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Breaking in the new Wellesley High School theater

By bbrown | Published: January 28, 2012

The new Wellesley High School’s theater’s first-ever show will be the 2012 Winter Play,  a self-scripted and student-directed 40-minute one-act show based on a story of interstellar proportions.   Wed. 2/29 @ 4:30 pm Thurs. 3/1 @ 7:30 pm Fri. 3/2 In-school performance (3rd block) for WHS students only Sat. 3/10 Performance @ METG (Massachusetts Educational Theater [...]

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Wellesley Summer Theatre’s “Season’s Greetings” delivers post-holiday gift

By dcb | Published: January 6, 2012

Christmas comes but once a year with good reason, as Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy, “Season’s Greetings,” put on by The Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, reminds us. Everything about the setting and circumstances seems typically English — relatives are gathered to celebrate Christmas. There is a well-stocked home bar and a nearby pub, which, under ordinary [...]

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“Season’s Greetings” starts up this week at Wellesley Summer Theatre

By bbrown | Published: January 3, 2012

From Wellesley College’s Wellesley Summer Theatre: “It’s Christmas in suburban London, and things couldn’t be going less well for Belinda and Neville and their disfunctional relatives. This black comedy features furtive trysts under the tree, a horrifying puppet show and a few madcap mistaken assumptions. Join us for the holiday festivities as we laugh at [...]

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Wellesley inflitrates Weston’s production of The Music Man

By bbrown | Published: November 20, 2011

Look for Wellesley actors, including Mary and Megan Kaye, a slew of Perry family members, plus WHS Drama teacher Stephen Wrobleski, appearing in the upcoming production of The Music Man by The Weston Friendly Society. Performances are as follows: Saturday, November 26th at 2:00 & 7:30 PM Sunday, November 27th at 2:00 PM Friday, December [...]

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Nine Armenians comes to Wellesley College Theatre this week

By bbrown | Published: November 7, 2011

From Wellesley College Theatre: This three-generation drama about an inescapable ethnic legacy tells the story of an American college student choosing to visit Armenia after the death of her grandfather, heeding his call to seek out her ancestral history. Join us as we dance, sing, eat, make music, cry, laugh, scream, and support each other [...]

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Free Shakespeare this week in Wellesley: The Tempest

By bbrown | Published: October 19, 2011

Actors from the London Stage will perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7pm at Wellesley College’s Alumnae Hall. The performances are free and open to the public. Wellesley College describes The Tempest as conjuring up “a world of innocent lovers, bawdy buffoons, mystical beings and a spectacular storm that transforms everyone [...]

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Tickets on sale for Wellesley Performing Arts Showcase

By bbrown | Published: October 7, 2011

Tickets have gone on sale for the Performing Arts Showcase taking place the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Wellesley High School as part of the Turn Out the Lights festivities celebrating the end of the old school. A star-studded line-up of Wellesley High graduates has been assembled, with new performers being added seemingly daily. It will [...]

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Wellesley Players to present Little Women, The Musical in October

By bbrown | Published: September 19, 2011

Little Women The Musical Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre 321 Arsenal St. Watertown, MA 02472. 781.237.8114 http://www.wellesleyplayers.org.  MBTA: 70/70A bus to School Street. Oct 7 – 8 @ 8pm; Oct 9 @ 2 & 7pm; Oct 14 @ 8pm; Oct 15 @ 2 & 8 pm; Oct 16 @ 2pm.  Tickets $25 General [...]

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Remembering 9/11: The Guys comes to Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: August 29, 2011

Wellesley Summer Theatre Company next month commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with two staged readings of Anne Nelson’s “The Guys.” The story takes place in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. According to Wellesley Summer Theatre Co.: “First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production, and now a film starring Sigourney Weaver [...]

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Wellesley Players announce new season, add new venue

By bbrown | Published: June 1, 2011

The Wellesley Players have announced their 86th season schedule, which features a musical twist to a classic story, a standard musical and a third play that’s a little less well known. What’s more, the Wellesley Players will only be performing 1 of the 3 productions in Wellesley. “We are no longer able to afford the [...]

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Wellesley Summer Theatre for Children presents ‘An Odd Izzy’

By bbrown | Published: May 26, 2011

Wellesley Summer Theatre next month will present  “An Odd Izzy,” an original musical by longtime WST company members Derek Stone Nelson and Danny Bolton. It will premiere on the refurbished Barstow Stage at Alumnae Hall at Wellesley College. The production opens on Saturday, June 18 and runs for the last two weekends of June, with [...]

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“The Last Night of Ballyhoo” apparently wasn’t: play returns to Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: May 18, 2011

Wellesley Summer Theatre’s presentation of The Last Night of Ballyhoo returns to Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre on May 19, following its sold-out engagement in January. This play  is centered on a family of Jewish southerners trying to come to grips with its identity in a pre-WWII Christian society. Performance Dates: Thursdays @ 7pm May 19, [...]

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Wellesley College Theatre presents Sense & Sensibility, of course

By bbrown | Published: April 18, 2011

The Wellesley College Theatre and Music Departments present “Sense and Sensibility: The Musical” directed by Artistic Director Nora Hussey with musical direction by Jenny Tang starting on April 26. Sense and Sensibilty centers around Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood, as they are courted by the young men of Barton, where the women are staying for [...]

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Cyber-Mare to haunt Wellesley Middle School this week

By bbrown | Published: March 14, 2011

Wellesley Middle School Players present the premiere of Cyber-Mare this Thursday and Friday at WMS, tackling onstage tough issues concerning the dangers of cyberspace. The pitch: “From the comfort of their own homes, students open the door to hidden dangers every time they enter a chat room, post a photo online or even send an [...]

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Frederick Douglass visits Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: March 7, 2011

Caught an impressive one-man show Saturday night presented free at Wellesley College’s Alumnae Hall by Roger Guenveur Smith, an actor who brings escaped-slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass to life through a spoken and sung monologue that mixes the words of Douglass among cultural references from the 1800s to today. Audience members called his performance “profound” as well [...]

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