(Pittsfield, MA) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul and Managing Director Greg Reiner, is pleased to announce its complete 2026 season, including the addition of three World Premieres. “BSC’s season is a thrilling reflection of who we are right now as a society, wrestling with division and longing…
by Jarice Hanson, Special to Berkshire on Stage The World Premiere of “Rope” at Hartford Stage is scintillatingly suspenseful and murderously macabre. It’s theatrically perfect. The theatre commissioned noted playwright, Jeffrey Hatcher, to adapt this version of a 1929 three-act play by Patrick Hamilton, called “Rope’s End”. Audiences may be…
HARTFORD, Conn. (March 19, 2025) – Hartford Stage,under the leadership of Melia Bensussen and Cynthia Rider, and TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Rob Ruggiero and Jeff Griffin, announce a co-production of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as part of their upcoming 25/26 seasons. The co-production will take place at Hartford…
HARTFORD, Conn. (March 19, 2025) – Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford will join U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Mayor of Hartford Arunan Arulampalam and Executive Director of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce Julio Concepción for a press conference on Wednesday, March 19 at 10:00am to announce a historic partnership between the two organizations for their 25/26 seasons. The press conference will take place…
by Shera Cohen, Special to Berkshire on Stage An ideal play to commence Hartford Stage’s 2024/25 season coinciding with Halloween is “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic. It is doubtful that no one in the audience was ignorant of the tale of a…
Hartford Stage presents IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY November 25 – December 24, 2022 Adapted by Joe Landry Originally co-directed by Melia Bensussen and Rachel Alderman Directed by Zoë Golub-Sass Based on the story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern from the screenplay by Frances…
Surpasses Raise the Curtain Fundraising goal for the 2020/2021 Season Hartford, CT, July 13, 2021 – Hartford Stage has met the $1,000,000 Matching Challenge issued by a coalition of donors in January and has surpassed their Raise the Curtain Fundraising goal for the season. The donors who issued this challenge include long-time board leaders…
Artistic Director Melia Bensussen to direct season re-opening production of Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill A Christmas Carol will be replaced this season with It’s a Wonderful Life June 10, 2021 – Today, Hartford Stage announced plans to reopen the theatre to in-person performances for the 2021/2022 Season beginning in October 2021. The theater will…
