Lea DeLaria may be recognized around the world for her portrayal of Big Boo on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, but in Provincetown she’s a local legend, as synonymous […]
Theater
EPISTOLARY
Woodard and Zinn to Read ‘Love Letters’ at Preservation Hall
The two actors and friends will collaborate in the 1990 Pulitzer Prize drama finalist
A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a play about love and connection, regret and missed opportunities, memory and reflection. But mostly it’s about two childhood friends sharing more than 50 years […]
IN KIND
Paige Turner Is on the Nice List
Reclaiming Christmas with a songful show at the Post Office Café
Paige Turner, the bright, sassy songstress, promises that the true meaning of the Christmas season is to be greedy, to be a misfit, and to get your stocking stuffed. After […]
ARTS BUSINESS
Film Society Looks to Future of Waters Edge
National anxiety about the fate of movie theaters strikes a chord here
The Waters Edge Cinema in Whalers Wharf is the only movie theater in Provincetown and, with Wellfleet Cinemas, one of only two on the Outer Cape. But the Waters Edge, […]
THEATER REVIEW
What’s Wrong With the Rights Stuff
Heidi Schreck’s Constitution play comes to town
Civics is not a course usually taught in schools, and if we ever needed proof that it ought to be part of the curriculum, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means […]
RADIO
Spooky Audio Tales Pick Up Good Vibrations
J Hagenbuckle’s Cape Noir Radio Theater uses only sound to tell stories of horror and crime
If you remove what you see in live theater or in movies — actors’ expressions and movement, scenery, costumes — what’s left is simply sound. J Hagenbuckle, whose medium is […]
THEATER REVIEW
Tom Hewitt Relives a Romantic Nightmare in ‘Another Medea’
Aaron Mark’s play gives gay parenthood a grisly Greek twist
At Halloween, we let evil spirits run free and amuse ourselves with their wickedness. It’s a way of reminding us of their power and horror and, with a wink, containing […]
SHARP TONGUE
At Bianca Del Rio’s Show, No One Is Safe
Vicious, filthy, jaw-droppingly rude, she’s ‘Don Rickles in a dress’
Bianca Del Rio, the sharp-tongued stand-up comic who won season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is returning to Provincetown just in time to scare up some laughs for Spooky Bear […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Zoë Lewis Believes in Magic
The singer-songwriter mounts four shows for her ‘different loves’
Singer, songwriter, and storyteller Zoë Lewis first came to Provincetown when she was 26. It was the early 1990s, and she’d been all around the world, and, in a spirit […]
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 […]
THEATER
Less Stella, More Stellar
The Tennessee Williams Festival delves into the author’s obscure science fiction catalog
PROVINCETOWN — The Tennessee Williams Theater Festival blasts off next weekend, and this year, things are going to be a little extraterrestrial. Put your tray tables up and your expectations […]
THEATER REVIEW
In ‘The Thin Place,’ Believing Is Seeing
The Harbor Stage’s new production aims to lift your spirits
Do you believe in ghosts? In Lucas Hnath’s play The Thin Place, at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet through Sept. 3, that question is equated with a theatergoer’s suspension […]
THEATER REVIEW
‘The Pickleball Wars’ Are Unleashed at WHAT
Big laughs are the collateral damage
They don’t come more homegrown than this. Kevin Rice’s The Pickleball Wars, which is having its world premiere at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater through Sept. 9, is a comedy […]
PERFORMANCE
Singer, Actor, and Activist LaChanze Is Coming to Town
The Tony Award winner will be at town hall with Seth Rudetsky
“She’s one of those rare people who is not only an incredible actress but there’s that shocking voice,” said Seth Rudetsky when asked to describe LaChanze. “Sure, there are records […]
DRAG DESK
Best Drag of the Summer So Far
Production values and pointed political messages are on the rise
As we approach the final weeks of the season, it seems fitting to assess the state of the drag on Commercial Street, given its outsize prominence among the town’s entertainment […]
