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Hartford Stage
and SummerStage. Darko Tresnjak will become the fifth
Artistic Director in July 2011.
Among the plays produced at Hartford Stage are nine
plays by Edward Albee, nine by Molière, 14 by Tennessee
Williams, 22 by Shakespeare, and 55 World or American
premieres, including works by Edward Albee, Horton
Foote, Eve Ensler, Alfred Uhry, Christopher Durang, Beth
Henley, Vladimir Nabokov, Kia Corthron, Israel
Horowitz, William Luce, Theresa Rebeck, Allan Havis,
José Rivera, Edwin Sànchez and Tennessee Williams.
Most recently, Hartford Stage has sent productions
Hartford Stage Company, John W. Huntington Theatre, 2010 of Enchanted April and The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm
to Broadway, Tiny Alice, Necessary Targets, The Carpetbag-
Hartford Stage located in Hartford, Connecticut, is
Stage, gers Children and Tea at Five off Broadway, and touring
one of the leading resident theatres in the United States, productions to Cleveland, Houston, Cambridge, Los An-
known internationally for entertaining and enlightening geles, Montreal and Paris. In 1975, Hartford Stage’s pro-
audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, duction of Edward Albee’s All Over was aired nationally on
from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and the PBS series Theater in America, the first time one of the
neglected works from the past. The theatre has earned author’s works was filmed for television. In 1988, in the
many of the nation’s most distinguished awards, includ- first exchange between an American and a Soviet the-
ing the Regional Theatre Tony Award, the Margo Jones atre, Mark Lamos staged Desire Under the Elms at Moscow’s
Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, a Pushkin Theater and the renowned Russian director Yuri
New York Critics Circle award, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Yeremin staged A Paper Gramophone in Hartford.
Award and an Elliot Norton Award. The Tennessee Williams Marathon, launched in 1999,
has become a distinguished celebration of the author’s
range of work in productions, readings, film screenings,
History workshops and scholarly panels and discussions. In 2003,
Founded in 1963 by Jacques Cartier, Hartford Stage began Hartford Stage draws national attention with the pre-
in a former grocery store warehouse on Kinsey Street. mieres of three neglected Williams’ plays-Now the Cats
On April 1, 1964, Othello, directed by Cartier, opened the with Jeweled Claws, The Palooka and The One Exception.
theatre, which quickly established itself as a major cul- From its inception, Hartford Stage has maintained
tural resource for the region, producing seasons offering a strong commitment to community partnerships, edu-
a range of works from Molière to Beckett to Genet. Paul cational programs and humanities initiatives. Reviving
Weidner, who assumed leadership of the theatre in 1968, an old collaboration, in 2000 Hartford Stage joined with
oversaw its move to its present home-the 489-seat John the Artists’ Collective for the production Oedipus, set in
W. Huntington Theatre designed by renowned architect
Theatre, modern-day Africa. Through a partnership with the City
Robert Venturi. Weidner continued the theatre’s dedi- of Hartford, HUD, and Theater Communications Group,
cation to both classic and contemporary works, as well the theatre developed the Oral History Project, resulting
as representing diverse communities with productions of in the piece My Hartford, developed and performed by
Ray Aranha’s My Sister My Sister and Miguel Pinero’s Short teens from the Hartford area. The theatre continues its
Eyes, with its original cast of ex-convicts. Mark Lamos two highly successful education programs, InterACT and
became Artistic Director in 1980, bringing international Connections, reaching Connecticut students from ele-
recognition to Hartford Stage during his seventeen sea- mentary through high school. Through an association
sons with explorations of the great works of dramatic lit- with The President’s College of the University of Hart-
erature, most notably the plays of Shakespeare, Molière, ford, the theater presents provocative series of discus-
Ibsen and Schnitzler. In January 1998, Michael Wilson be- sions and lectures. A collaboration with the Greater Hart-
came the fourth artist to lead Hartford Stage, launching ford Arts Council’s Neighborhood Studios program re-
the Tennessee Williams Marathon, the annual produc- sulted in the Breakdancing Shakespeare project, in which
tion of A Christmas Carol, the annual Brand:NEW festival, local Greater Hartford high school students perform us-
ing three different forms of expression: breakdancing,
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rap, and Shakespeare’s language to help make the play • 1977 Eve (Larry Fineberg), Past Tense (Jack Zeman),
immediately accessible to audiences of all ages. The Counting the Ways and Listening (Edward Albee), A
youth troupe has currently performed Romeo and Juliet History of the American Film (Christopher Durang)
(2006), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2007), Antony and • 1978 Catchpenny Twist (Stewart Parker), They’d Come
Cleopatra(2010), The Comedy of Errors"" (2009), and Mac- to See Charlie (James Borrelli), Mackerel (Israel
beth"".[1] Horowitz)
Hartford Stage is an important institution in the life • 1980 Einstein and the Polar Bear (Tom Griffin)
of Hartford and Connecticut, and serves as a vital home • 1981 Is there life after high school? (Jeffrey Kindley and
for artists from around the country. Craig Carnelia), I, James McNeill Whistler (Lawrence
and Maggie Williams)
Noted directors and actors • 1982 The Wake of Jamie Foster (Beth Henley), The Greeks
(adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander), The
Isle is Full of Noises (Derek Walcott)
Directors • Irene Actors • Amanda • 1983 Dog Eat Dog (Mary Gallagher)
• JoAnne Lewis • Ellen Plummer • 1984 The Mystery Plays (John Russell Brown), The
Akalaitis • Marion Burstyn • Bradley Value of Names (Jeffrey Sweet)
• Anne McClinton • Jean Whitford • 1985 No Mercy (Constance Congdon), America’s
Bogart • Emily Stapleton • Mercedes Sweetheart (Alfred Uhry, Robert Waldman & John
• Mark Mann • Richard Ruehl Weidman)
Brokaw • Marshall Thomas • Rue • 1986 Mark Twain and C.D. Warner’s The Gilded Age
• Graciela Mason • Elizabeth McClanahan (adapted. By Constance Congdon), Distant Fires (Kevin
Daniele • Jack Ashley • Angela Heelan)
• Michael O’Brien • Phylicia Lansbury • 1989 Stand-Up Tragedy (Bill Cain), The Illusion (adapted
Engler • Lisa Rashad • Marlo by Tony Kushner), The Paper Gramophone (Alexander
• Gerald Peterson • Andrew Thomas Chervinsky)
Freedman • David McCarthy • Olympia • 1991 The Snow Ball (A.R. Gurney)
• Richard Petrarca • Dana Dukakis • 1992 Hidden Laughter (Simon Gray)
Foreman • Bartlett Ivey • Estelle • 1993 Martin Guerre (Laura Harrington and Roger
• Doug Sher • Campbell Parsons Ames)
Hughes • Daniel Scott • Lynn • 1994 Bailey’s Café (Gloria Naylor)
• Michael Sullivan • John Redgrave • 1995 Clean (Edwin Sanchez), A Dybukk (adapted by
Greif • John Michael • David Selby Tony Kushner)
• Peter Tillinger Higgins • Kate • 1997 The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm (Mel Marvin
Hunt • David • Betty Mulgrew and Mark Lamos), Pearls for Pigs (Richard Foreman)
• Jon Jory Warren Buckley • Ed O’Neill • 1998 Digging Eleven (Kia Corthron), Sueño (adapted. by
• Michael • Jonathan • Rip Torn José Rivera)
Langham Wilson • Calista • 2000 Baptiste (William Luce), DollHouse (adapted by
• Kenny • Yuri Flockhart Theresa Reebek), Enchanted April (Matthew Barber)
Leon Yeremin • David • 2001 The Carpetbagger’s Children (Horton Foote),
Patrick Necessary Targets (Eve Ensler),
Kelly • 2002 Tea at Five (Matthew Lombardo)
• 2003 The Palooka, The One Exception, Now The Cats With
Jeweled Claws (Tennessee Williams), Diosa (Edwin
Productions Sánchez), Edgardo Mine (Alfred Uhry)
• 2004 Peter and Jerry: Act I-Home Life, Act II-The Zoo Story
Hartford Stage premieres (Edward Albee)
• 1964 Putting on the Agony (Joel Oliansky) • 2005 The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue (David Grimm)
• 1969 The Waltz Invention (Vladimir Nabokov) • 2007 Nightingale (Lynn Redgrave)
• 1970 The Trial of A. Lincoln (James Damico)
• 1971 A Gun Play (Yale M. Udoff) Broadway
• 1972 Rooted (Alexander Buzo) • 1974 My Sister My Sister
• 1973 My Sister, My Sister (Ray Aranha), Nighlight • 1978 A History of American Film
(Kenneth H. Brown) • 1981 Einstein and the Polar Bear
• 1975 Afternoon Tea (Harvey Perr) • 1982 Is there life after high school?, The Wake of Jamey
• 1976 The Estate (Ray Aranha) Foster
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• 1991 Our County’s Good (Drama Critic Circle and Tony • 2003 Tea at Five
nomination), Stand-Up Tragedy • 2007 Nightingale
• 1997 The Three Sisters
• 1999 The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm (originally On tour
produced at Hartford Stage) • 1997 Pearls for Pigs, The Trial of A Lincoln
• 2003 Enchanted April (Outer Critics Circle John • 2001 The Glass Menagerie (Elliot Norton Award,
Gassner Award, Best New American Play) Outstanding Visiting Production)
• 2002 Tea at Five
Off Broadway
• 1974 My Sister My Sister
• 1989 Other People’s Money (Outer Critics Circle, Best
References
Play) [1] "Breakdancing Shakespeare" HartfordStage.org,
• 1991 From the Mississippi Delta, Marvin’s Room (Outer accessed August 27, 2011
Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Best Play)
• 1997 Pearls for Pigs
• 1999 The Clearing
External links
• 2000 Sueño • Hartford Stage official website
• 2001 Tiny Alice (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Revival) • Hartford Stage at the Internet Broadway Database
• 2002 Necessary Targets Coordinates: 41°46′6.99″N 72°40′26.33″W / 41.7686083°N
• 2002 The Carpetbagger’s Children (American Theater 72.6739806°W / 41.7686083; -72.6739806
Critics Award, Best Play)
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