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For a successful staging of the play with music, Lady Day in Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the show needs an actress who can not only sing with emotion and depth, but also be able to act.  Fortunately, the Ivoryton Playhouse’s production of Lady Day has the superb talents of Christina Acosta Robinson as the legendary singer Billie Holiday.

The musical Dear Evan Hansen has always been an emotionally powerful show that, even though it debuted on Broadway ten years ago, is still highly relevant today as mental health has become such a critical issue for many high school students. 

On of my most striking memories from the New York stage was back in 1978 when The American Dance Machine presented a non-stop series of showstoppers from past Broadway musicals, which included Brigadoon, Cabaret, Desstry Rides Again, Half a Sixpence, and No No Nanette.  The company, founded by Lee Theodore, described its purpose to be “a living archi...

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...