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Auditions: The Seafarer
WESTPORT COMMUNITY THEATRE Announces AUDITIONS for The Seafarer By Conor McPherson Directed by Ruth Anne Baumgartner Auditions will be held on: Monday, September 19 & Tuesday, September 20 at 7:00...
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“Moonlight and Magnolias” opens Westport Community Theatre’s new season TONIGHT!
“Moonlight and Magnolias” by Ron Hutchinson directed by Jessica Denes Opens Friday, September 16 at 8:00 PM Westport Community Theatre opens the 2011 / 2012 season with a madcap comedy, “Moonlight and...
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“Moonlight and Magnolias”– a little background
Cast (missing Cindy Hartog), Director and Stage Manager – "Moonlight and Magnolias" Just in case you missed the excellent article in “The Prompter” – a little background information for “Moonlight and...
View ArticleThe Seafarer: Director’s Blog #1, Auditions
The next production at WCT, Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, opens Thanksgiving weekend and runs three weekends—appropriately, since the play is set on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. . One of...
View ArticleThe Seafarer: Director’s Blog #2, Equity
Directors at community theaters often gripe about Actors Equity Association, the union that represents stage actors and stage managers. We encounter a lot of frustrations in this regard. First of all,...
View ArticleDirector’s Post #3: publicity photos
Always before we hold the publicity shoot I feel somewhat resentful that I’m going to be more or less sacrificing a rehearsal for the sake of some photos. But then on the night, I realize that with the...
View ArticleDirector’s blog #4: “It’s a Theater Miracle!”
That’s one of my niece’s sayings. For many years in her childhood and early teens she spent a week to ten days with me in the summer, helping to get my summer show up. She learned to sew hems and...
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The Seafarer. Director’s blog #5: Ensemble
Cast of "The Seafarer" at Westport Community Theatre As I noted in my blog on auditions, I always say I cast “to ensemble.” That means I cast to get good combinations onstage, not to get a collection...
View ArticleThe Seafarer Director’s Blog #6: the fleeting joys of the performing arts
It’s wrong to call a production like The Seafarer a “fleeting joy” except in the most literal sense, but this week that’s the sense I’m experiencing. Sunday was our last performance. What makes the...
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Announcing the 2012 / 2013 Westport Community Theatre Season!
We are so pleased to announce WCT’s 2012 / 2013 season! And this announcement has an added bit of intrigue as we’re not quite ready to announce the show that will fill our fourth slot, April 12 – 26,...
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Director’s Diary: Souvenir, part 1
With The Crucible closing in one more week, I’m turning my attention to the play I’ll be directing, Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir. It’s a new kind of show for me, but one that has already grown very...
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Director’s Diary: Souvenir, part 2
“What is it that we’re living for?…Applause, Applause! / Nothing I know / brings on the glow / like sweet applause,” sings Bonnie, in the 1970 Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical Applause. Well, I...
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