The Swellesley Report

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Catch an evening of staged readings from Boston-area women playwrights

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The 11th Annual Our Voices Festival of Boston Area Women Playwrights will take place September 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Wellesley College in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. This free event is open to the public. A reception (refreshments) will be held at 6:30 p.m., and doors open at 6:50, with seats  first come first served. The new plays and monologues will feature the talents of some of Boston’s best actors and directors performing new plays by:

Anne Marilyn Lucas, My Husband’s Keeper

Zahra A. Belyea,  An Editorial
Sue Huggans  The Way Out
Phyllis Rittner, Nobody’s Sweetie
Alicia Olivo, Flood
Kathleen Miller, Blue Socks
Lida McGirr,   A House Divided
Andrea Fleck Clardy, LISTEN UP!
Hortense Gerardo,Virtuous Reality

Kelly, Franci & Perri DuMar,  Run Aways

Over the past eleven years Our Voices has supported over 150 women writers to develop work for the stage. The festival is supported by the generosity of Nora Hussey and the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Wellesley College.

For more information, contact founder and producer Kelly DuMar ([email protected]) or call her at 508.647.0734.Our Voices theatre Wellesley

Wellesley College is located at 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA. The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre is in the basement of Alumnae Hall, which is wheelchair accessible. There is free parking in the garage across from Alumnae Hall.

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Actors From The London Stage visit Wellesley to present “Measure for Measure”

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Actors From The London Stage present “Measure for Measure”
Thursday, September 14th at 7pm
Friday, September 15th at 7pm
Saturday, September 16th at 7pm
All performances will take place at the
Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium at
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Free admission, no advance reservations.
Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium is wheelchair accessible.
For disability services contact [email protected]edu
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Wellesley sort of appears in upcoming feature film, “The Leisure Seeker”

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A far-away American town gets to pretend it’s Wellesley in an upcoming feature film, The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. Scheduled for U.S release on January 19, 2018, the movie is about a retired Wellesley couple who decides to coax the old Winnebago out of the garage and onto the open road for one last hurrah of a roadtrip.

They’re hanging out in diners, they’re making friends at campgrounds, and of course their adult children are just sick with worry. Sutherland’s character is a retired high school English teacher with Alzheimer’s, and Mirren’s character also has health challenges so what are they thinking, setting off like that and worrying everybody? So irresponsible.

Although The Leisure Seeker is set partly in Wellesley it wasn’t filmed here, giving another town the acting chance of a lifetime.

The September 3 premier at the Venice International Film Festival garnered mixed reviews for the roadtrip flick. The Telegraph loved it. Variety panned it. I guess it will be up to The Swellesley Report to break the tie when the movie is widely released. I’m sure I will be sufficiently recovered by then from the obvious snub by the organizers of the Venice Film Fest, who apparently left my invitation to the premier somewhere on the cutting room floor.

MORE: Sometimes Wellesley is called upon to dig deep and act like…

New York City (Wellesley as New York, anything goes in the movies)

Connecticut once (Wellesley scratches Christmas itch early for lottery commercial)…

…and Connecticut twice (Movie “Thoroughbred” filming in Wellesley)

Our Wellesley Movie Roundup here

 

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Wellesley Cone Crawl returns on Sept. 10

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Wellesley Theatre Project has announced its 5th annual Cone Crawl to be held on Sunday, Sept. 10 from Noon- 5pm.

Tickets cost $10 and entitle the bearer to visit JP Licks, Truly Yogurt, Baskin Robbins, and B. Good (smoothies count too!) to enjoy a small cone (think tasting size).  Participants will also receive a 2017, “I Conquered the Cone Crawl” T-Shirt that can be picked up at the Wellesley Theatre Project studio at 98R Central St. in Wellesley Square.

All proceeds from the Cone Crawl will go to support WTP programs such as Theatre Arts Classes and Camps, Full Realized Productions, Workshops and Master Classes, Outreach and Community Programs and Events, and the WTP Scholarship Fund.

The Cone Crawl is sponsored by the Wellesley Bank Charitable Foundation, The Swellesley Report, Gennari Aronson,  First Commons Bank, Christine Norcross and Partners, Boulderado Group, Butler Rubin, BraunWeiss, Chilly Bears, and the Wellesley Community Center.

If you are interested in participating in the Cone Crawl, you can get your tickets online at www.wellesleytheatreproject.org or at the WTP Studio, located at 98R Central St.

Wellesley Theatre Project is an arts academy and a Wellesley nonprofit devoted to providing students (PreK – 12th Grade) with the opportunity to study and experience theatre and performing arts through year round classes, staged productions, workshops and summer camps.

Registration is open for WTP’s 2017 Fall Classes and Production of Madagascar!  Classes range in age from pre-k through 12th Grade in acting, singing, dance, improv, technical theatre, stage combat, and more!

For more information on the Cone Crawl or upcoming classes and productions, please visit www.wellesleytheatreproject.org or call 781- 235-1550.

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