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40 - ARTS IN THE PARK • SUMMER/FALL 2022

Depot Theatre announces main stage season

WESTPORT — The Depot Theatre will ease into live theater’s “new normal” with a decidedly abnormal (and eclectic) three-show lineup for the 2022 main stage season, which features a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, a riveting drama and a spookily hilarious musical.

The only professional Equity theater in the Adirondacks, the Depot will continue to adhere to government and Actors’ Equity health and safety guidelines. “Just as we creatively manage the on-stage reaction to trains that interrupt our performances, we are prepared for whatever protocols we’ll need to implement to protect our cast and patrons,” said Kim Rielly, Depot Theatre Executive Director. “As in 2021, we appreciate everyone’s support and flexibility in making it possible to experience live theater yet again.”

The season opens with the humorous, poignant and sophisticated musical review Putting It Together. This show is a celebration of the stage and screen work of multiple Tony Award-winner Stephen Sondheim, the foremost theatrical composer/lyricist of our time. Sondheim passed away in 2021 at the age of 91.

The show weaves a lyrical story around the emotions and relationships of five guests attending a Manhattan cocktail party, and it features material from a number of Sondheim’s works, including Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday In The Park With George and Into The Woods. The show will run from June 30 through July 17.

Next up for the season, beginning July 21 through August 7, is Red by John Logan. Raw and provocative, Red is a moving and compelling account of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.

Based on the real-life commission Rothko received in 1958 to create a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, Red is a searing portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. Viewed through the lens of his youthful new assistant Ken, they challenge each other to ask big questions about art as they paint: what it takes to create it and what its role should be in the world.

The season ends in the kooky, upside-down world of The Addams Family. In this comical feast set to music, dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday is now an 18-year-old young woman who has fallen in love with a sweet, smart boy from a “normal” family, and to make matters worse, she has invited his parents to the Addams’ home for dinner. The Addams Family performances will be Aug. 11-28.

Tickets can be purchased online or by calling the box office at 518-962-4449 beginning June 1. As policies evolve, updates will be posted online and at the Depot. More details, additional events and news updates can be found online at DepotTheatre.org.

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