Wheelhouse Theater Company
Presents

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE takes a searing and darkly comedic look at American culture through the brilliantly perverse lens of Kurt Vonnegut. After being presumed dead for eight years, respected war veteran and big game hunter, Harold Ryan, returns home and brings with him an old way of thinking, celebrating a Hemingway-esque machismo and American exceptionalism. Harold soon discovers that the society he returns to has made attempts to progress into a more modern, enlightened cultural narrative. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE is a dynamic and often hilarious meditation on toxic masculinity and a capitalistic America's failed attempts at progress cloaked in honor and morality. Simply put, and as the first few lines of the play state, this is a play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don't.

Performance Schedule
​(Extended)

Wednesday, May 2nd at 7pm
Thursday, May 3rd at 2pm
Thursday, May 3rd at 7pm
Friday, May 4th at 7pm
Sunday, May 6th at 2pm
Wednesday, May 9th at 7pm
Thursday, May 10th at 2pm
Thursday, May 10th at 7pm
Friday, May 11th at 7pm
Saturday, May 12th at 2pm
Saturday, May 12th at 7pm
Sunday, May 13th at 2pm
Monday, May 14th at 7pm
Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm
Thursday, May 17th at 7pm
Friday, May 18th at 7pm
Saturday, May 19th at 2pm
Saturday, May 19th at 7pm
Sunday, May 20th at 2pm
Tuesday, May 22nd at 7pm
Wednesday, May 23rd at 2pm
Wednesday, May 23rd at 7pm
Friday, May 25th at 7pm
Saturday, May 26th at 2pm
Saturday, May 26th at 7pm
Sunday, May 27th at 2pm
Tuesday, May 29th at 7pm
Wednesday, May 30th at 7pm
Thursday, May 31st at 2pm
Thursday, May 31st at 7pm
Friday, June 1st at 7pm
Saturday, June 2nd at 2pm
Saturday, June 2nd at 7pm

Cast

Jason O’Connell*
Craig Wesley Divino*
Finn Faulconer*
Matt Harrington*
Kareem Lucas*
Kate MacCluggage*
Charlotte Wise

(*denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association)

Crew

Directed by Jeff Wise
Set Design by Brittany Vasta
Costume Design by Christopher Metzger
Lighting Design by Drew Florida
Sound Design by Mark Van Hare
Production Stage Manager: Tim Love*
Executive Producer: Visceral Entertainment 

Ticket Information

Ticket Information:
Rear Seating: $20 in Previews, $25 for Regular Performances
Standard Seating: $30 in Previews, $40 for Regular Performances
Premium Seating: $45 in Previews, $55 for Regular Performances
 
Tickets available for purchase at www.wheelhousetheater.com or directly at wandajune.brownpapertickets.com
To buy tickets over the phone please call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006

Press

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"Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June"
- The New York Times
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"Kurt Vonnegut’s 1970 play, about a chauvinist blowhard aggressively clinging to antiquated social mores, has found its moment."
- The New Yorker