Free Staged Reading – “The Mayworkers”

  THE MAYWORKERS By Gary Garrison Texas, 1900. A rough-neck’s world. Oil country. Cowboys and their cattle. Sweet smellin’, soft-lovin’ women. The rule of this land was simple: Keep an eye towards God, and a hand towards family…. Read More

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We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Free Staged Reading – “Some Things Old, Some Things New”

SOME THINGS OLD, SOME THINGS NEW: A COLLECTION OF SHORT PLAYS By Fermin Rojas A collection of short and experimental plays that have only been presented once or never been seen before. There will be family secrets, dire… Read More

Free Staged Reading — Lara: A Love Story

Lara: A Love Story by Racine Oxtoby In 1949, while Boris Pasternak was busy writing Doctor Zhivago, his mistress Olga Ivinskaya was arrested by the KGB and thrown into a gulag, where she would spend the next four years…. Read More

Free Staged Reading – Players on the Harbor

Players on the Harbor Written by Joseph M. Paprzycki In July of 1916 in Provincetown Massachusetts American Theatre is about to change forever. Eugene O’Neill, Louise Bryant, and Jack Reed are in a complicated love triangle that comes… Read More

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Event poster with kids reading, date and time.

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Read & Play

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Read & Play

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Storytime

Event poster with date and time and a sleeping bird

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

CANCELED – Read & Play

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Read & Play

We’re combining Storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Enjoy some great books, songs and rhymes, crafts, and being together.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Free Staged Reading – Cold War

Cold War Written by Fermin Rojas Augie, a Cuban-American playwright who grew up in the 1960’s, and his husband are about to embark on a summer reunion with their longtime friends in the Catskills to celebrate Augie’s commission… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “4 A.M. Friends” by Charlene Donaghy

Marlene Dietrich is quoted as saying, “It’s the friends you can call at 4 a.m. that matter.” We all have those friends: the ones who understand you when you tell them your heart’s desires, who gently break your… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “Verticals and Horizontals Pt. 2” by Gary Garrison

A follow up from last year. Five ten-minute plays from Garrison’s acclaimed anthology of the same name. Comic, comic-dramas and dramas.  Gary was the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America from 2007-2016. Prior to his work… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “A Cultivated Friendship” by John Dennis Anderson and Co-authored with Karen Vuranch

Both living near Paris in the 1930s, the expatriate American novelists Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield shared a passion for gardening even more than for writing and travel. Despite being 34 years apart in age and of conflicting… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “The Fade-Away Advantage” by Meryl Cohn

A writer and her life-long best friend meet at a Provincetown Airbnb to discuss an emergency plan they made years ago… but which plan is it? The plan to live together for the rest of their lives? Or… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “White Gays” by Jim Dalglish

Every year Rex throws a party for his closest friends in the South End townhouse he has lived for 40 years. The annual party marks a special anniversary, but this year there is something important he has to… Read More

Free Staged Reading – “Visions of Beatitude” by Joseph M. Paprzycki

VISIONS OF BEATITUDE takes us to the closed-for-the-night Atlantic House in Provincetown, Massachusetts at 4 a.m. as the ghosts of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill have been summoned by St. Genesius, the patron saint of theatre to meet… Read More

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

We’ll meet behind the library for Outside Storytime (inside if it rains) and we’d love to meet you there! For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate… Read More

Free Staged Reading — “The Playground” by Jim Dalglish

A one-woman play (with voices) Joan leaves her tenure-track position on the West Coast to follow her husband to New York. When she takes her rambunctious four-year-old to a playground in Central Park, she stumbles into a surreal… Read More

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We’re combining our year-round storytime with sensory and movement stations for ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.

Storytime

Poster for Storytime with bird

For children up to age 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.

Free Staged Reading — “Isherwood” by John Dennis Anderson

Christopher Isherwood, avowed queer author and devotee of Vedanta, best known for his character Sally Bowles, reflects on his life as an outsider–in his native England, in Berlin between the wars, and in postwar America. About John Dennis… Read More

Free Staged Reading — “Fatty Pastrami” by Julia Salinger

Tells the story of daughter and father and the trials and tribulations of their relationship. You’ll go on adventures from the Bronx botanical garden, through the ins and outs of a pastrami sandwich—winding full circle in the miasma… Read More

FOTL Presents: A Revolution of Her Own

FOTL PRESENTS A Revolution of Her Own!  A Story of the American Heroine Deborah Sampson at the Truro Community Center Judith Kalaora, professional educator, actress, and living historian, portrays Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist in, to fight… Read More