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In Japan, the artists featured here would be formally recognized as “Living Treasures.” Each of them has had a long and celebrated career spanning generations. And each of them continues to make work, not to burnish their reputations but because it is the...

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Christopher Castellani

It was a dusty biography of Tennessee Williams, full of rumors and gossip, that inspired Christopher Castellani to write Leading Men, a novel as deeply entangled with Provincetown as with the life of Tennessee Williams himself. Castellani, 49, is the author...

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Destiny’s Glitch at Fine Arts Work Center

For more than 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) has provided vital support to the next generation of emerging visual artists and writers through its renowned fellowship program. If you haven’t visited FAWC’s campus on Pearl Street lately, now is...

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The Lemonade Girl

For more years than many of us can remember, summers in Provincetown weren’t complete without the sight of a little girl walking up and down Commercial Street, calling out in a lovely singsong voice, “Lemonade! Fifty cents! Lemonade!” That little girl...

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Buried Child at Harbor Stage is Buried Treasure

It’s telling that as the audience files in to see Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer-prizewinning play, Buried Child, at the Harbor Stage Company, they must put on masks and have their vaccination credentials examined: our time is not so very different from the world...

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June 23, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

Provincetown Portuguese Festival June 23, 2022 through June 26, 2022 throughout Provincetown Provincetown welcomes people from around the world who come to celebrate Portuguese culture and our proud seafaring heritage at the annual Provincetown Portuguese...

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Pranks and Pressure: “Straight White Men” at WHAT

The contrast couldn’t be more stark: as the audience enters, it’s greeted by over-loud rap music (performed by women and people of color) and taken on a tour of the play’s premises by two people who are clearly not straight white men; and then Justin...

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What’s New in 2022

In case you haven’t been paying attention, there is a whole lot that’s new in 2022! We made a last-minute decision about whether to add “what’s sold” to the front cover, but thought that would be perhaps too cheeky. Still, in truth, there have been...

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New Tour: Billy’s Wild West of the East

There are certain tours largely seen as required activities when visiting Provincetown: Art’s Dune Tours, a whale-watch excursion, checking out haunted venues. But for the truly curious, there is nothing quite like Billy Hough’s “Wild West of the...

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