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Westmoreland Players stage historical drama with Frost/Nixon

This year’s real-life political season will come to its conclusion on Election Day, Nov. 3, but political junkies (and theater lovers of any stripe) will get a jolt of historical drama just three days later when The Westmoreland Players’ production of Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan begins its three-weekend run. The story dramatizes the circumstances surrounding the 1977 televised interviews of former President Richard Nixon (played by Dan Beckhard) conducted by smooth British talk-show host David Frost (Christopher Brown). Nixon had resigned in disgrace three years earlier, undone by his effort to conceal the White House’s involvement in the infamous Watergate burglary. Other cast members include Kevin Carrington, Steve Wright, Matt Johnson, John Pitman, Alex Malson, C.J. Minor, Tyler Sanders, Jackie Allen, Michael Snider, Peter Weems and Myla Sichol. “Although many of the events and conversations dramatized in Frost/Nixon are based on historical events, the story is drama, not fact,” dir...

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