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 […]
FINAL BOWS
Mark Cortale Says Farewell to the Art House and Hello to Broadway
A theater lease is ending amid new plans for both venue and producer
Mark Cortale has been saying a grateful goodbye to the Art House, the Provincetown theater where he spent 12 years as the producing artistic director — an experience that he […]
POSTCARDS
Painting a Somber Summer Vacationland
Jamie O’Neill finds something modern in nostalgic scenes
Jamie O’Neill first became fascinated by stories of the past while growing up on Nantucket. Now a father, he is still pulled by history as he turns his art to […]
BOOKS
Raising the Spirits of the Living and Dead
Adam Berry’s book on coping with grief
Adam Berry arrived in Provincetown 20 years ago as a Boston Conservatory sophomore to star in the Provincetown Theater Company’s production of Hair. An Alabama native, he didn’t know anything about […]
UNDER THE BIG TOP
Circus Performers Juggle Locations to Keep Flying
Payomet’s Cirque by the Sea takes its show to Wellfleet
WELLFLEET — A live scarecrow tumbles, sways, and hangs — precarious and loose-limbed — high above a field. Farmhands wildly flip ears of corn as crops “multiply.” A unicycle seems to […]
BOOKS
A Tall Ship and an Oscar-Winning Movie
Will Sofrin’s ocean adventure on the frigate of Master & Commander
When Will Sofrin called an ex-girlfriend after two decades to say he wanted to write his first book about a once-in-a-lifetime adventure they’d shared, it was awkward. She told him: […]
THEATER
‘Jennifer Coolidge’ Goes Shark-Hunting in New Musical Spoof
A pop-culture parody, Jaws at the White Lotus jumps into the pool
What would happen if Police Chief Brody and company were joined on their hunt for the great white shark in Jaws by actress Jennifer Coolidge? That’s the premise for The […]
BOOKS
Steven Rowley Treasures Old Friends
In The Celebrants, the author explores the importance of having people ‘who knew you before’
Author Steven Rowley is having a moment and says he’s trying to fully appreciate the unexpected highs while hoping the other shoe won’t eventually drop. In April, Rowley won the […]
SCIENCE
Scientists Connect the Dots on Climate Change
A Twenty Summers panel looks at how fires anywhere become problems everywhere
The environmental challenges in the Amazon rainforest and Arctic permafrost may seem far removed from those in Provincetown, but what happens in one place can drastically affect the present and […]
