narration by Tony Traguardo in Connecticut The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: An evening of Songs & Stories featuring Aztec Two-Step 2.0 with narration by Tony Traguardo
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (2/14 - 2/14)
Misfit America in Connecticut Misfit America
Pa'lante Theater (6/6 - 6/15)
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