The concerned citizens file onto the stage: 12 adult actors dressed as well-to-do parents and respectable high school students. One couple is holding hands. A girl wears the sash of […]
Theater
THEATER
A Warning Against Fascism Returns to the Stage
'It Can’t Happen Here — Again,' adapted from Sinclair Lewis, comes to WHAT on July 19
A theatrical warning about fascism and liberal complacency was performed on 21 stages across the country one week before the national election of 1936. The play was It Can’t Happen […]
DRAG DESK
Varla Jean Takes You Underneath the Wig
In her 27th Provincetown season, Merman parodies her colleague Taylor Swift
Varla Jean Merman has been on television, on Broadway, and, she says, on welfare. She’s been on the front page of the New York Times and, for 35 years, on […]
CABARET
Ari Shapiro on the Art of Listening
The NPR journalist is coming to Provincetown to sing and tell stories
In Ari Shapiro’s cabaret show Thank You for Listening, at the Gifford House in Provincetown this weekend, he’ll sing songs he’s never performed for an audience before and tell personal […]
CABARET
Kate Baldwin’s Close Calls
The Broadway star kicks off John McDaniel’s Post Office series with an intimate show
Musician John McDaniel first accompanied two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin last year on an Alaska cruise. Now he’s the force behind her Provincetown debut this weekend in a show titled Sing […]
DRAG DESK
Dina Martina Is in a Good Place
In her 20th Provincetown season, a rebel imparts an absurd brand of happiness
Dina Martina says she was born nine months early. “I looked like a poached egg,” she confides. Her grandmother looks just like Colonel Sanders. “Beautiful, hirsute lady,” says Martina. “She […]
THEATER
Vaguely Creepy Things
At WHAT, Smart asks why one would choose machines as caregivers
It’s so annoying, isn’t it? Aging parents, needing help, expecting you to just drop everything and take care of them when you’ve got so much going on. What’s an American […]
THEATER
Betrayal Comes Back to Wellfleet
Harbor Stage opens season with a revival of the Harold Pinter play
Jonathan Fielding admits he was only a casual fan of Harold Pinter’s classic drama Betrayal when he took the role of Jerry, who’s having an affair with his best friend’s wife. […]
PERFORMANCE
The Fundamentals of Vibration
JU-EH explores voice and reinvents opera at Twenty Summers
Imagine the dreaded Zoom call: monotonous droning, endless PowerPoint slides, pairs of eyes dissociating in cyberspace. Now, imagine the opposite, or at least an absurdist doppelgänger. Here’s one vision: A […]
THEATER
Mitchell Anderson’s Life After Hollywood
From TV star to gay-rights ‘poster child’ to Atlanta chef
Most of the people who’ve seen Mitchell Anderson’s one-man show, You Better Call Your Mother, were already familiar with at least one part of his autobiographical story. Anderson, 62, has […]
THEATER
Looking Back at the Millennium With Anger
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America takes flight in Provincetown
It’s hard to imagine now how different the worldview of the gay male community was in New York in 1985, when the city was the epicenter of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. […]
THEATER
David Drake on What Makes a Season
The Provincetown Theater will open its 2024 run with Angels in America
David Drake, artistic director of the Provincetown Theater, has spent the winter preparing for the 2024 season, with shows from May to November. The biggest challenge? How to please everyone. […]
PERFORMANCE ART
A Fairy Tale at Land’s End
In True Love’s Kiss, Miguel Braceli will create the queer procession he never had
For Miguel Braceli, Provincetown is at once extraordinarily real and as fantastic as a fairy tale. His studio space at the Fine Arts Work Center is more “gathering place” than […]
LISTENING IN
Jeff Zinn Explores the History of Acting
In his podcast ‘Gurus,’ decades of theater training connect to what we’re currently streaming
Jeff Zinn, former artistic director at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and former managing director at Gloucester Stage Company, has spent his life in the theater. But a few years ago, […]
THEATER REVIEW
Double and Triple Trouble in ‘Little Devils’
Six short plays about the tribulations of modern life
The Helltown Players is a self-described “collaborative of dramatists and theater enthusiasts from the Outer Cape” who, inspired by those historic rebels the Provincetown Players, aim to produce plays “written […]
