Our Mission & Vision
Mission: The Depot Theatre is to entertain, enrich, and educate through professional theatrical arts and related programs based in a historic train station.
Vision: The Depot Theatre will have a robust, regional, and year-round presence by creating the highest of quality programs, building strong partnerships, and enhancing community engagement while promoting diversity in all that we do.
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This June, the Depot Theatre Academy and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County’s 4-H program continue their growing partnership with two new opportunities designed to bring young people closer to the creative process, both onstage and behind the scenes. On Friday, June 12, following the evening performance of Hadestown: Teen Edition, the Depot Theatre will […]
The Depot Theatre receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
With special thanks to the following for their support of the Depot’s ongoing strategic objectives: Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Cloudsplitter Foundation, J.M. McDonald Foundation, Inc., Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, Charles R. Wood Foundation, Adirondack Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Rogers Carroll Family Foundation, Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation.


In the News: Construction continues at Depot Theatre
The Sun Community News highlighted the ongoing construction projects at the Depot Theatre. >> READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!
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 thought I’d provide some answers for the public, now […]
In the News: Mt Lake PBS features Depot Theatre 45th Season
Mountain Lake PBS featured the Depot Theatre’s 45th season in its August 25 episode of Mountain Lake Journal. WATCH THE EPISODE
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, while becoming almost a legal requirement for every high school and community […]
THE FANTASTICKS returns to Depot Theatre
WESTPORT, NY — The Depot Theatre is pleased to announce the cast of the final production of its 45th season, THE FANTASTICKS—it’s the world’s longest-running Off-Broadway musical, and one from the Depot Theatre’s very first season in 1979. THE FANTASTICKS is a celebration of love, its enduring mysteries, its sweet simplicities, and all the foolish […]