Alison Weller News

Voting has opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Boston Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of November 27th. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.

Cape Rep presents the Cape Cod Premiere of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, a post electric play through October 18. The BroadwayWorld.com review called it 'Riveting, thought-provoking and just completely different.' Check out a first look below!

Written by Anne Washburn (who is also the show's lyricist) with a score by Michael Friedman and hereby directed by Philip Hays, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play makes its appearance on Cape Cod following a successful run at Playwrights' Horizons in New York, and can now begin surprising audiences all over again with its current run. Taking a first glance at the show's poster, one can get a vague idea of what this show is actually about. There are people huddled around what looks like a campfire, their seated forms casting shadows that resemble what appear to be characters from the widely popular cartoon, The Simpsons; only then is the connection made between what Washburn's show might be about and the use of Mr. Burns' name as the titular focus. It seems odd to base an entire show on The Simpsons, but what is even more mind-boggling is how only the workings of a playwright's mind can turn the characters and themes of a cartoon into something more profound and fascinating enough for an audience to simply get.

Cape Rep Theatre will present the Cape premiere of Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn, score by Michael Friedman and lyrics by Ms. Washburn, September 17 through October 18, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm; there is no performance September 20 or 23.  Tickets are $30.  Pay-What-You-Can-Night is the first Friday, September 18th. Group rates & Student Rush tickets also available.  Call the box office for details.  Cape Rep Indoor Theater. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster. 508.896.1888 orwww.caperep.org. 

Cape Rep Theatre's annual Summer Starlight benefit gala was held with great success this past Monday, July 13.

So saying, the plot of John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar shows just disheartening it is when four characters are discovered to have been strangers for so long due to those undisclosed feelings that have eaten away at their souls for so long; when the time for changes arises, the obstacles which arise and the way in which each character reacts makes this such an epic story. How disheartening it is for four people to have lived over the last few years with the "what is" as the unchanging doctrine of their reality, living in anticipation of something that may or may not come and meandering in this life until fate sticks her ugly hand in to change the bleak, unmoving world that such characters inhabit. Yet, how beautiful it is to see four wildly talented actors bring such inner turmoil to a head in Cape Rep's current production of Shanley's epic play.

Cape Rep Theatre is proud to present the regional premier of Outside Mullingar, a comedy by John Patrick Shanley, tonight, June 25th through July 25th: Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7 pm, and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; there is no performance on July 4th.

Cape Rep Theatre is proud to present the regional premier of Outside Mullingar, a comedy by John Patrick Shanley, June 25th through July 25th: Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7 pm, and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; there is no performance on July 4th.  Tickets are $28.  Pay-What-You-Can-Night is the first Friday, June 26th. Group rates & Student Rush tickets also available.  Call the box office for details.  Cape Rep Indoor Theater. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster.508.896.1888 or www.caperep.org.  

Moliere's 'The Learned Ladies' is now being performed through July 27th at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Outdoor Stage. This satirical comedy is an enormously entertaining production.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Outdoor Stage production of Moliere's comedy The Learned Ladies brings theatre alive under the stars at the enormously popular summer venue on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township. This replica of an ancient Greek theatre nestled into the hillside of the bucolic campus offers a unique theatrical event. The Learned Ladies begins on June 18th and continues through July 27th.

Cape Rep Theatre will present the Cape Cod premiere of Richard Bean's hilarious comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors, today, June 19 through July 19, 2014.

Cape Rep Theatre will present the Cape Cod premiere of Richard Bean's hilarious comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors, June 19 through July 19, 2014.

Cape Rep Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth today, May 8th through June 1st Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm and Wednesday, May 21st & 29th at 7 pm.

Cape Rep Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth May 8th through June 1st Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm and Wednesday, May 21st & 29th at 7 pm. Tickets are $25. Pay-What-You-Can-Night is the first Friday, May 9th. Group rates & Student Rush tickets also available. Call the box office for details. Cape Rep Indoor Theatre. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster. 508.896.1888 or www.caperep.org. Not recommended for children.

The Civilians, New York's award-winning investigative theatre company, is back at Joe's Pub on February 3rd with their latest installment of Let Me Ascertain You: Sex Variants 1941.

Cape Rep Theatre presents RUBY TUESDAY, written and directed by Gip Hoppe tonight, November 7 through December 8, 2013; Wednesdays at 7 pm, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Saturday November 30 at 2 and 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm (There are no performances November 10, 27 or 28).

Cape Rep Theatre presents RUBY TUESDAY, written and directed by Gip Hoppe November 7 through December 8, 2013; Wednesdays at 7 pm, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Saturday November 30 at 2 and 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm (There are no performances November 10, 27 or 28).

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey announced today it was extending the run of its critically acclaimed comedy Tovarich through September 1st. Added performances of this long-forgotten treasure, by French playwright Jacques Deval and adapted by the American author Robert E. Sherwood, are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 29th, 30th and 31st at 8 p.m.; and Saturday August 31st and Sunday, September 1st at 2 p.m.

The National Playwrights Conference, artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, will present the third and fourth shows of the season, Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler and The Burden of Not Having a Tail by Carrie Barrett.