Singer-actor James Jackson Jr. doesn’t take well to other people’s preconceptions about what he should and shouldn’t be doing. He’s turned defying expectations into something of a trademark in his […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL
Variations on the Theme of Memory
At this year’s theater festival, what is remembered about the past is not always what really happened
Actor and playwright Jacob Storms says that an extraordinary high-school experience of theater gave him the courage to write a one-man play in which he cast himself as an up-and-coming […]
PERFORMANCE ART
Creating the Future From Pieces of the Past
Lee and Tennessee spotlights two artists who reconfigured their Provincetown memories
In 1976, artist Lee Krasner took scissors to a pile of still-life charcoal and figure drawings from her late-1930s art classes with Provincetown’s Hans Hofmann. She turned the triangular shards […]
CABARET
Liz Callaway Passes on the Gift of Sondheim
The Broadway star returns to Provincetown with an expanded musical world
Broadway singer and actress Liz Callaway has performed a half-dozen times in Provincetown but returns Aug. 30 and 31 to a different venue — and with a new honor as […]
COMEDY
Kathy Griffin Returns From ‘Hell’ With Some Hope
The blacklisted comic’s comeback tour makes a stop in Provincetown
Once-“canceled” comic Kathy Griffin has been on a 10-week break in her 50-stop comeback tour since June, and her life and outlook have shifted. Griffin now has her natural voice […]
DANCE
Opening Up to Dance
Provincetown Dance Festival’s companies aim to engage and sometimes involve audiences
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Jean Appolon has long found dance to be a vital way to communicate, a way to heal, and a way to bring people together. Dance can […]
THEATER
Friendship in a Season of Compromise
Two women change each other in David Auburn’s moving Summer, 1976
So many friendships are born of circumstance — two people become roommates, neighbors, parents at the same time, or co-workers — and the experience can be intense for a time, […]
THEATER
In Wellfleet, Food for Thought
Harbor Stage makes first U.S. adaptation of My Dinner With Andre
Back when their thumbs up or down held some sway over box office sales, movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named 1981’s My Dinner With Andre among the […]
THEATER
How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown
The songwriter and star of Glee makes his local debut in Broadway-centric concert
Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be […]
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 […]
CABARET
Kate Baldwin’s Close Calls
The Broadway star kicks off John McDaniel’s Post Office series with an intimate show
Musician John McDaniel first accompanied two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin last year on an Alaska cruise. Now he’s the force behind her Provincetown debut this weekend in a show titled Sing […]
THEATER
Betrayal Comes Back to Wellfleet
Harbor Stage opens season with a revival of the Harold Pinter play
Jonathan Fielding admits he was only a casual fan of Harold Pinter’s classic drama Betrayal when he took the role of Jerry, who’s having an affair with his best friend’s wife. […]
THEATER
Mitchell Anderson’s Life After Hollywood
From TV star to gay-rights ‘poster child’ to Atlanta chef
Most of the people who’ve seen Mitchell Anderson’s one-man show, You Better Call Your Mother, were already familiar with at least one part of his autobiographical story. Anderson, 62, has […]
VOICES
May Erlewine Makes Music to Make a Difference
Singing to spread the power of love
May Erlewine’s songs speak of love, loss, and life’s dilemmas. Some have supported social causes, expressed the pain of women’s history, and voiced political worries about “being lost in the […]
ON WITH THE SHOW
The Art House Will Return — With New Producers
Renovations are stalled till winter, but one performance venue will open this summer
PROVINCETOWN — Last season was producing director Mark Cortale’s last at the Art House, the intimate Commercial Street venue that launched his now-international career. Since 2011, Cortale had brought summer […]
