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Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand play reading of the comedy, “The Savannah Disputation,” filmed on the Playhouse stage and broadcast virtually, premiering Monday, June 14, at 7 p.m., and streaming on-demand from Tuesday, June 15 through Sunday, June 20.

Westport Playhouse Story Hour with Jenny on June 6 Written by Pat Blaufuss Westport Country Playhouse’s “Story Hour with Jenny,” a live, in-person series to engage children, grades K-3, will present an in-person, interactive reading of the picture book, “Lubaya’s Quiet Roar,” on Sunday, June 6, at 11 a.m., on the Playhouse campus.   Written by Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson, with paintings by Philomena Williamson, ©2020, “Lubaya’s Quiet Roar” is a lyrical...

Westport Country Playhouse’s New Works Initiative begins its 2021 season with a virtual workshop of ““The Immaculate Perfection of F---ing and Bleeding in the Gender Neutral Bathroom of an Upper-Middle Class High School,” written by Daniel Halpern and directed by Margot Bordelon, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 26 and 27.

Westport Country Playhouse And WSHU Public Radio Partner For Audio Play “The Return” is a haunting tale by Kavin Panmeechao, based on the Thai folk legend, “Mae Nahg.”by BWW News Desk Westport Country Playhouse Radio Theater, a free-of-charge broadcast series, in partnership with WSHU Public Radio, will present the new, audio play, "The Return," on Saturday, May 29, at noon, followed by a rebroadcast on Sunday, May 30, at 4 p.m. "The Return" is a haunting tale by Kavin Panmeechao, base...

Westport Country Playhouse Presents “Cabaret in the Robards” Written by Pat Blaufuss Next Westport, CT - Westport Country Playhouse will present “Cabaret in the Robards”, a series of live, in-person, on-stage performances headlined by Broadway musical talents, beginning in June. The three-show series will benefit the safe reopening of the Playhouse campus, closed since March 2020 due to the global pandemic.   “Cabaret in the Robards” will include “An Evening with Brad ...

Westport Country Playhouse Opens 90th Season With Michael Gotchs TINY HOUSE The original cast will perform in the Playhouse production: Sara Bues as Sam, Hassan El-Amin as Bernard, Lee E. Ernst as Larry and more.by BWW News Desk Westport Country Playhouse will open its all-virtual 2021 production season with the regional premiere of "Tiny House," a timely new comedy about downsizing, going green, escaping urban life, and fresh starts, written by Michael Gotch, and directed by Mark Lamos, ...

Westport Playhouse Virtual Production of Tiny House Opens June 29 Written by Pat Blaufuss Westport, CT - Westport Country Playhouse will open its all-virtual 2021 production season with the regional premiere of “Tiny House,” a timely new comedy about downsizing, going green, escaping urban life, and fresh starts, written by Michael Gotch, and directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director. The production will stream on demand from Tuesday, June 29 through Sunday, July 18. �...

Westport Country Playhouse to Stage Virtual Production - Westport, CT - Westport Country Playhouse Stages Virtual Production of Timely New Comedy, "Tiny House," Opening June 29

Paul Kellogg, New York City Opera Impresario, Dies at 84 He had no opera experience when he was chosen to run the Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York; 17 years later, he took on City Opera during a difficult period. Paul Kellogg in 2007 at the New York State Theater, as the New York City Opera’s home was then called. As leader of both that company and the Glimmerglass Opera, he made the two houses creative partners.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times April 28, 2021 Paul Kellogg, an i...

Geoffrey Owens, a well-known actor whose work experiences off the stage started a national dialogue about the value of steady employment, was in Connecticut this month paying tribute to work and art simultaneously.