In 1985 a few dynamic, aspiring local actors and playwrights knocked down some walls in an old nightclub and mounted a production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. It was just a one-shot event, or so they thought. 25 years, 150 productions later...
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- The Bald Soprano
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm - The Mystery of Irma Vep
Julie Harris Stage
Wednesday, May 20 at 8:00pm - I Got Sick Then I Got Better
Julie Harris Stage
Tuesday, June 16 at 8:00pm - YULE FOR FUEL
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Ju...
Saturday, December 13 at 7:30pm - Yule for Fuel
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Saturday, December 6 at 7:30pm - This I Believe
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Ju...
Thursday, December 4 at 7:00pm - Yule for Fuel
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Ju...
Saturday, November 29 at 7:30pm - The George Place by David John...
Julie Harris Stage
Thursday, September 11 at 8:00pm - Forces of Nature
Julie Harris Stage
Saturday, September 27 at 8:00pm - Sexual Perversity in Chicago b...
The Harbor Stage (next to town pier)
Wednesday, August 27 at 7:00pm
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- Boston Globe Raves for "The Bald Soprano" 6:37pm Jun 25|1 Comment
- Continually Adventurous - A WHAT Manifesto 8:10am May 10
- Yule for Fuel 12:18pm Nov 18
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
A jewel from the Absurdist Movement of the 1950's, The Bald Soprano celebrates the power of nonsense. The Smiths and the Martins are two British couples who unexpectedly discover during the course of an innocent dinner party that words no longer mean what they mean.
REVIEWS:
"...irresistible, darkly hilarious, and striki...ngly new" - Boston Globe
"Hughes vibrantly directs with pizazz and delightful innovative touches..." - CC Times
"Visually stunning and masterfully acted... truly great theater." Barnstable Patriot
Wednesdays - Sundays at the Harbor Stage
Time:7:30PM Wednesday, June 10th
Location:Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is celebrating 25
STAGE REVIEW A textbook case of absurd humor By Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff | June 26, 2009 ...
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
In I Got Sick Then I Got Better Jenny Allen combines enormous humor with wrenching emotion for a witty, bittersweet monologue about being diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer.
From the Cape Cod Times, June 12, 2009:
"I Got Sick Then I Got Better is comic-journalist Jenny Allen's "witty, bittersweet monologue" about b...eing diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer, or "falling down a medical rabbit hole." WHAT describes the show as "inimitably honest and unexpectedly hilarious" and quotes Allen on how she found humor in her medical crisis:
"It's a kind of gallows humor, a black humor, but it seemed to me that there was humor — as well, of course, as great poignancy and sadness — in so many situations I found myself in when I was in treatment and afterward," she said. "There's also great humor in anger, and I was angry a lot of the time. I felt bad, and some of the doctors made me feel worse, and I felt I wasn't getting enough attention from my husband, so I was alert to every slight. I mention in the piece how I thought he invented a new, loud way of swallowing water just in order to annoy me."
Allen, who produces and performs stand-up comedy evenings in Manhattan, has had her writing published in a variety of national magazines. Her essays have been collected in anthologies, and she has written a book of fables for grown-ups called "The Long Chalkboard," illustrated by husband Jules Feiffer, an award-winning cartoonist and writer.
I Got Sick Then I Got Better was first performed two years ago on Martha's Vineyard, where Feiffer has long summered, then in a longer version there last year, as well as at Barrington Stage Company and Dartmouth College. Since the first reading, James Lapine , another part-time island resident and a Tony Award-winning director ("Sunday in the Park With George," "Into the Woods") has been working with Allen and co-director Darren Katz (director of the current tour of "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") on expanding the piece.
New York Theatre Workshop is due to produce the show this fall. But first, a tryout at WHAT, at 8 p.m. June 16 on its Julie Harris Stage on Route 6." - KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL
written and performed by Jenny Allen
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, June 16th
Location:Julie Harris Stage
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
The Mystery of Irma Vep
a penny dreadful
by Charles Ludlam - Directed by Todd Olson.
May 20 – June 20 Wednesday – Sunday at 8:00pm
Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”, the novels of the Bronte sisters and practically every monster movie ever made are tossed together and shaken vigorously to create this literate, fast paced comedy. With ...two actors portraying a dozen delectable roles, Irma Vep is a tour-de-force that can’t be missed.
This hilarious hit from our 1991 season returns to celebrate our 25th.
As we enter our 25th season I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be “WHAT.” Sometime during the dark winter of 1991 I was holed up in a drafty converted garage in my winter rental on Commercial street, writing our first ever grant application. One...
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is 25 years old!
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Come in out of the cold and warm up with WHAT’s 2008 Holiday Extravaganza Yule for Fuel: a Cape Cod Holiday Companion. All proceeds to this event go to fuel assistance with Lower Cape Outreach Council.
This Weeks Line Up...
Toast and Jam (Tim Dickey and Julie Wanamaker)
David Wright
Bassoonery
Chandler Travis
Narrow Land Str...ing Band
Bill Reyburn and Peter Waful
Steve Morgan and the Kingfish
Yule Dog & Pony Show Players with special guests Amanda Collins, Lewis Wheeler, Julie Allen Hamilton and Adam Foster
and your Companion Compere - Stephen Russell
The event is sponsored by WOMR, Cape Cod Oil Company, Marcy Oil Company, Snows Home and Garden Center and Days Fuel.
A Benefit for WHAT and The Lower Cape Outreach Council
Time:7:30PM Saturday, December 13th
Location:Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Julie Harris Stage
