The final production of our 2026 Main Stage season brings the extraordinary music of Johnny Cash to the Depot Theatre with five actor-musicians and more than two dozen songs that helped define an American musical legend. Returning to direct and choreograph is Michael Santora, who helmed last summer’s Million Dollar Quartet. The company features Hannah […]
Our thanks to Annette Stephens of the Adirondack Explorer for writing a great feature on the expansion of the Depot Theatre Academy this year! Instead of the equity actors who typically grace the main stage at Westport’s Depot Theatre, this season the lights came up on a group of local teens. A veteran cast from […]
Professional comedy opens July 25, following preview performances July 23 & 24 The Depot Theatre continues its 2026 Main Stage season with Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Katie Forgette’s acclaimed comedy about family, faith, and the unforgettable stories that become part of family legend. Set in 1973, the play follows the O’Shea family […]
The Depot Theatre Academy is proud to announce the cast and creative team for its upcoming concert presentation of Ride the Cyclone (High School Edition), presented as part of the Depot Theatre’s Dark Nights series. Following the success of the Depot Theatre Academy’s acclaimed production of Hadestown: Teen Edition, the Academy’s summer season continues with […]
The Depot Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick… Boom!, running on the Main Stage in twelve performances from June 25 to July 12th. Before Rent transformed American musical theatre, Larson was an aspiring composer in New York City, waiting tables, approaching thirty, and wrestling with a question familiar […]
The Depot Theatre has been awarded $83,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support critical capital improvements to its historic home in the 1876 Westport train station. The grant is part of a statewide capital funding announcement supporting arts and culture facilities across New York State. Funding will help The […]
Professional theatre and the Adirondacks aren’t necessarily two things most people put together. Yet in a restored railroad station overlooking Lake Champlain, audiences gather every summer to experience exactly that. The Depot Theatre in Westport has spent decades proving that world-class theatre doesn’t require a Broadway address. It requires talent, creativity, community support, and a […]
This June, young performers from across the North Country will step into myth, music, and storytelling as the Depot Theatre Academy opens the Depot Theatre summer Main Stage season with Hadestown: Teen Edition. Presented in the Depot Theatre’s historic 1876 train station in Westport, the production brings together a cast of student performers from throughout […]
This June, the Depot Theatre Academy and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County’s 4-H program continue their growing partnership with two new opportunities designed to bring young people closer to the creative process, both onstage and behind the scenes. On Friday, June 12, following the evening performance of Hadestown: Teen Edition, the Depot Theatre will […]
April workshops launch the first public event in Essex County’s new Youth and Agriculture Building, with expanded career-focused programming to follow. The Depot Theatre Academy and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County (CCE) will continue their county-wide 4-H youth partnership this spring with a new series of workshops in Essex County schools and community spaces. […]
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.
