Westport Country Playhouse, is a not-for-profit theater in Westport, Connecticut.
Founded in 1931 by Lawrence Langner, a New York theater producer. Langner remodeled a 1830s tannery with a Broadway-quality stage.
2010 marked the Westport Country Playhouse’s 80th season. The Westport Country Playhouse has produced more than 700 plays, 36 of which were transferred to Broadway and almost four million people had attended the theatre.
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Famous quotes containing the word country:
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the rollercoaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)