At the end of The Realistic Joneses, now playing at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, I overheard one audience member say to another, “What was the point they were making?” And it was difficult to not laugh at the question—because this is...
If you have a Monday free in August, head over to the Provincetown Theater for Marty Miller’s one-man comedy, playing weekly through the end of the month. No: scratch that. If you have any plans on a Monday, cancel them now: you’ll thank me for it. Beth...
Agatha Christie is a deity in the pantheon of mystery writers; she has not only written but inspired others to create millions of hours of amazing and entertaining reading and watching. I know; I’m one of them—in many ways, I owe her my career. That...
It’s difficult to imagine two places that could be any more different from each other than the mountains of Montana and the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts. From the heart of ranching—and conservative-to-right-wing mentality—to a gay seaside...
It’s unclear whether playwright Tom Stoppard meant for this production to be a satirical send-up of theatre critics, country-house whodunits, or both—but it manages to do it all, and more. The show opens with two theater critics, Birdboot (Jakov...
There are few people who don’t imagine being at the top of their art, or profession, gaining the recognition of their peers for all the world to see… but when Haas (Samantha Steinmetz, in her Harbor Stage debut) is selected for one such literary prize,...
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...
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...
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...
The Cape Rep has a talent for finding the exact right thing to say at exactly the right time. Last year, at a moment when the country found itself sharply divided after the presidential election and many in our community were feeling a desperate fear, Cape...
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