“Moments before Mark Shanahan made his acting debut at the Westport Country Playhouse, Joanne Woodward told him to put both feet on a special spot backstage.
It was 2005, and the historic theater had just undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation. Several boards from the original 1931 stage had been incorporated into the new one.
Shanahan — a young actor being directed by the legendary star in “David Copperfield” — reverently stood where hundreds of legends, from Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland to Paul Newman and Woodward herself once walked.
Last year, as incoming artistic director, Shanahan watched other actors stand there.
This month, as he takes the reins as artistic director, he looks forward to watching many more do the same.”
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Mark Shanahan, at the Playhouse. (Photo/Dan Woog)
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