Construction update

  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...

THE FANTASTICKS – A Review

  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,...

CHESAPEAKE – A Review

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...

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME – A REVIEW

  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...

Historic Property Exterior Painting Project Completed

Did you know? The Depot Theatre owns one building on the National Register of Historic Places (our artists’ housing) and is a steward of another (the Town of Westport’s circa 1876 Train Station). 2022 saw the completion of the Historic Property Exterior Painting...

THE ADDAMS FAMILY – A Review

The Addams Family brand just won’t die. But of course. Born in 1938 as a series of one-panel cartoons, this ghoulish family has lived through the generations as cartoon, TV show, film, video game, dance move, and musical comedy. Broadway critics tried to drive a stake...