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FIRST DATE to Kick Off Depot Theatre’s Main Stage Season
FIRST DATE runs June 26-July 13 at the Depot Theatre. Depot Theatre’s Main Stage Season Premieres with the Broadway Hit FIRST DATE Westport, NY (June 16, 2025) The Depot Theatre’s 47th Main Stage season kicks off with a hilarious,...
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Comes to Depot Theatre Academy
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...
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...
RED – A Review
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 Williams)...
PUTTING IT TOGETHER – a review
Stephen Sondheim was, by acclaim, the best composer/lyricist of the latter half of the 20th century, his name up on the marquee of Broadway titans along with Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. Sondheim died last fall at the age of 91, and in tribute, the Depot Theatre in...
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