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A “Barn-Raiser” of a Performance: Every Brilliant Thing at Cape Rep

May 12, 2025

It’s a play about depression and suicide. And you’ll leave the performance smiling. Sound daft? It could if you were talking about anything other than Every Brilliant Thing, a one-man production starring Lewis D. Wheeler, now playing in the beautiful...

A Heavenly Return: “Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika” at the Provincetown Theater

May 11, 2025

There is, it turns out, a formula for stage magic: ten impressive actors, an indescribable set design, a brilliant time-tested script, and an inspired director. That’s what you’ll see at the Provincetown Theater’s production of Angels in America, Part...

Mystery novel review: *I Only Read Murder*

December 8, 2024

Miranda Abbott, previously recognized for her role as a detective clergyperson on a major television series, finds herself in A Situation: a cryptic postcard calls her to a secluded town where she engages in a local theater’s amateur play. But when an...

Love in a Cold Climate: Almost Maine at the Provincetown Theater

November 23, 2024

There’s something I’d forgotten, swept up as I’ve been in the shock and fear of the last couple of weeks, when I’ve looked askance at my fellow Americans and felt I have nothing in common with many of them… and what I’d forgotten is the strength,...

Laughter is Still the Best Medicine: Pickle Me Tink at the Cape Rep

November 12, 2024

For anyone on the Outer Cape who has been feeling disconnected from life and humanity due to the results of the presidential election, Cape Rep Theatre is offering an opportunity to reconnect together and spend time simply having fun with its well-timed world...

Friendship, and Then Some: The Fade-Away Advantage at the Provincetown Theater

October 7, 2024

There’s a certain power in laughing at something one fears, and Meryl Cohn takes full advantage of that impulse in The Fade-Away Advantage, now at the Provincetown Theater through October 20. Jojo (Susan Lambert) and Michaela (D’Arcy Dersham) have a...

Finding Home: The Heart Sellers at the Cape Rep

September 23, 2024

Would you give up your heart to find a new home? That’s the question at the center of The Heart Sellers, now being produced in its Cape Cod première at the Cape Rep Theatre. Luna (Joy Regullano) and Jane (Zoë Kim) have just met at the supermarket....

Shining a Light on History: Liberty Talks at WHAT

September 20, 2024

She’s one of the most recognizable monuments anywhere, instantly identifiable, connected to vague words like freedom, liberty, independence. As American, one might say, as apple pie. Except that she’s not. The story behind the Statue of Liberty is...

Midcentury Modern: “Summer, 1976” at WHAT

August 14, 2024

Anything Daisy Walker directs is bound to be interesting, insightful, and often surprising; and Summer, 1976, now at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, absolutely doesn’t disappoint. We can all look back on our lives and see various relationships that...

Bite Me: “Westminster” Makes its Regional Début at the Harbor Stage Company

August 12, 2024

Some of the most interesting plays I’ve seen feature a character who never is present physically onstage but is intimated, felt, almost-perceived. That character often silently lends an air of foreboding to an otherwise ordinary situation. That’s...