Provincetown artist Paul Kelly begins to work on a new painting by creating architectural graphite sketches. There is a certainty to Kelly’s sketches — a commitment to contrast and shape. […]
Archives for 2024
GIVE/TAKE
The Living Sounds of Ukraine
At Payomet, DakhaBrakha deals in shades of memory and persistence
There’s a game elementary students used to play, usually in P.E. class, stretched out on the grass or the polished wood of the gym floor. It involved a rainbow parachute, […]
DRAG DESK
Jinkx Monsoon Is Going for It
The two-time winner of Drag Race returns to Provincetown, this time, unapologetically as herself
Since Jinkx Monsoon was last in Provincetown for Halloween 2022, she’s achieved many firsts for drag artists and transgender performers: she’s been featured in a record-breaking Broadway-musical run, starred in […]
ARTISTS
The Unfurling of a Creative Vision
Sam Feinstein’s development from a Hofmann student to a painter of sublime abstractions
The Sam Feinstein exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum charts his lifelong commitment to abstraction and color. The paintings span his early years in Provincetown as a student […]
THEATER
Queercore Takes a Bow on the Provincetown Stage
Peregrine Theatre returns with Hedwig and the Angry Inch
When Hedwig and the Angry Inch premiered in 1998 at the small Jane Street Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village, the transgender rights movement had little of its current visibility or […]
POT PRODUCTION
‘Reefer Madness,’ the Musical, Plays for Laughs and Makes a Point
Confronting the question, ‘What is public enemy number one?’
The concerned citizens file onto the stage: 12 adult actors dressed as well-to-do parents and respectable high school students. One couple is holding hands. A girl wears the sash of […]
THEATER
A Warning Against Fascism Returns to the Stage
'It Can’t Happen Here — Again,' adapted from Sinclair Lewis, comes to WHAT on July 19
A theatrical warning about fascism and liberal complacency was performed on 21 stages across the country one week before the national election of 1936. The play was It Can’t Happen […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 11, 2024 through July 18, 2024
Aparna Nancherla at Payomet “Maybe she’s born with it — maybe she’s trapped in a societal prison of impossible beauty standards” goes stand-up comic Aparna Nancherla’s riff on that old […]
VIGNETTE
Bug Beat
STEAMERS
The Elephant Men
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Writers’ Block
We started this newspaper with plans focused on the future — one where small-town newspapers thrived again. But some of the things we hoped for were old-fashioned. We wanted people […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 11, 2024
From Mike Shannon, Michelle Haynes, and Dotti Freitas
‘Put Your Money Where Your Mud Is’ To the editor: In his July 4 letter, Joe Aberdale, chair of the Wellfleet Marina Advisory Committee, says that Wellfleet Harbor could accommodate […]
OBITUARY
Jean G. Rose of Wellfleet Was 84
Jean Gail Rose died peacefully at home in Wellfleet on July 6, 2024. She was 84 and had been living with dementia. “She was the strongest person,” attentive, loving, and […]
OBITUARY
A Lover of Solitude, Philip Mastrobattisto Dies at 68
Philip Mastrobattisto, a fisherman, wanderer, explorer, craftsman, and artist, died on April 18, 2024 at his friend Eric Lindholm’s Eastham home at age 68. The cause, according to his family, […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, July 11- Thursday, July 18, 2024
Know when to hit the flats.
