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Oscar Wilde’s farcical comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest opened the 2025-2026 season at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut on November 1, 2025. First performed at the St. James Theatre in London, England, on February 14, 1895, the play still has the power to keep audiences rollicking with laugh-out-loud laughter over the antics of the characters where mistaken identities and cutting-edge dialogue about love, marriage, and high society, make for a very enjoyable evening of theatre. Melissa Rain …

Taking a tour of the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut with Bruce Miller, Cultural Associate and Archivist was not only exciting to be “on stage” as well as “backstage” at the historic theatre, but it was also thrilling to share that space with some of the great actors who have performed there since the Playhouse opened on June 29, 1931. Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Myrna Loy, Celeste Holm, Tyrone Powers, Carol Channing, Tallulah Bankhead, Liza Minelli, Bernadette Peters, Henry …

Theatre People, written by playwright Paul Slade Smith adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s Play At The Castle, performed at the Westport Country Playhouse (WCP) in Westport, Connecticut may be the best medicine for whatever ails you. Directed by Mark Shanahan and starring an impressively talented cast of Erin Noel Grennan, Isabel Keating, Michael McCormick, Mia Pinero, Michael McCorry Rose, and Rodolfo Soto, the play had the opening night packed-house audience laughing out loud all evening. A brilliant play, a gorgeous set …

Good fences make good neighbors, or do they? That is the premise of the play Native Gardens written by Playwright Karen Zacarías and Directed by JoAnn M. Hunter presented by the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut. The play stars Paula Leggett Chase, Adam Heller, Linedy Genao, and Anthony Michael Martinez. The play is recommended for ages 12 and up and runs until March 8, 2025. Bravo! We saw the play, Native Gardens on opening night on Saturday, February 22, …

Playwright and Director Mark Shanahan’s A Sherlock Carol at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut is a delightful mélange of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (published in 1843) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes (published in 1892). The result is an engaging story that will have you on the edge of your seats trying to solve “the crime.” We had the pleasure of seeing A Sherlock Carol again at the Westport Country Playhouse on opening night, Tuesday, December …