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. […]
Theater
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 […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
A Joyful Shift
PETER GHERARDI AND MARK BOUCHER / AT HOME / PROVINCETOWN
Mark Boucher Peter Gherardi Peter Gherardi, a psychiatrist, and Mark Boucher, a lead patient service representative, retired in December 2023 from Outer Cape Health Services in Provincetown. I spoke with […]
THEATER
Wellfleet’s Harbor Stage Heads North for January
The company revives Northside Hollow in Boston with the original cast
The two couples who run Wellfleet’s Harbor Stage Company — Robert Kropf and Stacy Fischer and Brenda Withers and Jonathan Fielding — are producing the company’s first winter show in […]
MARQUEE
Lea DeLaria Rings Out the Old
The co-owner of The Club will celebrate New Year’s Eve here
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 […]
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 […]
