Provincetown News and Events

Featured

May 2, 2024. The ptownie dispatch!

First Tea 2024 @ Boatslip! May 2, 2024 at Boatslip It’s 4 pm and time for Tea. First Tea 2024 @ Boatslip! Portable bars replace lounge chairs, a line queues up out front and Resident DJ Maryalice, a Provincetown favorite for over 25 years drops the needle...

Featured

A Local Hero, Trailblazer, and Lover of Coastal Life

By Colleague, Brian Sheerin Not all heroes wear capes or seek praise; in fact, in my experience, true heroes are the ones who don’t seek accolades. One such person is Provincetown’s first female deputy harbormaster, Christine Maxwell. I’ve...

Featured

Mews Restaurant Pop Up at the Waterford Inn

What Do You Do When Restaurant Construction Takes Longer Than Expected … You Pop Up! The Mews Restaurant Provincetown hasn’t missed a summer season since it was founded as the Provincetown Mews Wine & Food Tasting Society in 1964 at 359 Commercial...

ptownie Magazines

Let ptownie share our love of Provincetown with our magazines.

Recent Articles

Entertainment

Our Town at Cape Rep is Strange… and Wonderful

You’ve probably seen Our Town before, if only as a—yikes— high-school production. Forget all that. Director Maura Hanlon’s version, which just opened at Cape Rep Theatre, is nothing like you’ve ever seen. And it’s absolutely fantastic. Our Town is...

Books

Book review: Worth Fighting for (John Pavlovitz)

Like many other progressives, I’m finding it difficult these days to be optimistic, much less at peace, about the state of the world and of the country I live in. Everywhere I look, cruelty is on display. (And what is it, anyway, about cruelty that it seems...

Reviews

Who Counts in America? “What the Constitution Means to Me” at the Provincetown Theater

I don’t usually tell you what to do. I am telling you now. Go see this play. If you need more reasons to vote, go see this play. If you care about the future of this country, go see this play. If you think you understand the United States, go see this play....

Entertainment

Meet The New Medea, Same as the Old Medea

Well, maybe not. Marcus Sharp (played by Tom Hewitt) is a gay, cis male contemporary version of the mythical Medea who, as revenge on her partner for leaving her, kills her two sons along with her partner’s new love and the lover’s father. In playwright...

Entertainment

An Affair to Remember: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal in Wellfleet

One of the most powerful aspects of Harold Pinter’s work is in the spaces he creates between the lines spoken by his characters. It’s in the silences, in the pauses, that the more visceral story is being told, and in no other work is this more apparent...

All things Provincetown