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The Original Whodunit: The Mousetrap at the Harbor Stage Company

July 22, 2026

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...

A western cowboy finds a new home: The Washashore by Christopher Mirabile

July 13, 2026

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...

The World’s Funniest Whodunit: The Real Inspector Hound at the Cape Rep

June 29, 2026

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...

Awards and Accolades: Prize Fight at the Harbor Stage Company

June 22, 2026

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,...

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...

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...

Rediscovering Joy: She Loves Me at the Cape Rep Theatre

November 8, 2025

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...

If You Could Read My Mind: Chanteuse Susan Lambert Triumphs at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

November 8, 2025

Susan Lambert’s new one-woman show, If You Could Read My Mind, presented for one night only at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, absolutely shimmered with light and love and, perhaps, more than just a little wisdom. Her previous show, The Couch, brought us on a...

Finding Hope: The Jack of Hearts Club at the Provincetown Theater

October 5, 2025

It’s 11:30pm on August 31st, 1963. The last minutes of the last day of the season in a gay bar in Provincetown. And at first, it doesn’t seem all that different from any bar in Provincetown at any time; it’s only as the evening unfolds that we’re...