Our Mission & Vision
Mission: The Depot Theatre is to entertain, enrich, and educate through professional theatrical arts and related programs based in a historic train station.
Vision: The Depot Theatre will have a robust, regional, and year-round presence by creating the highest of quality programs, building strong partnerships, and enhancing community engagement while promoting diversity in all that we do.
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The Depot Theatre receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
With special thanks to the following for their support of the Depot’s ongoing strategic objectives: Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Cloudsplitter Foundation, J.M. McDonald Foundation, Inc., Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, Charles R. Wood Foundation, Adirondack Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Rogers Carroll Family Foundation, Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation.
FIRST DATE – A Review
Review Contributed by Shir Filler. Ms. Filler is a Professor of English and the Humanities Department Chair at North Country Community College. Before that, she was the Editor of the Lake Placid News. Shir Filler contributed this review at the request of The Depot Theatre.
FIRST DATE, directed by Beth Glover at the Depot Theatre in Westport, is a hilarious and imaginative take on the scenario of, you guessed it, a first date. Over the course of one evening, Casey and Aaron alternately interest and annoy each other with fun repartee, but the best part is that the audience gets to experience the angst each one suffers from the warring voices in their own heads: He’s too boring. She’s not Jewish. What if he’s the one? Why can’t I just get back with my ex? What if I’ll never find the one? Does ordering a salad mean I’m not a real man? Read more
Construction update
The Westport NY station platform (L) in the fall of 2022, and (R) in early October 2023.
WHAT ARE THEY BUILDING UP THERE?
The Depot Theatre main stage season is over for the year, but activity at the train station continues!
As the only full-time employee at the Depot, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the project over the past year. I thought I’d provide some answers for the public, now that the project is nearing its end.
In short: Amtrak has hired a contractor to build an improved ADA-compliant platform that will provide more convenient and safe access to the train, building, and parking lot.
In long: there are a lot of steps, materials, and multiple organizations and businesses required to navigate such a complicated project.
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THE FANTASTICKS – A Review
The cast of the Depot Theatre’s production of THE FANTASTICKS (L-R: Cassidy Sledge, Sam Balzac, Isha Narayanan, Amanda Giles, Zach Monczewski, James Rose, Rebecca Lee Whitcomb, Madeline Saintsing.)
THE FANTASTICKS, the comforting theatrical equivalent of ordering the same thing at the restaurant you always do, has not been around forever, although it may seem that way. Debuting in 1960, the musical proceeded to go on an historic, 42-year off-Broadway run, while becoming almost a legal requirement for every high school and community theater in the land. But don’t go to the Depot Theatre’s take on THE FANTASTICKS (running through Aug. 27) expecting the same-ole same-ole. Read more
CHESAPEAKE – A Review
Luke Wehner in the Depot Theatre’s production of CHESAPEAKE.
What is art, anyway? Your dog knows.
Long before this thing called woke, long before we had come to understand that all the world’s problems could be solved with pronouns, there existed a simpler time in which culture-war villains had real brick-and-mortar office buildings with actual staff and budgets funded by hard-working, god-fearing taxpayers. Read more
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME – A REVIEW
Kayla Ryan Walsh and Michael J. Connolly in WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at the Depot Theatre.
Looking back, 2019 was a simpler time, when all that human-rights advocates had to worry about were sexists, racists, homophobes, and domestic abusers. So much historical water has flowed beneath our constitutional bridges since then that the list of socio-political threats we need to concern ourselves with has grown almost as lengthy as the Constitution itself.
If anything, that adds a wallop to Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, which opened this weekend at Depot Theatre, featuring Kayla Ryan Walsh as Heidi — the real-world actor who starred in her own production, which opened on Broadway just four short years ago. Read more