Provincetown News

Anchored in Community: 175 Years of Seamen’s Bank in Provincetown

May 25, 2026

At the heart of Provincetown’s waterfront history stands Seamen’s Bank, an institution whose story mirrors the evolution of Cape Cod itself. Founded in 1851 by David Fairbanks and other local businessmen and mariners, the bank emerged during a period...

Queens of May: Provincetown’s Drag Season Takes the Stage

May 25, 2026

May in Provincetown signals the start of drag season, with nightly cabaret, comedy, and live-singing spectacles filling the town’s legendary stages. Venues like Post Office Cafe & Cabaret, The Art House and Crown & Anchor showcase powerhouse...

May 21, 2026. the ptownie dispatch!

May 21, 2026

A Provincetown Spring Fling Memorial Day Weekend in Provincetown means packed galleries, live music, busy theaters, and stories around every corner—spring’s annual reminder that this town never really does anything halfway. The ptownie...

Radicals’ Reunion: The Fifth of July at the Provincetown Theater

May 20, 2026

The Fifth of July is chronologically the last in Lanford Wilson’s trilogy of major plays about Missouri’s Talley family. The first act takes place on the evening of Independence Day in 1977, the second the morning after. Both the title and the timing...

Land’s End Inn: A Century at the Edge of Provincetown

May 17, 2026

Perched high atop Gull Hill in the West End of Provincetown, Land’s End Inn has long been one of the town’s most iconic and romantic destinations. With sweeping views of Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean, the inn captures the...

PMPM Launches A Town That Worked: After The Storm on Thursday, May 21 at 5pm

May 13, 2026

Provincetown didn’t just happen. The creative, resilient, entrepreneurial, welcoming, and constantly evolving Provincetown we know today was built over generations by artists, fishermen, shopkeepers, hoteliers, restaurateurs, tradesmen, workers,...

Changing Roles: 9-Ball at the Cape Rep

May 10, 2026

We’ve all wondered what would happen if we just walked away from our lives, took on a different identity, left our hometowns and escaped whatever future felt inevitable…. Some people do it. Some people live to regret it. It’s the terrible...

God Bless Us, Every One: A (Different) Christmas Carol at the Provincetown Theater

November 23, 2025

Back in the days of small traveling circuses and vaudevillian entertainment, actors and crew trekked from town to town to present their shows before moving on to the next venue. Sometimes, things get lost along the way. That’s what’s happened to...

November 20, 2025. the ptownie dispatch!

November 20, 2025

Provincetown: Season of Sparkle From turkey trots to twinkling trees to midnight toasts by the sea, Provincetown turns Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve into one joyful, glitter-kissed celebration. The ptownie Calendar ensures you don’t miss a...

The Provincetown Lobster Pot Tree: A Beacon of Community and Creativity

November 15, 2025

Each winter in Provincetown, as the chill rolls off Cape Cod Bay and the crowds of summer retreat, a new light begins to glow on Lopes Square — the Provincetown Lobster Pot Tree. What began as a modest holiday tribute has grown into one of Provincetown’s...