by Sarah Wilson | Jun 22, 2025 | Backstage Dispatches, News
As seen on BroadwayWorld THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Comes to the Depot Theatre Academy Performances will take place June 12-14 and will open the Main Stage season at the historic Depot Theatre in Westport, New York. The Depot Theatre Academy will present the first of...
by Kim Rielly | 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...
by Tim Rowland | 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,...
by Tim Rowland | 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...
by Tim Rowland | Jun 30, 2023 | Backstage Dispatches, 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 | Backstage Dispatches
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...
