In 2015 the Depot for New Play Readings opened as a gathering place for theater lovers who wish to stay abreast of trends in theater today. The group meets to read and discuss new work in a former train station outbuilding in Hampton, a rural village in Connecticut’s Quiet Corner.

In 2016, the Depot began to host local playwrights with their work, including a co-founder of the Boston Podcast Players podcast, Greg Lam; the award-winning poet John Surowiecki; and the award-winning playwright Michael Bradford.

In the late 1950s, the Depot building was moved from the site of the old Hampton Train Station, once a stop on an “air line” route from Boston to New York, to a private property in the village. Over the years the Depot has served as a barn for ponies and an art studio, once for award-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Rigby and later, the printmaker Rhea…