Though he was an African American born into poverty in 1931 in rural Texas, picking cotton as a young child alongside his single mother, Alvin Ailey lived a life of […]
THEATER
A Playwright Explores the Exits in the Game of Life
Spirits will be raised at a benefit reading with Kathleen Turner
In Family Game Night, a new play by Peter Kennedy that will be given a staged reading at town hall on Saturday to benefit the Provincetown Theater, the Mortons are […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Monstrous Cost of Art
Good, bad, or ugly — is it worth it?
Seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is a less-than-contemplative experience. The Renaissance painting is housed in the high-ceilinged Salle des États, which is filled with […]
THEATER
The Unsinkable Tennessee Williams Fest Returns
With a theme of censorship, shows explore forbidden desire and expression
Putting on a festival of live theater — both indoors and outdoors — while the pandemic continues to rage is a risky and frustrating process. Yet that’s exactly what the […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Zach Oren Gives Visibility to a Trans Nation
With a clear eye and open heart, he captures the ‘Ides of Gender’
Zach Oren is not cagey about who he is. Even though there’s little biographical information available about him online, he’s forthright in explaining how he got to be the person […]
TIME AND THE TOWN
David Dunlap Is Endlessly Building Provincetown
A reissue of his 2015 book highlights a feast of local color
David W. Dunlap’s Building Provincetown is an ongoing project with a worthy aim: to create a comprehensive history of the town — that is, its residents, year-round and part-time, and […]
GALLERIES
Robert Henry: Still Riffing After All These Years
In a pandemic’s isolation, he finds joy in art
In the fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdown, Robert Henry had a memorable solo show called “Ship of State” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The […]
ARTISTS
James Balla Paints a Symphony of Color
A Provincetown gallerist circles back to his own art
In the text accompanying James Balla’s Into the blue again, the catalogue for his 2013 show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, he wrote, “Good art is always elegant. […]
GALLERIES
The Indelible Life and Landscapes of Brenda Horowitz
At 89, she continues to interpret the Outer Cape in brilliant color
“I’m always working,” Brenda Horowitz says, sitting in her North Truro studio with her right wrist wrapped in a tight bandage, the result of a recent fall. “I don’t stop. […]
THEATER REVIEW
Redemption for an American Holy Warrior
Witnessing Nat Turner in Jerusalem at WHAT
It is said that history is written by the victors, and in the case of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in August 1831, a time of rising abolitionist […]
THEATER REVIEW
Brenda Withers Cooks Up a Delicious Dindin
A quarrelsome Harbor Stage quartet makes mincemeat of a meal
As a fund-raiser, some Harbor Stage Company supporters watched an online table reading of Brenda Withers’s new play, Dindin, last fall. That may have offered a taste of Withers’s trenchant […]
THEATER REVIEW
Tennessee Williams Looks Back in Sorrow
A Provincetown homecoming for The Glass Menagerie
As a tale of family dysfunction, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is shrouded in the cloud of memory. The play, which opened on Broadway in 1945, was Williams’s first critical […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Funny Thing Happened Inside the Harbor Stage
To wit: the premiere of Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight
John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight, which is having its world premiere at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, is an extraordinarily intimate experience. The one-man show (with […]
QUEER ART
David Wojnarowicz: From Downtown to Our Town
The late art provocateur makes his Cape debut
Walking by 445 Commercial St. in Provincetown when the shades are pulled down, you’d hardly know there’s a priceless link to queer history inside. Once home to the Kiley Court […]
STILL LIFE
Larry Collins Cures the Pandemic With a Pencil
A show of drawings reveals the art of isolation
When the Covid lockdown hit in March 2020, Provincetown artist Larry Collins was living alone in his small condo in the middle of town. “Here I was, in my 70s, […]
