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A Last Hurrah: Orson’s Shadow at the Wellfleet Harbor Actos Theater

September 20, 2019

“You see, I am a critic. A critic is no-one,” says the self-deprecating Ken Tynan (Philip Hayes) in Austin Pendleton’s story of an imagined collaboration between Tynan, Orson Welles (Christopher “Chiz” Chisholm), and Laurence Olivier (John Feltch)...

Eerily Sexy: The Lady Aoi at Provincetown Theater

September 20, 2019

“It often rings that way… about this time of night…” That’s the Nurse (Marcel Meyer) speaking to Hikaru (Justin Chevalier), as the two linger by the hospital bedside of Hiraku’s wife in the Abrahamse-Meyer production of The Lady Aoi at the...

A Stampede for Our Times: Rhinoceros at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

September 11, 2019

One could argue that 1959, when Eugène Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, was a time far removed from our own. World War Two was little more than a decade over. The Cold War was vigorous. Yet sixty years on, the play is chilling in its indictment of the problems of...

Provincetown Theater presents Yukio Mishima’s Phantasmagoric Love Story The Lady Aoi

August 21, 2019

In a month-long residency, South African company Abrahamse and Meyer to perform their acclaimed Noh play September 12-22 World-renowned South African theatre artists Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer have been bringing vibrant works to the Provincetown Theater...

When is a Corpse Not Just a Corpse? “Lenin’s Embalmers” at WHAT

August 14, 2019

How do you keep a legend alive? By embalming the body, of course, and that’s exactly what Josef Stalin (Robin Bloodworth) has decided to do: preserve the body of dead Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (Robin Haynes) so that it may be viewed by the...

Who is Michael Glasfeld?

June 11, 2018

In one of Buddha’s lives, he was a ferryman. A ferryman? “He was drawn to the life because of the tranquility of being on the water,” explains Mike Glasfeld. “And he used his ferry to deliver people to enlightenment. How cool, right?” Most...