BY MARK LAMOS
Westport Country Playhouse”™s 2014 Season offers a richly entertaining and thought-provoking festival of five professional productions to expand our audience”™s sense of what theater can be. In addition to stunning dramatic and hilariously comedic situations, this season features a world premier musical revue with some of the most exciting music written for the Broadway and pop idioms ”” by the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and more.
Let”™s take a look at a quick summary of our upcoming five-play 2014 Season:
”¢ “A Song at Twilight,” April 29-May 17: Noel Coward”™s exquisite battle of wits, revealing the price of hidden secrets, directed by myself, a co-production with Hartford Stage;
”¢ “Sing for Your Shakespeare,” June 3-22: A world premier musical revue exploring how Broadway, pop, rock, jazz, opera, film and Tin Pan Alley have been inspired by Shakespeare, directed by myself, co-conceived by Wayne Barker, myself and Deborah Grace Winer;
”¢ “Nora,” July 15-Aug. 2: Ingmar Bergman”™s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen”™s “A Doll”™s House,” a story of love, lies and blackmail, translated by Frederick J. Marker and Lisa-Lone Marker, directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director;
”¢ “Things We Do for Love,” Aug.19-Sept. 6: Alan Ayckbourn”™s wickedly funny play that questions just how sane anyone really is when it comes to love, directed by John Tillinger; and
”¢ “Intimate Apparel,” Oct. 7-Nov. 1: Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage”™s intricate tapestry of the tragedy and triumph of an African-American seamstress negotiating the choice between a love that is accepted and one that is true.
When you attend the Playhouse”™s season of Theater Worth Talking About, you”™re involved in an ongoing, ever-changing conversation with the arts and your communities, families and friends. That vital combination of art and community is why we were honored by The Wall Street Journal as “Theater Company of the Year” for 2013.
For more information, please visit our website at westportplayhouse.org or call us at the Westport Country Playhouse box office at 203-227-4177 or toll-free at 1-888-927-7529. We are at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, in Westport.
Please join us for another exciting year and see what everyone is talking about.
Mark Lamos is the artistic director at Westport Country Playhouse and a member of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.
