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

An Afternoon of Poetry with Barry Hellman’s Cape Cod Poetry Group

An afternoon of poetry and music, hosted by Barry Hellman. Featured Poet:  Martha Rhodes Spotlight Poets: Susan Berlin and Wilderness Sarchild Music: Fred Boyle Presented by the Friends of the Truro Library and Barry Hellman’s Cape Cod Poetry… 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

British thriller authors Zoe Sharp & John Lawton

Of Zoe Sharp’s heroine Charlie Fox, Lee Child said “If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox.” Action thriller author Sharp and historical espionage thriller author Lawton are currently on a short tour of the United… 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