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 […]
GOING VICTORIAN
A Taste for Trollope
The sometimes overlooked 19th-century British author inspires a Truro group
Scheming politicians, female agency, marital bargains, and ambitious sociopaths were all up for discussion at a recent meeting in Truro. This was not a select board hearing, however. It was […]
LISTENING IN
Jeff Zinn Explores the History of Acting
In his podcast ‘Gurus,’ decades of theater training connect to what we’re currently streaming
Jeff Zinn, former artistic director at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and former managing director at Gloucester Stage Company, has spent his life in the theater. But a few years ago, […]
THEATER
Wellfleet’s Harbor Stage Heads North for January
The company revives Northside Hollow in Boston with the original cast
The two couples who run Wellfleet’s Harbor Stage Company — Robert Kropf and Stacy Fischer and Brenda Withers and Jonathan Fielding — are producing the company’s first winter show in […]
MOVIES
One Year In, Solo Artists Find Strength in the Ensemble
Outer Cape filmmakers gather for the sake of the craft and for each other
PROVINCETOWN — Early this year, Ernest Martin was invited to show a sample of his unfinished work to fellow local filmmakers, most of whom he’d never met. Martin was working […]
EPISTOLARY
Woodard and Zinn to Read ‘Love Letters’ at Preservation Hall
The two actors and friends will collaborate in the 1990 Pulitzer Prize drama finalist
A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a play about love and connection, regret and missed opportunities, memory and reflection. But mostly it’s about two childhood friends sharing more than 50 years […]
FEELIN’ VEGGIE
Turnip Love Brings Musicians Back Together
The Higher Ground String Band will play at art- and food-filled Eastham Turnip Festival
EASTHAM — Every November, the turnip becomes a rallying cry for four members of the Higher Ground String Band. They perform a little gospel, a little bluegrass, a little folk […]
RADIO
Spooky Audio Tales Pick Up Good Vibrations
J Hagenbuckle’s Cape Noir Radio Theater uses only sound to tell stories of horror and crime
If you remove what you see in live theater or in movies — actors’ expressions and movement, scenery, costumes — what’s left is simply sound. J Hagenbuckle, whose medium is […]