For all its fierce glamour and industrial-strength levels of hairspray, a drag show is a fragile thing. The delicate alchemy of performer, venue, and audience can be lost when an […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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‘BOUNDARY SCHOOL’
Liberating and Healing the Body Through Writing
Antoinette Cooper uses narrative medicine to repair individual and generational trauma
Even over Zoom, Antoinette Cooper’s presence radiates harmony. The poet, medical humanist, and spiritual practitioner is calling in from her home in New York City, where she says rodents have […]
THEATER REVIEW
Checking In to Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina
Exploring a different sort of Catskills resort from the past
When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in April 2014 — only nine years ago — Obama was president, the Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a Constitutional […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 17, 2023 through May 24, 2023
Calling All Classical Musicians Open Mic Classical was founded in 2015 by clarinetist Monika Woods and violist and sculptor Robert Marcus to create a community of classical musicians of all […]
MOTHER’S DAY
An Artist’s Maternal Legacy
For Breon Dunigan, it’s not just about the art, ‘but how you artfully do things’
Sculptor Breon Dunigan comes from a long line of local artists. Her great-grandparents were the first in her family to move to the Outer Cape, drawn by Charles Hawthorne’s Cape […]
FILM
Kit Zauhar’s Actual People Was Made by Actual People
The Twenty Summers resident wrote, directed, and acted in her debut film
When Kit Zauhar began marketing her debut feature film Actual People on the festival circuit, she referred to it as “mumblecore for people of color.” “I don’t regret many things […]
MUSIC
Julian Saporiti’s Musical Histories
In “No-No Boy,” he teaches aspects of American history you didn’t know you didn’t know
Many Americans weren’t taught in history class about the U.S. government’s imprisonment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II — much less that a swing band made […]
IN THE STUDIO
Julia Felsenthal Finds No Place to Hide in Her Paintings
The artist and writer explores ‘the ever-changing present’ in her watercolor seascapes and portraits
Julia Felsenthal likes to paint the same thing over and over again. In her Orleans studio — a small room in her house overlooking Pleasant Bay — stacks of watercolors […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 11, 2023 through May 17, 2023
From the Inner Hebrides to the Outer Cape The Outer Cape and the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland are separated by three thousand miles of mostly […]
MUSIC
Rufus Wainwright Comes Home to Provincetown for the First Time
The ‘baroque pop’ star returns to his folk music roots
Rufus Wainwright has never been to Provincetown, though it’s been on his radar for a long time. “We’ve kind of been circling each other dramatically for a while now, P’town […]
MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS
Jazz for a New Generation
Drummer Bart Weisman inspires students with music that’s part of American history
TRURO — First, Bart Weisman and his group played George Gershwin’s 1934 tune “Summertime” slow and easy — just like it was in the original production of the musical Porgy […]
INDIE SCREEN
When Sex Is Beside the Point
Two new films explore the pain of loss in male friendships
At the beginning of the revelatory Belgian film Close, young Leo, whose parents own a flower farm, can think of nothing more than spending all his summer days with Remi, […]
ART AND ACCESS
Twenty Summers Holds the Past and the Future Together
Reimagining what creative community can look like on the Outer Cape
The tenth season of Twenty Summers, a program of artist residencies and cultural events held in the Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown, begins this month. The barn’s history informs the organization’s […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 4, 2023 through May 11, 2023
Listening to a World of Creativity Since the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Creative Exchange podcast was launched four years ago, it has spotlighted eminent Outer Cape artists and cultural […]
CROSSWORD #41
Unto the Breach
