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that resonate, like Toronto’s , and those that

simply want to show soli-darity, like

in Berlin, Germany.And where will the New

York–based Svich be sta-tioned? She’ll be in atten-dance at a Barnard College reading co-sponsored by the , and one at

in May. She won’t be able to see all the read-ings, but that’s theatrical business as usual. As she puts it, “Any theatre that you make exists outside of you and travels on its own terms.” That’s a kind of spill we can fully endorse. Visit www.nopassport.org/thewayofwater.

There’s been a changing of the guard at the idyllic 90-seat Harbor Stage on Cape Cod where, since 1985,

has made its seasonal home. The building’s owner,

, had leased it to WHAT for $24,000 per May-to-October season, but in January declined to renew, opting instead to rent to a troupe of former WHAT actors called the

, under the leadership of

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who worked since 2008 at WHAT with HSC co-founders

, , and

—says the move was years in the making. “While we worked there, we got a real sense of the company that started that space with an artist-run ideal. That was the big rea-

son we kept coming back.”In 2007, WHAT built

the Julie Harris Stage, a 220-seat second stage a few miles inland. Eventually, as Withers and others saw it, the company began to shift its producing focus to running a year-round per-forming arts center. Then, last year, longtime WHAT artistic director stepped down. Spurred by these developments, the

Harbor Stage Company was born. Details of its inaugural three-month sea-son are still forthcoming. In the meantime, the troupe will offer a presentation at April’s “Wellfleet Blos-soms” festival to introduce itself to the community.

WHAT’s executive director is philosophical. “We always understood we wouldn’t be at the Harbor Stage for-

ever.” Indeed, that’s one reason the company built a second space. Still, Hough admits, “Actors are going to miss the sunsets before they go on stage. I sat there last summer during one of those sunsets and told them, ‘This may be a funky theatre, but it’s the most beautiful theatre in the world.’” Visit the compa-nies’ sites: www.harborstage.org and www.what.org.

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