• The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Avenue; (860) 509-0909
  Whistle Down the Wind
  From the award-winning composer who thrilled audiences around the world with Evita, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind comes to the states for the very first time on National Tour! An extraordinary tale about the transforming power of love and faith, Whistle Down the Wind is an uplifting musical about a young girl named Swallow who finds a mysterious stranger in her barn. When she asks his identity the first words he utters are “Jesus Christ;” it’s as if her prayers have been answered. While the Louisiana townspeople are determined to find this escaped felon, Swallow and her friends vow to protect him from the outside world. Directed and presented by Bill Kenwright with lyrics by Jim Steinman. Friday: 8:00 p.m.; Saturday: 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday: 2:00 and 7:30 p.m.
  
  
• Charter Oak Cultural Center,21 Charter Oak Avenue;(860) 249-1207;
  The Witching Hour
  A collaboration between the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc. and the CT Antiquarian Landmarks Society, The Witching Hour brings Hartford’s own 17th century witchcraze to the present in a riveting bend of dance, music, narrative and larger than life-size puppets highlighting the clashes that arise from gender and difference, then and now. Judy Dworin ’70 is professor of theatre and dance at Trinity College. Friday and Saturday: 7:30 p.m.
  
  
• Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, Hartford; (860) 527-5151
  Our Town
  Tony and Emmy award winner Hal Holbrook stars in Wilder’s beautifully poetic portrait of life, love and death in small-town New England at the start of the 20th century. Joyous and heartbreaking, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is presented for the first time at Hartford Stage. By Thornton Wilder and directed by Gregory Boyd. Friday: 8:00 p.m.; Saturday: 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday: 2:00 p.m.

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