Hershey Area Playhouse Presents WIT, 4/22- 5/2

Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, WIT, will be presented Thursday-Sunday, April 22-25 and April 29-May 2 at the Hershey Area Playhouse. First produced off-Broadway in 1999, WIT stars Debbie Voight as a patient undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer.

“This play treat cancer with respect,” said Debbie, who plays the lead role of Vivian Bearing. “At the same time, funny little things can happen at the end of life, and it’s ok use humor to deal with our mortality -- our passage from one life to the next.”

The rest of the cast includes Michael Sevareid of Mt. Joy as Harvey Kelekian; Stosh Snyder of Harrisburg as Jason Posner; Julie Strickland of Mt. Joy as Susie Monahan; Barbara Ellis of Elizabethtown as E. M. Ashford, and Don Bowman of Lebanon as Mr. Bearing.

Tickets for WIT are $17 for teens and adults, and $14 for children 12 and under. Service charges apply. Performance times are 7:30 pm Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 pm on Sundays. Hershey Area Playhouse is located at 830 Cherry Drive, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Tickets and more information are available at HersheyAreaPlayhouse.com.

A reception and "talk back" will follow performances on Saturday, April 24 and May 1, giving audiences the opportunity to ask questions and hear from cancer specialists. Tickets to the "talk back" are not required, and admission is free. WIT is sponsored by The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Humanities Department.