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When David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play M. Butterfly premiered at the National Theater in Washington D.C. and then produced on Broadway, it was truly visionary, compelling, thought-provoking, and outright shocking. Revised in 2017 to incorporate information that was released after the original play was produced, more people’s acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community, and China’s growth as a superpower.

Although Stephanie Zimbalist is mostly associated with Hollywood, her heart is in the theater. Zimbalist will be back at the Westport Country Playhouse on September 27th in the one night only performance of The Fitzgeralds: A Reading with Music, which also stars Alec Baldwin.

As if wasn’t enough to for the Westport Country Playhouse to have a unique history, charm, and an ability to draw incredible talent to its stage (and backstage) and loyal audiences for 94 years, the gods of theater blessed it with Mark Shanahan as its artistic director.

Read our review of the classic musical Pippin at The Off-Beat Players. Pippin will run through August 2 at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center of Greenwich Country Day School.

If you saw Native Gardens at the Westport Country Playhouse earlier this year you will remember Linedy Genao’s dynamic performance as a new homeowner of a suburban fixer upper. On Tuesday, August 12, Genao returns to the Playhouse for one evening only in her show, Songs From My Sala.

Everyone knows the beloved story of Camelot – the rise and fall of the legendary and idealistic King Arthur and the heartbreaking betrayals by his wife, his best knight, and his illegitimate son. The musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe never gets tired and seeing it again at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts is more than just a pleasant theater experience.

In Shakespeare’s time, a black flag would be raised over the theatre to indicate a tragedy. Well, a tragedy happened just before Shakespeare on The Green’s production of King Lear was to open. As King Lear himself put it, “Such groans of roaring wind … I never remember to have heard.”

You can see the Falcone Repertory Theatre’s script-in-handing reading of Tina Howe’s Painting Churches at the Pine Brook Theater in Trumbull (the old Group Theater's summer home).

Even if you saw the movie, don't miss this rarely performed play at The Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny Park, New Canaan.

There is probably no contemporary playwright who writes better theatrical farces than Ken Ludwig. What better way to close Westport Community Theatre’s 67th season than with Ludwig’s The Gods of Comedy?

Deep in the winding paths of Ridgefield is one of the best theaters you probably never knew existed: A.C.T. of Connecticut (A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut).

It’s the height of the Great Depression (1933), and Peggy Sawyer (Kate Morton) leaves Allentown, Pennsylvania to fulfill her dreams of being a show girl in New York City. She just missed her audition for a new musical by Bert Barry (Shaun Daral) and Maggie Jones (Sabina Farley), and producer Julian Marsh (Michael Faherty) is ticked off and Peggy leaves the theater.

On April 24, the day of Barbra Streisand’s 83rd birthday, Jenna will perform her show Me, Myself & Barbra, a special one night only event at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Westhill High School’s Northstar Playmakers have magic to do in the upcoming production of Pippin, the 1972 Tony Award winning musical. This is also one of your last chances to see some of the area’s most promising performers before they become famous because they are graduating in June.

There's a lot to think about in this play. It's a first-class production.

You'll love every character in this play, even the surly maid.

Don't forget to channel your '40s superpowers - strength, patriotism, family, and retro style. Get your inspiration from @retrofrog on Instagram!

A Season of Laughter continues at the Westport Country Playhouse with Theatre People, a new adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 three-act farce, Play at the Castle (Játék a kastélyban).