Concerts & Events in Hartford, Connecticut

What’s on in Hartford

100 upcoming events are listed in Hartford, 13 of them in the next 7 days and 29 within 30 days. That includes 15 concerts, 28 sports events and 57 theatre shows.

The venues with the most upcoming dates are Mortensen Hall at Bushnell Theatre (30), PeoplesBank Arena (30) and Hartford Stage (29). Next up: Connecticut Huskies Womens Basketball on Oct 19 at PeoplesBank Arena (from $156); Mamma Mia! on Oct 20 at Mortensen Hall at Bushnell Theatre (from $82); Spite on Oct 21 at Webster Theater (from $65).

Genres in the current concert listings include Classical and Rock.

Hartford anchors Connecticut's live-music calendar via XL Center (the city's primary indoor arena for UConn basketball and touring concerts) and the surrounding Mohegan Sun Arena complex 35 miles south in Uncasville (a top-five US casino-arena combo by booking volume, hosting year-round concerts, UFC nights, and championship boxing). The Bushnell Performing Arts Center handles Broadway and theatrical tours; Infinity Hall and the Webster Theater run the mid-tier club calendar. Hartford's central New England location routes most national tours through the city as a routing-efficient stop between Boston and New York metros — particularly for arena tours that wouldn't fit the same venue in either of those denser markets. UConn Huskies basketball remains one of the toughest college sports tickets in the Northeast, with the men's and women's programs both routinely playing for national championships. Foxwoods Resort Casino 45 miles east adds another major concert and combat-sports calendar.

Next up in Hartford

• Connecticut Huskies Womens Basketball — Oct 19, PeoplesBank Arena (from $156)
• Mamma Mia! — Oct 20, Mortensen Hall at Bushnell Theatre (from $82)
• Spite — Oct 21, Webster Theater (from $65)
• Melvin Seals — Oct 21, Infinity Hall Hartford (from $80)

Venues with the most upcoming dates

• Mortensen Hall at Bushnell Theatre — 30 dates
• PeoplesBank Arena — 30 dates
• Hartford Stage — 29 dates
• Infinity Hall Hartford — 8 dates
• Webster Theater — 2 dates