Something Rotten! Comes to Danbury Oct. 13-22, and more at the Visual and Performing Arts Center

Don't miss this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway. Something Rotten! runs October 13-22 at the Visual and Performing Arts Center Hailed by Time Out New York as "the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years", Something Rotten! follows two brothers who are desperate to write a hit play, but are stuck in the shadow of The Bard. When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, they set out to write the world’s very first musical. Don't miss out on this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway, running October 13-22 at the Visual and Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut State University. Click on the image above to watch a making-of feature of Something Rotten! and to purchase tickets. About the Visual and Performing Arts Center The Visual and Performing Arts Center at Western Connecticut State University, located in Danbury, CT, is the premiere educational arts facility in the region. This $98,000,000, 130,000 square foot arts center boasts a multitude of dynamic spaces to delight audiences and invigorate artists. Facilities include the 350-seat MainStage Theatre, the versatile Studio Theatre, Concert Hall and Art Gallery. All spaces are equipped with the finest technology in the arts industry, enhancing the work that appears on stage. Since opening in 2014, the Visual and Performing Arts Center has solidified its reputation of offering Broadway-caliber theatre at affordable costs to the community. [Something Rotten! Comes to Danbury Oct. 13-22, and more at the Visual and Performing Arts Center]( Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama Angels in America is one of the great American plays of this past century. Angels in America runs November 3-12 in the Studio Theatre at the Visual and Performing Arts Center. Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Somewhere in the backwoods of Russia, the three Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina, live in the large, beautiful house their father has left them. Raised to be bastions of refinement and taste, but stranded amongst small-town folk with no ambition, they cling desperately to memories of the bright, thriving Moscow they left as children. Three Sisters runs December 1-3 in the MainStage Theatre at the Visual and Performing Arts Center. [Something Rotten! Trailer & Tickets]( [2023-2024 Season Tickets]( Visual and Performing Arts Center at WCSU 43 Lake Avenue Extension Danbury, Connecticut 06811 (203) 837-8732 [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, to unsubscribe [click here]( Wisdom Digital Media 1180 Avenue of the Americas 8th Floor New York, New York 10036