It is said that history is written by the victors, and in the case of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in August 1831, a time of rising abolitionist […]
Theater
THEATER REVIEW
Brenda Withers Cooks Up a Delicious Dindin
A quarrelsome Harbor Stage quartet makes mincemeat of a meal
As a fund-raiser, some Harbor Stage Company supporters watched an online table reading of Brenda Withers’s new play, Dindin, last fall. That may have offered a taste of Withers’s trenchant […]
DANCE
Provincetown Dance Festival Makes Its Live Return
This time, it has a new outdoor stage, à la Tanglewood
Last winter, the Provincetown Dance Festival met viewers in their living rooms. Dancers emerged from the shadows, pirouetted, and leapt across the stage — but all within the confines of […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
THEATER REVIEW
Tennessee Williams Looks Back in Sorrow
A Provincetown homecoming for The Glass Menagerie
As a tale of family dysfunction, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is shrouded in the cloud of memory. The play, which opened on Broadway in 1945, was Williams’s first critical […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Funny Thing Happened Inside the Harbor Stage
To wit: the premiere of Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight
John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up if You’re Here Tonight, which is having its world premiere at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, is an extraordinarily intimate experience. The one-man show (with […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
BACKSTAGE
‘We Take a Step; the Audience Takes a Step With Us’
Brenda Withers reflects on the past year for Harbor Stage
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 […]
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 […]
