Wetherhead ’98 Shines in Off-Broadway Musical

Kate Wetherhead ’98 currently stars in the off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days with a score by Adam Gwon and directed by Mark Bruni. The show deals the lives and troubles of four young people living in New York City. In a positive review in The New York Times, Charles Isherwood says the show “captures with stinging clarity that uneasy moment in youth when doubts begin to cloud hopes for a future of unlimited possibility.”

Wetherhead plays an unhappy graduate student who has lost her thesis notebook, which is found by an aspiring artist (Jared Gertner), and the two eventually meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In his review for the Associated Press, Michael Kuchwara says, “Wetherhead has a quirky, offbeat stage presence perfectly suited for this aggressively neurotic young woman, a person quick to form opinions and not shy about expressing them either.”

The other half of the show deals with a couple, played by Hunter Foster and Lisa Brescia, who problems mount when they decide to move in with each other.

Ordinary Days plays through Dec. 13 at the Roundabout Theater Company Black Box Theater, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, 111 West 46th Street, Manhattan, 212-719-1300. Tickets are $20.