What would happen if Police Chief Brody and company were joined on their hunt for the great white shark in Jaws by actress Jennifer Coolidge? That’s the premise for The […]
Arts & Minds
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THEATER REVIEW
The Harbor Stage’s Bread & Butter Is Fast-Talking Comedy
Brenda Withers gives George S. Kaufman a run for his money
As a playwright and actor, Harbor Stage Company cofounder Brenda Withers excels at physical comedy and biting satire. Her latest play, Bread & Butter — a very loose spin on […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: Songs for Summer
Staff picks to celebrate the season you’ve been looking forward to all year
Whether it’s wafting from the open windows of a passing car, making its way down the beach from an unseen stranger’s radio, or simply filtering through the privacy of your […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 22, 2023 through June 29, 2023
Celebrating Community at the Provincetown Commons In the relatively short time since its opening in February 2019, the Provincetown Commons (46 Bradford St.) has become an integral part of the […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A Downtown State of Mind
Stephen Aiken’s 'Artists in Residence' resurrects a long-vanished New York
When Stephen Aiken arrived in New York in 1973, the deteriorating, crime-ridden city was practically bankrupt and nearing one of the lowest points in its history, one still remembered for […]
ARTISTS
A Life Lived for Art and Love
A film and exhibition shed light on the late Truro artist Nancy Ellen Craig
Christine and Michael Jones first encountered Truro artist Nancy Ellen Craig in 2010, five years before she died. After meeting them at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Craig invited […]
PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Something Shocking This Way Comes
Bruce LaBruce is the latest Filmmaker on the Edge
“John Waters and Andy Warhol were two of my biggest influences when I was starting out,” says Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. “At Warhol’s Factory there were a lot of drugs […]
PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Queendom Focuses on Subversive Performance Art in Russia
For the Provincetown-based producer, the film carries a special personal weight
Igor Myakotin first set foot in Provincetown in 2015 on a J-1 visa. At the time, he was an aspiring filmmaker with a job at Ptown Bikes. Now, eight years […]
FILM FESTIVAL
Julio Torres’s Problemista Wakes Up the American Dream
The comedian’s debut feature reveals the absurdity of the U.S. immigration system
To be sucked into the universe of Julio Torres is to find oneself surrounded by worlds teetering on the cusp of the absurd and the real. Each world is adorned […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 15, 2023 through June 22, 2023
A Dance Performance Brings 1990s New York to Provincetown New York City nightlife in the 1990s (at least before then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s eventual crackdown) was a decadent world of avant-garde […]
FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Provincetown Lights Up the Big Screen, and Vice Versa
Celebrating diversity and cinema on the Outer Cape
As the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) counts down to its 2023 launch next Wednesday, it feels bittersweet to recognize the 25th anniversary of this local extravaganza of screenings and […]
IN THE STUDIO
Donald Beal’s Search for Beauty and Dynamism
The Provincetown artist doesn’t take shortcuts in pursuit of making a painting work
In Donald Beal’s Provincetown studio, in the rear of his Alden Street home, a large painting of two women leaving the water hangs on a central wall. After working on […]
POETRY
Cynthia Bargar’s Poems Unearth Buried Stories
A memoir in poetry conjures the healing power of a familial haunting
Cynthia Bargar was writing short fiction when her friend, the poet Michael Burkard, urged her to turn toward poetry. “He would read my stories,” says Bargar, “and say, ‘Why aren’t […]
BOOKS
Steven Rowley Treasures Old Friends
In The Celebrants, the author explores the importance of having people ‘who knew you before’
Author Steven Rowley is having a moment and says he’s trying to fully appreciate the unexpected highs while hoping the other shoe won’t eventually drop. In April, Rowley won the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for June 7, 2023 through June 14, 2023
16th Annual Encaustic Conference Makes a Mark To most nonartists, encaustic — a kind of painting in which pigments are mixed into hot wax — may seem like a relatively […]
