It’s a crash course on the classics this week on Connecticut stages, and we do mean “crash.”

Oscar Wilde ’s immortal comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a collision of disguised identities and urban/rural lifestyles, “No Exit” is a hellish clash of personalities and “Comedy of Errors” doubles the slapstick crashes by involving two sets of identical twins — it’s also a double classic, a Shakespeare comedy based on an ancient Roman comedy by Plautus .

The ancient Jewish legend of the lumbering destructive Golem is among the creepy offerings on hand for Halloween week. “Twilight” gets the live classical ensemble soundtrack treatment, and Harriet Beecher Stowe is the subject of a ghost story.

In terms of classic rock/pop, you’ll find a tribute to the late George Michae

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