Living • Published Nov 14, 2024 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside notes and comments about Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Feb 01, 2024 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes And Comments About Connecticut And New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Dec 28, 2023 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes And Comments About Connecticut And New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Nov 30, 2023 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside notes and comments about Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Nov 22, 2023 07 am
By Karen Isaacs
Ivoryton Playhouse is rockin’. Getting a head start on the holiday season, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas is running through Sunday, Dec. 17. Since the original legend...
Living • Published Apr 20, 2023 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Apr 20, 2023 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
It was great to see an audience laughing and enjoying themselves at The Legend of Georgia McBride, now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, April 30.
At a time when some...
Living • Published Mar 30, 2023 07 am
By Karen Isaacs
Powerful, Emotionally Draining Production Deserved Standing Ovation It Received
Living • Published Mar 08, 2023 03 pm
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Jan 26, 2023 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
Innovation: Hartford Stage is presenting the New England premiere of Espejos: Clean, a bilingual play (English and Spanish) that will feature supertitles continuousl...
Living • Published Jan 12, 2023 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Dec 29, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Two on the Aisle: Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Dec 16, 2022 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
Tuneful Melodies, James Andreassi as Scrooge Stand Out
Living • Published Dec 16, 2022 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
But Maybe A Few Too Many Issues
Living • Published Dec 16, 2022 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
Time flies when you have an annual Christmas play that seems more enjoyable each year. It is hard to imagine that it was ten years ago that TheaterWorks Hartford premiere...
Living • Published Dec 16, 2022 08 am
By Karen Isaacs
It’s a Wonderful Life–A Radio Play has returned to Hartford Stage as its holiday offering through Saturday, Dec. 24. It is even better this year than last.
For the ra...
Living • Published Dec 01, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside notes and comments about Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Nov 30, 2022 07 am
By Karen Isaacs
The four Wonderettes are back at Ivoryton Playhouse throwing a fun-filled holiday party through Sunday, Dec. 18.
If you want holiday cheer – some audience participation a...
Living • Published Nov 23, 2022 07 am
By Karen Isaacs
Connecticut theater-goers have some new choices for holiday theater, concerts, and dance beyond the usual mixture of A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Nut...
Living • Published Nov 17, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Sep 22, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes and Comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Sep 08, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Hollywood Glamour: MTC (Music Theatre of Connecticut) in Norwalk is opening its season with Sunset Boulevard, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the iconic 195...
Living • Published Sep 01, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
The musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown offers enjoyable family entertainment, even though it has some limitations that includes pre-recorded music.
Does anyone not ...
Living • Published Aug 25, 2022 12 am
Inside Notes and Comments about Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Aug 17, 2022 07 am
By Karen Isaacs
Another red-headed, spunky orphan girl is on stage at Goodspeed now. The theater that originated Annie is now hosting the world premiere of Anne of Green Gables, through ...
Living • Published Aug 11, 2022 12 am
Inside Notes and comments About Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Jul 28, 2022 12 am
Inside Notes and Comments about Connecticut and New York Professional Theater
Features • Published Jun 16, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Awards Are Back: The Connecticut Critics Circle is holding an in-person award ceremony on Monday, June 27 at Long Wharf Theatre. The public is invited to attend the e...
Features • Published Jun 02, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Sondheim’s Sweeney: Madison Lyric Stage is presenting Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street from Thursday, June 8 through Sunday, June 19 in the new deluxe t...
Features • Published May 26, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Growing up, many girls spend hours imagining their perfect wedding and then, when the time comes, they spend hours putting that plan in place. But is any wedding perfect?...
Features • Published May 19, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Tony Award Nominees and Snubs: The big winners in total nominations for this year’s Tony Awards include the musicals MJ, Strange Loop, and, to the surprise of many, P...
Features • Published May 05, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Double Bill in Madison: Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River are opening the 10th anniversary season of Madison Lyric Stage. The Wei...
Features • Published Apr 28, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
All parents leave their marks on their children and grandchildren. For immigrant families, perhaps, these marks are sometimes bigger and more permanent.
Neil Simon explor...
Features • Published Apr 21, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
A Lasting Marriage: Branford’s Legacy Theater is opening its second season with the Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical I Do! I Do! from Thursday, April 28 to Sunday, Ma...
Features • Published Mar 31, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
HGTV has a huge audience for all its various home renovation shows, from the Property Brothers franchise to the shows focused on buying, selling, or flipping homes.
Playw...
Features • Published Mar 24, 2022 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Rockin’ and Rollin’: MTC in Norwalk had planned The Buddy Holly Story before the pandemic. It’s finally making it onto the stage through Sunday, April 10. You can exp...
Features • Published Mar 09, 2022 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
Long Wharf News: You may have missed it, but New Haven’s iconic Long Wharf Theatre has announced major changes. Beginning in the fall of 2023, the theater will no lon...
Features • Published Feb 23, 2022 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
Have our relationships devolved into series of texts, voice mail messages, and brief phone calls? In Today Is My Birthday, the comedy that played at the Yale Rep and is n...
Features • Published Feb 23, 2022 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
New Musicals: January 2020 was the last time Goodspeed’s Festival of New Musicals was held. It’s a weekend showcasing three musicals in development and various talks ...
Features • Published Jan 26, 2022 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
A Look at Us: Now at Long Wharf through Sunday, Feb. 6 is Fires in the Mirror. Playwright Anne Deavere Smith is known for her works that interweave multiple interview...
Features • Published Jan 12, 2022 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
New Comedy: Hartford Stage starts the new year with Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous a new comedy by Pearl Cleage. The show is about a pioneering actress who ret...
Features • Published Dec 29, 2021 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
Top Stories & Shows: Usually I do a list of the most noteworthy shows that I’ve seen during the year. But 2021 was very different and theater for the most part only r...
Features • Published Dec 01, 2021 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
Another Christmas Carol: Westport Country Playhouse is resuming it’s in person Script-in-Hand series on Monday, Dec. 13 with A Merry Little Christmas Carol. The Scrip...
Features • Published Nov 10, 2021 11 pm
By Karen Isaacs
The funniest jokes are often the old jokes; the ones we’ve heard before but we still laugh out loud when we hear them for the umpteenth time.
You only have to see Say Goo...
Features • Published Oct 28, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Long Wharf Theatre is back with a fascinating play, The Chinese Lady running through Sunday, Oct. 31. It had been planned for the 2019-’20 season until COVID interrupted ...
Features • Published Oct 21, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Finally: Long Wharf was in rehearsal with The Chinese Lady in 2020 when everything shut down. Now we can all see this production that is described as a “whimsical exp...
Features • Published Oct 07, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Broadway Baby: Not quite, but Lisa Helmi Johanson, who is currently at Ivoryton Playhouse in The Porch at Windy Hill, is a very new mom. She gave birth to her first d...
Features • Published Sep 23, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Afghanistan on Stage: It may seem odd to have a play about Afghanistan described as a comedy, but Two Jews Walk into a War is such a play. It’s described as a modern ...
Features • Published Sep 16, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Branford’s new Legacy Theatre is ending its inaugural season with The Last Five Years, a two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown through Sunday, Sept. 26.
The Last F...
Features • Published Sep 09, 2021 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Rosemary Clooney: Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical will be at MTC in Norwalk from Friday, Sept. 17 to Sunday, Oct. 3. The show features the songs associated wit...
