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

May 20, 2026

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...

Changing Roles: 9-Ball at the Cape Rep

May 10, 2026

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...

God Bless Us, Every One: A (Different) Christmas Carol at the Provincetown Theater

November 23, 2025

Back in the days of small traveling circuses and vaudevillian entertainment, actors and crew trekked from town to town to present their shows before moving on to the next venue. Sometimes, things get lost along the way. That’s what’s happened to...

Rediscovering Joy: She Loves Me at the Cape Rep Theatre

November 8, 2025

The Cape Rep has a talent for finding the exact right thing to say at exactly the right time. Last year, at a moment when the country found itself sharply divided after the presidential election and many in our community were feeling a desperate fear, Cape...

If You Could Read My Mind: Chanteuse Susan Lambert Triumphs at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

November 8, 2025

Susan Lambert’s new one-woman show, If You Could Read My Mind, presented for one night only at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, absolutely shimmered with light and love and, perhaps, more than just a little wisdom. Her previous show, The Couch, brought us on a...

Finding Hope: The Jack of Hearts Club at the Provincetown Theater

October 5, 2025

It’s 11:30pm on August 31st, 1963. The last minutes of the last day of the season in a gay bar in Provincetown. And at first, it doesn’t seem all that different from any bar in Provincetown at any time; it’s only as the evening unfolds that we’re...

Shattered Friendships: “Paul and Émile” at WHAT

September 26, 2025

We begin in Paris, a street at night, mysterious. Alone on the street is novelist and essayist Émile Zola (Abe Goldfarb), musing about Pascal’s “bet” on the existence of the afterlife. But there is no time to dwell, as Zola himself is somehow...

An Evening of Craic: “Trad” at the Cape Rep Theater

September 18, 2025

Craic is, of course, an Irish term, connotating a fun, enjoyable time; and that’s precisely what the Cape Rep delivers in comedian-turned-playwright Mark Doherty’s Trad, a hilariously funny and occasionally thoughtful look at generational priorities,...

Sing It! “Southern Harmony: A Murder Ballad” at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

August 14, 2025

We are in the small town of Carthage, Texas, when an assortment of easily recognizable people—the town gossip, the girl who longs to get away, the police chief—is augmented by Bernie Tiede (Todd Buonopane), the town undertaker/mortician. And, in defiance...

Express Yourself: “Circle Mirror Transformation” at the Harbor Stage Company

August 13, 2025

The setting is a local community center, familiar to those of us who’ve spent time in small New England towns. A chair or two against the walls, lots of room for various activities in the center; you can almost smell the cleaning fluid. There are five...