by Tim Rowland | Aug 18, 2023 | Blog
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,...
by Tim Rowland | Jul 25, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Tim Rowland | Jun 30, 2023 | Blog, News
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...
by Kim Rielly | Oct 27, 2022 | Blog
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...
by Tim Rowland | Aug 16, 2022 | Blog
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...
by Tim Rowland | Jul 25, 2022 | Blog
There’s not too much about pretentious artists that hasn’t already been explored, but even by the breed standard, abstract expressionist Mark Rothko — as depicted in John Logan’s Red — takes the cake. “I’m fascinated by me,” Rothko (played by Jeff...
