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    May 22, 2025

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    Kick Off Summer the Ptown Way: Memorial Day Magic!
    Celebrate the long weekend with beach walks, parties, and vibrant energy. Provincetown comes alive with charm, community, and celebration—the perfect launch into a summer of fun.
    The ptownie Calendar ensures you don’t miss a thing.

    MEMDAY Weekend Women’s Festival

    May 22, 2025 thru May 26, 2025 Throughout Provincetown

    Every year thousands of women from all over the globe migrate to Provincetown MA (Ptown) to kick off the summer season for the MEMDAY Weekend Women’s Festival. This year will be no different. In addition to the many stores, restaurants, and beach activities Provincetown has to offer, on and off the main street, LesbianNightLife and ProvincetownForWomen have put together 4 days of exciting events for our Annual Memorial Day Weekend Festival, including the Freedom Boat cruise, and mega pool party.

    Puppetry of the Penis

    May 23, 2025 thru September 13, 2025 at The Art House

    Puppetry of the Penis—the show Vanity Fair calls “dementedly good fun!”—is taking over the Art House in Provincetown all summer! This jaw-dropping spectacle demands astonishing stamina, full-frontal audacity, an unbelievable stretch factor, and an unparalleled level of testicular fortitude. With over 40 heroic and hilarious installations, audiences are left gasping at crowd-pleasers, tourist attractions, and food-inspired feats, including The Pelican, The Windsurfer, The Eiffel Tower, The Loch Ness Monster, and their legendary masterpiece—The Hamburger.

    Clamshell Cabaret

    May 25, 2025 and May 26, 2025 at Gifford House

    Join Clamshell Cabaret at the Gifford House in Provincetown, where fishnets meet fantasies and the only thing deeper than the sea is the seduction. Expect shimmering scales, sailor scandals, drag krakens, and beach-bound beauties riding the wave of your wildest dreams. Whether you’re a salty sea dog or a landlocked lover, you’ll leave drenched in delight.

    Goodnight Provincetown

    May 26, 2025 Thru October 27, 2025 at Post Office Cabaret

    Bob Keary returns to the Post Office Cabaret with his hit talk show “Goodnight Provincetown“. Live Music, Game Show Segments with audience prizes, parodies, sing-alongs and more!

    Tina Burner Boob Tube

    May 25, 2025 thru September 11, 2025 at The Crown & Anchor

    Don’t change the channel because Tina returns with her all new one woman show “Tina Burner Boob Tube” putting the HD back in ADHD. The reception is always clear with her signature mixes, original parodies, live singing, and costumes changes. No remote required as this Golden Girl turns you on to some of television’s classic hit shows. Boob Tube is every Sunday-Thursday at 7:30 in the Cabaret at Crown and Anchor in Provincetown.

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    A Heavenly Return: “Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika” at the Provincetown Theater

    There is, it turns out, a formula for stage magic: ten impressive actors, an indescribable set design, a brilliant time-tested script, and an inspired director. That’s what you’ll see at the Provincetown Theater’s production of Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika—nothing less than stage magic. Few shows can capture an audience as it does, with its convoluted layout and semi-controversial plot and a call to memory that’s close to transcendent. More Review…

    Provincetown Art Galleries: The Stroll

    Provincetown is America’s oldest continuously operating art colony. And there’s a lot of it to see! You’ll find art in the places you expect—museums and art galleries—but also in the places you might not expect, like Town Hall, Provincetown Public Library, guest houses, restaurants, even banks. More info…!

    Provincetown History Snippets: What are the Dune Shacks?

    Comprising nearly two thousand acres of shoreline in Provincetown and Truro, the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District is home to a number of dune shacks, some of them repurposed from the old lifesaving station, others that were cobbled together with the help of driftwood washing ashore from shipwrecks.

    The artistic community in the shacks grew significantly after Eugene O’Neill spent time living and working there, and would eventually include Jackson Pollock, e.e. cummings, Jan Gelb, Harry Kemp, Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, and Jack Kerouac.

    You can still seem the shacks via Art’s Dune Tours, and two of them offer fellowships for writers, musicians, and visual artists.

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    The 18th International Encaustic Conference
    May 30 – June 1, 2025

    CabaretFest
    June 2 – 8, 2025

    Womxn of Color
    June 5 – 8, 2025

    Provincetown Pride
    June 6 – 8, 2025

    Provincetown International Film Festival
    June 11 – 15, 2025

    Frolic
    June 18 – 23, 2025

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