Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tweeting at the Julie
A fifty something friend of mine posted to my facebook page over the holiday that two women at least his age or better had texted throughout the readings at his place of midnight worship. I was appalled but as a marketing person went right to work thinking that it might be time to relax a little and experiment with adding some tweetseats to our winter performances to see what might come of us.
So, to that end (and let me just say I am fighting this with every cell of my existence) we are adding 19 tweet seats to the Julie Harris Theater at WHAT. The 19 tweet seats are located stage right on the upper level near the rail and we hope the area will become the designated tweeting area of the Julie.
Please, dim the light on your phone and turn off the sound. After all, the real light and sound of the evening is on the stage. While you're at it, please check in on facebook to WHAT and tweet what you are seeing and what you think about the performance so we can be on the pulse of what you like to see so we can program better and better each year.
-- Holly Brockman-Johnson, Marketing Director.
So, to that end (and let me just say I am fighting this with every cell of my existence) we are adding 19 tweet seats to the Julie Harris Theater at WHAT. The 19 tweet seats are located stage right on the upper level near the rail and we hope the area will become the designated tweeting area of the Julie.
Please, dim the light on your phone and turn off the sound. After all, the real light and sound of the evening is on the stage. While you're at it, please check in on facebook to WHAT and tweet what you are seeing and what you think about the performance so we can be on the pulse of what you like to see so we can program better and better each year.
-- Holly Brockman-Johnson, Marketing Director.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
WHAT's first-ever Children's Film Festival
Wondering what to do during school vacation week? Wonder no longer.
Our Children's Film Festival is Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December 28-30. Go play in the snow (maybe there will be snow??) and then come here just after dark. Here's what's showing:
Azur & Asmar
Wednesday, December 28, 4:30 pm – Azur & Asmar. Two boys raised as brothers, reunited as adversaries, set off on a quest. Animated, Rated G.
The Secret of Kells
Thursday, December 29, 4:30 pm – The Secret of Kells. Follow 12-year-old Brendan as he battles vikings and confronts an ancient serpent god on a mission to locate a legendary crystal and complete the mythical book of Kells. Animated, Rated G.
Mia & The Magoo
Friday, December 30, 4:30 pm – Mia & The Magoo. Created from an astonishing 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, this is a thrilling family adventure that pits a plucky, wild haired young heroine Mia against profit-hungry developers, with the future of life on earth in the balance. Rated G.
Tickets for all Children’s Film Festival shows are $7.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Free reading!
WHAT Lab
"The Rules" by Dipika Guha
FREE Reading of a New Play-in Progress
Sunday, Dec. 11. 7:00 pm, The Julie Harris Stage
Playwright Dipika Guha will work on a script titled *The Rules *during a week-long residency as part of the WHAT Lab play development program. She, director Jesse Jou, a cast of four actors, and WHAT Lab director Dan Lombardo will spend the week working with the playwright. The public is invited to a reading of *The Rules* on Sunday night at the Julie Harris Stage. The feedback from this reading is an important part of the development process -- so come and be part of the WHAT Lab!
The Play:
Ana, Mehr and Julia are childhood friends, their friendship held fast by their observance of several unspoken rules. That is, until a brooding stranger with a mysterious resemblance to Colin Firth and a strange addiction problem comes to town. THE RULES is a romantic comedy turned revenge tragedy.
The cast:
Irene Sofia Lucio (Ana)
Nicholas Carriere (Valmont)
Caitlin Clouthier (Mehr)
Valerie Stanford (Julia)
Dipika Guha: Playwright
Dipika Guha’s plays include The Betrothed (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Passing (YaleCabaret and Yale School of Drama), The State of Affairs (Yale School of Drama)and The Rules (supported by Old Vic New Voices). Short plays include Habeas Corpus, A Brief History of America (Fairfield University commission), In the Red White and Blue (finalist, Heideman Award) and An American Dream (T.S Eliot Award). She graduated with a BA in English Literature from University College London, was a Frank Knox Fellow of Playwriting at Harvard University and is a recipient of the Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting at Yale University where she studied under the mentorship of Paula Vogel. She has reviewed fiction for The Times Literary Supplement and is a graduate of the Young Writer’s Program at the Royal Court Theatre. Dipika Guha has an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
The director: Jesse Jou
2011 Season at WHAT: The Betrothed; Neighborhood3: Requisition of Doom Jesse Jou graduated from Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde, 99 Ways to F*ck a Swan, and the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]. Other credits include Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha (New York International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (The Kitchen Theatre Co., Ithaca, NY); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen], Mask Ritual: Electra, Flowers and Other Stories, Language of Angels, and Dipika Guha's Passing (Yale Cabaret). At Yale, he was the recipient of the Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarship. He served as Artistic Director of the 2010 season of the Yale Summer Cabaret and as the Staff Repertory Director for the 2010-2011 tour of the Acting Company.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Two weeks of performances, on stage and screen
Happy December!
We are decorated. We have gifts gathering under the tree.* Who cares that it's 60 degrees and balmy?
To make it feel even more like a holiday, we're launching a two-week festival of performances on stage and screen to celebrate the season - beginning Friday, December 16 at 8 p.m. with a return engagement by songstress Lisa Jason and friends.
“Our show is about wishes and dreams,” says Jason, a Chatham resident. “Especially around the holidays, we remember dreams we may have had as children, or those we have as adults. This show will take you on a holiday musical journey, through some of your favorite seasonal songs. It’s about friendship and love – Broadway and pop, and the opportunity for our audience to sing along.”
Tickets for her concert are $20 for adults, $15 for students.
Lisa Jason’s appearance will be followed on Sunday, December 18 at 3 p.m. by the Cape Cod Symphony Sound’s String & Wind Trio, blending the magical with the spiritual. Cellist Elizabeth Schultze, flutist Claude Colbert and violinist Sungmin Yoo will perform festive holiday favorites including the Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker, along with selections from Haydn and Mozart.
Tickets for Symphony Sounds are $29 for adults and $15 for children.
On Tuesday, December 20 at 4:30 p.m., WHAT presents on its screen the Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker, followed on Friday, December 23 with the Metropolitan Opera’s wickedly funny production of Hansel and Gretel will be presented at 4:30 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera returns on Tuesday, December 27 at 4:30 p.m. in a broadcast of the Magic Flute.
Tickets for these Met Opera broadcasts are $24 for adults, $22 for seniors and $15 for students.
The holiday season is capped by WHAT’s first-ever Children’s Film Festival from December 28 to December 31.
The festival includes:
More on Lisa Jason & Friends:
At only 5 feet 2, Lisa Jason sure can belt out a tune. A former opening act for bands up and down the East Coast, she has settled in Chatham, where she grew up to raise her own children.
“On the road, my style was akin to Pat Benatar and Cyndi Lauper. The audience didn’t know how to react when I started singing. How could so big a voice come from such a small person?” she recalled.
The road was no place to raise children,” she said. “I wanted to have them grow up on the Cape, near my parents and surrounded by the sea.” Her father is Richard Sullivan, retired dean of student services at Cape Cod Community College and founder of the Southeastern Massachusetts March of Dimes.
One of Jason’s signature songs, “Beautiful Child,” has been adopted by the March of Dimes, constantly played at fundraisers and events such as the National Volunteer Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C – often sung by her personally. “Beautiful Child has reached thousands of families, giving them hope or helping them heal,” said Jason. In 2007, she was the Massachusetts March of Dimes Ambassador.
She also is committed locally to Children’s Cove, which will be the recipient of a fundraising wine-tasting before the concert, so show up at hour early for wine, accompanied by desserts from PB Boulangerie and food from Ptown Parties.
Children’s Cove is a nonprofit located on Cape Cod to support victims of children’s sexual abuse and their non-offending family members.
Jason will be joined on stage by her daughter and several other accomplished local high school singers, Celeste Howe, Richard Jay Sullivan and Jared Hagen, as well as Bill Duffy on piano, Laird Boles on bass, Bart Weisman on drums, Bruce Abbot on sax, flute and clarinet and special guest Brian Morris on guitar.
Celeste Howe lives in West Barnstable and is a professional singer and actress. Her most recent theatrical roles include, Rona in “Spelling Bee” at The Harwich Junior Theatre, Seniora Leonata in “Much Ado About Nothing” and Abigail Adams in “1776,” both presented at The Cotuit Center for the Arts. She has performed many one woman cabaret shows in New York City, Boston and Newport.
Richard Jay Sullivan has appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Class Act,
Sunday in the Park with George and Little Women (HJT). Directing credits include Born
Yesterday (Cape Rep) Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, A Grand Night for Singing, Bye Bye Birdie, and Meeting Judy .
Jared Hagan has appeared at Cape Repetory Theater including Avenue Q and Xanadu. The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wizard of Oz, How I Became a Pirate, A Class Act, My Fair Lady, The Emperor's New Clothes, Wintertime, A Year with Frog & Toad, Ragtime, Seussical, Steel Pier,Urinetown, Lady in the Dark, The Myster of Edwin Drood, and four Sea Pine's reviews.
*WHAT is collecting small, gently used toys to donate to the Lower Cape Outreach Council's Santa's Workshop.
We are decorated. We have gifts gathering under the tree.* Who cares that it's 60 degrees and balmy?
To make it feel even more like a holiday, we're launching a two-week festival of performances on stage and screen to celebrate the season - beginning Friday, December 16 at 8 p.m. with a return engagement by songstress Lisa Jason and friends.
“Our show is about wishes and dreams,” says Jason, a Chatham resident. “Especially around the holidays, we remember dreams we may have had as children, or those we have as adults. This show will take you on a holiday musical journey, through some of your favorite seasonal songs. It’s about friendship and love – Broadway and pop, and the opportunity for our audience to sing along.”
Tickets for her concert are $20 for adults, $15 for students.
Lisa Jason’s appearance will be followed on Sunday, December 18 at 3 p.m. by the Cape Cod Symphony Sound’s String & Wind Trio, blending the magical with the spiritual. Cellist Elizabeth Schultze, flutist Claude Colbert and violinist Sungmin Yoo will perform festive holiday favorites including the Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker, along with selections from Haydn and Mozart.
Tickets for Symphony Sounds are $29 for adults and $15 for children.
On Tuesday, December 20 at 4:30 p.m., WHAT presents on its screen the Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker, followed on Friday, December 23 with the Metropolitan Opera’s wickedly funny production of Hansel and Gretel will be presented at 4:30 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera returns on Tuesday, December 27 at 4:30 p.m. in a broadcast of the Magic Flute.
Tickets for these Met Opera broadcasts are $24 for adults, $22 for seniors and $15 for students.
The holiday season is capped by WHAT’s first-ever Children’s Film Festival from December 28 to December 31.
The festival includes:
- Azur & Asmar at 4:30 p.m. and The Storytelling Show at 6:30 pm on December 28;
- The Secret of Kells at 4:30 p.m. and Tahaan at 6:45 p.m. on December 29;
- Eleanor's Secret at 4:30 p.m. and Mia & The Magoo at 6:30 p.m. on December 30;
- and the festival’s closing event featuring Charlie Chaplin shorts and a live band at 1 p.m. on December 31. Tickets for all Children’s Film Festival shows are $7.50.
More on Lisa Jason & Friends:
At only 5 feet 2, Lisa Jason sure can belt out a tune. A former opening act for bands up and down the East Coast, she has settled in Chatham, where she grew up to raise her own children.
“On the road, my style was akin to Pat Benatar and Cyndi Lauper. The audience didn’t know how to react when I started singing. How could so big a voice come from such a small person?” she recalled.
The road was no place to raise children,” she said. “I wanted to have them grow up on the Cape, near my parents and surrounded by the sea.” Her father is Richard Sullivan, retired dean of student services at Cape Cod Community College and founder of the Southeastern Massachusetts March of Dimes.
One of Jason’s signature songs, “Beautiful Child,” has been adopted by the March of Dimes, constantly played at fundraisers and events such as the National Volunteer Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C – often sung by her personally. “Beautiful Child has reached thousands of families, giving them hope or helping them heal,” said Jason. In 2007, she was the Massachusetts March of Dimes Ambassador.
She also is committed locally to Children’s Cove, which will be the recipient of a fundraising wine-tasting before the concert, so show up at hour early for wine, accompanied by desserts from PB Boulangerie and food from Ptown Parties.
Children’s Cove is a nonprofit located on Cape Cod to support victims of children’s sexual abuse and their non-offending family members.
Jason will be joined on stage by her daughter and several other accomplished local high school singers, Celeste Howe, Richard Jay Sullivan and Jared Hagen, as well as Bill Duffy on piano, Laird Boles on bass, Bart Weisman on drums, Bruce Abbot on sax, flute and clarinet and special guest Brian Morris on guitar.
Celeste Howe lives in West Barnstable and is a professional singer and actress. Her most recent theatrical roles include, Rona in “Spelling Bee” at The Harwich Junior Theatre, Seniora Leonata in “Much Ado About Nothing” and Abigail Adams in “1776,” both presented at The Cotuit Center for the Arts. She has performed many one woman cabaret shows in New York City, Boston and Newport.
Richard Jay Sullivan has appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Class Act,
Sunday in the Park with George and Little Women (HJT). Directing credits include Born
Yesterday (Cape Rep) Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, A Grand Night for Singing, Bye Bye Birdie, and Meeting Judy .
Jared Hagan has appeared at Cape Repetory Theater including Avenue Q and Xanadu. The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wizard of Oz, How I Became a Pirate, A Class Act, My Fair Lady, The Emperor's New Clothes, Wintertime, A Year with Frog & Toad, Ragtime, Seussical, Steel Pier,Urinetown, Lady in the Dark, The Myster of Edwin Drood, and four Sea Pine's reviews.
*WHAT is collecting small, gently used toys to donate to the Lower Cape Outreach Council's Santa's Workshop.
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