Hello from Provincetown, Massachusetts.
As I write this week’s column, Fabian and I are enjoying a week on Cape Cod.
In addition to spotting “White Lotus” star Murray Bartlett riding his bike on Commercial Street and seeing Billy Eichner at the legendary daily afternoon “T-party” at the Boatslip hotel, I finally got to meet David Drake, the artistic director of The Provincetown Theater, at a performance of the company’s “The Glass Menagerie.” Due to the pandemic, this season’s performances are outdoors on a stage erected in the theater’s parking lot.
As Drake noted in his introduction of the sold-out performance, audiences get to view “The Glass Menagerie” under the same stars that Tennessee Williams probably experienced while writing the first draft of the play in a cottage on the east end of Provincetown.
The Provincetown Theater is an example of the resiliency of the arts.
At the end of the play,
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