There’s a threat weighing on the two couples who inhabit a pleasant living room in Brenda Withers’s hilarious new play, Westminster, at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet through Sept. […]
Arts & Minds
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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, […]
POETRY
Three Poems
Night-Blooming Cereus It wakes us to say to bloom once is not nothing. Night Once in a while –– sparks between people –– so stars can see everything they’re missing. […]
POETRY
Compensation
I think I understand. Without sufficient love, they compensate with hatred, not seeing how bountiful (how bountiful) it all really is… Rob Taylor’s Ads for Simplicity was published in 2013. He […]
Arts Briefs
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 […]
CROSSWORD #55
Renaissance x REvolution
LOST AND FOUND
Tom Deininger Turns Chaos Into Catharsis
The assemblage artist finds materials in a ‘dream state,’ then gets down to work
Mounted on the wall at Jeff Soderbergh Gallery in Wellfleet is a large striped bass. From a distance, the fish looks natural and seamless — an iridescent specimen with a […]
LIFE OF THE MIND
Forum 24 Asks, ‘What Is an Artist?’
A symposium explores tradition, transformation, and uselessness
About 70 people crowded into the Robert Charles and Lorraine Bauer Duffy Family Gallery at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum on July 31 to contemplate the question “What is […]
MIXED MEDIA
Working Toward Imperfectionism
Elspeth Slayter layers colors over artifacts and memories
In Elspeth Slayter’s mixed-media works, paint is pressed on paint, layer after layer: a web of yellow covers a block of cayenne red; sky blue buoys are bruised with violet; […]
DRAG DESK
In the Audience With Miss Richfield
In her new show, the drag queen masters the art of loving schadenfreude
Nathaniel is a lawyer from Boston. (Actually, he’s from Milton, which sounds nice but also boring.) He’s here with his children, Teddy and Sophia. It’s Family Week in Provincetown, meaning […]
PERFORMANCE
Taylor Mac Wants You to Try a Little Tenderness
A musical performance offers ‘a different understanding of the world’
Theater artist Taylor Mac says he’s been misrepresented by headlines claiming that he wants to make audiences “uncomfortable.” That isn’t the whole truth. Instead, he says, “I use theater to […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
William-Scott Gallery (439 Commercial St.) Daniel Schwarz says Michael Costello’s paintings at the William-Scott Gallery might be a reference to American poet and critic Marianne Moore’s definition of art: “imaginary gardens with […]
BOOKS
The Long Shadows of a Dictatorship
Lily Meyer’s fictional Short War makes real the lasting trauma of the 1973 Chilean coup
Last September the people of Chile commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed coup d’état that changed the fate of their country and their lives on Sept. 11, 1973. […]
Arts Briefs
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 […]
REST AND REASSESS
Covid-19 Pauses Outer Cape Entertainment
Two venues canceled a week of performances in July
PROVINCETOWN — Four years after Covid-19 brought live performances worldwide to a halt, the virus is still working its will on Outer Cape arts venues. The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater […]
