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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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.
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 buildings with actual staff and budgets funded by hard-working, god-fearing taxpayers.
Depot Theatre’s CHESAPEAKE Features Dynamic One-Man Cast
WESTPORT, N.Y. — The Depot Theatre in Westport, New York, is pleased to announce the cast of CHESAPEAKE, the second production in the theatre’s 45th season main stage lineup. CHESAPEAKE features ONE wildly versatile actor, who brings alive a string of disparate characters who argue completely polar perspectives on the value of art, politics, and […]
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 socio-political threats we need to concern ourselves with has grown almost as lengthy as the […]
Depot Theatre announces cast of WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
WESTPORT, NY — The Depot Theatre in Westport, New York, is pleased to announce the cast for the first show of the theatre’s 45th season main stage lineup: WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME by Heidi Schreck. The production is an upbeat and quick-witted play in which a middle-aged woman (Schreck) recounts her upbringing as […]
Depot Theatre awarded 2023 NYSCA Grant for New Sound System
WESTPORT, NY — The Depot Theatre in Westport, NY has been awarded a $25,000 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) capital improvement grant for a sound system replacement. The grant is part of a record capital investment of more than $42 million to 144 capital projects for arts and cultural organizations across the […]