Westport Country Playhouse has launched a New Works Initiative to develop new plays and musicals through workshop and reading opportunities involving playwrights and other artists. The program will make possible the development of two new works at the Playhouse in February – “Out of the Mouths of Babes” by Israel Horovitz, in partnership with the Cherry Lane, and “The Rivals,” with Book and Lyrics by Peter Kellogg, Music by Peter Weiner, based on the 1775 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.  For each project, the Playhouse will host workshops with the playwrights, actors, and other creatives, culminating with a reading before an audience.  Dates and details will be announced soon. The program is funded by the Playhouse’s New Works Circle.  Founding members are Howard J. Aibel, Ania Czekaj-Farber, Sandra and Neil DeFeo, Kate and Bob Devlin, Michele and Marc Flaster, Susan Jacobson and David Moskovitz, Judy and Scott Phares, Barbara and John Samuelson, Barbara and John Streicker, and Johnna G. Torsone and John McKeon. For more information, visit www.westportplayhouse.org. Press contact: Patricia Blaufuss/Westport Country Playhouse (203/227-5137 x197)...