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HARTFORD STAGE

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Hartford, CT

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 ...


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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....

André De Shields Will Headline Hartford Stage's 60th Anniversary Gala


by Stephi Wild - March 13, 2024

Hartford Stage’s 60th anniversary gala, “Diamonds & Decades,” will feature a performance with the legendary Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-winning André De Shields. ...

Westport Country Playhouse to Present Michael Wilson-Helmed THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Reading


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 05, 2024

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of “The Trip to Bountiful'. Learn more about the reading!...

Capital Classics Announces Ticket On Sale For Expanded Summer Shakespeare Festival


by A.A. Cristi - February 29, 2024

Get ready for a summer of drama as Capital Classics Theatre Company has announced ticket sales for its expanded Summer Shakespeare Festival....

Video: Meet The Cast & Director of Katori Hall's THE HOT WING KING at Hartford Stage


by Joshua Wright - February 27, 2024

Watch as Artistic Director Melia Bensussen chats with the cast and director of Katori Hall's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Hot Wing King: Calvin M. Thompson, Christopher D. Betts, and Bjorn DuPaty....

Video: Meet The Cast Of Katori Hall's THE HOT WING KING at Hartford Stage


by Joshua Wright - February 22, 2024

The How Wing King begins performances at Hartford Stage February 29 through March 24, 2024 Meet the cast in this all-new video. ...

Cast and Creative Team Set for THE HOT WING KING at Hartford Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 07, 2024

Hartford Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for The Hot Wing King, directed by Christopher D. Betts. Learn who is starring and how to purchase tickets....

Video: Get A First Look at SIMONA'S SEARCH at Hartford Stage


by Joshua Wright - February 02, 2024

Get a first look at the world premiere of Simona's Search at Hartford Stage. Performances run January 18 – February 11, 2024...

Westport Country Playhouse Kicks Off 2024 Script In Hand Playreading Series With Tale Of Sports Legend LOMBARDI


by A.A. Cristi - January 25, 2024

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of “Lombardi,” a Broadway hit about the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi and his family, on and off the playing field, on Monday, February 5, at 7 p.m. ...

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Names Melia Bensussen Artistic Director of National Playwrights Conference


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 25, 2024

Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has revealed that Melia Bensussen will be taking the reins of its flagship program, the National Playwrights Conference....

Past Shows

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
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


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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


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

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 ...

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