So many stories, both harrowing and heartwarming, have been told about World War II that it can be hard to imagine what a new novel might add. But as we […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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FRONT LINES
War Reporting as Breakthrough
A conversation with Phil Klay on the challenges and dilemmas of depicting violence
Phil Klay’s short story collection, Redeployment, about the experiences of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and returning home, won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. His second book, Missionaries, […]
BIG PICTURE
Out of the Blue
Mike Wright makes a painting, but really, she doesn’t
Mike Wright, who has lived in Provincetown since 1984, makes abstract sculptures out of found wood. She has requirements for her materials: the wood must be from Provincetown, and it […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 22, 2025 through May 29, 2025
A New Mystery Series Provincetown author Jeannette De Beauvoir is best known for her mysteries set in the town she’s called home for 20 years. But before she wrote 10 […]
CROSSWORD #63
Mass Hysteria
SURFACES
On the Line Between Accident and Intention
Anthony Fisher embodies the unexpected in his intensely physical paintings
Anthony Fisher remembers seeing an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum of Alvin Ross’s realist paintings. Fisher was 14 years old. “It was really an inspiration,” he says, […]
REWILDING
Seth Glier Hears ‘a Symphony of Little Things’
His album Everything is in praise of wandering the wild
Music first came into Seth Glier’s life in second grade, he says, when he “got really interested in singing the national anthem before my sporting events.” He was 12 when […]
SHIPSHAPE
Nauset High Drama Group Readies ‘the Big Reveal’
Anything Goes will spotlight school’s new state-of-the-art stage
Cole Porter’s 1934 musical Anything Goes begins in a bar with a few of the colorful characters who will be sailing on the ocean liner S.S. American from New York […]
THEATER
Angels in America’s Glorious Conclusion
Part II: Perestroika soars in Provincetown
Here’s the thing about Perestroika, the three-and-a-half-hour second half of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: it’s a period piece, set in 1986, when the AIDS epidemic was spreading its lethal […]
TURNING ON A DIME
Wild, Untamed, and Hard to Describe
The Invincible (formerly Incredible) Casuals, reborn, are writing songs and performing again
After a three-decade run, the Incredible Casuals, a Cape Cod rock band described by Rolling Stone as “the Beach Boys meets the Who,” disbanded in 2013. The band had performed […]
BIG PICTURE
Painting Spring’s First Shade
Tony Chimento learns to love green
Tony Chimento is a realist painter who lived and worked in Provincetown in the 1980s. He now lives in Florida and is represented in Provincetown by the Simie Maryles Gallery. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 15, 2025 through May 22, 2025
Anne Cowie Follows the Light There is something special about the light on the Outer Cape, where a thin spit of land is surrounded by water. Attempting to capture that […]
DRESS REHEARSAL
Provincetown Puts on Something Rotten
Students take the stage in middle-school musical about a musical
The script might be about the first-ever musical, but this year’s performance of Something Rotten Jr. by Provincetown Schools middle-school students is definitely a story reflecting plenty of experience and […]
WHAT STICKS
Putting the Pieces Together
An exhibition at the Commons celebrates the immediacy of collage
For the past few years, Karen Cappotto and James Ryan, co-founders of the Modern Provincetown Collagists, have mounted an annual exhibition at the Commons on Bradford Street celebrating collage as […]
SERIOUS HUMOR
Ren Q. Dawe Is ‘Here to Pee’
A cross-country trans comedy tour is on its way to Provincetown
The comedy tour “Here to Pee,” which began in March, represents comedian Ren Q. Dawe’s most ambitious project to date: a tour through all 50 states, featuring an all trans […]
