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The world premiere of Circus Fire, the latest production by Theaterworks Hartford, is a captivating, multimedia production chronicling the July 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, one of the deadliest blazes in U.S. history.  The show has been moved from the theater’s home on Pearl Street to the historic First Company Governor’s Foot Guard building at 159 High Street in do...

The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar, is the one true show that is the director’s perogative.  The sung through musical has no book, which allows the director total freedom on how to tell the story of the last week of Jesus's life, focusing on the conflict between Jesus and Judas.  I have seen many versions of the rock opera, and no...

A Grand Night for Singing, a jukebox musical of the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the most well-known and beloved composing team in Broadway history, is pure enchantment.  Playing at Seven Angels in Waterbury through May 10, the show has a young, talented cast performing selections - both well-known and obscure - from the duo’s musical theater ca...

They’re back!  Yes, the Little Sisters of Hoboken are back raising a ruckus at the Legacy Theatre in the musical Nunsense.  One of the longest running shows in Off-Broadway history, the five-person cast members, sing, dance, tell jokes, and more as they attempt to raise money to bury a few of their flock that, sadly, were poisoned by the cook, Sister Julia.

What is a fact?  How true does a fact need to be for a writer composing a non-fiction essay for a topnotch literary magazine?  This is the question that is continuously debated in the play The Lifespan of a Fact.  The plot focuses on John D’Agata (Shannon Michael Wamser), a writer full of bluster and conceit, who is having his latest piece fact-checked b...