Provincetown News

Meeting the Rural Challenge: Helping Our Women

August 20, 2022

In 1993, with the Provincetown AIDS Support Group up and running, a group of people—many of whom were involved with the support group—rallied around a local resident diagnosed with breast cancer and saw there was a fulltime gap in supporting women in town...

Crew’s Quarters: Sophisticated Bunkhouse for Salty Seamen

August 20, 2022

It’s been a doctor’s office, an antique store, and an art gallery, but most people associate the building at 198 Commercial Street with The Ranch, a male-only inn that Out Traveler called “an almost corny bunkhouse geared toward the leather/Levi crowd...

In The Business of Saving Lives: The AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod

August 20, 2022

“There was a time when gay men were coming to Provincetown to die,” recalls Dan Gates, President and CEO of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, or ASGCC. “Now? They’re coming to Provincetown to live.” That dramatic change is due in no small part to...

August 18, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

August 18, 2022

SLURP – Paige Turner’s Tawdry Pool Party feat. DJ James Cerne Friday August 19, 2022 at 12:00pm at Boatslip Mayhem. Foolishness. Music! Celebrate the return of NYC’s longest-running drag show, Paige Turner SLURP poolside before Provincetown’s famous...

When You Can’t Look Away: Frozen at the Harbor Stage

August 15, 2022

One has to start with a trigger warning: Bryony Lavery’s play Frozen could be quite difficult for some people to watch, dealing as it does—intimately—with pedophilia and serial murder. None of that is immediately obvious to the audience; as the play...

Revisiting Groundbreaking Theatre: Jerker

August 15, 2022

It’s a story far too familiar to a Provincetown audience: casual intimacy and death by plague. But Robert Chesley’s Jerker manages to explain and defy both in ways that aren’t immediately obvious—and ultimately quite poignant. The story is simple: JR...

Carnival Parade Viewing Parties

August 14, 2022

Want to enjoy Carnival in true VIP Fashion! Don’t want to deal with the crazy crowds? Well, here is a list of establishments that have “viewing parties”. This reserves you space typically with drinks, snacks and such shenanigans. Book...

Form Meets Function: Artist Jody Johnson

August 12, 2022

In 2008, then-gallery owner Paul Wisotzky took one look at Jody Johnson’s quirky creations and said, “I want everything you make!” He wasn’t alone in his reaction; the popularity of Johnson’s work is on the rise. Her one-of-a-kind repurposing of...

August 11, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

August 11, 2022

Jackie Beat: I Invented That! Friday August 12-14, 2022 at 8:30pm at Red Room Jackie Beat: I Invented That! Drop-Dead Gorgeous, Larger-Than-Life, World-Famous Drag Superstar. Red Room special nights at Carnival and August! An Evening With Sasha Velour Sunday...

August 4, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

August 4, 2022

Red Errings Friday August 5, 2022 at 7:00pm at Red Room Join Saltine and “Canker” of the Puritans known Anne Hutchinson for an hour of wayward, comical oration with Red Errings. A perfect pairing!! One Night Only!! Find more of Saltine and Anne...