I’ve listened to the dirge-like second movement of Robert Schumann’s piano quintet in E-flat major — specifically, as played by the Beaux Arts Trio in their 1976 recording — so […]
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THEATER REVIEW
Tennessee Williams Looks Back in Sorrow
A Provincetown homecoming for The Glass Menagerie
As a tale of family dysfunction, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is shrouded in the cloud of memory. The play, which opened on Broadway in 1945, was Williams’s first critical […]
INDIE PUNK
Mal Blum Returns to Live Music
Uncovering a new sound in passionate, grungy anthems
When Mal Blum performs at Truro Vineyards this Saturday, hosted by Twenty Summers, it will be their first concert since the start of the pandemic. “I turned down other gigs […]
ABSTRACTION
Rick Wrigley Has Entered Phase Three
In which the furniture maker and builder turns to sculpture
It has been said that if you let an artist work long enough, he’ll eventually start working abstractly. If true, this certainly applies to Rick Wrigley, who says his career […]
ARTISTS
At Just 24, Qualeasha Wood Brings Textiles Into 2021
But her art is not all soft and fuzzy
“I spent most of my early art practice and young adult life trying to escape from the inherited social constraints of Blackness,” says textile artist Qualeasha Wood. “My perception of […]
ARTISTS
René Romero Schuler Goes Beneath the Surface
Voguish paintings that are more than meets the eye
From a distance, René Romero Schuler’s paintings might be written off as decorative, fashionable, or pretty. And that wouldn’t be entirely wrong: they are pretty. But that’s only part of […]
LEADERSHIP
A New Director Will Welcome Fellows to FAWC This Fall
Sharon Polli, fresh from Brooklyn, emphasizes community building
“The profound thing that has happened over the past year is that we, as individuals in society, have realized that we can’t really go back to the way things were […]
ARTISTS
Paul Wirhun Is the Eggman
A Ukrainian craft tradition inspires mosaic-like pieces
“Eggman” is how Paul Wirhun signs all his emails. It’s also the name that’s displayed on his screen during a recent Zoom call from Jersey City, N.J., where he maintains […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Funny Thing Happened Inside the Harbor Stage
To wit: the premiere of Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight
John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight, which is having its world premiere at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, is an extraordinarily intimate experience. The one-man show (with […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
CROSSWORD #23 SOLUTION
Stroke of Genius
ARTISTS
The Abstract, Atmospheric Art of Sarah Lutz
She uses joy in her toolbox
Sarah Lutz’s art elicits a rare response in the viewer, who not only enjoys looking at the paintings, but thinks that it might be enjoyable to meet the artist herself. […]
QUEER ART
David Wojnarowicz: From Downtown to Our Town
The late art provocateur makes his Cape debut
Walking by 445 Commercial St. in Provincetown when the shades are pulled down, you’d hardly know there’s a priceless link to queer history inside. Once home to the Kiley Court […]
BACKSTAGE
‘We Take a Step; the Audience Takes a Step With Us’
Brenda Withers reflects on the past year for Harbor Stage
During the height of the pandemic, writers could write. Painters could paint. And even if they couldn’t perform live, musicians could play. But theater actors? Without a live audience, there […]
BOOK REVIEW
William di Canzio’s Alec Meets E.M. Forster’s Maurice
New novel reimagines a queer classic
The Englishman E.M. Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels and published five of these between 1905 and 1924. Best known and loved are A Room With a View, Howards End, and […]
