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Welcome to WHAT’s 2025 Season

This summer, WHAT charts a bold path forward with three world-premiere productions, each inspired by a true story. These stories celebrate the power of community, the power of our convictions, and the power of friendship. They speak to the world we live...

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June 19, 2025. the ptownie dispatch!

Provincetown in Full Bloom When summer turns official, Provincetown comes alive—art spills from studios, drag queens reign in sequins, and music drifts from every porch, stage, and sand dune. Welcome to the season. The ptownie Calendar ensures you don’t...

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A Story of Song and Strength: 11th Annual Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival

Each June, as the light lingers over the dunes of North Truro, a wave of harmony sweeps through the Cape. The Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival (CCWMF) is more than an evening of performances—it’s a celebration of creativity, resilience, and care. Now in...

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Dream a Little Dream of Me: “Midsummer Dreamers” at the Cape Rep

Something unusual is happening to me here: I cannot find words adequate to communicate the feeling, the intensity, the sheer beauty of Midsummer Dreamers, now playing through July 13 at the Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster. Kirsten Peacock and Nick...

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“Dinner and threshing”: The Bohemian at the Harbor Stage Company

Willa Cather is said to have written to a friend, in apparent surprise, “I have actually sold The Bohemian Girl. Isn’t that a jolt?” Yet many scholars see the story as the piece that honed her skills, the voice that would later develop My Antonia. What...

Books

Family Dynamics and More: A Review of “Haven’t Killed in Years” by Amy K. Green

Numerous authors and filmmakers have created stories around our curiosity about the families of criminals—what did they know, how did they survive, all those questions. Amy K. Green’s new novel Haven’t Killed in Years takes up the question through her...

Events

A “Barn-Raiser” of a Performance: Every Brilliant Thing at Cape Rep

It’s a play about depression and suicide. And you’ll leave the performance smiling. Sound daft? It could if you were talking about anything other than Every Brilliant Thing, a one-man production starring Lewis D. Wheeler, now playing in the beautiful...

Entertainment

A Heavenly Return: “Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika” at the Provincetown Theater

There is, it turns out, a formula for stage magic: ten impressive actors, an indescribable set design, a brilliant time-tested script, and an inspired director. That’s what you’ll see at the Provincetown Theater’s production of Angels in America, Part...

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