WELLFLEET — A live scarecrow tumbles, sways, and hangs — precarious and loose-limbed — high above a field. Farmhands wildly flip ears of corn as crops “multiply.” A unicycle seems to […]
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THEATER REVIEW
Water, Water Everywhere
Robert Kropf’s Liv at Sea premieres at the Harbor Stage
Although watery things are present in much of the dialogue in Robert Kropf’s new play, Liv at Sea, a world premiere at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, it’s not […]
CABARET
The Startling, Vulnerable, Wildly Theatrical Sandra Bernhard
She is bringing her new show, ‘A Spring Affair,’ to town hall
September 2012, somewhere south of Hell’s Kitchen and the end of my first night as a full-time citizen of New York City. I was crouched on a sidewalk corner cleaning […]
THEATER REVIEW
The Innocence and Experience of Love, Put to Music
The Fantasticks goes gay in Provincetown
Since it opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse on a quaint residential block in New York’s Greenwich Village on May 3, 1960, The Fantasticks has become a theatrical landmark of […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Little Sondheim Music in the Night
Post-pandemic, the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble returns
It’s been three years since its last production, a grand revival of Cabaret, but the Peregrine Theatre Ensemble is back, renewing its traditional summer musical theater presence in Provincetown with […]
STAR TURNS
Audra McDonald Is the Rarest Kind of Superstar
The 6-time Tony Award winner is returning to town hall July 9
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in April 2012, and I was walking with my husband along a side street in New York City’s theater district. We were scouting for […]
THEATER REVIEW
Hamlet and Cheese on Wry
WHAT takes Shakespeare’s Complete Works for a spin
Is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) a play? Well, not exactly. It’s more like a literary theme park ride with props, sketch comedy, audience participation, and improvisation — […]
DRAG DESK
Sampling Provincetown’s Ubiquitous Drag Brunch
Our skeptical correspondent is pleasantly surprised
Isn’t brunch supposed to be sort of quiet? The clink of ice in your cocktail glass and the soothing crunch of avocado toast the only aural disturbances? Yet here we […]
THEATER
‘Jennifer Coolidge’ Goes Shark-Hunting in New Musical Spoof
A pop-culture parody, Jaws at the White Lotus jumps into the pool
What would happen if Police Chief Brody and company were joined on their hunt for the great white shark in Jaws by actress Jennifer Coolidge? That’s the premise for The […]
THEATER REVIEW
The Harbor Stage’s Bread & Butter Is Fast-Talking Comedy
Brenda Withers gives George S. Kaufman a run for his money
As a playwright and actor, Harbor Stage Company cofounder Brenda Withers excels at physical comedy and biting satire. Her latest play, Bread & Butter — a very loose spin on […]
THEATER
All Aboard for Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
WHAT bares its stage for a meditation on violence, truth, and morality
The playwright and sometime actor Stephen Adly Guirgis (pronounced GEER-giss, with hard Gs) is a major theatrical talent who isn’t nearly as well known as David Mamet, although Guirgis’s rhythmic, […]
CABARET
Cabaret Fest Returns With a Celebration of Sondheim
Seven days, 24 performers: ‘Just you and the microphone’
Are you dreaming, as I am, of a bottomless martini with a side of regret? Clever lyrics wryly sung? Heartbreak delivered at 11 o’clock? If you answered yes to any […]
DRAG DESK
Illusions — It’s Forever
A new and more intimate venue for Provincetown’s longest-running review
For all its fierce glamour and industrial-strength levels of hairspray, a drag show is a fragile thing. The delicate alchemy of performer, venue, and audience can be lost when an […]
THEATER REVIEW
Checking In to Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina
Exploring a different sort of Catskills resort from the past
When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in April 2014 — only nine years ago — Obama was president, the Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a Constitutional […]
NIGHTLIFE
It’s a Weed, Weed, Weed, Weed World
Mackenzie Miller headlines a weekend of cannabis celebrations
If you’re having trouble understanding the title of the three-night event at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown this weekend, a little explanation may be in order. CDXX is the […]
