The state’s summer-long Festival visits Westport for one week of live, in-person performances by stand-up comedians Mike Birbiglia, Jessica Kirson, and more Westport Country Playhouse will present a week of live, stand-up comedy in partnership with Fairfield Comedy Club’s third annual “Connecticut Comedy Festival,” happening across the state this summer. Taking the Playhouse stage, from…

NORWALK, CT – Cheer on the harbor seals of The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk as they explore an enormous new habitat that, upon its June 8 opening, becomes the Aquarium’s largest aquatic display. The 160,000-gallon seal exhibit – as well as a 4D movie theater and redesigned main entrance, which both opened in January –…

The Ridgefield Theater Barn is ready to celebrate the return of live performing arts in front of audiences with “An Evening of One-Acts” beginning June 11. The Barn, set up with cabaret-style seating, will start its 2021 season, featuring local, national and international unpublished playwrights’ scripts. They closed in early March 2020 due to the…

Westport Country Playhouse’s “Story Hour with Jenny,” a live, in-person series to engage children, grades K-3, will present an in-person, interactive reading of the picture book, “Lubaya’s Quiet Roar,” on Sunday, June 6, at 11 a.m., on the Playhouse campus. Written by Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson, with paintings by Philomena Williamson, ©2020, “Lubaya’s Quiet…

It’s been nearly two years since Curtain Call – Stamford, CT’s award-winning community theatre company – hosted auditions for a musical, but normal operations are finally resuming so they’re getting ready for their 31st season. Auditions for the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, 1776, the first show of their 2021-2022 season, will be held June 20…

DANBURY, CT – The Western Connecticut State University Department of Theatre Arts participated in the Region 1 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in late January, at which its virtual production, “The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical,” was selected as a featured performance for consideration across all regions. The KCACTF National Committee and National…