Professional theatre in residence at Wellesley College.
Our Mission
Wellesley Repertory Theatre is an award-winning, year-round professional theatre company, in residence since 1998 on the Wellesley College campus. Founded as a summer theatre by Nora Hussey - a formidable storyteller and community-builder recognized for her lifetime of achievement on both a local and national level - Wellesley Rep productions have been lauded by critics and cherished by audiences for two decades and onwards!
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Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival
September 24-30
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FLOOD SENSOR AUNTY by Sabina Sethi Unni
Saturday 9/27 at 5pm
Sunday 9/28 at 3pmHalfway between really funny devised theater and culturally competent community disaster prevention, this show is about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding, climate change, and despair is through knowing your neighbors.
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SLOW MOTION CUMBIA: STAGES (I) by Maia Macdonald
Saturday 9/27 at 7pm
A syncretic, adaptable work in process, moving from haunted reckoning to creation amidst crisis. Based on new music.
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THE ACTRESS WHO DIED A THOUSAND DEATHS from Annie Jin Wang
Tuesday 9/30 at 7pm
In a surreal dreamscape, legendary film star Anna May Wong comes face-to-face with her younger self in the nascent years of Hollywood's Orientalist obsessions, and retakes control of the camera's Gaze.
2024-25 WRT Grant Recipients in the news:
The Wellesley Repertory Theatre Grant provides project-based support to Wellesley College graduates for the development and/or production of unpublished/unproduced work in the field.
Wellesley College News profiled the first three WRT Grant Recipients - learn more about them, their projects, and grant support below!
Wellesley Repertory Theatre and Wellesley College Theatre to present 2025 WRT Festival:
In September 2025, Wellesley College Theatre–the Theatre Studies Program and Wellesley Repertory Theatre–will host the first bi-annual Wellesley Repertory Theatre Festival showcasing the work of Wellesley College grads and students in the performing arts.
WRT joins Boston’s Ufot Cycle
A cycle of 9 plays about a Nigerian-American family by Wellesley College graduate Mfoniso Udofia (‘06) to be presented over 2 years by a cohort of Boston-area arts organizations.
A student & grad-driven Wellesley Repertory Theatre
Our diverse assets - indeed, our repertory! - are the very folks our mission exists to support: Wellesley graduates working in theatre! WRT seeks to build a bridge between curricular inquiry and professional opportunity for our majors, makers and grads.
Check out the work happening in the Wellesley College Theatre Studies Program
“ I was at the edge of my seat for the entire running time.”
— Swellesley Report
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