The popular local DNR band played to a large crowd tonight at the Levitt Pavilion in a fundraiser for Westport EMS. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The Westport Community Theatre (WCT) has announced its 2017—2018 season with a new subscription option that includes reduced-price admission to its five main stage productions.

A scene from one of WCT’s previous productions, Conor McPherson’s “The Seafarer.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The season kicks off with “A View from the Bridge,“ by Arthur Miller, opening Friday, Sept. 15. A new version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” will run in late November and December.

The Fairfield County premiere of the recent off-Broadway hit play “Annapurna” will be performed in February, and the Connecticut premiere of Steven Dietz’ conspiracy thriller “Yankee Tavern” follows in April.

The season concludes in June with the madcap summer comedy “Shakespeare in Hollywood” by Ken Ludwig, author of “Lend Me A Tenor.”

The owners of 54 Wright St., in the Kings Highway North Historic District, are the newest recipients of a Westport Historical Society (WHS) historical plaque. Bob Weingarten, WHS plaque historian, presented the plaque to Tricia Wentworth, co-owner of the property with her husband Mark Fagan. According to Weingarten, the barn, known as the Bradley Barn was built in c.1842 behind the Jesse Bradley house built in c.1840. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Pop Up artist Howland Blackiston (r) and his wife Joy put the finishing touches today on his work, “Welcome home your lordship,” a silicone and mixed media work that is 67 inches tall It is one of the items in the Westport Artists Collective Fall Pop Up show on Wednesday at the Westport Arts Center. The show opens with a 6 to 8 p.m. reception, and works can be viewed through Saturday. There will be artists’ talk on Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Leslie LaSala for WestportNow.com

By Susan Granger

There are no surprises in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” a buddy action-comedy. Two established American stars (one Caucasian, one African-American), supported by some stalwart, foreign character-actors, engage in lots of violence, peppered with profanity.

Disgraced Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) is an elite private security guard — aka bodyguard — who botched an assignment when a Japanese arms-dealing client succumbed to sniper fire.

So when his former girlfriend, Interpol agent Amelia Roussel (Elodie Young), asks him to safeguard a witness, promising to restore his “Triple A” reputation, he accepts the assignment.

Bryce is to provide protection for convicted hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson), who is going from Manchester, England, to The Hague to testify in International Criminal Court against the deposed “ex-Soviet Union” Belarusian president, Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman).

Scenes from day two of the Blues, Views, and BBQ Festival at Westport’s Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts.  J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com and WestportNow.com photos

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer (r), 14, performed as Taz and Friends today at the second day of the Blues, Views, and BBQ Festival in Westport. As the longest-running cast member for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “School of Rock: The Musical,” for over two years, Taz treated audiences to his energized and advanced guitar stylings as the character “Zach.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Rain that fell early in the day gave way to sunny skies late today for the second and final day of the Blues, Views, and BBQ Festival at the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Rain left some puddles in the Westport Lbrary parking lot early in the day today, but that did not stop playing later in the day on slides and other children’s games on the second and final day of the Blues, Views, and BBQ Festival. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

In response to a request for volunteers between acts, Carly Mori (l) and Zoe Lieberman, both 17 of Westport, tried their hand today at hula hoops on the stage of the Blues, Views, and BBQ Festival in Westport. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo