"...echoes of Yeats... "

It’s not often that the phone rings at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and on the other end of the line is a Broadway producer cold-calling to ask if, by chance, he might bring his brand-new show there so the creative team can get it on its feet. But it did happen once, last spring.

“It really came out of the blue,’’ said Jeff Zinn, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater’s artistic director. Zinn is an off-Broadway kind of guy who had never heard of Jed Bernstein before he picked up the phone and found himself talking to him. Bernstein, whose recent Broadway shows include “Hair,’’ “Equus,’’ “Oleanna,’’ and “Passing Strange,’’ was calling to pitch a play called “Promise,’’ by an unknown Connecticut playwright named James B Murphy II. Its world-premiere production, directed by another Broadway veteran, John Tillinger, is in previews now at WHAT.

Boston Globe writer Laura Collins-Hughes goes on to trot out the credentials of everyone involved - the numerous Broadway credits of Tillinger and Bernstein and Chris d'Amboise's history as principal dancer of NYC Ballet and artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet.

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