Courage in the Catskills: Casa Valentina at the Provincetown Theater
Provincetown Theater’s 2023 season opening couldn’t be more electric… or more riveting. Both heart-affirming and heartbreaking, Casa Valentina is a singularly brilliant tour de force production of an amazing play. It’s summertime in the Catskills in...
The Weird Dark World of Archibald Avery
Any writer can identify with the central character’s initial problem in the new musical premiering at Cape Rep in Brewster: he has a deadline, and he’s running out of ideas. From that rather ordinary beginning, though, things spin very quickly out of...
Revisiting Groundbreaking Theatre: Jerker
It’s a story far too familiar to a Provincetown audience: casual intimacy and death by plague. But Robert Chesley’s Jerker manages to explain and defy both in ways that aren’t immediately obvious—and ultimately quite poignant. The story is simple: JR...
A Sequel That Couldn’t Be More Timely
History may always be written by the winners, but often it’s the observations of the common people that are more interesting—and understandable. And that’s what playwright Taylor Mac gives us in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, now at the Wellfleet...
Buried Child at Harbor Stage is Buried Treasure
It’s telling that as the audience files in to see Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer-prizewinning play, Buried Child, at the Harbor Stage Company, they must put on masks and have their vaccination credentials examined: our time is not so very different from the world...
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