Construction update

by | Oct 16, 2023 | Backstage Dispatches

  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

by | Aug 18, 2023 | Backstage Dispatches

  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

by | Jul 25, 2023 | Backstage Dispatches

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...