Women of Color Weekend in Provincetown, May 30 - June 2

Provincetown welcomes Women of Color Weekend this week, Thursday 5/30 - Sunday, June 2.  Show your support by going to two fabulously funny comedy shows - Mimi Gonzalez (Friday at 7 pm) and Karen Williams (Saturday at 8 pm) both at The Crown & Anchor. 

For more information, please visit womenofcolorweekend.com.

Karen Williams, Courtesy of WomenOfColorWeekend.com

Mimi Gonzalez, Courtesy of WomenOfColorWeekend.com

Tennessee Williams Theater Festival - 7th Annual: Sep 20-23

Tennessee Williams, twptown.org, Sep 20-23

The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 by Dr. Jerry Scally, Alix Ritchie, Patrick Falco, and David Kaplan. The TW Festival mission is:

• To host performances that examine and celebrate Tennessee Williams' work, life and evolving historical importance including the playwright's own connection to Provincetown.
• Honor Williams as a playwright of enduring and international relevance and significance. * Encourage the searching spirit of Williams' writing to inspire new creative work.
• Draw on Provincetown's perspective as the longest-running American artist colony where serious modern American drama was born.

You can click on the links to purchase tickets or passes and view the schedule of events. 

Tennessee Williams, twptown.org, Sep 20-23

Clap your hands and shake a leg at the plays they're presenting in September 2012 at the 7th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

This year's theme takes dramatic notice of the pleasures of music in Tennessee Williams' plays, where he put everything from Christmas carols, pop tunes, Country and Western ballads, Mississippi blues, Mexican love songs and more. His poetry has a music all its own.

Plays will be performed in venues all over Provincetown, where you can bend an ear to a timeworn classic, or tap your toes to something brand new... all inspired by Tennessee Williams.

For more info...

Notes from Land's End: February 14

Stanley Kunitz, provincetown.com 

Provincetown's Poets WAX about Love

By Laura Shabott
February 14th, 2012 

Provincetown is rich with works of ardor written by authors and playwrights who call our beloved town their muse. Let’s begin this Valentines Day online poetry slam with a brilliant jewel by former Poet Laureate and Fine Arts Work Center co-founder Stanley Kunitz:

Tennessee Williams, courtesy of Nola.com

YOUNG LOVE

At his incipient sun

The ice of twenty winters broke,
Crackling, in her eyes.

Her mirroring, still mind,
That held the world (made double) calm,
Went fluid, and it ran.

There was a stir of music,
Mixed with flowers, in her blood;
A swift impulsive balm

From obscure roots;
Gold bees of clinging light
Swarmed in her brow.

She is a tree in spring
Trembling with the hope of leaves,
Of which the leaves are tongues.

Her throat is full of songs,
She hums, she is sensible of wings
Growing on her heart.

Tennessee Williams changed the world with A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and THE GLASS MENAGERIE. His deep understanding of love and heartbreak is just as profound in this delicate piece: 

Read more...