Big Bear

September 13, 2026

The O’Neill Theater Festival returns to Provincetown’s Red Room, celebrating its fourth year developing exciting new works by Cape Cod playwrights.

It’s not always pretty when an awful person tries to become a better one. In the comedy Big Bear, an arrogant, high-powered businesswoman decides that psychedelics will kickstart the transformation, but the trip takes her to surprising places – professionally, personally, and permanently.

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