It’s unclear whether playwright Tom Stoppard meant for this production to be a satirical send-up of theatre critics, country-house whodunits, or both—but it manages to do it all, and more. The show opens with two theater critics, Birdboot (Jakov...
There are few people who don’t imagine being at the top of their art, or profession, gaining the recognition of their peers for all the world to see… but when Haas (Samantha Steinmetz, in her Harbor Stage debut) is selected for one such literary prize,...
The Fifth of July is chronologically the last in Lanford Wilson’s trilogy of major plays about Missouri’s Talley family. The first act takes place on the evening of Independence Day in 1977, the second the morning after. Both the title and the timing...
We’ve all wondered what would happen if we just walked away from our lives, took on a different identity, left our hometowns and escaped whatever future felt inevitable…. Some people do it. Some people live to regret it. It’s the terrible...
Back in the days of small traveling circuses and vaudevillian entertainment, actors and crew trekked from town to town to present their shows before moving on to the next venue. Sometimes, things get lost along the way. That’s what’s happened to...
The Cape Rep has a talent for finding the exact right thing to say at exactly the right time. Last year, at a moment when the country found itself sharply divided after the presidential election and many in our community were feeling a desperate fear, Cape...
Susan Lambert’s new one-woman show, If You Could Read My Mind, presented for one night only at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, absolutely shimmered with light and love and, perhaps, more than just a little wisdom. Her previous show, The Couch, brought us on a...
It’s 11:30pm on August 31st, 1963. The last minutes of the last day of the season in a gay bar in Provincetown. And at first, it doesn’t seem all that different from any bar in Provincetown at any time; it’s only as the evening unfolds that we’re...
We begin in Paris, a street at night, mysterious. Alone on the street is novelist and essayist Émile Zola (Abe Goldfarb), musing about Pascal’s “bet” on the existence of the afterlife. But there is no time to dwell, as Zola himself is somehow...
Craic is, of course, an Irish term, connotating a fun, enjoyable time; and that’s precisely what the Cape Rep delivers in comedian-turned-playwright Mark Doherty’s Trad, a hilariously funny and occasionally thoughtful look at generational priorities,...
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