As adult children reunite with their parents for a holiday dinner, troublesome secrets and long-held tensions surface and ignite: it’s a spectacle we’ve most likely witnessed before, in art and […]
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THEATER REVIEW
Gender Is the Thing in ‘The Lady Hamlet’
Sarah Schulman’s witty new play premieres at the Provincetown Theater
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not the manliest of tragic heroes. When the ghost of his father, the former King Hamlet of Denmark, accuses his brother Claudius, now king and Hamlet’s stepdad […]
THEATER REVIEW
Doing the Time Warp in Mae West’s ‘The Drag’
In the 1920s, having a gay old time was kind of complicated
“This side’s Friday,” vamp extraordinaire Mae West once quipped, pointing to her upper right thigh, then, pointing to her left thigh, “This side’s Sunday. Why don’t you come see me […]
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 […]
Come to PAPA
The Provincetown Theater will present the fourth annual Provincetown American Playwright Award (PAPA) at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, 466 Commercial St. in Provincetown, on Saturday, Aug. 14. A special […]
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 […]
Broken Glass
Directed by David Drake, Provincetown Theater’s production of The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams’s memory play about love, loss, and familial dysfunction — opens at the Playhouse in the Parking […]
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 […]
Provincetown Theater Takes to the ‘Parking Lot’
After a 16-month pandemic-induced hiatus, the Provincetown Theater is back this summer, presenting “Playhouse in the Parking Lot,” a three-show outdoor season in the back yard of 238 Bradford St. […]
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
As Covid Subsides, Theaters Push to Reopen
Outdoor stages, new approaches planned
Few things in the life of the Outer Cape have been hit harder by Covid than theater. Live outdoor cabaret performances resumed after the lockdown, and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams […]
Provincetown Theater Zooms to Victory
Partnering with the Capital Classics Theatre Company of West Hartford, Connecticut, the Provincetown Theater is presenting a free Zoom event on Saturday, March 13th at 7 p.m. with performers of […]
MUSICIANS
The Secret of Ken Field’s Sax Appeal
His jazz improvisations will be featured in ‘Music Without Borders’
It starts with long drawn-out notes forming a simple melody. The sound of the alto saxophone is warm and reedy. At first, you might wonder, where is this going? But […]
Mellow Cello
“Music Without Borders,” a weekly music meditation show with pianist John Thomas that’s presented online by the Provincetown Theater, continues on Sunday, February 21st, 7 p.m., with classical cellist Chanthoeun Varon […]
Bulgar Suite
“Music Without Borders,” a weekly music meditation show with pianist John Thomas, presented online by the Provincetown Theater, continues Sunday, February 14th, at 7 p.m. This week features Bulgarian folk […]
THEATER
For Sallie Tighe, the Outer Cape Is Both Stage and Salvation
She and a corps of local talent will once again put on ‘The 24 Hour Plays’
The thing that reassures Sallie Tighe the most about “The 24 Hour Plays” — the annual Presidents Day tradition at the Provincetown Theater — is that she doesn’t have to […]
