Arts and Entertainment
February 7, 2024
From: The Provincetown TheaterHear Ye! Hear Ye!
The time to announce the 2024 Season is here!
And also the time to grab those reserved seats that come with Season Subscriptions – which have just gone on sale today at the Early Bird Special of $225! Read on...
I’m honored to tell you that our 61st Season will open on May 9 with the Cape Cod Premiere of Tony Kushner’s monumental Broadway epic, Angels in America. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, Angels in America is a wildly entertaining and emotionally riveting journey.
Set during the AIDS crisis of the Reagan ‘80s, we instantly become immersed in the interconnected lives of six New Yorkers grappling with issues of life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. (Written in two parts, this season we’ll present Part One: Millennium Approaches.) Thirty years after its Broadway debut, Angels in America gives us the chance to look through the lens of hindsight and see, not only how we got to now, but how we move into the future. Angels in America performs Thursdays – Sundays, May 9-26.
June busts out with the annual 4-Star Solo Show Festival. With a diverse roster of creative grit, wit, and ingenuity, on each of the four weekends of the month, the 4-Star Solo Show Festival will deliver distinct and fresh new work by established, or up-and-coming, American writers/performers on our stage.
The 4-Star Solo Show Festival performs Thursdays – Saturdays, June 6 – 29. (Note: While tickets can be purchased individually for each show, Season Subscribers have access to seeing all four shows as part of their 2024 package.)
Ready to do the "Time Warp" again?! Starting July 15 and running all summer-long will be our 50th anniversary celebration of Richard O’Brien’s Rock-n-Rock Cult Classic, The Rocky Horror Show.
Musically directed by John Thomas leading a live band, directed by me, and choreographed by the Tony Award nominated dancer Robert LaFosse, The Rocky Horror Show brings O’Brien’s heart-pounding, Broadway-belting iconic sweet transvestite, evil space aliens, dorky earthlings, glam rock tap dancers, bustier-strutting phantoms, and one man-made creature back to dazzling life, live on stage. With a rollicking roster of songs that includes“Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul,” “Toucha, Toucha, Toucha, Touch Me,” “Dammit Janet,” “I’m Just a Sweet Transvestite,” and that hot, hoppin’ “Time Warp,” get ready for one rockin’ summer in P’town. The Rocky Horror Show performs Mondays – Thursdays, July 15 – Sept 5.
In October, we’re very excited to be producing the World Premiere of The Fade-Away Advantage, a new comedy by Provincetown playwright Meryl Cohn.
The author of such hits as And Sophie Comes Too and Reasons to Live, Cohn’s new play welcomes us into a beach cottage in Provincetown where two lifelong friends reunite to discuss an emergency plan they made many years ago...but which plan is it? The plan to live together for the rest of their lives? Or the plan that would separate them forever? And how far would you go to keep a promise to a friend? Chock full of laughs, romance, and the tenderness of female friendship, this beautiful new play is guaranteed to warm the soul. The Fade-Away Advantage performs Thursdays – Sundays, October 3-20.
And finally, opening the week before Thanksgiving will be one of the most-produced plays in America, John Cariani’s quirky, romantic comedy, Almost, Maine.
Set in a tiny town in the northern-most region in our northern-most state in New England, Almost, Maine zooms in on nine separate yet intertwined stories that reveal our collective quest to connect. Funny, surprising, goofy, and moving, the snow-bound folks of Almost, Maine lovingly show us a community as magical and real as the Northern Lights that soar behind them. Almost, Maine performs Thursdays – Sundays, November 21 – December 8.
And while individual tickets will go on sale soon, 2024 Season Subscriptions to all eight productions – which includes reserved seating in the priority section of the audience – are now being offered for a limited time for only $225. So, don’t miss out on this epic season, and this steal of a deal. Click on today!