American Roots and Rock at Payomet The Adam Ezra Group is a case study in how seismic shifts in the music industry have radically altered the way musicians and fans […]
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Arts Briefs for September 5, 2024 through September 12, 2024
A Classic Whodunit on the Stage Anna Marie Johansen typically directs comedies. But she’s also a fan of Agatha Christie. So, Johansen said yes when she was asked to direct […]
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Arts Briefs for August 29, 2024 through September 5, 2024
A Hollywood Murder Revisited Note: The Casey Sherman talk on Aug. 29 has been canceled because of illness. The Wellfleet library hopes to reschedule. Casey Sherman believes that one of […]
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Arts Briefs for August 22, 2024 through August 29, 2024
To Provincetown, With Love New York City-based singer-musician David Raleigh first came to Provincetown 20 years ago. Raleigh and his then-boyfriend (now husband) fell in love with the town, which […]
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Arts Briefs for August 15, 2024 through August 22, 2024
Bob Mackie, Still Sparkling If you close your eyes and picture some of the most memorable celebrity fashion looks of the past half century — particularly the more revealing ones […]
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Arts Briefs for August 8, 2024 through August 15, 2024
Jazz for All at the Provincetown Festival When Bart Weisman moved to Cape Cod after growing up in Washington, D.C., he didn’t see much in the way of jazz on […]
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Arts Briefs for August 1, 2024 through August 8, 2024
Agata Storer Connects Time, Place, and Memory Photographer Agata Storer is interested in how we remember. She’s long been obsessed with documentation, something she attributes, in part, to a life […]
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Arts Briefs for July 25, 2024 through August 1, 2024
A Cape-Wide Celebration of Chamber Music The 45th annual Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in several venues for two weeks this summer, begins on Tuesday, July 30 […]
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Arts Briefs for July 18, 2024 through July 25, 2024
Chara Percussion Ensemble Explores ‘Uncharted’ Sounds The Chara Percussion Ensemble is aptly named. A Greek word meaning “finding joy despite circumstance,” chara is visible on the musicians’ faces whenever they […]
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Arts Briefs for July 11, 2024 through July 18, 2024
Aparna Nancherla at Payomet “Maybe she’s born with it — maybe she’s trapped in a societal prison of impossible beauty standards” goes stand-up comic Aparna Nancherla’s riff on that old […]
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Arts Briefs for July 4, 2024 through July 11, 2024
Stories of a Gay Mormon Dad Claybourne Elder has a shorter commute to perform in Provincetown this year than he did last summer. The Broadway and television star is spending […]
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Arts Briefs for June 27, 2024 through July 4, 2024
Glisson, Reedy, and Salas Return to Alden Gallery Over the years, an exhibition for the artists Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas has become the summer season opening tradition […]
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Arts Briefs for June 20, 2024 through June 27, 2024
A Musical Trip to Planet Bitch In the late 1990s, Bitch and Animal, a self-styled punk dyke duo with what Bitch says was an “otherworldly connection,” played a summer of […]
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Arts Briefs for June 13, 2024 through June 20, 2024
Poet Laureate Ada Limón Can Imagine If you close your eyes to consider the bones, sinews, and arteries composing this flexed arm of sand and land, you might see the […]
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Arts Briefs for June 6, 2024 through June 13, 2024
Lee McColgan and A House Restored The first thing Lee McColgan wants you to know is that preserving an 18th-century New England house is not like an episode of HGTV’s […]