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Family Week in Provincetown: A Celebration of Love, Inclusion, and Community

Every summer, Provincetown transforms into one of the most welcoming destinations in America for LGBTQ+ families during Family Week, a tradition that has grown into one of the town’s most cherished annual celebrations. Organized by the Family Equality...

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Finding Your Balance: Yoga in Provincetown

Provincetown has long been a place where people come to renew themselves. At the very tip of Cape Cod, surrounded by ocean, dunes, and extraordinary natural beauty, the town has attracted artists, writers, performers, and free spirits for more than a century....

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July 16, 2026. the ptownie dispatch!

Only in Provincetown: Where Summer Takes Center Stage! Provincetown turns up the spotlight with theater, circus thrills, live music, summer parties, and Girl Splash—where every performance, celebration, and standing ovation keeps the season dazzling from...

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A western cowboy finds a new home: The Washashore by Christopher Mirabile

It’s difficult to imagine two places that could be any more different from each other than the mountains of Montana and the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts. From the heart of ranching—and conservative-to-right-wing mentality—to a gay seaside...

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The World’s Funniest Whodunit: The Real Inspector Hound at the Cape Rep

It’s unclear whether playwright Tom Stoppard meant for this production to be a satirical send-up of theatre critics, country-house whodunits, or both—but it manages to do it all, and more. The show opens with two theater critics, Birdboot (Jakov...

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Awards and Accolades: Prize Fight at the Harbor Stage Company

There are few people who don’t imagine being at the top of their art, or profession, gaining the recognition of their peers for all the world to see… but when Haas (Samantha Steinmetz, in her Harbor Stage debut) is selected for one such literary prize,...

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Radicals’ Reunion: The Fifth of July at the Provincetown Theater

The Fifth of July is chronologically the last in Lanford Wilson’s trilogy of major plays about Missouri’s Talley family. The first act takes place on the evening of Independence Day in 1977, the second the morning after. Both the title and the timing...

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Changing Roles: 9-Ball at the Cape Rep

We’ve all wondered what would happen if we just walked away from our lives, took on a different identity, left our hometowns and escaped whatever future felt inevitable…. Some people do it. Some people live to regret it. It’s the terrible...

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