There’s a reason why playwright Tony Kushner’s 1993 masterwork Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is known as The Great Work. It’s exactly that: great.
All seven and a half...
A Chorus Line is one of the most well-known, well-loved and successful American musicals of all time. Winner of nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1976, A Chorus Line set a precedent for...
The University of New Haven Theater Club has just been promoted to a gold status organization on campus, meaning they are fully funded and recognized by the university.
The club “aims to incorporate...
The Theater Club paid tribute to Anton Chekov, a Russian playwright and short story writer, with their Short Play Festival, on October 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Bucknall Theater.
The members of the Theater...
Since opening on Broadway in 2011, The Book of Mormon has played over 2,700 performances on the Great White Way. A production in London opened in 2013, and two national tours have launched; one wrapped...
Connecticut has an extremely rich theater scene, partly because of its proximity to New York City and the bright lights of Broadway. Broadway national tours tend to make stops somewhere in the central...
Sarah Costello, Contributing Writer
• September 19, 2017
A memoir can tell about the life of an individual, but might not get the image across clearly. A stage performance can provide incredible flare, but requires a strong base of meaning to make it worthwhile....
Being a native New Yorker, coming home for summer meant a chance to do one of my favorite things: seeing Broadway and off-Broadway shows. I used this summer as a chance to catch up on shows I hadn’t...
University of New Haven’s production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” kept Bucknall Theatre bustling from April 19 through 22. Audience members came anticipating a light-hearted,...
The University of New Haven Theater Department is bringing back the “Golden Age” of musicals, with their production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The production will run from...
On Tuesday April 4, internationally renowned opera baritone George Gagnidze held a workshop and master class at the University of New Haven.
The first part of his visit was dedicated to music and...
From February until May each year, the Broadway community gears up for a full calendar of spring openings. In the spring half of this season, Broadway will welcome 13 new plays and musicals, and nine revival...
“There’s a place for us / Somewhere, a place for us…”
In 2016, these lyrics, written in 1956 by musical theater legend Stephen Sondheim, became the tagline for the first ever BroadwayCon....
In a city of stars, La La Land shines bright; brighter than the other movies of 2016, perhaps. Damian Chazelle (Whiplash) delivered one of the most eccentric, retro, whirlwind movies of the year, and it...
One of the great American plays, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, opened at the University
of New Haven on November 16. The theater program put on the production, directed by
a theater professor at...
