The Hartford Symphony Orchestra kicks off this summer's Talcott Mountain Music Festival Friday with Summer Groove! Rhythm, Blues & Soul with David Foster and the Mohegan Sun All Stars featuring Maceo Parker,Edward Cumming, conductor.
The concert begins at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury Meadows, Iron Horse Road, Simsbury.
For information, visit http://www.hartfordsymphony.org/
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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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