The 2026 Season
The Provincetown Theater’s 2026 Season presents a powerful year of storytelling centered on connection, community, and shared experience. As division and unrest continue to threaten our current cultural climate, each of our productions is set in gatherings that offer their characters—and our audiences—a congregational experience that brings deep, relevant, and longed-for healing and unity.
Buy tickets today and be part of a season that speaks to the heart of who we are.
Fifth of July
by Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play gathers the Talley family for a summer picnic that becomes a reckoning with love, legacy, and the changing American landscape. In this intimate homecoming, old wounds surface — and the possibility of renewal quietly emerges.
Performance Dates: May 14-31, Thursday–Saturday at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm.
4 Star Solo Shows
Featuring a New Star in a New Show Every Week of the Month
Our annual festival brings together four distinct voices and stories, offering audiences an intimate exploration of identity, belonging, and personal truth—a powerful reminder of how individual stories create communal meaning. A new solo star each weekend in June!
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Performance Dates: June 4-27, Thursday–Saturday at 7pm.
The Jack of Hearts Club
by Jon Richardson
Returning from a sold-out engagement in October 2025, Jon Richardson's new musical celebrates a vibrant community that finds refuge, resilience, and joy inside a beloved queer bar. Through music and shared stories of identity and belonging, this gathering becomes a testament to chosen family and the importance of a safe harbor.
Performance Dates: July 16-September 6, Thursday–Saturday at 7pm, Sundays at 2 pm.
Small Mouth Sounds
by Bess Wohl
In Bess Wohl's Drama Desk Award-winning comedy, six urban strangers attend a silent retreat in search of inner peace. As silence heightens vulnerability, humor and humanity surface, revealing how even quiet spaces can forge unexpected connection.
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Performance Dates: October 8-25, Thursday-Saturday at 7 pm, Sundays at 2 pm.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life
by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
In our newly reimagined adaptation of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's Tony Award-winning solo show—staged for an all-female multi-actor cast—a chorus of women navigate personal and societal transformation with wit, courage, and insight. It's a joyful and deeply human celebration of change.
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Performance Dates: November 19-December 6, Thursday-Saturday at 7 pm, Sundays at 2 pm.
