Midcentury Modern: “Summer, 1976” at WHAT
Anything Daisy Walker directs is bound to be interesting, insightful, and often surprising; and Summer, 1976, now at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, absolutely doesn’t disappoint. We can all look back on our lives and see various relationships that...
It’s One Toke Over the Line at WHAT with Reefer Madness: The Musical
Before it became an iconic cult hit, Reefer Madness was a well-intentioned (and unintentionally hilarious) cautionary tale entitled Tell Your Children that had its début as a film in 1936. Or… sort-of well-intentioned. Re-examining it in 2024 with the...
An Affair to Remember: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in Wellfleet
One of the most powerful aspects of Harold Pinter’s work is in the spaces he creates between the lines spoken by his characters. It’s in the silences, in the pauses, that the more visceral story is being told, and in no other work is this more apparent...
Love Your Willy: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) at WHAT
Thirty-seven plays in under two hours. Are you ready? Take a deep breath, because you’re about to be plunged into an incredibly energetic, frenetic, whirlwind tour of the Bard that will make you, as one of the characters says, truly “love your Willy.”...
A Sequel That Couldn’t Be More Timely
History may always be written by the winners, but often it’s the observations of the common people that are more interesting—and understandable. And that’s what playwright Taylor Mac gives us in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, now at the Wellfleet...
Pranks and Pressure: “Straight White Men” at WHAT
The contrast couldn’t be more stark: as the audience enters, it’s greeted by over-loud rap music (performed by women and people of color) and taken on a tour of the play’s premises by two people who are clearly not straight white men; and then Justin...
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