Two great Wellfleet theaters — Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and the Harbor Stage Company — are coming together Sept. 22 through Oct. 14 to bring to the WHAT stage one of the most significant works of British playwright Harold Pinter, the 1978 play “Betrayal.”      Inspired by Pinter’s long-term extramarital affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell, which took place from 1962 to 1969, “Betrayal” explores ...

     The summer has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean there’s no place to go for a great night out.      On Sunday, Sept. 24 the Chatham Drama Guild will introduce the Club CDG Sunday Cabaret Series, an opportunity to not only enjoy great music in an intimate setting, but to get up and take the stage yourself with some of your favorite songs.      The inaugural evening of the three-evening series is called ...

The action in Suite 67D in “the best hotel in Washington, D.C.” could have been set in just about any decade of the last hundred or so years of our country’s history — including yesterday. It’s about bullies and democracy. And that’s why “Born Yesterday,” the classic by Garson Kanin being presented through Oct. 8 by the Chatham Drama Guild, holds up so well right now. It’s a good play performed by an excellent...

During the 1948 presidential campaign, President Harry S. Truman was giving a speech in Bremerton, Wash. attacking his Republican opponents, when a supporter yelled out, “Give ’em hell, Harry!” From then on, “Give ’em hell, Harry” became the rallying cry of Truman’s supporters. In 1975 playwright Samuel Gallu wrote “Give ’em Hell, Harry!” which became an award-winning one-man play and a film. “Give ’em Hell...

     If you’re looking for a great night or afternoon out, you’re in luck as “Born Yesterday” takes the Chatham Drama Guild stage Sept 15 through Oct. 8. Performances will take place Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 4 p.m. With a cash bar and air conditioning, you can’t go wrong with the Drama Guild’s production of this much-loved screwball romantic comedy, directed by Anna Marie Johan...

The Cape Playhouse nailed it this week, closing out its 93rd season with a bang. Come along for a riotous ride as legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, everyone’s favorite crime-solving detective duo, try to crack their latest whodunnit case in Ken Ludwig’s award-winning show “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.” The play is a fast-paced comedic adaptation of the series of detective stories and books b...

     “ My mother was my best friend,” begins Mona Golabek in the opening moments of her astonishingly beautiful and deeply affecting one-woman show, “The Pianist of Willesden Lane.”      During the 90-or-so minutes that follow, Golabek embodies her mother as a young girl, telling her story with such authenticity that as one audience member said, “I almost forgot that she wasn’t telling her own story.”      Ba...

Virtues, romance and chivalry are alive as ever as the marvelous and majestic tale of “Camelot” opened last week at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis. The timeless masterpiece is an award winning musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and was adapted in the 1950s from a novel by David Lee. The original Broadway production of “Camelot” debuted in 1960 and featured Hollywood royalty Richard Burton, Julie Andrews...

     In the opening minutes of Harbor Stage Company’s production of Lucas Hnath’s “The Thin Place,” a deft turning of tables bathes the audience in light as Hilda, portrayed by Stacy Fisher, singles out one audience member after another from her comfortable chair on the stage.      Many of us, it seems, remind Hilda of her late grandmother in one way or another.      This seemingly innocent, dreamy musing on t...

Get pumped, warm up, stretch it out and hit the courts for the brilliant dance of Pickleball at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) where “The Pickleball Wars” world premiere debuted last week to a full house. This is a show unlike any other, a hysterically animated, balls to the wall comedy that will literally make your face hurt by the end of the night from laughing so much. Directed by Daisy Walker a...

Nemo, the adorable clownfish, is back! This abridged version of the popular Disney movie at the Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre is a musical with all your favorite characters from the film. Marlin is a single parent raising his son Nemo on the Great Barrier Reef. The overprotective father is constantly preaching to Nemo to be careful. One day, his worst fears are realized as Nemo is capture...

Twenty-four beloved Broadway songs, plus a classic comedy routine, come to life on the stage of the Chatham Drama Guild during its current production, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Broadway Speakeasy Favorites.” It’s fun with a touch of sophistication, and it runs through Sept. 3. The show is a straight-up revue with no pretense of a plotline other than that a dozen people — the women in knockout New Year’s Eve-st...

     Cape Rep Theatre’s audiences will soon have a rare opportunity to experience an event which combines both a compelling true story of a mother’s survival conveyed by her daughter, and the artistry of a world-renowned classical pianist performing the music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and more on a Steinway concert grand on Cape Rep’s intimate stage.      For two weeks only, “The Pianist of Willes...

     Under the summertime sky and inside the theater, two well-known stories will take audiences of all ages on two quite different adventures this week and next as “Finding Nemo, Jr.” and The Scottish Play, “Macbeth,” take over both the indoor and outdoor stages at Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre.      “Finding Nemo, Jr.,” directed and designed by Tristan DiVincenzo with musical direction by Ma...

     What hits the spot after a hot, steamy Cape Cod summer day?      Escape into the cooling nighttime air to enjoy an evening of sultry, bluesy Broadway speakeasy favorites at the Chatham Drama Guild’s musical revue “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.”      Director Deborah Mahaney said t he show covers Broadway showtunes from Fannie Brice in 1921 through current musicals including “The Fantasticks,” “Oklahoma!,” “Ca...

The Academy Playhouse The Academy of Performing Arts 120 Main St. Orleans 508-255-1963 Next up: “Green Day’s American Idiot” July 27 to Aug. 20 www.theacademyofperformingarts.com       Board of trustee member Michael Barry was first attracted to the theater by the show “Something Rotten.” But in a twist of fate, he’s a part of something wonderful at the Academy Playhouse and the Academy of Performing Arts toda...