Thursday, January 19, 2023
Theater Review: Six at the Bushnell
Friday, May 28, 2021
Drama Brings Character to Life at Tessa Afshar Book Launch
The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT will host a virtual Book Launch for "Jewel of the Nile" by award-winning, biblical-fiction author Tessa Afshar and you are invited!

Friday, October 23, 2020
Dorothy Lyman Play Gets Zoom Readings
THE KEYS, a new play by Dorothy Lyman ("Mama's Family," "All My Children"), will have two readings on Zoom, produced by Pat Flicker Addiss and Lauren Yarger.
THE KEYS, a story of fear, love and hope in the time of Covid, is directed by Elinor Renfield. A talkback will follow the readings scheduled for:
Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4 pm Eastern
Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 7 pm Eastern
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Margaret (Lyman) and Gil (Tim Jerome) meet over the balconies of their condos in the Florida Keys during the Covid lockdown. As their relationship develops, they struggle with memories of what their golden years were supposed to look like while focusing on a fearful, distanced, "safe" reality. The key to happiness might just include letting go and taking some risks.
This timely play is ideal for presentation beginning this spring as theaters begin to re-open. The two actors are separated on one set.
Dorothy Lyman (Playwright, Margaret)
An Emmy award -winning actress, Ms. Lyman is also a theatre and television director (75 episodes of THE NANNY for CBS) and a filmmaker as well as playwright. She is most widely known for her TV roles in "Mama's Family" and "All My Children."
Tim Jerome (Gil) is an actor, singer, Founding President of MainStreet Musicals, National Music Theater Network, and NYMF. He has been performing professionally on-stage since 1968 with 18 Broadway shows (one Tony nomination) and 12 feature films to his credit. He also has performed in regional theaters and on tour throughout the country exclusively in principle roles. e American Guild of Musical Artists.
Elinor Renfield (Director) After completing a scholarship year at The Central School for Speech and Drama in London, she began her graduate work in Theatre and Film at CUNY (Hunter College) where she received an MA. Her thirty year career as a stage director has included work on Broadway, Off Broadway and in Regional Theaters.
Stage Directions: Jeanne Lauren Smith; Technical Director: Brennan Lowery.
Produced by Pat Flicker Addiss (Pat Addiss Productions, LLC) and Lauren Yarger (Gracewell Productions LLC)
Monday, July 20, 2020
CT Chapter Toasts the Vote
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Join Mark Twain House for an Evening with Jan Karon
Lauren Yarger is a writer and producer in New York and Connecticut, serving in leadership for the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama Desk, and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, and owns Gracewell Productions, which produces inspiring works of theater, literature, and the arts. She is a long-time, devoted fan of the Mitford Years series!
Copies of Karon's books At Home in Mitford, To Be Where You Are, and Bathed in Prayer will be available for purchase.
We look forward to seeing you and sharing this time together!
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Updates on What is Happening at CT Theaters During Covid Virus Shutdown
ACT (Contemporary Theater of CT)
- Cancelled the remainder of the 2019-2010 season.
- Shows and events are cancelled through May, including the Broadway tour of Dear Evan Hansen.
- Cancelled the 2020 Nutmeg Summer Season.
- Candide has been cancelled and South Pacific has been moved to the fall. It will be the sole musical produced this year, instead of the usual three. The summer production of the new musical Anne of Green Gables will move to the 2021 season.
- Hartford Stage has decided to reschedule the run of Ah, Wilderness! (originally scheduled May 7-31) to Oct. 22–Nov.15, 2020 and The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged) (originally scheduled June 11-21) to Oct. 1-11, 2020.
- Hartford Stage cancelled remaining performances of Jane Eyre. the entire run of The King’s Speech and its fundraising gala for the 2019-2020 season.
- Positions have been eliminated and furloughed resulting in a decrease of 70 percent of operating staff
- Four shows have been announced for 2020-2021, the first full season selected by new Artistic Director Melia Bensussen.
- Forbidden Broadway (tentatively re-scheduled beginning May 27) and The Great Gatsby were cancelled.
- Cancellation of Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady and and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap along with education and community programs.
- with cancellation of the 2019/20 season and the 2020 Gala celebration the theater is projecting a loss of more than $750,000. STaffing positions have been eliminated and others have been furloughed and/or have had hours cut.
- New MTC Live episodes every Wednesday at noon. The mainstage series is still scheduled to begin in the fall. https://www.
musictheatreofct.com/
- Ugly Lies the Bone by Lindsey Ferrentino scheduled for April 22 - May 10, 2020 has been cancelled.
- All Playhouse Theatre Academy classes follow their corresponding towns’ school emergency closing schedules. All classes and class showcases have been cancelled through Sunday, April 19.
- Stop/time dance theater’s production of DIVAS originally scheduled for March 25 - April 5, 2020 and then postponed until April 29- May 10 has been postponed again. The new dates are tbd.
- Always a Bridesmaid and The Wedding Singer were cancelled.
- Summer 2020 series beginning in June still appears to be on sale.
- All events are cancelled through April 30.
- An abbreviated 2020 season, with three plays instead of the usual five, was previously announced to begin in July, but now, the entire 2020 season has been postponed to 2021 when a five-play season will run from mid-April through mid-November, built around a re-imagining of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, which was originally scheduled for this season. Pending availability of artists, design teams, and licensing, other productions previously announced for 2020 may be produced next year.
- Additional online activities are planned on Facebook Live, like tonight's Living Room Concert with David Lutken (Woody Sez).
- Postponing its 2020 season until spring 2021, due to the global pandemic. All programming will move to 2021, including the season’s five main productions, Script in Hand Playreading series, Family Festivities presentations, and the New Works Initiative. This year would have marked the historic, professional theater’s 90th season. Since its founding in 1931, the Playhouse has been closed for only four seasons, from 1942 through 1945, during World War II.
- Cancelled the remainder of the 2019-2020 season.
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS
- The 25th anniversary year will feature a variety of online artistic experiences, virtual food experiences, cell phone-guided walking tours, and various NEA Big Read activities. The virtual Ideas programming centered on the theme “Democracy: We the People” will feature interactive events and conversations with vital thinkers, including 2012 Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, award-winning scholar Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, NEA Big Read Author Stephanie Burt, and renowned writer Anand Giridharadas. All programming will be free.
- Virtual and physically distanced programming will begin online in the coming weeks on a rolling basis. Details will be announced weekly and will be shared on the Festival’s website, www.artidea.org.
- The 2020 Monte Cristo Award previously planned for Sunday, April 19, 2020 in New York City has been postponed. Ticket & table buyers will be contacted directly. Additional details will be announced at a future date.
- At present, there are no planned changes to the 2020 Summer Season.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Theater, Arts Events Cancelled Due to Corona Virus Concerns
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Helen Sadler, Steve Routman, Grayson DeJesus in Jane Eyre at Hartford Stage. Photo: T. Charles Erickson |
😷Womenkind 2020 produced by Clinton Arts Council (CT) cancelled in March.
the following upcoming performances have been canceled:
Sunday, March 15
Family Festivities production of The Pout-Pout Fish. Ticket holders will receive a call from our box office and will be moved to one of the future Family Festivities productions in our 2020-2021 Family Festivities season.
Connecticut Dance School has canceled their 2020 benefit, Dances to Celebrate Spring and Your Passion for Ballet!, scheduled for March 20. Refunds will be issued to all ticket holders. Please contact Connecticut Dance School at (203) 384-2492 with further questions.
Broadway Method Academy has canceled their 2019 Gala, Night of a Thousand Stars, which had been rescheduled to March 21. Please contact Broadway Method Academy at (203) 675-3526 for more information.
cancelled.
Patrons who have tickets to Dvorak’s Eighth or Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky should contact the Box Office at 860-987-5900 to exchange into any remaining HSO performance in the 2019-2020 season, receive a credit for HSO tickets, donate tickets back to the HSO, or get a refund. Patrons who have tickets to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert will be contacted shortly about a rescheduled date, and tickets for the March 28 performances will be valid on the new date.
😷Hartford Stage:
Based on recommendations from state and local government in response to the ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19, Hartford Stage is canceling all remaining performances of Jane Eyre (March 12-14) and the run of The King’s Speech, scheduled for March 19 through April 19.
Tickets for Jane Eyre and The King’s Speech can be exchanged into performances of Ah, Wilderness! (May 7 – 31) or The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged) (June 11 – 21). All exchange fees will be waived. Alternatively, tickets can be donated back to Hartford Stage, a 501(c)(3) organization, as a tax-deductible contribution at a time of increased financial challenges for the performing arts industry.
😷All on-campus events and exhibitions at Weslyan have been canceled until further notice as a preventive measure. The University will continue to update the website with the latest available information.
Anyone who purchased tickets in advance will be issued a refund from the box office starting next week and artists who were scheduled to perform this spring will be compensated. We encourage patrons to utilize their refund to re-invest in the arts through a donation, album, artwork, or ticket to a future performance. If patrons have any questions or concerns, or would like to donate their tickets to the Center for the Arts, they can email boxoffice@wesleyan.edu or call 860-685-3355 Monday through Friday from 11am to 3pm.
😷Seven at CT College March 31 has been cancelled.
😷Following updated guidance from Yale University on Tuesday evening, March 10, in response to the ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19, James Bundy, Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, has annodra44ddzeffunced that the final two productions of the season, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Carl Cofield, and Testmatch by Kate Attwell, directed by Margot Bordelon, have been canceled.
While the University’s March 7 guidance––which states that groups of 100 or less are safe to continue provided there is ample room for individuals to spread out as they are comfortable––remains in effect, the additional new measures, currently in effect through April 5, seek to minimize close-proximity interaction among members of the Yale community.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Learn the Inside Scoop on Playwriting from Some Insiders
Come get the scoop on writing for the stage when the CT Chapter of the League of Professional Theatre Women and the Dramatists Guild’s Western New England Region host Inside Playwriting, a panel between sessions of Ivoryton Playhouse’s Women’s Playwright Initiative Saturday, Feb. 22.
Panelists include TV writer and playwright Susan Cinoman, Broadway Producer and playwright Tracey Knight Narang, Director Shellen Lubin, Emmy-Award-Winning Actress and Playwright Dorothy Lyman, Director and Artist/Playwright Kato McNickle. Playwright Emma Palzere Rae, the Dramatists Guild Regional Rep, will moderate.
The panel is open to ticketholders for the initiative, which will feature four play readings in two sessions at the playhouse, 103 Main St. Ivoryton.
At 2 pm:
Savior by Sharon Goldner
Directed by Kate Katcher
Two modern moms at a yoga class dealing with an absurd yet very familiar situation, – what do you do when your five year old tells you he is the messiah?
1200 miles from Jerome by Crystal V. Rhodes
Directed by Kathryn Markey
During World War II, a mother, her two daughters, a young school teacher and a fourteen year old Japanese American fugitive from a “Relocation Camp” are forced to flee the town of Jerome, Arkansas headed to New York City. The journey is over 1200 miles of roads where African Americans aren’t allowed to sleep in most hotels, eat in most restaurants, use restroom facilities or purchase gas at many stations. It is a trip filled with danger, one that could prove to mean the difference between life and death.
At 7 pm:
Court by Holly Arsenault
Directed by Jacqueline Hubbard
An intimate look at divorce and custody battles from a child’s unique, funny and raw perspective.
Deanna and Paul by Dagney Kerr
Directed by Missy Burmeister
Deanna’s a quirky waitress with a strict no tipping policy. Paul’s a surly customer with a tight lid on his heart. Their lonely worlds collide one day in a small-town diner, where one cup of coffee can change everything.
To purchase tickets for the Women Playwrights Festival call 860-767-7318 or go to www.ivorytonplayhouse.org. League members should contact CTChapter:PTW@gmail.com to find out about discounted tickets.
Regular single ticket prices: $20 adult; $15 senior; $10 student for one performance. Buy tickets for both performances for $30 adult; $25 senior; $10 student
About the Panelists:
Susan Cinoman
Susan Cinoman is a playwright and screenwriter whose work is published and produced internationally. For television, she is the creator of the recurring character, Miss Cinoman, on ABC’s, “The Goldbergs” and a frequent writer and contributor. Her one- act play, Fitting Rooms, (Applause Books) is included in Best Short Plays and is produced internationally. Other productions are Cinoman and Rebeck and Gin and Bitters, Off Broadway. Her play Sweet Sand, produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre has been recently published. Two plays were made into award-winning independent films: “Love and Class in Connecticut” and “All Me, All the Time” have screened at film festivals throughout New England. Cinoman is the recipient of the Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Prize, The Aristos Award, Theatre Ariel Award, Best Connecticut Filmmaker of 2007, Ivoryton Playhouse Writing Award and the Guilford Prize in Drama for her new play, Guenevere.
Tracey Knight Narang
Tracey Knight Narang is a producer of the groundbreaking Broadway revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! (Tony Award), and the highly anticipated new musical Sing Street opening on Broadway in April. In addition to producing and investing, Narang’s play To Each Their Own, received critical acclaim at FringeNYC 2015. See coined the term “Subway Etiquette“ after publishing her book “Subway Etiquette: The Straphanger’s Guide to Underground Conduct.” Narang is a member of the Board of Directors of New York City Center, and the Vice President of the Board of the Actors’ Equity Foundation.
Shellen Lubin
Shellen Lubin directed Gloria Bond Clunie's Buck Naked in the first Women Playwrights Initiative at Ivoryton. As a director/dramaturg assisting in the development of new plays, she has directed across the country, recently working on projects with Lanie Robertson, Stuart Warmflash, Stephanie Satie, Susan Merson, and Amy Oestreicher at multiple venues. Her own plays have been produced and workshopped at Manhattan Class Company, Public Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre, Hubbard Hall, West Coast Ensemble, American Jewish Theatre, and more. Her songs have been featured on radio and cable TV, in Milos Forman’s first American film, “Taking Off,” in numerous cabaret acts including her own, and in a one-hour special on WBAI-FM, Shellen Lubin - Songwriter/Singer. She also teaches and coaches actors, singers, and writers both privately and as a guest artist. Proud member of DG, SDC, AEA, Co-President - League of Professional Theatre Women, Past President - Women in the Arts & Media Coalition, chair - Women Playwrights Initiative - National Theatre Conference. www.shellenlubin.com @SHLubin
Dorothy Lyman
Emmy award -winning actress Dorothy Lyman is known for her roles on “Another World,” “All My Children,” “Generations” and “Mama's Family,” but she also is a director (75 episodes of “The Nanny” for CBS), a filmmaker and a playwright. Her first film, shot in Delaware County An Enemy of the People, “The Northern Kingdom,” is available on Netflix, as is her second film, “Split Ends.” A documentary on aging, “Janet’s Class,” is seeking distribution. Lyman produced and directed “Enemy,” her adaptation of Ibsen’s (2016), and her full-length plays A Rage In Tenure (2017) and Soft Landing (2018) at Teatro Santa Ana in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She can be seen on the HBO series “Divorce” and in guest star roles on other episodic TV shows.
Kato McNickle
Kato McNickle is a Connecticut-based playwright, director, and artist. A graduate of Brown University and holds a degree in Ancient Studies specializing in Greco-Roman and Sanskrit performance and continue to study the connection between art, perception, neuroscience, and performance. They have taught playwriting at the University of Connecticut, and writing and comic making at Artreach, Inc. in Norwich, CT. They are chair of the New London Artistic Council; Vice-President of the Mystic Paper Beasts Mask & Puppetry Company; producer of the Mayfly 24-Hour Theater in New London, and a member Dramatist Guild and the Star Wars Fan Club.
Emma Palzere-Rae, Moderator
Emma Palzere-Rae (actress, playwright, director and producer), founder of Be Well Productions which produces her original touring one-woman shows include The Woodhull Project and Aunt Hattie’s House. She is co-founder of The Way of the Labyrinth Playwrights Retreat, the former artistic director of Plays for Living (NYC), and currently associate director at Artreach, Inc. (Norwich). She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, where she is the regional rep for New England West. Recent stage roles include Mother Miriam in Agnes of God (Madison Lyric Stage), Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! (East Lynne Theater Company), Sister Aloysius in Doubt (Emerson Theater Collaborative). At Mystic Seaport she co-directs and performed in Lantern Light Tours and Nautical Nightmares.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
CT Theater Women Gather for Holiday Lunch, Play Excerpts
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Brian Yarger, left, and John J. Cronin in a production of A Christmas Carol by Lauren Yarger and Dan Jessie. |
The CT Chapter of the League of Professional Theatre Women will present three excerpts from plays with holiday themes by Connecticut authors at a networking lunch noon Friday at the charming Westbrook Inn.
- The Little Match Girl
- Joy Meets Girl
- Scrooge Monologue
Make a reservation at this link by Wednesday, Dec. 4:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/

Lauren Yarger with playwright Alfred Uhry at the Mark Twain House. Photo: Jacques Lamarre)
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C O N N E C T I O N
2018-2019 Season Reviews
2017-2018 Season Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Hartford Stage
- Age of Innocence, The -- Hartford Stage
- An Evening with James Mapes
- Appropriate -- Westport
- Avenue Q -- Playhouse on Park
- Baskerville -- Long Wharf
- Bridges of Madison County, The -- Music Theatre of CT
- Chatting with Bess Wohl: Small Mouth sounds -- Long Wharf
- Chatting with Jenn Thompson: Oklahoma -- Goodspeed
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) -- Playhouse on Park
- Diary of Anne Frank, The
- Fade -- TheaterWorks
- Finding Neverland -- The Bushnell
- Fireflies -- Long Wharf
- Grounded -- Westport
- I Hate Musicals, the Musical -- Ivoryton
- Legend of Georgia McBride, The
- Les Miserables -- The Bushnell
- Lettice and Lovage -- Westport
- Murder on the Orient Express -- Hartford Stage
- Our Great Tchaikovsky-- Hartford Stage
- Raging Skillet -- TheaterWorks
- Rags -- Goodspeed
- School of Rock -- The Bushnell
- Seder -- Hartford Stage
- Something Rotten! -- The Bushnell
- The Bodyguard -- The Bushnell
- The Revisionist -- Playhouse on Park
- Wolves, The -- TheaterWorks
2016-2017 Reviews
- [title of show] -- Playhouse on Park
- A Chorus Line -- Playhouse on Park
- An American in Paris -- The Bushnell
- Beautiful -- The Bushnell
- Biloxi Blues -- Ivoryton
- Bye Bye Birdie -- Goodspeed
- Chasing Rainbows -- Goodspeed
- Chicago- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Comedy of Errors, The -- Hartford Stage
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The -- The Bushnell
- Endgame -- Long Wharf
- Gypsy -- Music Theatre of CT
- Heartbreak House -- Hartford Stage
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying -- CT Repertory
- IF/THEN -- The Bushnell
- Invisible Hand, The -- Westport
- It's a Wonderful Life -- Music Theatre of CT
- King and I, THe -- The Bushnell
- King Lear
- Little shop of Horrors -- Playhouse on Park
- Man of La Mancha -- Ivoryton
- Mary Jane -- Yale Rep
- Meteor Shower -- Long Wharf
- Midsummer, A Play with Music -- TheaterWorks
- Moon for the Misbegotten, A -- Playhouse on Park
- Napoli, Brooklyn -- Long Wharf
- Next to Normal -- TheaterWorks
- Other People's Money -- Long Wharf
- Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour -- NH Festival Arts & Ideas
- Peter and the Starcatcher -- CT Repertory
- Piano Lesson, The -- Hartford Stage
- Queens for a Year -- Hartford Stage
- Relativity -- TheaterWorks
- RENT -- Ivoryton
- Scenes from Court Life -- Yale Rep
- Seven Guitars -- Yale Repertory
- Smart People
- Sunset Baby -- TheaterWorks
- Tenderly -- Ivoryton
- The 39 Steps -- Ivoryton
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Unnecessary Farce -- Playhouse on Park
- West Side Story -- CT Repertory
- What the Butler Saw -- Westport
2015-2016 Reviews
- A Little Night Music -- Boston
- A Wonderful Life -- Goodspeed
- Anastasia -- Hartford Stage
- And a Nightingale Sang -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Anything Goes -- Goodspeed
- Bedroom Farce -- Westport
- Body of an American, The -- Hartford Stage
- Buyer & Cellar -- TheaterWorks
- Calendar Girls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Cinderella -- The Bushnell
- Cymbeline -- Yale Rep
- Dirty Dancing -- The Bushnell
- Disgraced -- Long Wharf
- Evita -- Music Theatre of CT
- Good People -- TheaterWorks
- Hair -- Playhouse on Park
- Having Our Say
- I Hate Hamlet -- Playhouse on Park
- I'll Eat You Last -- TheaterWorks
- Jimmy and Lorraine -- Hartbeat Ensemble
- Kinky Boots -- The Bushnell
- La Cage aux Folles -- Goodspeed
- Lewiston -- Long Wharf
- Liberace! -- Ivoryton
- Little shop of Horrors -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Love and Money -- NY and Westport
- Measure for Measure -- Long Wharf
- Memphis -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Motown -- The Bushnell
- My Paris -- Long Wharf
- Newsies -- The Bushnell
- Opening in Time, An -- Hartford Stage
- Passing Strange -- Playhouse on Park
- Peerless -- Yale Rep
- Peter Pan -- CT Repetory
- Rear Window -- Hartford Stage
- Romeo & Juliet -- Hartford Stage
- Sense and Sensibility -- CT Repertory
- Sex With Strangers -- TheaterWorks
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks -- Ivoryton
- South Pacific -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Spamalot -- CTRepertory
- The Call -- TheaterWorks
- The Chosen -- Playhouse on Park
- The Illusionists -- The Bushnell
- The Lion -- Long Wharf
- The Moors -- Yale Repertory
- The Road: My Life With John Denver -- Ivoryton
- Third -- Theaterworks
- Tuesdays With Morrie
- Twelfth Night -- CT Repertory
- Wit -- Playhouse on Park
- Xanadu -- CT Repertory
2014-2015 Reviews
- ANNA PURNA-- TheaterWorks
- All Shook Up -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Altar Boyz -- Playhouse on Park
- Arcadia-- Yale Rep
- Bad Jews -- Long Wharf
- Brownsville Song
- Calendar Girls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Camelot -- The Bushnell
- Caucasian Chalk Circle, The -- Yale Repertory
- Comedy is Hard -- Ivoryton
- Dancing Lessons -- TheaterWorks
- Driving Miss Daisy -- Music Theatre of CT
- Elevada -- Yale Repertory
- Endurance -- Long Wharf
- Ether Dome -- Hartford Stage
- Evita -- The Bushnell
- Familiar -- Yale Rep
- Fiddler on the Roof -- Goodspeed
- Forever -- Long Wharf
- Ghost -- The Bushnell
- Guys and Dolls -- Goodspeed
- Gypsy-- CT Rep
- Hamlet -- Hartford Stage
- Holiday Inn -- Goodspeed
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -- The Bushnell
- Kiss Me Kate -- Hartford Stage
- La Cage Aux Folles -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Last Romance, The -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Our Town -- Long Wharf
- Pianist of Willesden Lane, The -- Hartford Stage
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile -- Long Wharf
- Pippin -- The Bushnell
- Playing the Assassin -- TheaterWorks
- Private Lives -- Hartford Stage
- Proof -- Playhouse on Park
- Reverberation -- Hartford Stage
- Say Goodnight, Gracie -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Second Mrs. Wilson, The -- Long Wharf
- Stand By Your Man -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Sunshine Boys, The -- CT Repertory
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee -- CT Repertory
- The Bikinis -- Long Wharf
- The Dining Room -- Playhouse on Park
- The Importance of Being Ernest -- Playhouse on Park
- The World Goes 'Round -- Music Theatre of CT
- Things We Do for Love -- Westport
- War -- Yale Repertory
- Wicked -- The Bushnell
- Woody Sez -- TheaterWorks
2013-2014 Reviews
- 4,000 Miles -- Long Wharf
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum -- CT Repertory
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas
- A Song at Twilight -- Hartford Stage/ Westport Country Playhouse
- A Streetcar Named Desire -- Yale Rep
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist -- Yale Rep
- Becoming Dr. Ruth -- TheaterWorks
- Big Love -- CT Repertory
- Billy Elliot -- The Bushnell
- Book of Mormon -- The Bushnell
- Catch Me if You Can -- The Bushnell
- Christmas on the Rocks -- TheaterWorks
- Damn Yankees -- Goodspeed
- Dreamgirls -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
- Fences -- Long Wharf
- Freud's Last Session -- TheaterWorks
- Grease -- New Canaan
- Hello Dolly! -- Goodspeed
- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- I'm Connecticut -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Julius Caesar -- Elm Shakespeare Company
- La Dispute -- Hartford Stage
- Last Five Years, The -- Long Wharf
- Loot -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Love/Sick -- TheaterWorks
- Macbeth -- Hartford Stage
- Midsummer Night's Dream -- Hartford Stage with Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Miss Saigon -- The Bushnell
- Mrs. Mannerly -- TheaterWorks
- Much Ado About Nothing -- CT Repertory
- Music Man, The
- Oblivion -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Owners -- Yale Rep
- Peter and the Starcatcher -- The Bushnell
- SHOUT! -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Seven Year Itch, The -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Shadow of the Hummingbird -- Long Wharf
- Show-Off, The -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Smokey Joe's Cafe -- Long Wharf
- Stuck Elevator -- New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas
- The Consultant -- Long Wharf
- The Drowsy Chaperone -- CT Repertory
- The Jungle Book, Huntington Theatre Co., Boston
- The Most Happy Fella -- Goodspeed
- The Other Place -- TheaterWorks
- These Paper Bullets -- Yale Rep
- Three Musketeers -- CT Repertory
- Time Stands Still -- TheaterWorks
- Underpants, The -- Long Wharf (and Hartford Stage in 2014)
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike -- Hartford Stage
- War Horse -- The Bushnell
2012-2013 Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Couple of Blaguards -- Long Wharf
- A Genteman's Guide to Love & Murder -- Hartford Stage
- A Raisin in the Sun -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Abundance -- Hartford Stage
- Almost Maine -- TheaterWorks
- American Idiot -- The Bushnell
- American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose -- Yale Rep
- Ancestral Voices: Music Theatre of CT
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do -- Ivoryton Playhouse
- Breath & Imagination -- Hartford Stage
- Carousel -- Goodspeed
- Chicago -- The Bushnell
- Clybourne Park -- Long Wharf
- Cole -- Music Theatre of CT
- Curse of the Starving Class -- Long Wharf
- Dear Elizabeth -- Yale Rep
- Good News -- Goodspeed
- Hairspray -- CT Rep
- Hairspray -- Ivoryton
- Hamlet -- Yale Rep
- Harbor -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Hedda Gabler -- Hartford Stage
- His Girl Friday -- CT Rep
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti -- TheaterWorks
- In a Year With 13 Moons -- Yale Rep
- January Joiner -- Long Wharf
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers -- Ivoryton
- Life Could Be a Dream -- Ivoryton
- Looped -- The Bushnell
- Man in a Case -- Hartford Stage
- Marie Antoinette -- Yale Rep
- Mary Poppins -- The Bushnell
- Million Dollar Quartet -- The Bushnell
- Miracle on 34th Street -- Seven Angels
- Next to Normal -- Music Theatre of CT
- Next to Normal -- Seven Angels
- O Beautiful -- CT Rep
- Oliver! -- Ivoryton
- Other People's Money
- RAIN -- The Palace
- Ride the Tiger -- Long Wharf
- Romeo & Juliet -- CT Rep
- SantaLand Diaries, The -- TheaterWorks
- Satchmo at the Waldorf -- Long Wharf
- Say Goodnight, Gracie -- Seven Angels
- Sister Act -- The Bushnell
- Somethiing's Afoot -- Goodspeed
- Stones in His Pockets -- Yale Rep
- Tartuffe -- Westport Country Playhouse
- The Dining Room -- Westport Country Playhouse
- The Immigrant -- Seven Angels
- The Killing of Sister George -- Long Wharf
- The Mountaintop -- TheaterWorks
- The Odd Couple -- CT Rep
- The Year of Magical Thinking -- Westport Country Playhouse
- Tryst -- TheaterWorks
- Twelfth Night -- Hartford Stage
- Venus in Fur -- TheaterWorks
2011-2012 Reviews
- A Doctor in Spite of Himself -- Yale Rep
- Ain't Misbehavin' -- Long Wharf
- Almost Maine -- MTC
- Always Patsy Cline -- Ivoryton
- Barefoot in the Park -- Ivoryton
- Being Boeing -- Hartford Stage
- Bell, Book & Candle -- Long Wharf
- Belleville -- Yale Rep
- Cabaret -- MTC
- Centennial Casting -- Seven Angels
- City of Angels -- Goodspeed
- Defending the Caveman -- Downtown Cabaret
- February House -- Long Wharf
- Fraulein Maria -- Hartford Stage
- Good Goods
- I Left My Heart -- Music Theatre of CT
- I'm Connecticut -- CT Rep
- Into the woods -- Westport
- Krapp's Last Tape -- Long Wharf
- Les Mis -- The Bushnell
- Lips Together Teeth Apart -- Westport
- Macbeth 1969 -- Long Wharf
- Mame -- Goodspeed
- Memphis -- The Bushnell
- Molly Sweeney -- Long Wharf
- Motherf**ker with the Hat -- TheaterWorks
- My Fair Lady -- CT Rep
- My Name is Asher Lev -- Long Wharf
- Odysseus D.O.A. --CT Rep
- Over the Tavern -- Seven Angels
- Race -- TheaterWorks Hartford
- Red -- TheaterWorks
- Ring of Fire -- Ivoryton
- Show Boat -- Goodspeed
- Suddenly Last Summer -- Westport
- Teddy & Alice -- Seven Angels
- The Addams Family -- The Bushnell
- The Circle -- Westport
- The Cripple of Inishmaan -- Festival of Arts & Ideas
- The Crucible -- Harttford Stage
- The Marvelous Wonderettes -- Ivoryton
- The Producers -- Ivoryton
- The Realistic Joneses -- Yale Rep
- The Sty of the Blind Pig -- TheaterWorks
- The Tempest -- Hartford Stage
- The Understudy -- TheaterWorks
- The Whipping Man -- Hartford Stage
- The Winter's Tale -- Yale
- The Woman in Black -- Ivoryton
- Three Sisters -- Yale Rep
- Traces -- The Bushnell
- Twelfth Night -- Westport
- Water by the Spoonful -- Hartford Stage
2010-2011 Season Reviews
- A Delicate Balance -- Yale Rep
- A Steady Rain -- TheaterWorks
- Agnes Under the Big Top -- Long Wharf
- An Evening with Ben Vereen -- Hartford Stage
- Arsenic & Old Lace -- Ivoryton
- Autumn Sonata -- Yale Rep
- Beyond Therapy -- Westport
- Blue Man Group -- The Bushnell
- Bossa Nova -- Yale
- Broke-ology -- TheaterWorks
- Carnival! -- Goodspeed
- Chita Rivera: My Broadway -- Hartford Stage
- Cirque Dreams Holidaze -- Palace
- Divine Rivalry -- Hartford Stage
- Elaine Stritch Singing Sondheim -- Hartford Stage
- Everything the Traffic Will Allow -- MTC
- Finian's Rainbow -- Ivoryton
- Gem of the Ocean -- Hartford Stage
- God of Carnage -- TheaterWorks
- Gray Matters -- Emerson Theater Collaborative
- High -- TheaterWorks
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying -- Goodspeed
- I Do! I Do! -- Westport
- Italian American Reconciliation -- Long Wharf
- My One and Only -- Goodspeed
- Next to Normal -- The Bushnell
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ivoryton
- Porgy & Bess -- The Bushnell
- Rent at CT Repertory
- Shirley Valentine -- Long Wharf
- Snow Falling on Cedars -- Hartford Stage
- Spamalot -- The Palace
- The Buddy Holly Story -- Ivoryton
- The Diary of Anne Frank -- Westport
- The Old Masters -- Long Wharf
- The Piano Lesson -- Yale Rep
- The Train Driver -- Long Wharf
- THIS -- TheaterWorks
- Urinetown -- CT Rep
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Yale Rep
- White Christmas -- The Bushnell
2009-2010 Season Reviews
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Doll's House -- Long Wharf
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum-- Goodspeed
- American Buffalo
- Annie Get Your Gun -- Goodspeed
- Arsenic & Old Lace -- Ivoryton
- Broadway By Request -- Hartford stage
- Cirque Dreams Illumination -- The Palace
- Compulsion -- Yale Rep
- Doubt -- MTC
- Eclipsed -- Yale
- Emmet Otter -- Goodspeed
- Galileo -- CT Rep
- Gee's Bend -- Hartford Stage
- Have You Seen Us? -- Long Wharf
- Jerry's Girls -- Ivoryton
- Lil's 90th -- Long Wharf
- Mistakes Were Made -- Hartford Stage
- Motherhood Out Loud -- Harttford Stage
- No Child-- Long Wharf
- Orphans' Home Cycle Part 1 -- Hartford Stage
- Orphans' Home Cycle Part 2-- Hartford Stage
- Orphans' Home Cycle part 3-- Hartford Stage
- Pop! -- Yale
- Porgy & Bess -- The Bushnell
- Shakespeare's R&J-- TheaterWorks
- She Loves Me -- Westport
- South Pacific -- The Bushnell
- Souvenir -- TheaterWorks
- Sylvia -- Long Wharf
- That Championship Season -- Westport
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Hartford Stage
- The Breath of Life-- Westport
- The Fantasticks -- Long Wharf
- The Lady with all the Answers -- TheaterWorks
- The Master Builder -- Yale
- The Miracle Worker -- Ivoryton
- The Servant of Two Masters -- Yale
- Young Frankenstein -- The Bushnell
2008-2009 REVIEWS
- 42nd Street -- Goodspeed
- A Christmas Carol -- Hartford Stage
- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Norwalk
- Betty Buckley at Hartford Stage
- Children -- Westport
- Crowns -- CT Rep
- Dividing the Estate -- Hartford Stage
- Emmet Otter -- Goodspeed
- Greater Tuna -- The Bushnell
- How the Other Half Loves -- Westport
- Notes from Underground -- Yale Rep
- Speech & Debate -- TheaterWorks
- The Color Purple -- The Bushnell
- The Glass Menagerie -- Long Wharf
- tick, tick... Boom! -- Westport
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