As Louis de Rougemont, a real-life British adventurer of the Victorian era, Rodney Witherspoon II is an affable storyteller. He struts and frets for 90 minutes on the Garden Stage […]
Arts & Minds
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IMPROVISATION
Finding the Balance
To come to an agreement with death, I had to make a new agreement with life
One day in June, my wife and I left our cottage to walk straight out the mouth of the Herring River in Eastham. Low tide had exposed acres of sand […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Steven Brinberg, “Simply Barbra,” Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., $35 Boatslip Beach Club and Resort Paige Turner hosts “Drag Bingo,” Sun., 6 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean […]
LATE SHIFT
When a Flea Market Find Is a New Direction
Old friends reflect on second acts, begun on the drive-in blacktop
“I love murdering people,” says Donna Walo Clancy in her Boston accent, letting out a slight giggle, twirling her ponytail with her left hand, wearing an apron. She is taking […]
THE HOUND
In View This Week
Capt. Josh Rowan’s dog, Admiral Finn, a Staffordshire Terrier, enjoys the Bloodhound’s 70-foot teak deck. The cutter, now in Provincetown, is a 1990’s replica of an 1874 racing yacht. Rowan […]
COMING UP FOR AIR
Slowly, Outer Cape Libraries Begin to Reopen
The ‘lemonade of Covid’: more remote services and collaboration
The orders from town officials came down suddenly and in quick succession: on March 13, 2020 for Provincetown, on March 14 for Eastham, on March 16 for Wellfleet, and on […]
ARTISTS
The Charmed, Haunting Art of Laura Peturson
She is inspired by the imaginative play of children apart from adults
Once upon a time, there was an artist named Laura Peturson. She lived in a forest in northern Ontario with her husband, daughter, and son. The children spent their days […]
THEATER REVIEW
Finding Love Amid the Culture Wars
The Provincetown Theater puts pink icing on The Cake
Della, the North Carolina baker at the center of Bekah Brunstetter’s play The Cake, is a deeply conflicted woman. She’s not a cultural punching bag — a Paula Deen or […]
ARTISTS
Blair Thornley’s Emotional Clearinghouse
Theatrical paintings of East and West Coast banality
“What humans do on the Earth is fascinating to me,” says artist Blair Thornley from her home in San Diego. Her paintings feel theatrical — outdoor stage sets populated by […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Guardian of the Courts
STEVE OLIVER / TENNIS CLUB OWNER / WELLFLEET As youngsters, Steve Oliver and his siblings spent summers sweeping the red clay courts on Route 6 in Wellfleet. It was […]
ARTISTRY AND HEALING
Painting Before and After the Stroke
R. Mark Melnick’s show invites deep comparisons
Two paintings — Scenic New Mexico, which depicts a jagged butte seen from the perspective of someone standing farther back on its edge, and Mayo Beach Wellfleet, a view of […]
BOOK REVIEW
Re-evaluating the Guilt of Ethel Rosenberg
Anne Sebba’s biography of an infamous woman
The American press largely supported Judge Irving Kaufman’s decision at the height of the Red Scare to sentence Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death. In March 1951, a jury found […]
BOOK REVIEW
A Romance Set on the Outer Cape
Miranda Cowley Heller’s debut novel
Miranda Cowley Heller’s novel The Paper Palace tells the story of Elle, a woman whose life is both troubled and complicated. She must choose which man to share her life […]
LITERARY LIFE
New Owner Sought for Provincetown Bookshop
The shop was a haunt for a host of famous people during its long tenure
PROVINCETOWN — The well-loved bookstore where Norman Mailer and Robert Motherwell could frequently be found browsing will soon close unless some bibliophile steps forward to carry on the business. The […]
ARTISTS
For Josephine Halvorson, It’s All in the Details
Her work reveals how ‘objects have memories of their own’
A torn newspaper lies among fallen leaves. Tender weeds sprout inside the imprint of a coiled garden hose. “As a painter, there is no patch of ground that is uninteresting […]
