The
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company winds up its Mainstage season this year with
the premiere of a new pop-rock musical titled "Pregnancy Pact." It takes on a risky topic: teen pregnancy.
Ella Fitzgerald spent nearly 60 years in the spotlight. She won 13
Grammy awards, the National Medal of the Arts, the Presidential Freedom Award
and millions of fans around the world. But who was Ella? A musical at the Weston Playhouse peels back
the curtain to tell the poignant, real-life story of this notoriously private
jazz legend.
Among the casualties of Tropical Storm Irene was the Weston Playhouse. Their season opened with new renovations, thanks to a million
dollar capital campaign. But most of
those improvements were undone by Irene’s floodwaters.
When the Weston Playhouse
Theater Company approached Christopher Lloyd and said ‘we want you to appear in
one of our plays this summer, and you can pick the role,’ the veteran actor picked Willy Loman, the tragic
centerpiece of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman."