60th Anniversary
2023 Mainstage Shows
4-Star Solo Show Festival
Wednesdays - Fridays - June 7 - 30
Back by popular demand, June will see a roster of surprising and diversifying new works in the 4-Star Solo Show Festival – where each week of the month, a different solo show by an up-and-coming American writer/performer hits the stage.
Click the button to learn more about each of our Solo Shows and to purchase tickets for individual shows.
The Fantasticks Musical
Mondays - Thursdays July 10 - August 31
The East Coast premiere of a newly re-imagined adaptation of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s landmark musical, The Fantasticks. While retaining the show’s timelessly romantic score (“Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” “I Can See It,” “Try to Remember…”), librettist Tom
Jones has revised his original script of The Fantasticks to find the young lovers Matt and Luisa have become -- Matt and Lewis! Moreover, they aren’t being pushed into each other’s arms by their prankster, gardening fathers, but rather by their prankster, gardening mothers! With fresh twists on all the characters, the summer-long run of The Fantasticks in Provincetown – in an adaptation that debuted in 2022 at the Flint Repertory Theatre in Michigan -- is a musical theater event not to be missed.
The Gale:
Beware the Siren's Song
Thursdays - Sundays in October 2023
Come aboard the fishing schooner Leviathan and experience the Gale of 1841. Immerse yourself in her fateful voyage. Can you survive? Hold fast through the
storm or be doomed by the Siren's Song! An immersive Haunted House produced by the Provincetown Theater - where you can live through real Provincetown history, and get your Halloween spook on!
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What the Constitution Means to Me
Thursday - Sundays November 16 - December 3
Heidi Schreck’s Obie Award-winning play, What the Constitution Means to Me, receives its Cape Cod premiere. Drawn from the playwright’s own lifelong passion for the majesty and mystery of the U.S. Constitution, the play follows the story of how its young author used her intellectual embrace of our country’s mightiest living document to win college scholarships at Constitutional debate contests. In the
process, Schreck unpacks an unexpected personal-is-political journey that’s empowering, haunting, funny, and full of hope.
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Casa Valentina
Closed. Thanks to all who attended our first show of the season!
Opening the 2023 season will be the Cape Cod premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina, the latest provocative and hilarious Broadway play written by the Tony Award-winning icon.
Casa Valentina is Harvey Fierstein's (Kinky Boots, Newsies, La Cage aux Folles) first play in over thirty years.
With a premise inspired by the true story of a mid-century sanctuary in the Catskills where men dressed as women, Casa Valentina reveals the crossroads of
gender identity, sexual orientation, and the significance of compassion and community via a
group of strangers whose lives are forever changed during a single weekend at the mountain resort of “Casa Valentina” in the summer of 1962.
Bob Tucker/Focalpoint Studio
2023 Featured Events
The Mosquito Story Slam
Monthly from February - December
A co-production with The Mosquito Story Slam (Vanessa Vartabedian and William Mullin).
Monthly through the end of the year, starting from February 2023.
The next Mosquito Story Slam will be heldSUNDAY, MAY 14th with the date-specific theme: YOUR MOTHER!
Townie Holiday Extravaganza
December 15-17
Annual year-end production with approximately two dozen participants in a celebratory
yuletide variety show.
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24-Hour Play Festival
Closed. Thanks to all who attended.
A co-production with the Provincetown Playwrights Lab, the 2023 production was the 13th annual presentation of this one-weekend event where 6 playwrights, 6 directors, 21 actors create six new 10-minute plays in 24 hours.
Spring Play Dates
Closed. Thanks to all who attended.
This annual series is sponsored by our Stephen Mindich Literary Project and features four free readings of new plays in the spring.
Free to the public, the Spring Play Dates series brings to our community one-night readings of new plays by both local writers and those from out of town. As selected by artistic director David Drake and co-curator Gary Garrison, the plays are cast and directed by local artists for a one-week rehearsal process involving the playwright. The presentation involves a moderated Q&A with the playwright following the performance.
2023 participants include new plays by Sarah Schulman, Racine Oxtoby, Linda Fiorella, and a new
musical by Jon Richardson.