Ballet Theatre Company's Nutcracker in West Hartford

The Bushnell’s Maxwell M. & Ruth R. Belding Theater

The Bushnell (Mortensen Hall) was completed in 1930 by Dotha Bushnell Hillyer as a “living memorial” to her father, the Reverend Dr. Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), a Hartford minister, theologian, philosopher and civic leader. In 2002 the Maxwell M. and Ruth R. Belding Theater was opened.

This 906-seat theater, is named in honor of long -time trustee, Maxwell Belding and his family. A theater designed by Wilson, Butler, Lodge, “The Belding” was opened in 2002.

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra performs at the center on a regular basis.