Eight years had gone by since she graduated from college, and Suzanne Westenhoefer realized that, despite all the intention-setting, she had done almost nothing to get work as an actor. […]
Arts & Minds
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THE STROLL
As Season Winds Down, Gallerists Take Stock
A great year for some was a bad year for others
Although most art galleries in Provincetown will stay open through December, this Friday, Oct. 6, marks the last official gallery stroll of the season. The Independent asked a few gallery […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 5, 2023 through October 12, 2023
To Hell and Back at the Eastham Library Gregory Williams wants you to go to hell — through art. Described as a “cheery and brisk” survey of visual depictions of […]
THE PORTRAITIST
Putting the Creative Community on Canvas in Big, Bold Strokes
Amy Kandall wants to paint ‘what everybody has to say’
During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
THEATER REVIEW
Thrilled by a Betrayal
In a notable coproduction, WHAT and Harbor Stage do Pinter proud
There is something uniquely sublime about Harold Pinter’s dialogue: direct and unfancy yet veiled, charged, and evasive. It’s a challenge and a boon for actors, whose delivery is key. And […]
ARTISTS
DNA Residents Gain a Space to Show Their Work
Nick Lawrence’s Readymade Gallery brings artists from the Cape, New York, and beyond
PROVINCETOWN — The DNA residency, situated in a cavernous, barnlike space above the Provincetown Tennis Club, has hosted artists on the Outer Cape since 2012. In previous years it was […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
Bending Gender, Genre, and Reality’s Fabric
In Isle McElroy’s fiction, identity is volatile, permeable, and relational
In a country of unpredictable roving “man hordes” reported to have “mowed twenty-six lawns in Drain, Illinois” and “kicked a German shepherd to death in Plano, Texas,” a canceled feminist […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
A Maiden Voyage for an ‘Aging Pervert’
Janet W. Hardy’s radical queer savvy comes to Provincetown
By a strange twist of fate, the Provincetown Book Festival, hosted by the public library and running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 this year, always seems to happen the same […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 28, 2023 through October 5, 2023
Cedric Harper’s Art of Language For all its simple forms and seemingly unrefined ornamentation, Cedric Harper’s art speaks volumes. “Ancestral Language,” currently on view at the Higgins Art Gallery at […]
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Sofia Cabanas Is in Hyper Focus
Mastering the intricate fonts found on labels is ‘like solving a puzzle, only with shapes’
Sofia Cabanas was cooking for friends one night a couple of years ago when she pulled out a tin of nutmeg from 1987. Just before she tossed it in the […]
BOOKS
Alice Hoffman Sounds an Echo of Hawthorne’s Warning
Her latest novel is a meditation on The Scarlet Letter
Alice Hoffman’s short story titled “Property Of” was published in the prestigious literary journal American Review: The Magazine of New Writing in 1975 when Hoffman was 23. I read the […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Return of Two Festival Favorites
A case of LGBTQ movies going mainstream
When it comes to recent queer cinema, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Take, for example, the raunchy high-school […]
LARGE SCALE
Murals That Expand Beyond the Walls
An exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art features paintings both indoors and out
DENNIS — When Samuel Tager was asked to curate a show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, he had been thinking a lot about mural projects in Boston, Lynn, […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FEST
A Mad Pilgrimage of the Weird
Philadelphia’s Die-Cast Ensemble takes on a less-known Williams legacy
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival is no stranger to the strange, but this year is something else. At the 18th annual festival this week, Williams’s lifelong love of science […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 14, 2023 through September 21, 2023
Encountering Folk Music With Antje Duvekot Singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot, who will be kicking off the season at First Encounter Coffee House (220 Samoset Road, Eastham) on Saturday, Sept. 23 at […]
