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After its most successful season yet, Twenty Summers is proud to introduce Stanley—a bold, future-facing expansion of its mission to connect global culture with the singular spirit of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Located at 494 Commercial Street, in the...

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Rolling Through Time: The Story of Art’s Dune Tours

If you’ve ever stood on the edge of Provincetown’s windswept dunes, you know the landscape feels like another planet—golden hills undulating under vast skies, dotted with lonely shacks and bent pines clinging to life in the sand. It’s raw, surreal,...

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July 10, 2025. the ptownie dispatch!

Boas, Bears & Broadway, Oh My! In Provincetown, July bursts with beards and boas, canvases and choruses! From Bear Week cuddles to curtain calls, art strolls to drag rolls—history, harmony, and hilarity meet at land’s end. The ptownie...

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Reviews

We Still Remember: Sacco & Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy at WHAT

I first heard the names Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti when I was thirteen years old, through the famous song Here’s to You, written by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez for a 1971 film about the men. I heard it sung in French by Georges Moustaki (real...

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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...