Please note parking is no longer free at the Quimby Street East parking lot adjacent to the theater. Free parking for performances at WCT is still available at the Metro North lot behind our theater.
JULY EVENTS
Fri. July 26 @ 8 pm
Sat. July 27 @2&8 pm
Sun. July 28 @ 3 pm
That’s (Not) All She Wrote III will showcase a collection of plays and monologues written and performed by seven local women playwrights and WCT members. This year, the pieces revolve around the theme of “heARTbeat,” encompassing all from the familiar association of the heart as the core of love/passion to multiple other guises. The writers will read from their own work in a specially created salon-like setting with audiences seated around the space cabaret-style to provide a more immersive, participatory experience.
WCT writer/actor/director Carol Mark is directing the production and WCT writer/actor/ director/producer Lori Myers is the executive producer.
The playwrights and their plays and excerpts are:
Barbara Bennion, Eyes on Me
Jessica Bonds, Kindling
Joni Fritz, Fertility Rites and Independence Day
Brenda Hettmansberger, Meet Me at the Riverside
Evelyn Mertens, excerpts from Mother Love, Never Wild and That Way
Loretta Oleck, Window at Nir Oz Kibbutz
and Kathryn Rossetter, Please Marry My Dad and Heart of the Matter.
Talkbacks follow each performance.
Sat. July 27 @2&8 pm
Sun. July 28 @ 3 pm
That’s (Not) All She Wrote III will showcase a collection of plays and monologues written and performed by seven local women playwrights and WCT members. This year, the pieces revolve around the theme of “heARTbeat,” encompassing all from the familiar association of the heart as the core of love/passion to multiple other guises. The writers will read from their own work in a specially created salon-like setting with audiences seated around the space cabaret-style to provide a more immersive, participatory experience.
WCT writer/actor/director Carol Mark is directing the production and WCT writer/actor/ director/producer Lori Myers is the executive producer.
The playwrights and their plays and excerpts are:
Barbara Bennion, Eyes on Me
Jessica Bonds, Kindling
Joni Fritz, Fertility Rites and Independence Day
Brenda Hettmansberger, Meet Me at the Riverside
Evelyn Mertens, excerpts from Mother Love, Never Wild and That Way
Loretta Oleck, Window at Nir Oz Kibbutz
and Kathryn Rossetter, Please Marry My Dad and Heart of the Matter.
Talkbacks follow each performance.
AUGUST EVENTS
STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT AT WCT
Fri. Aug. 2 @
8 PM
Stand-Up Comedy Night features three NYC-based standup comedians known nationwide through their many TV and film appearances.
Headlining an outstanding evening will be veteran comic Kevin Bartini, known to audiences from The Comedy Show with Jon Stewart, the recurring role of Billy Jones on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ABC’s hidden camera show What Would You Do? And the second season of HBOMax’s And Just Like That (the revival and sequel to Sex and the City). Bartini is a nationally touring comedian, writer, and TV and radio personality.
The featured comic will be Johnny Watson, a podcast host and author who has appeared at many of the major clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada including The Comic Strip Live, The New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club in New York City and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and in numerous television, film and theater productions including SNL and the special Functionally Dysfunctional.
Jim Mendrinos, the host for the evening and returning from a successful WCT show in June, is a staple of the NYC comedy scene. He has worked for David Letterman, The Tonight Show, The Chevy Chase Show, Head of the Class, and SNL. Mendrinos has performed on Comedy Central, Current TV, SiTV, HBO and the BBC and has an hour-long special, Not Dead Yet, on Amazon Video Direct.
Fri. Aug. 2 @
8 PM
Stand-Up Comedy Night features three NYC-based standup comedians known nationwide through their many TV and film appearances.
Headlining an outstanding evening will be veteran comic Kevin Bartini, known to audiences from The Comedy Show with Jon Stewart, the recurring role of Billy Jones on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ABC’s hidden camera show What Would You Do? And the second season of HBOMax’s And Just Like That (the revival and sequel to Sex and the City). Bartini is a nationally touring comedian, writer, and TV and radio personality.
The featured comic will be Johnny Watson, a podcast host and author who has appeared at many of the major clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada including The Comic Strip Live, The New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club in New York City and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles and in numerous television, film and theater productions including SNL and the special Functionally Dysfunctional.
Jim Mendrinos, the host for the evening and returning from a successful WCT show in June, is a staple of the NYC comedy scene. He has worked for David Letterman, The Tonight Show, The Chevy Chase Show, Head of the Class, and SNL. Mendrinos has performed on Comedy Central, Current TV, SiTV, HBO and the BBC and has an hour-long special, Not Dead Yet, on Amazon Video Direct.
ALEXIS COLE
SAT., AUG. 3 @
7:30 pm
Alexis Cole at performs “The Music of Gigi Gryce”. The evening will feature Gryce’s most popular songs such as “Social Call” and “Music in the Air” alongside many of his lesser-known gems.
Alexis Cole has been compared to classic jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O’Day. Cole has a dozen albums to her credit on Motéma, Chesky, Venus Records and Zoho. She has recorded with such artists as Fred Hersch, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Don Braden, been a soloist with the Boston Pops, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Cole will be accompanied by trumpeter Haneef Nelson and keyboardist John DiMartino. The evening will also feature Jazz Historian and Gigi Gryce biographer Noal Cohen to discuss Gryce’s life and career.
SAT., AUG. 3 @
7:30 pm
Alexis Cole at performs “The Music of Gigi Gryce”. The evening will feature Gryce’s most popular songs such as “Social Call” and “Music in the Air” alongside many of his lesser-known gems.
Alexis Cole has been compared to classic jazz singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Anita O’Day. Cole has a dozen albums to her credit on Motéma, Chesky, Venus Records and Zoho. She has recorded with such artists as Fred Hersch, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Don Braden, been a soloist with the Boston Pops, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Cole will be accompanied by trumpeter Haneef Nelson and keyboardist John DiMartino. The evening will also feature Jazz Historian and Gigi Gryce biographer Noal Cohen to discuss Gryce’s life and career.
...And while you're here, enjoy some glorious art from our friends at the Ossining Arts Council displayed throughout the theater.
WCT is proud to be a grantee of ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with the support of County Executive George Latimer.