Theater Calendar

All venues are in Connecticut unless otherwise noted.

Through April 29: John Van Druten’s Bell, Book and Candle at Hartford Stage, directed by Darko Tresnjak.

April 12-14: Benjamin Fainstein’s Carnival/Invisible at the Yale Cabaret.

April 19-22: Spring Awakening at Sacred Heart University.

April 20-May 12: World premiere of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold, at Yale Rep.

April 20-July 1: Mame at Goodspeed Opera House.

April 25: Eve Ensler speaks at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England’s Spring Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich.

April 26-28: Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights at Wesleyan’s CFA Theater.

April 27 & 28: Britten’s 1946 chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia, starring Yale Opera students, at Sprague Hall.

April 28: Shoestring at Your Service performance/benefit for the Shoestring Theatre Company, at the West Haven Elks Club.

May 1-26: Sondheim & Lapine’s Into the Woods at Westport Country Playhouse.

May 4-12: Carlotta Festival of New Plays at Yale’s Iseman Theater.

May 6: Screening of Raymond Glazmann’s documentary Broads, about several legendary actresses of screen and stage, with Celeste Holm and Elizabeth planning to attend in person. At Lyric Hall, New Haven.

May 10-June 10: Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Hartford Stage, directed by Darko Tresnjak.

May 10-13, 17-20: Elm Shakespeare Company stages Mamet’s American Buffalo at the Kehler Liddell Gallery.

May 17-June 10: Amazing Grace at Goodspeed Musicals‘ Norma Terris Theatre.

June 12-30: The Year of Magical Thinking at Westport Country Playhouse.

June 16 & 17: Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 16 & 17: Yale Institute of Music Theatre readings of Mighty Five’s Infinite Funk Odyssey by Zach Abramson, Derek Muro, Phil Aulie & Xaq Webb and Mortality Play by Scott Arnold and Alana Jacoby. Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 19-23: The Radio Show, danced by Abraham.In.Motion, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 20-30: The National Theatre of Scotland’s The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 20-Aug. 19: Yale Summer Cabaret‘s 50 Nights: A Festival of Stories season (three shows in repertory, plus a storytelling series; exact dates TBA).

June 21 & 21: Mark Morris Dance Group performing “A Lake,” “Jesu, Meine Freude” and “Gloria” at the Shubert, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 26-30: Circa circus theater troupe at Co-op High School. Part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 28: Playwright David Henry Hwang and novelist Ha Jin speak at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 28 & 29: The Contemporary Legend Theater of Taiwan’s one-man (plus musician) production of King Lear, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

June 29 & 30: David Lang’s love/fail, part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

July 13-Sept. 23: Carousel at Goodspeed Opera House.

July 17-Aug. 4: Tartuffe, directed by David Kennedy, at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Aug. 11: Goodspeed Musicals annual Gala honors Kristin Chenoweth.

Aug. 28-Sept. 15: World premiere of Chad Beguelin’s Harbor at Westport Country Playhouse.

Sept. 21-Oct. 13: American Night—The Ballad of Juan Jose at Yale Rep (staged at the Yale University Theater).

Oct. 5-Dec. 9: Something’s Afoot at Goodspeed Opera House.

Oct. 9-Nov. 3: A Raisin in the Sun at Westport Country Playhouse.

Oct. 26-Nov. 17: World premiere of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette at Yale Rep.

Nov. 8-(closing date TBA): The Great American Mousical, based on the Julie Andrews book, at Goodspeed Musicals‘ Norma Terris Theatre.

Nov. 30-Dec. 22: World premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth at Yale Rep.