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
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
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
Corinne Demas: Author Talk and Reading
Award-winning author Corinne Demas will read from her newest novel The Road Towards Home.
Big Ryan’s Tall Tales
Join Ryan Racette and his puppets for a program filled with his own original stories, a bit of puppet play, and some music and movement with lots and laughs and giggles.
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
Tales to Tails with CAP
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod. All are welcome!
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
Poetry: Four Local Poets
Poetry: Four Local Poets Keith Althaus, Mary Ann Larkin, Toby Olson, and Patric Pepper, will treat us to a late-summer reading their work. The poets will draw from recent books, older books, and works in progress. Keith Althaus’… Read More
Poetry: Sue Burton
Poetry: Sue Burton Sue D. Burton reads from her unflinching new collection, BOX. Winner of the 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, Box is “a book we need: brave, bold, inventive, magical” (Carol Potter). 2017 Two Sylvias Press Poetry… Read More
Author: JAMES CARROLL
Join us for a reading and book signing with author James Carroll! From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern… Read More
Author Talk: Sam Kafrissen
Sam Kafrissen will read from his latest novel, The Missing Films: A Doherty Mystery. PI Doherty is back—but his closest friend is missing. Hired by the man’s business partner and generously paid to find him, Doherty finds himself… Read More
Author Talk: Stephen Kinzer –@First Parish Church/Truro Meeting House
Local author and journalist Stephen Kinzer talks about his new book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. We are pleased to co-sponsor this event with the Friends of the Truro Meeting House…. Read More
Tales to Tails with CAP
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
Tales to Tails with CAP
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
Jumanji Summer Reading Kick-off Party!
Get your Summer Reading on with crafts, games, and giveaways! Pick up your Libraries Rock! reading log and grab some books and summer reading lists.
Tales to Tails with CAP
Come to this popular program at which children may practice their reading skills by reading stories out loud to some gentle dogs from the Companion Animal Program of Cape Cod.
Build a Better World: Summer Reading Program Opening Celebration
Come to the Summer Reading Program opening celebration! Join us any time between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. to pick up your reading log, learn about this year’s theme, Build a Better World, experience the work of David Macaulay,… Read More