Free Staged Reading — “Fatty Pastrami” by Julia Salinger

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Tells the story of daughter and father and the trials and tribulations of their relationship. You’ll go on adventures from the Bronx botanical garden, through the ins and outs of a pastrami sandwich—winding full circle in the miasma... Read More

Free Staged Reading — “Isherwood” by John Dennis Anderson

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Christopher Isherwood, avowed queer author and devotee of Vedanta, best known for his character Sally Bowles, reflects on his life as an outsider--in his native England, in Berlin between the wars, and in postwar America. About John Dennis... Read More

Free Staged Reading — “The Playground” by Jim Dalglish

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A one-woman play (with voices) Joan leaves her tenure-track position on the West Coast to follow her husband to New York. When she takes her rambunctious four-year-old to a playground in Central Park, she stumbles into a surreal... Read More

Our Band Celebrates Burt Bacharach

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Produced by the Cape Cod Symphony Award-winning Americana duo Sasha Papernik & Justin Poindexter lead a concert honoring the legacy of American songwriter, Burt Bacharach. Reimagining his legacy, delivering creative interpretations of Bacharach’s best.

Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway emerged from his wounding in the Great War to embody the image of modern American authorship and masculinity. John Dennis Anderson portrays the Nobel-Prize-winning novelist in a performance that allows an opportunity for the audience to... Read More

Free Staged Reading – Cold War

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Cold War Written by Fermin Rojas Augie, a Cuban-American playwright who grew up in the 1960’s, and his husband are about to embark on a summer reunion with their longtime friends in the Catskills to celebrate Augie’s commission... Read More

GUT written & performed by Janet Rodgers

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The Epic Performance Poem tells the true story of Irena Gut, a young Catholic Polish girl who saved the lives of twelve young Jewish professionals from extermination by the Nazis during WWIl. When Poland was taken over by... Read More

Spin-Art Bike

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Use the spin-art bike machine to create unique abstract art on the back deck!

“You, Me, Trees & The Sea” with Puppets, Paul & Mary

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A musical and interactive puppet variety show sure to entertain children and adults from 2-100 years old. Songs, stories, and audience participation will keep you and your littles entertained through the entire show. This program was made possible... Read More

Story Wizards with Piti Theatre

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A wizard even crankier than the Story Wizard has stolen the world’s tales. Now the Story Wizard must set off to find them. Luckily he discovers a musical being named Laurella living in a giant mushroom who introduces... Read More

Free Staged Reading – Players on the Harbor

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Players on the Harbor Written by Joseph M. Paprzycki In July of 1916 in Provincetown Massachusetts American Theatre is about to change forever. Eugene O'Neill, Louise Bryant, and Jack Reed are in a complicated love triangle that comes... Read More

Free Staged Reading — Lara: A Love Story

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Lara: A Love Story by Racine Oxtoby In 1949, while Boris Pasternak was busy writing Doctor Zhivago, his mistress Olga Ivinskaya was arrested by the KGB and thrown into a gulag, where she would spend the next four years.... Read More

Free Staged Reading – CANCELED

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This program is CANCELED, we apologize for any inconvenience. THE MAYWORKERS By Gary Garrison Texas, 1900. A rough-neck’s world. Oil country. Cowboys and their cattle. Sweet smellin’, soft-lovin’ women. The rule of this land was simple: Keep an... Read More

Free Staged Reading – BESTON

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Henry Beston’s 1928 book The Outermost House, a vivid account of a year in a dune shack in Eastham, endures as a classic of nature writing. The next year, Beston married the world-traveling poet and children’s writer Elizabeth... Read More

Acting Shakespeare with Stuard M. Derrick

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Participants will learn about the life of Shakespeare, Shakespearean London, the use of Blank Verse in acting, the lives of famous Shakespearean actors, movement, breath exercises, costume, and vocal projection. Every session will include warm-ups, monologues/soliloquies for beginning... Read More

Free Staged Reading – JUST LIKE ALL THE REST

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Just Like All The Rest by Linda Fiorella A middle-aged woman returns to her home town for a liver transplant as she grapples with the rubble of a past relationship that could threaten her chance at a future.... Read More