A sellout crowd of 550 persons jammed the Westport Library Great Hall tonight for its BOOKED for the Evening event honoring Alan Alda. Executive Director Bill Harmer announced the groundbreaking for the library’s transformation project is set for Aug. 1. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

Alan Alda reacts to a tribute paid to him at the Westport Library tonight where he was honored with the library’s annual BOOKED for the Evening Award. Alda said he was delighted with a video review of his career produced by Westport filmmaker Doug Tirola and wondered how he was able to obtain some of the material. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com

Westport actors Samantha Pattinson, Richard Holmes, and Bill Johnston are cast in the latest production from the Westport Community Theatre (WCT), “The 39 Steps” opening Friday.

“The 39 Steps” cast members include Bill Johnston, Richard Holmes, David Victor, and Samantha Pattison. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The comedy by John Buchan and directed by Donna McLaughlin Wyant runs through June 25.

The fast-paced whodunit masterfully mixes the suspense of a Hitchcock masterpiece and a spy novel, with a dash of Monty Python humor, to produce a comedy of nonstop laughs, an announcement said.

The cast plays over 150 characters with on-stage antics including handcuffs, missing fingers, a plane crash and some good old-fashioned romance.

This image by Westport award-winning photographer Larry Silver, “Boy With Medal” taken in 1995 at the Special Olympics at Yale, will be exhibited at the “Giving Voice Through the Arts to Stories Among Us!” at Westport’s Beechwood Arts Spring Arts Immersion Salon in Westport on Sunday from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. For more information, click HERE. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo by Larry Silver

By Susan Granger

According to Fandango, “Wonder Woman” is the summer’s most anticipated movie. It’s the fourth — and best — in DC’s Extended Universe, following “Man of Steel,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad.”

I grew up reading “Wonder Woman” comics and watched TVF’s kitschy Lynda Carter, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting Princess Diana’s stand-alone superhero movie. Now she’s here!

On Themyscira, a secret island gifted to the Amazons by Zeus, defiant Diana, daughter of Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), has been trained as a warrior by her aunt, badass General Antiope (Robin Wright), to battle Ares, the God of War.

During the First World War in 1918, American pilot Steve Trevor’s (Chris Pine) plane is shot down near idyllic Themyscira. Rescuing him, Diana gets her first glimpse of a man.