Comedian Paula Poundstone refuses to research Provincetown before she performs at Town Hall on Aug. 16. That would require the E-word, she says: “Effort.” She’s also been here before. “I […]
Arts & Minds
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ARTISTE
Jacques Fromage: Night Shift
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 14, 2025 through August 21, 2025
Paintings that Abstract and Reveal As her career has matured, Cynthia Packard’s paintings of human figures, flowers, dogs, and boats have become increasingly abstracted. She’s still rooted in painting from […]
SCALING UP
The New Muralists of MacMillan
Nine artists experiment with going big
The trap sheds at MacMillan Pier are bright with eight newly installed murals. They’re a Provincetown Public Arts Foundation project that Executive Director Samuel Tager hopes will happen every year. […]
VOILÀ!
The Unifying Voice of the Viola
The Catalyst Quartet celebrates the unsung
Paul Laraia’s viola looks like a rare antique: it’s 16⅜ inches long, with a varnished body the color of amber. Its shoulders are narrow at the top and steeply sloped; […]
ACTING UP
A New Company Will Stage a Harrowing Play
Young actors bring Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman to Orleans
Izaak van der Wende, a rising senior at Nauset Regional High School, first read and admired Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman when he was 14, but he knew its dark […]
THROUGHLINES
Woven Objects
A love of weaving and texture runs through Janet Beattie’s art
As a child growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, Janet Beattie learned to sew from her grandmother. By fifth grade, she was making her own clothes. That experience gave her […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery wander
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At the AMZehnder Gallery, Mia Cross’s exhibition “Patchwork” is up. Her large-scale oil on canvas works are done in celestial blues and burnt […]
SING STREET
DeAngelo Nieves Is Here to Stay
How a multi-instrumentalist street musician fell in love
On a fog-thick night in July 2021, DeAngelo Nieves pointed his electric scooter east from his father’s farm in Goshen, Mass. and rode 11 hours to Provincetown. A guitar was […]
COMICS
Georgie and Barnacle: Out of the Box
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for August 7, 2025 through August 14, 2025
Joan Osborne Puts Her Own Spin on Bob Dylan Joan Osborne has been listening to Bob Dylan since his music was being released on cassette tapes and covering his songs […]
TRANSFORMATION
John O’Connor Makes His Own Rules
Playful and off-kilter drawings that examine the slipperiness of meaning
John O’Connor’s exhibition at Farm Projects in Wellfleet takes its title from a phrase his grandfather used to say: “Wind up the cat and put the clock out.” It had […]
MONSTROUS
Hannah Barrett Paints Pertinent Portraits
An artist’s imaginary creatures have stories to tell
The characters in “Word Processor,” Hannah Barrett’s series of oil paintings, are secretaries, record keepers, and writers. They work in spaces filled with familiar objects: fruit, flowers, patterned rugs, telephones, […]
TRIBUTE
Dear Leonard Cohen
Perla Batalla’s latest album is dedicated to her friend and mentor
Singer Perla Batalla got a call in 1988 from Roscoe Beck, Leonard Cohen’s bass player, asking her to audition as a backing vocalist for the renowned Canadian musician. After getting […]
VOICES
Margaret Cho Is Still Fighting the Good Fight
After four decades, the comedian continues to speak truth to power
When Margaret Cho emerged in the early 1990s as a major new voice in comedy and a stand-up headliner, fans were ignited by her brutal honesty, taboo-breaking storytelling, and unapologetic […]
