Music first came into Seth Glier’s life in second grade, he says, when he “got really interested in singing the national anthem before my sporting events.” He was 12 when […]
Arts & Minds
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SHIPSHAPE
Nauset High Drama Group Readies ‘the Big Reveal’
Anything Goes will spotlight school’s new state-of-the-art stage
Cole Porter’s 1934 musical Anything Goes begins in a bar with a few of the colorful characters who will be sailing on the ocean liner S.S. American from New York […]
THEATER
Angels in America’s Glorious Conclusion
Part II: Perestroika soars in Provincetown
Here’s the thing about Perestroika, the three-and-a-half-hour second half of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: it’s a period piece, set in 1986, when the AIDS epidemic was spreading its lethal […]
TURNING ON A DIME
Wild, Untamed, and Hard to Describe
The Invincible (formerly Incredible) Casuals, reborn, are writing songs and performing again
After a three-decade run, the Incredible Casuals, a Cape Cod rock band described by Rolling Stone as “the Beach Boys meets the Who,” disbanded in 2013. The band had performed […]
BIG PICTURE
Painting Spring’s First Shade
Tony Chimento learns to love green
Tony Chimento is a realist painter who lived and worked in Provincetown in the 1980s. He now lives in Florida and is represented in Provincetown by the Simie Maryles Gallery. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 15, 2025 through May 22, 2025
Anne Cowie Follows the Light There is something special about the light on the Outer Cape, where a thin spit of land is surrounded by water. Attempting to capture that […]
DRESS REHEARSAL
Provincetown Puts on Something Rotten
Students take the stage in middle-school musical about a musical
The script might be about the first-ever musical, but this year’s performance of Something Rotten Jr. by Provincetown Schools middle-school students is definitely a story reflecting plenty of experience and […]
WHAT STICKS
Putting the Pieces Together
An exhibition at the Commons celebrates the immediacy of collage
For the past few years, Karen Cappotto and James Ryan, co-founders of the Modern Provincetown Collagists, have mounted an annual exhibition at the Commons on Bradford Street celebrating collage as […]
SERIOUS HUMOR
Ren Q. Dawe Is ‘Here to Pee’
A cross-country trans comedy tour is on its way to Provincetown
The comedy tour “Here to Pee,” which began in March, represents comedian Ren Q. Dawe’s most ambitious project to date: a tour through all 50 states, featuring an all trans […]
STUDIO VISIT
Hope and Despair, One Dot at a Time
Donna Flax’s new paintings evoke humanity’s place in the cosmos
A group of ex-voto paintings line the wall of a hallway leading into Donna Flax’s studio at her home in Wellfleet. She collected the paintings in Mexico, which she began […]
OUTSIDERS
Bringing a Legendary Happening Back to Life
Billy Hough restages Andy Warhol’s ‘Exploding Plastic Inevitable’ for a new generation
This spring marks the 20th anniversary of Provincetown singer and songwriter Billy Hough’s show “Scream Along With Billy,” in which he and his musical partner, Susan Goldberg, perform entire albums […]
BIG PICTURE
Feeling Yellow
Dee Shippelhute works with severe contrasts and her son’s favorite color
Dee Shippelhute, an artist living in Chatham, has twice traveled to China to study painting. In 2008, she had a residency at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin and […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 8, 2025 through May 15, 2025
Taking It From the Top at Schoolhouse Gallery After a long winter filled with anxiety for many over current events, spring feels particularly welcome this year. The hopeful feelings of […]
CROSSWORD #62
Off to the Races
VIGNETTES
Art Leaves the Gallery for the Parlor
At the Vorse house, paintings see anew amid traces of history
Gene Tartaglia recalls a 2022 exhibition of Salvatore Del Deo’s artwork at the Mary Heaton Vorse house as revelatory. “It kind of shook the art community up a bit,” he […]
