Christopher Arnott

Used books are back. Whether it's about cost, availability or a rediscovered love of browsing and collecting, stores and book fairs that specialize in used or out-of-print books are booming.

Talk about feeling the blues. James Varano thought his Black-Eyed & Bluesfest was gone for good after an extraordinary quarter century of bringing major blues acts to Hartford for the free festival.

New England Ballet Theatre continues to show steady growth in its seventh year as a company.

Terror stalks theater stages in Connecticut this fall with three “Draculas,” two “Sleepy Hollows,” two “Droods,” a “Hocus Pocus,” a “Carrie,” a “Rocky Horror” (of course) and one more “Sweeney Todd.”

The Courant’s arts picks for Sept. 6-12 include a Phish tribute, jammy rock bands and comedians Jeff Dunham, Chris DiStefano and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias.

Evan Yionoulis ' first semester as dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre began a couple of weeks ago.

The Legacy Theatre in Branford has announced its three-show 2027 mainstage season of two musicals and a play with music.

The last full week of summer ends with a blast of the 1990s. It was a time when fashion spoke as loudly as the music and any time a new sound was found, a dozen new acts were created overnight to help expand its potential.

One of the biggest Broadway comedy hits of the last decade is heading out on tour, and Hartford's getting it first.

Now that rock tribute bands have taken over the world, it’s fascinating to look back at some of the older examples of this powerful musical form and see how they developed. One of the most respected and longest serving rock tribute acts, D…