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When's the best time to visit Provincetown? Any time is the best time. Each season offers something new for everyone. Get hot, tanned and dancing during the summer months or enjoy a more subdued experience during the fall season. There is always an event to enjoy "in season" or off.
October 5th to the 14th is Women's Week in Provincetown. A record number of live acts are currently slated to perform in the weeklong event. This is a great time to come visit and enjoy what Provincetown has to offer this mid-season.
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byProvincetown Portuguese Festival
The Provincetown Portuguese Festival marks the "unofficial" start of Summer season in Provincetown.Honoring Provincetown's Portugues roots, the week long festival is held with music [including the Fado], dances and food.
Long before Provincetown established itself as an art haven and prime summer retreat, Portuguese sailors have flocked to its shore and built a fishing community with Ptown giving these hardy fishermen and whalers perfect access to bountiful catch and Stellwagen Bank where whales flock for their summer feeding.
The highlight of the festival is the blessing of the fleet. A Fishermen Mass is held at the Fisherman's Wharf, after which, a procession of costumed townsfolk follows towards McMillan Pier where the ceremony of the blessing of marine vessels is held.
Provincetown Carnival
This year's carnival theme is "Fairy Tales". Parade participants don three little pigs costumes, fairy wings and leather prince charming.
Carnival pictures can also be found, here.
The Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta
This annual event honors schooners who played an importantr role in the maritime commerce of Provincetown in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the rich fishing history of this seaside village.The first Regatta was held in 2002 as a gesture of goodwill towards Capt. John Bennet of the Hindu who came up with the original idea of bringing together schooners and racing them from the Provincetown Harbor but failed to launch as he died aboard his beloved schooner in the early summer of 2002.
This year's event was held a week after labor day. Participating vessels include the Schooner Alabama, authentic gaff-rigged schooner built in 1926 and Provincetown's own Bay Lady II, a magnificent full-size schooner offering two-hour scheduled sails in Cape Cod bay, including unforgettable sunset trips.
Recent crew party pictures can be found at the Provincetown Schooner Regatta's provincetownlive.net profile. The Regatta's official web site is at http://www.provincetownschoonerrace.com/.
Women's Week
A week in October, Provincetown is awash with women of all shapes, sizes and orientation. It's Women's Week!This year,October 5th to the 14th belongs to the girls. Dance parties, live acts, community activities and everything in between.
Live Acts Do Provincetown
These are only some of the personality [and sometimes split personalities] that came to perform in Provincetown this year [Summer 2007].
Who should be allowed to return and who should stay away for good? Add others on the list. Vote your pick!
Night Clubs and Bars
Atlantic House - the longest running night club in Provincetown and possibly the country. The A-House has the dance room, the little bar and the macho [leather] bar.Vixen Night Club - has live performers and dancing.
Club Purgatory.
The Governor Bradford - located on the busiest corner of Commercial St. Perfect for people watching, a game of pool and karaoke.
The Post Office Cabaret - one of Provincetown's top destinations for hilarious drag shows and comedy acts. This summer, Varla Jean Merman once again had us in stitches with her superb performance.
Wave Video/Pool Bar - Hump Day Karaoke, Screen Nights, Margaritaville Thursdays, YazTV ... just some of the many happenings at the Wave Vidoe Bar last summer.
Paramount Club - the largest dance club in Provincetown. Every summer, a huge roster of seasoned DJs spin every night. And well into Fall, the club hosts great perfromances from renowned artists such as Kate Clinton and Sophie B. Hawkins.
Cabaret at the Crown and Anchor - a happenig place for drag shows, comedy acts and plain amazing performances.
What's happening in Ptown
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Provincetown is many things to many people -- art colony, gay mecca, pristine beaches, rustic seaside village -- come experience the many facets of this unique town.
A Tenessee Williams Refresher
Tenessee Williams wrote his best works while in Provincetown.
Writing in Provincetown, sometimes on a wharf in the bay, sometimes in a shack on the dunes, Williams crafted his masterpieces "The Glass Menagerie" and "Streetcar Named Desire" - along with jewel-like poetry, short stories, one-act and other full-length plays.
The second annual Tennesee Williams Theater Festival was held on September 27th - 30th focusing on Williams' later writings and highlights previously unpublished works.
Visit the official Tennessee Williams Festival website for future festival plans.
Tennessee Williams in Provincetown by David Kaplan
Tennesse Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennesse Williams' four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1940, '41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his life. He had his heart broken there, perhaps irraparably. The man he thought might replace his first lover tried to kill him there, or at least Williams thought so. Williams drank in Provincetown, he sw...0 points
Something Cloudy, Something Clear by Tennessee Williams
This previously unpublished autobiographical play?it is based on Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (LJ 11/1/75)?was written late in Williams's life and is now being published through his trust. Williams offers a fictionalized remembrance of the pivotal 1940 summer at Provincetown, Cape Cod, where he retreated to rewrite a play intended to be his Broadway debut. While there he had an affair with a Canadian draft-dodger/dancer, Kip, who later died of a brain tumor. Eve Adamson, director of the original....0 points
A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams
I've just finished reading this book, and have decided it is the best book I've ever read. Tennessee Williams brings together Stella, Stanley - her brutish husband- and Blanche Dubois, Stella's sister. Blanche comes to live with Stella and Stanley after she is kicked out of a different town for being a flirt. Stella who is in denial about this tries her best to be a good host and comfort Blanche. Stanley is more wise than Stella and does research. Through a whirlwind of the blue piano that plays...0 points
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
In this semi-autobiographical play the domineering matriarch of the Wingfield family tries to find a "gentleman caller" for her fragile daughter. This is a "memory play"; the narrator/character, Tom, continually shifts from narration to his "in scene" character. This technique makes the drama a most effective selection for audio. The cast is extraordinary throughout, with each performer deftly handling the most subtle nuances of Williams's po...0 points
Visit Provincetown
The jump off point for most travellers wishing to come to Provincetown is Boston. Thereafter, you can choose to board a Cape Air plane which takes approximately 25 minutes from Boston to Provincetown Municipal Airport.
The ferry service runs only during the summer season and will take you one to one and a half hours from Boston to McMillan Pier, in the center of town.
Good old bus service plies South Station/Logan Airport all the way to Provincetown stopping by the pier. Service is provided by the Plymouth and Brockton Bus Lines.
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$463 from New York: flight + 2 nights hotel
- $490 from New York: flight + 2 nights hotel
- $499 from Washington DC: flight + 2 nights hotel
- $512 from Buffalo: flight + 2 nights hotel
- $518 from Washington DC: flight + 2 nights hotel
- $490 from New York: flight + 2 nights hotel
And I say ...
Been to Provincetown? Want to stop by and watch the sunset? Curious? Whatever it is you're thinking today as you visit my lens, let's hear it!
Just spent 4 days in Provincetown, was great stayed at Crowe Pointe Inn and had a relaxing time.
Posted February 24, 2008
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Had my honeymoon in Provincetown. It was great. Posted October 16, 2007 |
