Since it opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse on a quaint residential block in New York’s Greenwich Village on May 3, 1960, The Fantasticks has become a theatrical landmark of […]
Arts & Minds
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INTERVIEW
Eva Respini Talks About the Value of the Periphery
A former ICA chief curator is spending more time on the Cape
Eva Respini stepped down from being chief curator at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art last month. She hasn’t announced her plans, but on the heels of curating the U.S. pavilion […]
MEMOIR
Chasten Buttigieg Speaks Up for LGBTQ Youth
Mayor Pete’s husband makes a return trip to Provincetown
Chasten Buttigieg first visited Provincetown in July 2019 with his husband, Pete Buttigieg, then the mayor of South Bend, Ind. Pete was one of 23 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination […]
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Roll Over, Beethoven, for the Saxophone
The Sinta Quartet has the element of surprise on its side
The Sinta Quartet often has the element of surprise on its side when it performs, says soprano saxophonist Dan Graser. Many audiences have never heard a concert by a classical […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 20, 2023 through July 27, 2023
A Novel of a Family’s Tailspin Much of Andrew Ridker’s second novel, Hope, is set in Brookline, where the author grew up. The satiric novel follows the year-long implosion of […]
ARTISTS
Helen Grimm Turns Her Attention to Moths
Insects become a subject for painting and for exploring profound questions
Moths recently invaded Helen Grimm’s Truro studio. They flutter across a group of small canvases lying on a table and cover her large-scale paintings lining the walls. On some canvases, […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Little Sondheim Music in the Night
Post-pandemic, the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble returns
It’s been three years since its last production, a grand revival of Cabaret, but the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble is back, renewing its traditional summer musical theater presence in Provincetown with […]
BOOKS
A Novel Set in a Year of Deep Anxiety
Adrienne Brodeur’s second book is a compelling Cape Cod family tale
Little Monsters delivers an elusive prize for those summering on the Cape: a book whose family drama is interwoven into the Cape’s microclimates, as inseparable from the landscape as mushrooms […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St.) “I may be a little biased,” says Peter Ormsby, visiting from New York City. “My mom’s the artist.” When challenged to pick his favorite canvas […]
MUSEUMS
Jane Kogan’s Wide-Ranging Retrospective
In her current show at PAAM, the artist shows us how to change, in style
When viewers enter the two rooms at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum that comprise Jane Kogan’s retrospective show, they step into a staring match. At one end of the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 13, 2023 through July 20, 2023
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 […]
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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. […]
