Raina Stefani grew up in Provincetown; she’s fourth-generation Portuguese on her mother’s side, while her paternal grandfather was from Venice, Italy. “Both of these cultures were very family-oriented,” Stefani remembers, “and therefore food played a central part in my upbringing.” Provincetown itself added to this background: in the 1960s, the Portuguese still...
Getting away to Provincetown, for many, is really about getting into its many abundances—of lobster rolls, ice cream shops and pithy t-shirts, of drag queens gliding up and down Commercial Street on scooters, of rainbow flags and barkers promoting drinks and $20 burgers and harbor views. It can be a lot. But there are quieter...
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 needing access to healthcare and more. They created Helping Our Women. The...
A SLICE OF P-TOWN! by Zoë Lewis Saturday July 30, 2022 at 7:00pm at Post Office Caberet Zoë Lewis washed ashore in Provincetown over 30 years ago and like many, was just passing through. The rest is history! She rented a little, ramshackle studio, with ships beams, crooked stairs and sloping floors sandwiched in-between Spiritus...
Provincetown’s Carnival is one of the largest outdoor celebrations in Massachusetts with a week of revelry, costumes, and a parade. There is a never ending schedule of fun events. ptownie wants to make sure you know about all our favorites! Feet Over Front Street 5K – Carnival Run & Walk SUNDAY AUG 14 8:30 AM...
In bringing Craig Lucas and Norman René’s stylish Marry Me A Little Stephen Sondheim revue to the stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, artistic director Christopher Ostrom is taking a chance. Perhaps that’s what he’s known for; his most recent success was a play called Straight White Men in an area where a good...
We are living through dark times. The week before the world première of The Lady Hamlet opened at the Provincetown Theater, the United States Supreme Court decided that women are now to be considered legally lesser humans. It’s easy to find oneself mired in depression. Until one sees this play, of course. If ever we...
It was a dusty biography of Tennessee Williams, full of rumors and gossip, that inspired Christopher Castellani to write Leading Men, a novel as deeply entangled with Provincetown as with the life of Tennessee Williams himself. Castellani, 49, is the author of four novels, recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and the 2004 winner of the...
Hungry for a Ptown experience like no other? Mix up one part striptease, two spoonfuls of surreal comedic genius, a shake of glittery circus magic, and you get Ptown’s ORIGINAL and most beloved burlesque experience, The Atomic Bombshells: A rare mixture of award-winning burlesque, drag, and gender-f*cked cabaret. Featuring Kitten N’ Lou, NYC BOY-lesque and...
NYC comedian Sam Morrison returns to perform his new solo show Sugar Daddy after Bear Week. Sam grapples with the death of his partner. He makes grief hilarious through tales of love, diabetes and seagull...
