Brightly colored makeup palettes are spread across the bathroom counter as Mackenzie Miller puckers her lips while contouring her cheekbones. “When the makeup is done, you look in the mirror […]
Theater
OPERA
Seeing Fire in a Crowded Theater
The Met returns with Terence Blanchard’s work about race, sex, and coming of age
Being back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last Wednesday had a surreal quality. Masked faces peered across balconies through opera glasses. The sound of the orchestra warming up […]
COMEDY
Poppy Champlin Cracks Nuts and Jokes
She’s performing at the Post Office Café as part of Women’s Week
Poppy Champlin has problems. Girlfriend problems. Luckily, she’s got a plan to remedy that. “I have an ex in Provincetown that I’m scared to see,” she says from her home […]
THEATER
A Playwright Explores the Exits in the Game of Life
Spirits will be raised at a benefit reading with Kathleen Turner
In Family Game Night, a new play by Peter Kennedy that will be given a staged reading at town hall on Saturday to benefit the Provincetown Theater, the Mortons are […]
THEATER
In the Woods, ‘The Witch’ Has Room to Fly
Director Megan Nussle takes it outdoors as part of the Tennessee Williams Fest
In a memorable scene from Thomas Middleton’s The Witch, three characters sing in a forest glade before flying off into the night. When audiences come to see the show as […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
Crown & Anchor Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., $39 Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Pilgrim House Paige Turner, “Joy Ride,” Fri.-Sat. at 7:30 […]
THEATER
The Unsinkable Tennessee Williams Fest Returns
With a theme of censorship, shows explore forbidden desire and expression
Putting on a festival of live theater — both indoors and outdoors — while the pandemic continues to rage is a risky and frustrating process. Yet that’s exactly what the […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
Crown & Anchor Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Thurs.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. at 9 p.m., $49 Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., […]
THEATER REVIEW
‘Under the Radar’ Goes Above and Beyond
Kevin Rice’s site-specific play combines hilarity and history
I’ve never been a fan of audience participation. I like to sit in the back, avoid eye contact with the actors, and enjoy the silent anonymity of a dark theater. […]
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
Redemption for an American Holy Warrior
Witnessing Nat Turner in Jerusalem at WHAT
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 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 […]
