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 […]
Theater
WHIPPERSNAPPERS
Send In the Cowboys
Saddle Up! is sure to please young and old
Don’t come ’round Payomet Ranch looking for plot-driven drama. But do come, with or without your child, to enjoy masterful displays of acrobatic skill, a live score inspired by classic […]
DRAG REVIEW
Anne Hutchinson Is Provincetown’s Jezebel
Resurrected and fabulous, she leads an unconventional tour
In November 1637, Anne Hutchinson, pregnant with her 16th child, stood before an assemblage of 40 male judges. She was on trial — at the behest of Massachusetts Gov. John […]
DRAG REVIEW
Dina Martina’s Chaotic Spectacle
‘Chariots of Failure’ is a roaring, unzipped success
“It’s not really a drag show — it’s more like a train wreck,” says one audience member to another minutes before Dina Martina takes the stage at the Crown & […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
Boatslip Beach Club and Resort Paige Turner hosts “Drag Bingo,” Sun. at 6 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 […]
THEATER REVIEW
Truth in the Eye of the Beholder
The joyfully incredible spectacle of Shipwrecked! at WHAT
As Louis de Rougemont, a real-life British adventurer of the Victorian era, Rodney Witherspoon II is an affable storyteller. He struts and frets for 90 minutes on the Garden Stage […]
THEATER REVIEW
Finding Love Amid the Culture Wars
The Provincetown Theater puts pink icing on The Cake
Della, the North Carolina baker at the center of Bekah Brunstetter’s play The Cake, is a deeply conflicted woman. She’s not a cultural punching bag — a Paula Deen or […]
DRAG REVIEW
Varla Jean Merman Gives Us a Chance to Breathe
And a calendar of drag for this week
The transition to a post-pandemic world happened at such breakneck speed that, to many, it didn’t feel like a transition at all. After spending 14 long months in quarantine, I […]
PERFORMANCE
Timothy DuWhite’s Message for the Hard to Love
The Provincetown Theater re-opens with his one-man show
What does it mean to be — as the poet, essayist, and playwright Timothy DuWhite puts it — “hard to love”? It’s being seen as “an impossible partner for people,” […]
STATE OF PERFORMANCE
As Live Performers Return, Covid Turns Venues Inside Out
Most expect indoor seating to happen, but aren’t sure how or when
The problem, as most producers of live entertainment will tell you, is planning. Though everyone is expecting indoor entertainment to return to the Outer Cape in the next few months, […]
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
As Covid Subsides, Theaters Push to Reopen
Outdoor stages, new approaches planned
Few things in the life of the Outer Cape have been hit harder by Covid than theater. Live outdoor cabaret performances resumed after the lockdown, and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams […]
THEATER
For Sallie Tighe, the Outer Cape Is Both Stage and Salvation
She and a corps of local talent will once again put on ‘The 24 Hour Plays’
The thing that reassures Sallie Tighe the most about “The 24 Hour Plays” — the annual Presidents Day tradition at the Provincetown Theater — is that she doesn’t have to […]
OPERA
Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites Has Drama, Nuns, and Guillotines
The martyrs of Compiègne inspired a story of terror and grace
The Metropolitan Opera will be streaming Les Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc for free next Friday, Sept. 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. You won’t want to miss it. The opera is […]
COVID UPDATE
Despite New Guidelines, Indoor Venues to Remain Mostly Shut
Phase three, step two changes leave some scratching their heads
Theater and music lovers were overjoyed last week when Gov. Charlie Baker announced that lower-risk communities may move to “step two” of phase three reopening guidelines, as of Monday, Oct. […]
THEATER
Tennessee Williams Fest Stays Live and Distant for 2020
The Municipal Abbatoir to be performed at parking lot drive-in
The view from the Grace Hall parking lot #3 of the dune and water tower above it would not be part of a Provincetown promotional flyer. But the sky was […]
