In Provincetown, MA, something is causing men’s dinks to shrink. Could it be the Cape Cod water, the delectable fried clams, or perhaps the controversial cell-phone towers emanating a poisonous signal?
Leave it to Derin Brockovich, a small town nobody with a big-time spirit, to solve the mystery that is plaguing this seaside resort town.
A hilarious send-up of a movie with nearly the same name, Derin Brockovich – The Musical is a musical extravaganza—complete with intrigue, romance, tight-fitting costumes, and a whole lot of heart.
August 18 through September 4, 2010 at 8:00pm all seats $33.50
Sunday August 29 at 8:00pm
Bobby Miller will be performing and reading from his new book “Troubleblonde: Poems, short stories, monologues and letters.” The evening will include Slam Poetry, excerpts of short stories, monologues and letters 1967 – 2009 by the poet, photographer and actor.
Bobby Miller is the author of four poetry books, “Benestrific Blonde”, “Mouth Of Jane”, “Rigamarole” and “Troubleblonde”, and his work has been published in many collections, including the American Book Award- winning Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
He has collaborated with recording artist D.J.Dymetry on a recording of My Life As I Remember It and Bobby can also be heard on Epic Records CD Home Alive with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Joan Jett, and others. He has performed his original material at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, and internationally at The Battersee Arts Center and The ICA in London and The Glasgow Center For The Arts in Glasgow, Scotland.
This event is not for the faint of heart or children under 18 years of age. Tickets are $10
Friday September 3, 2010 4:30-7:00 pm at The Provincetown Theater
What a delightful way to spend a late-summer Friday evening, and support the Provincetown Theater in style! The third annual “Art Performance with Robert Cardinal” will move, this year, to Friday of Labor Day weekend, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
Debbie Cavalier and Beth Barrett, two-time guests say; “We were so thankful for the opportunity to witness Robert Cardinal, our all-time favorite artist, create a piece before our eyes while describing his process. It was the highlight of our year! The fact that participating in this event enables us to support the Provincetown Theater makes it even better! We can hardly wait to go back this year!”
If you did have not had the chance to experience this fundraising event now in it’s third year, you are in for a delightful treat. With the stage transformed to his painting studio, Cardinal begins with a blank large canvas. With a sure hand and a clear sense of where he’s going, applies paint here, then there. As he works, he talks to the audience about the process unfolding, with humor and the insight of a long-experienced artist. He teaches, he interacts with the audience. On the canvas, forms appear, and are gradually, almost magically, defined as he works.
All the while, a pair – or more – of world-class musicians, also on stage, provide musical accompaniment. Cenovia Cummins on violin, and Marilyn Coyne, on oboe, are looking forward to their return this year, and will include Cenovia’s Maxwell’s Demon violin piece as well as various duets of Bach and Telemann.
Before the painting begins, and throughout the event, patrons can enjoy a copious assortment of delicious appetizers from the best of our local outer cape restaurants, as well as Truro Vineyards wines and Cape Cod Beer selections. We provide an intermission to replenish plates so you won’t be torn between the intriguing demonstration and the delectable refreshments.
The raffling off of the full-sized completed painting is the climax of the evening. One lucky ticket-holder’s name will be drawn from the jar, and will take home the new work. A number of other items will also be raffled, including Cardinal’s theater posters and bottles of Truro Vineyards wine with his label, all signed by the artist.
Sponsors for this wonderful event are The Gramercy Park Foundation, Adrian’s, The Banner, Bayside Betsy’s, Cape Cod Beer, Dunes 102FM, Farland Provisions, Front Street, The Lobster Pot, LipTV, Saki, Sanette’s Karoo Café, Truro Vinyard and Victor’s,
Please come out and support your local theater. Only 120 tickets will be sold for the Performance. We expect to sell out – be sure not to miss this event of the season. If you can’t be there in person, a limited number of raffle-only tickets are available. Tickets can be purchased at the Theater Box Office, and on this website.
Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin and staring McNeely Myers
September 9 – 12 and 16 – 19 at 7:30pm
$25 Adults, $20 Seniors and Students with ID.
As described by O’Neill himself, the play is a “tale of the eternal, romantic idealist who is in all of us-the eternally defeated one.” Diff’rent can be said to be a cautionary tale about sexual repression and lack of compromise. Says director Jef Hall-Flavin, “I believe the play is a perfect treatise on the abyss between what we hope to be, and the reality of what we are.”
Written in 1920, Diff’rent was revived in 1940 in Provincetown at the Artists’ Theatre (which opened after the Playhouse on the Wharf burned down in February of that year). Notably, it is the only play for which we have a record of Tennessee Williams attending in Provincetown.
Director Jef Hall-Flavin, Festival Director for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, is a Minnesota-based director with a multi-disciplinary international career as a director, educator, producer and artistic administrator. Recent directing projects include A Streetcar Named Desire and The Clean House, both of which he staged in New Zealand; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Park Square Theatre in his home town of St. Paul, Minnesota.
In addition to McNeely Myers as Emma, the cast includes local actors both new and familiar to the Provincetown Theater. They are Ashley Potts as the young Emma, Andrew Clemmons as Jack Crosby, Ian Leahy as Capt. John Crosby, Jane MacDonald as Mrs. Crosby, Tony Johnson as Alfred Rogers, Andrew Eldredge as Benny Rogers, Taylor Ferry as the young Harriet, Melissa Nussbaum as Harriet, Beau Jackett as the young Caleb and Tony Jackett as Caleb.
The creative staff for the production are Jeffrey Billard as Sound Designer, Karen Billard as Costume Designer, and Michael Steers as both Set and Light Designer.
The production will be at the Provincetown Theater for two weeks before traveling to the Boatslip for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival weekend. Come see the one play Tennessee Williams thought worth his time!
Slap&Tickle is a sexy and powerful new play about how drugs, politics, HIV and the internet have dramatically changed the sexual and emotional landscape for gay men in America over the past twenty-five years. Six actors portray twenty recurring characters whose lives all intersect in surprising, humorous and revealing ways. The stories shared range from first kisses to last loves; from on-line hookups to off-line breakups; from sleeping bag seductions to bathroom rapes. Like Terrence McNally’s The Ritz and Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, David Parr’s Slap & Tickle shines fresh light on the darkest of places, giving voice to the defining experiences of our lives that are too often kept silent. What emerges is a play not just about sex but about our universal desire to connect.
July 6 through August 14 at 8:00pm all seats $33.50
A dazzling one-man tour de force comedy about the plight of an out-of-work actor who is handling the reservation desk at the hottest restaurant in Manhattan. The play features award winning actor Morgan Sills who performs 70 characters – celebrities, socialites, fashionistas – who will do anything to get the best table in the house.
Fully Committed is presented by CTEK Arts, Priscilla Sample and Margaret Van Sant, Producing Artistic Directors, and performs at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA.
”...hilarious and touching, gallops along at a swift almost frantic pace.” Time Out New York
July 18, 19, 25, 26 at 8:00pm General admission – $33.50, Seniors and Students $28.50
Norris will be reading from her book A Ticket to the Circus.
Dwayne will be reading from Mornings with Mailer.
The event is free and open to the public. Donations accepted.
Contact: Tim McCarthy 508.487.6308 tim@liptv.us
The two authors will be reading from their respective books. There will be a Q & A period afterward followed by book signings by both.
“We really wanted to give the town a chance to hear these two read from their wonderful books. Norris and Norman have always been very generous to the theater. This is our chance to acknowledge our love for them as well. So please turn out for Norris and Dwayne”, said Tim McCarthy
The Spring Playwrights’ Festival is pleased to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument. Seven original short plays by local playwrights will be performed together June 4,5,11,12 at 7:30pm and June 6 and 13 at 2:00pm. Watch for the Monument to appear throughout the production!
May 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29 at 7:30pm and May 16 and 23 at 5:00pm.
CTEK Arts presents Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
Directed by David Drake
Could it be that Thornton Wilder’s classic about the cycle of life in a small New England town at the turn-of-the-last-century hasn’t been performed in Provincetown since 1970? Unable to document a production in P-town since a one-night staging 40 years ago at Town Hall, Wilder scholars believe so!
Well, to prove this Pulitzer Prize-winning vision is as timeless and entertaining as ever, CTEK Arts (The Wild Party, Feel the Bend) will update the history books this spring with a fresh, new, modern-dress production of Our Town directed by Obie Award winner David Drake, beginning performances on May 13th. Playing Thursdays thru Saturdays at 7:30PM, and Sundays at 5PM, through May 23th.
Wilder’s quintessential American citizens of Grover’s Corners will come vividly to life on stage via a cast of over 25 actors from Provincetown and across the Cape.
A play filled with humor, truth, love, and the value of community, Our Town is must-see for the entire family.
Before the performance (or during intermission), in the lobby, please take time to enjoy a new three-dimensional art installation created especially for our production of Our Town by the internationally acclaimed Provincetown artist John Dowd.
For reservations go to www.provincetowntheater.org, or call 508-487-7487.
Tickets on sale now. $26.00 adult, $22 seniors/students
Edward II is a notorious Renaissance or Early Modern period play written by the infamous deviant Christopher Marlowe. It is one of the earliest English history plays. The full title of the first publication is The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer. Considered dangerous and sexually charged at the time, this rarely produced play has been influencing theater since the 1690’s. Full of dialect and sword fights, this play is a must see.
Marlowe’s play opens at the outset of the reign, with Edward’s exiled favourite, Piers Gaveston, rejoicing at the recent death of Edward I and his own resulting ability to return to England. The play telescopes most of Edward II’s reign into a single narrative, beginning with the recall of his favourite, Piers Gaveston, from exile, and ending with his son Edward III’s execution of Mortimer Junior for the king’s murder.
For reservations go to www.provincetowntheater.org, or call 508-487-7487.
CTEK Arts is opening their season at The Provincetown Theater, March 4th, with the premiere of Priscilla Sample’s play Feel The Bend, directed by Jeff Spencer. Sample, an award winning playwright, has had three of her plays performed in the Provincetown Playwrights Festival, and has twice had her plays selected as the “Best of the Fest” at the innovative FronteraFest in Austin, TX. Feel The Bend was selected for a staged reading in the Provincetown Playwrights Festival this past fall.
Describing the play, Sample says she wondered “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we only had to deal with the memories we find worthy of keeping?” and the script is the result of that thinking. Set in a seaside town, Feel The Bend is about a woman, Anna, who is searching for “something more” in life, while trying to forget a disturbing past. Anna negotiates through a difficult love triangle, while trying to understand why her memories intrude on the present day.
Director Jeff Spencer has been acting and directing on Cape Cod, as well as in Scarborough England, Maine and off-Broadway for 28 years. This past January, he directed the highly-successful Hats; the musical at the Chatham Drama Guild; and has also directed for the Academy of Performing Arts and the Provincetown Theater Company, among others.
The roles of Anna, Betti, and Jon, the love triangle at the center of the play, are performed by River Lombardi, Suzy Kaplan, and John Long. Karen Billard plays Carol, Anna’s confident and best friend.
River Lombardi is performing the role of Anna, the woman at the center of the love triangle. River has trained at The American Conservatory Theater, SF, CA, as well as The Academy of Dramatic Arts, NY, NY. She has done the majority of her work at Eventide Arts in Dennis, MA. Betti is performed by Suzy Kaplan, who has recently returned to her native Rhode Island, after spending the last ten years in Los Angeles where she has been in a number of films, TV and commercials. John Long is making his first appearance in Provincetown in the role of Jon. Most recently he worked as fight choreographer of Women Behind Bars at W.H.A.T directed by Patrick Falco and in NYC, John has worked with The Public Theatre, The Ma-Yi Theatre and The Ateh Theatre Companies. Karen Billard, performing the role of Carol, has performed with Big and Small Mask Troupe here on the Cape, and costumed many productions at Cape theaters.
Feel the Bend, a new play (premiere production) by Priscilla Sample, directed by Jeff Spencer and presented by: CTEK Arts, Priscilla Sample and Margaret Van Sant, Producing Artistic Directors, performs at:
The Provincetown Theater
238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Thurs., March 11 – Sat., March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., March 14, 2:00 p.m.
For further information contact CTEK Arts at mvansant@ctekarts.org or psample@ctekarts.org.
This is the story of a Provincetown restaurant opening and all the chaos that ensues. This is a romp through the dining room and into hell’s kitchen where the heat is on and nothing is going right.
The Finer Life: A Living Memoir #1 is set in a an Upper East Side brownstone and its surroundings in NYC in the latter 1950’s. It depicts a nine year old lad’s struggle to survive in a humorous and volatile family.
The Finer Life is based on Tom’s story adapted for the stage by Janine Perry of Cape Rep Theater. Tom hopes to continue with his series of 5 or 6 “Living Memoirs”, the second of which will be Living in the Promised Land: A Living Memoir #2.
In June of 1968, Judy Garland was scheduled to appear for two nights at the Back Bay Theater in Boston.
After a long and sometimes noble history, the Back Bay had been condemned and was designated for demolition following Miss Garland’s appearance.
The playwright, then a college student, ushered the first night of the run. Miss Garland showed up at the theater at ten o’clock. Her audience waited for her and cheered with relief when she finally appeared. After many apologies and vague excuses, she sang until well after midnight. It was an extraordinary evening.
Thrilled by the experience, the playwright bought a ticket for the second evening’s performance but Miss Garland never showed up.
Night Falls on Emerald City is a snapshot, not a definitive moment, merely a “night in the life” sort of imagining of what might have occurred between the first and second nights.
Can determined effort prevent the sins of the father from being visited on the children? The question is probed by Bill Plott’s drama, IBSEN’S BASTARDS. IBSEN’S BASTARDS takes place in 1898 in Minnesota in the Larsen farmhouse. John Blegen, a hired hand of uncertain origin, has grown close to both the wife and daughter of his employer, August Larsen, with whom he is locked in a fatal struggle. The action is preceded by a prologue which traces the results of a youthful indiscretion by Henrick Ibsen, and hints at Blegen’s antecedents.
Postponed by weather to March 24.
DEAD AND BURIED is a comedic look at life behind the scenes in a cemetery through the lens of young love thwarted ambition.
The author is widely produced playwright James McLindon, and the director is David Allen, former head of the Cape Cod Community College Theater Department.
HAWTHORNE AND MELVILLE deals with the Nathaniel Hawthorne-Herman Melville relationship when the two men met for the first time in the Berkshire mountains of 1850, how Melville’s love for Hawthorne turned a simple whaling story into MOBY DICK, and why ultimately the relationship had to come to an end.
It’s a gay world—homosexuals are 90 percent of the population, reproduction is done under “prescribed clinical settings” and morality dictated by “the sacred writings.” One Thanksgiving, young David brings home his “roommate” and announces to his nice liberal family that he’s…straight…a hetero…queer. The news does not go over well…
Written by a Wampanoag Indian and professor at UMass.-Dartmouth, this is the story of half African-American Indians who still live in The Bronx where they are engaged in a power struggle which ultimately leads to the tribe moving to land in Vermont.
Calvin grew up in the North Bronx knowing that by way of his father he was a part of the Waquasiq band that once occupied the Bronx, finding out by chance, years after his father’s death, that his father’s family and tribe lived in the South Bronx on a triple-square-block compound that they call “The Rez”. This is the story of Calvin’s journey home.
March 24:Identity Crisis by Peter Snoad
Postponed from February 10
IDENTITY CRISIS—It’s an unpublicized phenomenon that’s sweeping the country: white people turning black. On the eve of his wedding, Alan Guthrie learns it’s about to happen to him. And he’s freaked: his racist prospective father-in-law will never allow the nuptials to proceed, and Alan’s whole future with his beloved Marcia is in jeopardy. The solution? Get his identical twin brother, David, who is gay, to impersonate him as the groom…
Peter Snoad is a Boston-based playwright whose plays have been staged around the country and in Canada. His play, GUIDED TOUR, won two national new play awards, the Stanley Drama Award and the Arthur W. Stone Playwriting Award. Last year, Peter received an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition to IDENTITY CRISIS, Peter is working on a new full-length play inspired by the life of the black abolitionist, David Walker.
SPIRIT OF THE SEASON is an evening of holiday classics featuring GIFT OF THE MAGI and A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES.
GIFT OF THE MAGI is a play based on the short story by O. Henry. A magical story about a young struggling couple spending their first Christmas together at the turn of the last century. Each sells their most valued possession to buy a present for the other. The twist ending teaches each the true meaning of Christmas.
A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES based on the poem by Dylan Thomas lyrically describes an early 1900’s Christmas in Swansea Wales as viewed through the eyes of a child. Thomas has managed to universalize the very essence of Christmas as any child anywhere might perceive it.
Both plays in one evening with an intermission. $18.00 adults and $15.00 for seniors and students. January 9 at 7:30pm and January 10 at 5:00pm.
an original play by Patrick Lamerson
Tickets on sale now for the final performance of Snowman in the Dunes. The Premier sold out. Don’t miss this opportunity to see this show!
In SNOWMAN two local children befriend the Abominable Snowman who has moved to Ptown because Tibet was too lonely. Will Yeti have to spend Christmas alone or can he spend it with the kids in their Mom’s financially struggling guest house. Don’t be surprised if Santa stops by.
FINAL PERFORMANCE January 1 at 2:00pm. $5.00 for children and $8.00 for adults.
The 2009 Fall Playwrights’ Festival, November 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 7:30pm. Six world premier short plays will be performed along with readings of five new full length plays, all by Cape Cod artists!
The tradition of presenting original works at the Provincetown Theater Company continues this fall with the production of six new short plays and the stage reading of five original full-length plays. Over two weekends, the short plays will be staged four times and each full length play will be read once at difference dates.
The wealth of local Cape Cod playwrights makes this program possible as writers from Sandwich to Provincetown share their plays for the first time. The short plays run about 15 minutes each and create a full program together. The full-length readings each require a time slot of their own. Audiences can experience both the short plays and at least one full length reading the same day. Check the full schedule for details.
Also making such a program possible is the large pool of talented actors, some quite experienced and others new to the theater. Last Spring’s Festival was a huge success and paved the way for the more extensive program this fall. Playwrights of short plays include Jeannette Angell of Truro, E Thomas Finan of Barnstable, Bob Seaver and Myra Slotnick of Provincetown, and part-time residents James McLindon and George Sauer. The full-length plays come from familiar faces Jim Lucason, Candace Perry, Priscilla Sample, Jerry Thompson and Margaret van Sant.
To make this program available to the broadest audience, prices have been kept low. Six Short Plays $15 (includes a $3.50 box office fee) and the Full-Length Readings are only $5 cash each, payable at the door. No advance sales for the readings.
Will be performed together November 7, 13, and 14 at 7:30pm. November 8th at 2:00pm.
Tickets $15.00 at box office, phone or on-line.
REUNION————- E. THOMAS FINAN
MAMA’S BOY——JEANNETTE ANGELL
NOVEMBER——JAMES MCLINDON
FORGET ME NOT—- MYRA SLOTNICK
JOCK ITCH—- GEORGE SAUER
BEACH ENCOUNTERS—BOB SEAVER
FIVE FULL LENGTH PLAYS FOR READINGS:
Tickets at door only $5.00 cash
PORTRAITURE——MARGARET VAN SANT
November 8th at 7:30pm
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL—JIM LUCASON
November 8th at 7:30pm
FIRST DANCE—- JERRY THOMPSON
November 14th at 2:00pm
FLAT DADDY’S HOME——CANDACE PERRY
November 15th at 2:00pm
FEEL THE BEND——- PRISCILLA SAMPLE
November 7th at 2:00pm
Start your Halloween festivities with something truly bizarre—John Waters’ POLYESTER. Come dressed as your favorite character for a chance to win an autographed DVD of the movie. Tickets $10.00 Have your holiday makeup applied by local celebrities in out dressing rooms.
October 23 and 24 at 7:30pm
Dance troupes from across the North East will converge on our stage for the fifth anniversary of this annually anticipated event. This year’s troupes includes Hoi Polloi, Brenda Divelbiss, and Ginga Brasileira a Capoeira troupe from New Haven.
Tickets $25.00; $20.00 for seniors and students with ID.
Front Row reserved tickets $75.00
Package deal! Get both nights for $40.00
Saturday September 5, 2009 4:00-6:00 pm at The Provincetown Theater
Art Performance with Robert Cardinal
“Art lesson, and schmooze,
Food, music, and booze,
Best of all… a fine big prize for someone’s wall.”
The Provincetown Theater Foundation/Provincetown Theater Company is pleased to announce the second annual, “Art Performance with Robert Cardinal” on Saturday, September 5. That afternoon, from 4:00-6:00, Mr. Cardinal, a renowned local artist and teacher, will be accompanied by the accomplished violinist Cenovia Cummins, oboeist Marilyn Coyne and other musicians on stage, as he completes a full size painting.
Patrons will enjoy complementary appetizers from the Lobster Pot and other local restaurants, wine selections from Truro Vineyards, and beer styles produced by Cape Cod Beer, as the painter illustrates his lesson on the creation of a work of art.
At the conclusion of this delightful schmooze, a raffle will select the recipient of the just-completed painting.
Ticket price $150. For those unable to attend, the raffle only, $100.
You may also call 508-487-7487, or visit the box office at the Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street.
All proceeds go to the Provincetown Theater Foundation.
The 2009 Spring Playwrights’ Festival
Come experience a celebration of creative short plays by local authors, featuring:
And Heaven Is Still A Mystery
by Sasha Mallery Curran
His Grandfather’s Clock
by John G. Keller
The Last Guacamole At Cha Cha Cha
by Candice Perry
Original Sin
by Paul Pilcher
Metamorphoffice
by Andy Reynolds
The Mobile
by Lee Roscoe
June 5-6 and 12-13 at 7:30pm.
Tickets $15.50 ($13.50 Seniors)
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