The French Revolution that began in 1789, like the American one before it, is not known for its women fighters. The Enlightenment manifesto of the uprising is notably entitled the […]
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
PLAYTIME
WHAT for Kids Serves Up Wisdom for These Times
A show that reminds grown-ups to look to young people for answers
Outside the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, eager children and resigned-looking adults find their seats. There are no lights to dim. Route 6 hums nearby. On a small patio stage flanked […]
THEATER REVIEW
Straight White Men: A Spectacle of Privilege Deconstructed
WHAT opens its season with a play by Young Jean Lee
The current culture wars — in which straight white men are born privileged and BIPOC and queer minorities and women demand rights and representation — are all about power. The […]
OPERA
Seeing Fire in a Crowded Theater
The Met returns with Terence Blanchard’s work about race, sex, and coming of age
Being back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last Wednesday had a surreal quality. Masked faces peered across balconies through opera glasses. The sound of the orchestra warming up […]
THEATER REVIEW
Redemption for an American Holy Warrior
Witnessing Nat Turner in Jerusalem at WHAT
It is said that history is written by the victors, and in the case of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in August 1831, a time of rising abolitionist […]
Tingle, Unmasked
Jimmy Tingle returns to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater performing “No Mask” on Wednesday, July 28th through July 31st at 7 p.m. on the Garden Stage. Tingle reflects on the pandemic […]
THEATER REVIEW
Truth in the Eye of the Beholder
The joyfully incredible spectacle of Shipwrecked! at WHAT
As Louis de Rougemont, a real-life British adventurer of the Victorian era, Rodney Witherspoon II is an affable storyteller. He struts and frets for 90 minutes on the Garden Stage […]
Whale Tale
The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, 2357 Route 6, begins its WHAT for Kids summer season with The Tale of Ibis. Written and directed by Jody O’Neil, it tells the true […]
Wellfleet Stage Companies Announce Summer Seasons
Wellfleet’s two major companies, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and the Harbor Stage Company, have announced their plans for the upcoming season. Tickets for WHAT go on sale June 1st […]
Gotta Dance
Join Marc Strauss for a virtual Gene Kelly film series via the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater beginning Friday, May 28th, 7 p.m. with For Me and My Gal. Kelly was […]
WHAT an Auction
The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is holding its “Be Part of the Scene Online Auction” starting on Wednesday, May 12th. Bidding items include a virtual cocktail party hosted by Meredith […]
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
As Covid Subsides, Theaters Push to Reopen
Outdoor stages, new approaches planned
Few things in the life of the Outer Cape have been hit harder by Covid than theater. Live outdoor cabaret performances resumed after the lockdown, and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams […]
On Tap
Join Marc Strauss, co-host at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, for “Fred Astaire Fridays.” Every Friday, Strauss shows favorite Fred Astaire films, with introductions and post-film discussions via Zoom. This […]
Monologues Chronicle a ‘Covid Year’
“My Covid Year: 12 Months a Pandemic,” a presentation of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and the Cape-based theater collective Sailor Beware, is a set of 12 original monologues about the […]
Steppin’ Out
Marc Strauss, co-host of “Fred Astaire Fridays,” presented via Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater every Friday at 7 p.m., is screening all of Fred Astaire’s films, with introductions and post-film discussions […]
