They don’t come more homegrown than this. Kevin Rice’s The Pickleball Wars, which is having its world premiere at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater through Sept. 9, is a comedy […]
THEATER REVIEW
Water, Water Everywhere
Robert Kropf’s Liv at Sea premieres at the Harbor Stage
Although watery things are present in much of the dialogue in Robert Kropf’s new play, Liv at Sea, a world premiere at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, it’s not […]
THEATER REVIEW
The Innocence and Experience of Love, Put to Music
The Fantasticks goes gay in Provincetown
Since it opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse on a quaint residential block in New York’s Greenwich Village on May 3, 1960, The Fantasticks has become a theatrical landmark of […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Little Sondheim Music in the Night
Post-pandemic, the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble returns
It’s been three years since its last production, a grand revival of Cabaret, but the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble is back, renewing its traditional summer musical theater presence in Provincetown with […]
THEATER REVIEW
Hamlet and Cheese on Wry
WHAT takes Shakespeare’s Complete Works for a spin
Is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) a play? Well, not exactly. It’s more like a literary theme park ride with props, sketch comedy, audience participation, and improvisation — […]
THEATER REVIEW
The Harbor Stage’s Bread & Butter Is Fast-Talking Comedy
Brenda Withers gives George S. Kaufman a run for his money
As a playwright and actor, Harbor Stage Company cofounder Brenda Withers excels at physical comedy and biting satire. Her latest play, Bread & Butter — a very loose spin on […]
PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Something Shocking This Way Comes
Bruce LaBruce is the latest Filmmaker on the Edge
“John Waters and Andy Warhol were two of my biggest influences when I was starting out,” says Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. “At Warhol’s Factory there were a lot of drugs […]
FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Provincetown Lights Up the Big Screen, and Vice Versa
Celebrating diversity and cinema on the Outer Cape
As the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) counts down to its 2023 launch next Wednesday, it feels bittersweet to recognize the 25th anniversary of this local extravaganza of screenings and […]
THEATER
All Aboard for Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
WHAT bares its stage for a meditation on violence, truth, and morality
The playwright and sometime actor Stephen Adly Guirgis (pronounced GEER-giss, with hard Gs) is a major theatrical talent who isn’t nearly as well known as David Mamet, although Guirgis’s rhythmic, […]
THEATER REVIEW
Checking In to Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina
Exploring a different sort of Catskills resort from the past
When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in April 2014 — only nine years ago — Obama was president, the Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a Constitutional […]
INDIE SCREEN
When Sex Is Beside the Point
Two new films explore the pain of loss in male friendships
At the beginning of the revelatory Belgian film Close, young Leo, whose parents own a flower farm, can think of nothing more than spending all his summer days with Remi, […]
INDIE SCREEN
Two Films That Take Young Girls Seriously
Streaming the genius of Aftersun and Playground
Amid the hoopla of the Oscars and award season, a couple of moving, astonishing, and beautifully crafted features by first-time woman directors slid by without much fanfare. One reason for […]
INDIE SCREEN
A Fassbinder Classic Gets a Meta Gender Flip
François Ozon’s Peter von Kant is a pas de deux auteurs
French filmmaker François Ozon is a bit of a chameleon. He’s best known for the film Swimming Pool, with Charlotte Rampling as a British mystery writer vacationing in Provence. But […]
INDIE SCREEN
Oscar Contenders Fight the Good Fight
Three films take humanistic stances with uneven success
Canadian child actor turned writer-director Sarah Polley continues to prove she’s one of the great filmmaking talents of our time. Her four features — Away From Her (2006), starring Julie […]
INDIE SCREEN
When All That Glitters Is Not Gold
It’s Oscar season in the twilight of Hollywood
When the Covid lockdown happened back in March 2020, it accelerated shifts that were already in progress in the movie industry. Fewer people were seeing films in theaters, and streaming […]
