Theatre

Suppressed Desires by Susan Glaspell

SUPPRESSED DESIRES by SUSAN GLASPELL ::: ART ::: THEATRE ::: (In Collaboration with George Cram Cook) – A COMEDY IN TWO SCENES ::: Before Eugene O’Neill transformed American drama, the Provincetown Players were already…

CONSTANCY BY NEITH BOYCE (1915)

ART ::: THEATRE ::: Constancy is considered to be first of its kind and helped launch American Modern Theatre. Relying on a realistic approach to dialogue, Boyce and her cronies penned thinly-veiled-tales about…

DJUNA BARNES (1892 – 1982)

BOOKS ::: POET ::: PLAYWRIGHT ::: JOURNALIST Djuna Barnes was one of the great literary originals of the twentieth century. Novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, reporter, and professional observer of humanity’s…

SHOWDOWN AT THE SILVER FACTORY

Silver Elvis isn’t nostalgia—it’s an autopsy of the moment when fame and art collided so violently that they birthed their own mythology. Inside Warhol’s silver-painted hive, Dylan, Edie, and Andy…

LOW TIDE

  Low Tide — The Keller Edition is a modern psychological tragedy set in a decaying Provincetown mansion where the blind art appraiser Kellyn Keller sits confined to her chair,…

VAIN VICTORY: A READING

On Friday, May 9, 2025, 8PM at the Gifford House’s Wilde Room, A.B. Dee makes her directorial debut for the reading of the 1972 Jackie Curtis methamphetamine fueled trans-broadway spectacle,…

LOUISE BRYANT (1885 – 1936)

BOOKS: ::: POLITICS: ::: JOURNALIST ::: American journalist’s undying love for fellow writer John Reed makes for a epic early 20th century life journey from Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and across the Atlantic to the…

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911 – 1983)

ART ::: THEATRE ::: Tennessee Williams gave American theater its most combustible language — A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — plays where longing is never…

WILLIAM ZORACH (1889 – 1966)

ART ::: PAINTER ::: William Zorach did not arrive in America as William Zorach. He arrived as Zorach Gorfinkel, a Jewish child from what was then the Russian Empire (today Lithuania),…

MARGUERITE ZORACH (1887–1968)

ART ::: PAINTER ::: Grew up in California among the Napa Valley vineyards in a family where music and art were encouraged. She left Stanford for Paris. There she attended the…