Book explores theater's history
Since 1931, Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Conn., has hosted monumental actors and actresses and played host to the stage debuts and finales of such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill and A.R. Gurney.
The theatre's recent two-year-long renovation is being celebrated with the release of Richard Somerset-Ward's book "An American Theatre," published by Yale University Press and chronicling the history of the illustrious venue. Somerset, in several amusing anecdotes, points out that the playhouse derives charm not only from the high caliber of the actors,...
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