Nov 6, 2019 | News, Theatre
Just in time for the holidays, the Provincetown Theater opens its final main stage production of the 2019 season with Joe Landry’s unique adaptation of the beloved Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Running Nov 21 thru Dec 8, as...
Oct 21, 2019 | News, Theatre
On Saturday, November 16th, the theatre community will gather for the Provincetown Theater’s Second Annual Fall Fête at the Pilgrim House (336 Commercial Street). An event to benefit 2020 season programming, the evening is a must for local folks to mix, mingle, savor...
Oct 16, 2019 | News, Theatre
Who needs Shakespeare when you can write the world’s first Broadway musical before there is a Broadway? Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are sick of that show-off bard who is stealing all the audiences and all the attention so Nick goes to see a soothsayer who tells him...
Oct 14, 2019 | Events, News, Theatre
Okay, so you don’t have to bring insect repellant when you go to the Provincetown Theater for Cape Cod’s famed slam story hour featuring your friends and neighbors’ stories—and maybe even your own! Inspired by radio’s famous Moth Story Hour, the Mosquito features a...
Sep 24, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
I have to begin this review with a caveat: nothing I can write will do justice to Indecent or to Cape Rep’s production of this “true story of a little Jewish play.” It may well be the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen on stage. There’s dancing. There’s music. There’s...
Sep 20, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
“It often rings that way… about this time of night…” That’s the Nurse (Marcel Meyer) speaking to Hikaru (Justin Chevalier), as the two linger by the hospital bedside of Hiraku’s wife in the Abrahamse-Meyer production of The Lady Aoi at the Provincetown Theater. The...
Sep 20, 2019 | News, Theatre
“You see, I am a critic. A critic is no-one,” says the self-deprecating Ken Tynan (Philip Hayes) in Austin Pendleton’s story of an imagined collaboration between Tynan, Orson Welles (Christopher “Chiz” Chisholm), and Laurence Olivier (John Feltch) during rehearsals...
Sep 11, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
One could argue that 1959, when Eugène Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, was a time far removed from our own. World War Two was little more than a decade over. The Cold War was vigorous. Yet sixty years on, the play is chilling in its indictment of the problems of 2019, and...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, Theatre
In a month-long residency, South African company Abrahamse and Meyer to perform their acclaimed Noh play September 12-22 World-renowned South African theatre artists Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer have been bringing vibrant works to the Provincetown Theater stage in...
Aug 14, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
How do you keep a legend alive? By embalming the body, of course, and that’s exactly what Josef Stalin (Robin Bloodworth) has decided to do: preserve the body of dead Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (Robin Haynes) so that it may be viewed by the masses—permanently...
Aug 3, 2019 | Events, Music, Theatre
Provincetown Piano Bars View the Full Calendar The Club 193A Commercial Streetwww.theclubptown.com Featuring a rotating roster of world-class musicians, the house band performs nightly free of charge. When open:Nightly house band music is at 10:00 pm Dive Bar at the...
Aug 3, 2019 | Events, Music, Theatre
Provincetown Theater Shows View the Full Calendar Cabaret A Peregrine Theatre Ensemble production, Cabaret is a Tony- and Oscar-winning classic with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff. Set between 1929 and 1930 in Berlin, Cabaret...
Aug 2, 2019 | News, Theatre
Provincetown Drag Shows View the Full Calendar BenDeLaCreme, Ready to be Committed Always the Drag Queen and never a drag, RuPaul’s Drag Race favorite BenDeLaCreme returns to Provincetown with her latest theatrical blend of burlesque, comedy and music:...
Jul 31, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
They’re perfectly miserable. It’s obvious as Three Sisters opens that these girls have seen better days—or at any rate believe they have. Against a simple and dark background, surrounded by music that underscores their situation (the brilliant repetition of “my days...
Jul 16, 2019 | News, Reviews, Theatre
Sometimes the best stories are the tried-and-true ones. In London of the 1840s, “penny dreadfuls” offered Victorian readers a cheap escape into a world of ghoulish murder and gruesome violence, twisted guilty pleasures. One such story was that of a barber who murdered...
