Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who joined the early-20th-century anarchist and labor movements in Massachusetts. In 1921, they were convicted of killing a paymaster and a guard […]
THEATER
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
An adaptation of a Willa Cather short story explores connections to place and community
The Willa Cather short story that Brenda Withers has adapted as a play is set in a 19th-century Nebraska farm community, but in the Harbor Stage Company’s production of The […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Murray Bartlett Is at Home Here
The actor is being honored by his adopted community
Murray Bartlett has won or been nominated for more than a dozen acting awards, but the one he’ll receive Saturday hits closest to home. Six years after moving to the […]
PERFORMANCE
Grief and Laughter in Equal Measure
Sam Morrison found inspiration in Provincetown and catharsis in comedy
Six years ago, a chance meeting on Commercial Street changed the world of comedian Sam Morrison. The encounter marked the start of a relationship that Morrison recounts in his one-man […]
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
A Place to Be Brave, Loud, and Ridiculous
Cape Rep’s Young Company teaches more than just theater
BREWSTER — Rehearsal starts with a circle. It’s Tuesday evening, and 20 teenagers from the Cape Rep Theatre’s Young Company face each other on the stage. Though they’re empty-handed, they […]
ART
Techspressionism Rocks the Boat
Cape and Canadian artists create moving images for an oceanic exhibition
Forty years ago, artist Karen LaFleur realized that she could make designs using a dot matrix printer. She painstakingly typed alternating Xs, Os, symbols, and blank spaces on her computer […]
CABARET
James Jackson Jr. Likes to Change People’s Minds
The Broadway star favors the unexpected in music and social activism
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 […]
