748 stories by "Westport Country Playhouse"
By Alexandra ScordatoMarketing InternMany actors who perform on our Playhouse stage commute to Westport from New York City. Before the show, every actor has a different routine and way of se…
Audio courtesy WICCActress Maureen Anderman plays the character of Corneila Cunningham in A.R. Gurney's world premiere comedy, Love & Money (co-produced with New York's Signature Th…
By Charlie NorkIndividual Giving ManagerWe are thrilled to announce that Broadway and television star Matthew Morrison will be joining us on September 21st to honor 2015 Tony Award winner Ke…
By Don RebarCommunity Engagement & Digital Content ManagerDuring the upcoming run of A.R. Gurney's Love & Money (co-produced with Signature Theatre), we invite you to attend a "Post-…
By Don RebarCommunity Engagement & Digital Content ManagerFounding members of the WCP New Works Circle recently visited the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT to take a close…
by Alexandra Scordato Marketing InternEach summer the staff of Westport Country Playhouse welcomes a group of aspiring theater professionals to join them in numerous areas of production…
Mark Lamos discusses the themes of A.R. Gurney's world premiere comedy "Love & Money."
Connecticut MagazineJuly 2015By Kate Hartman
by Thomas G. FifferWeston Magazine GroupJuly 2015
By Nathaniel FrenchCourtesy Signature Theatre CompanyMark Lamos & A. R. Gurney. Photo by Peter Chenot.Over the course of more than forty plays, Residency One playwright A.R. (P…
By Annie KeefeAssociate ArtistI finally met A.R. (Pete) Gurney in 2000 when he graciously waived the royalties on his beautiful play LOVE LETTERS so that the newly minted board of the Playho…
By Chad KinsmanArtistic & Management CoordinatorYou wouldn't know it by looking at us, but on June 29ththe Playhouse celebrates its 84th birthday (we're slightly younger than the Empire …
By Alysia MillerPatron Services Supervisor/1st Time Subscriber ConciergeThe start of WWII, in 1939, brought much change for the fashion of the day in Britain. Rationing, which began on June…
England on the Eve of WWII. The working-class Stott family spend their days gabbing, singing songs, and soldiering on despite their meager rations.
When Helen, the eldest daughter, finds…
Al Hirschfeld, who will be celebrated at Westport Country Playhouse on Monday evening, June 29, created an original work of art exclusively for the Playhouse in 1987.Twenty famous stars who …
By Alexandra ScordatoMarketing InternDame Vera Lynn. Image Source.Vera Lynn was born on March 20thin what we know now as East London and began performing at a very young age. She …
By Alexandra ScordatoMarketing Intern Image SourceIn the late 1930s, fashionable women desired to wear nylons, a sheer nude pantyhose with a black seam up the back. The DuPont Company, a la…
