Acceptance and Art in A Man of No Importance Following their 1975 Broadway hit Ragtime, writer Terrence McNally, composer Stephen Flaherty, and lyricist Lynn Ahrens reunited in 2002 for A […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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CROSSWORD #43
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PHOTOGRAPHY
David Hilliard Brings Light to the Shadows
A pair of exhibitions feature collaborative portraits of a community that transcend time and place
“Our houses are our biographies, the stories of our defeats and victories,” wrote Mary Heaton Vorse in Time and the Town, her memoir of early 20th-century life in Provincetown. Vorse’s […]
STAR TURNS
Audra McDonald Is the Rarest Kind of Superstar
The 6-time Tony Award winner is returning to town hall July 9
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in April 2012, and I was walking with my husband along a side street in New York City’s theater district. We were scouting for […]
SONGWRITERS
Patty Larkin’s Outer Cape Comeback
After a devastating spinal cord injury, the singer returns with renewed passion
Folk musician Patty Larkin, 72, tripped and fell in a dark room during a family vacation last June, suffering a spinal cord injury that could have left her a quadriplegic. […]
THEATER REVIEW
Hamlet and Cheese on Wry
WHAT takes Shakespeare’s Complete Works for a spin
Is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) a play? Well, not exactly. It’s more like a literary theme park ride with props, sketch comedy, audience participation, and improvisation — […]
ARTISTS
Kelly Knight Preserves Mystery in Her Art
Encouraging viewers to take comfort in the unknown
In artist Kelly Knight’s basement studio in Providence, R.I., her “studio buddy” Claude, a snow-white domestic dove, coos insistently. He’s calling for a mate, says Knight. Domestic doves are family […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 6, 2023 through July 13, 2023
Here Come the Bears Depending on your source, Bear Week in Provincetown — Saturday, July 8 to Saturday, July 15 this year — is either the largest event in the […]
ARTISTS
MiYoung Sohn Makes Things — Whatever the Circumstance
An adaptable artist reimagines common materials
When MiYoung Sohn moved to Provincetown, it was the flowers that struck her. She arrived from New York in September 2021 to work as the visual arts coordinator at the […]
DRAG DESK
Sampling Provincetown’s Ubiquitous Drag Brunch
Our skeptical correspondent is pleasantly surprised
Isn’t brunch supposed to be sort of quiet? The clink of ice in your cocktail glass and the soothing crunch of avocado toast the only aural disturbances? Yet here we […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
Packard Gallery II (372 Commercial St.) Koryna Boudinot is from San Francisco but now lives in Wellfleet. She likes the Packard Gallery because of the space — there’s plenty of […]
BOOKS
On the Road With Richard LeBlond
In Homesick for Nowhere, the former Advocate columnist is a companionable guide
I’ve never been a fan of most travel writing. The older I get, the more comfortable my couch, the more set my ways, the more satisfied I am to stay […]
BOOKS
A Tall Ship and an Oscar-Winning Movie
Will Sofrin’s ocean adventure on the frigate of Master & Commander
When Will Sofrin called an ex-girlfriend after two decades to say he wanted to write his first book about a once-in-a-lifetime adventure they’d shared, it was awkward. She told him: […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 29, 2023 through July 6, 2023
Alfre Woodard’s New Role in Wellfleet Actress and activist Alfre Woodard has been named Wellfleet Preservation Hall’s inaugural artistic director. The goals for her part-time leadership position include advocating for […]
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL
Peter Cook Tells Stories to Remember
Keeping a Provincetown heritage alive, one story at a time
Fishing hundreds of miles off the coast of Provincetown in 1979, the F/V Little Infant was caught in a raging tempest. Peter Cook, a crewman on the 90-foot scalloper, could […]
