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5 Things All About Westport: July 12
"Lips Together, Teeth Apart" opens tonight at Playhouse, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys at the Levitt Pavilion and more
- The Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” by Terrence McNally and directed by Mark Lamos, Two couples gather at a Fire Island beach house to celebrate the Fourth of July and end up revealing their anxieties about impending middle age and the world's hidden threats. “This hilarious account of people struggling against their limitations is as perceptive about the way we live today as any comedy the American theater has produced in years,” the Playhouse’s website states. To learn more about the production, check out Patch contributor Karen Dydzuhn’s from yesterday.
- Got a technical question about a gadget or software application? Bring it to the Westport Library’s “Tech Tuesdays” session, held 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays through August 2. Bring your tech questions — including simple challenges such as how to download music or scan photos — and the library staff will supply the answers. You can also try out tablet PCs and e-readers.
- Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys will be performing at 8 p.m. tonight at the Levitt Pavilion, 40 Jesup Road. The music is a fusion of Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe with klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe. “The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, soulful and footstomping,” according to the group’s website. The concert is free.
- The Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall. Specifically the ZBA will consider requests for variances for 35 Burnham Hill, 5 Bradley Street, 222 Post Road West (aka 220 Post Road West) and 8 Norwalk Ave.
- An exhibition highlighting the works of acclaimed environmental artists Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude continues this week at the Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. The exhibit focuses on two works in progress by the artists, which are of massive scale: "Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado” is “a proposed site-specific installation of 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric suspended high above the Arkansas River along a 42-mile stretch in south-central Colorado,” while “The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates” will be made of “approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked oil barrels secured to an inner structure.” The exhibit runs through Sept. 4.
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