Provincetown Theater

Annual Appeal

Dear Members and Friends,

As 2010 comes to a close, the Provincetown Theater Foundation is pleased to look back on another vibrant year of arts programming. Our Winter Reading series, run by Bob Seaver, brought an exciting line-up of new full-length plays to our year-round residents. The Spring and Fall Playwrights’ Festivals featured a variety of shorter works from local playwrights, brought to life through the talents of local directors and actors.

Our producing tenants provided a variety of programming from Broadway classics to world-class dance and poetry. And none in attendance will soon forget the magic of seeing a painting develop under Robert Cardinal’s talented brush while listening to the beautiful music provided by Cenovia Cummins and Marilyn Coyne and eating delicious offerings from our wealth of local restaurants. We look forward to repeating this very successful fundraiser again in 2011!

This past year has been one of change and growth for the Provincetown Theater. Diligent stewardship by the board of Directors over the last few years has put the theater in an enviable position financially in these tough economic times. An emphasis on the rental model as a “safe mode” of operating has allowed us to recover our financial health, and we are ready to shift the balance back. Our renters brought us some extraordinary productions including Slap & Tickle, Derin Brockovich-The Musical and CTEK’s magnificent Our Town.

We are excited to expand our role as a producing theater! The Provincetown Theater has chosen to focus on developing new works as a natural outgrowth from our Fall and Spring Playwrights’ Festivals and the Winter Reading Series. The product has been our production of First Dance by Jerry Thompson. We also produced the classics Edward II and O’Neill’s Diff’rent. Our Holiday offerings this year boast the original play Sleeping Indoors and the return of our own holiday musical The Snowman in the Dunes by Patrick Lamerson and Michael Sottile, presented by The Provincetown Children’s Theater.

Our Winter Reading Series, running from January 29 though March 30 will bring the works of ten emerging playwrights to the stage. Playwrights from our Spring and Fall Playwrights’ series are bringing forward proposals for full productions of their works through the winter and spring months. The community is back in our community theater!

In addition, we look forward to welcoming Provincetown International Film Festival’s return to our theater this June and to the sixth Annual Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill’s Dance Festival. These exciting programs and more will be coming to our theater in 2011.

More than ever, we need your help to make this happen! Please consider including a donation to the Provincetown Theater Foundation in your end-of-the -year giving plans. Your generous tax-deductible donation will help maintain our community’s state-of-the-art facility and keep it running smoothly. This necessary support will allow us all to come together to produce new works, develop our educational opportunities and continue to bring to our community high quality performing arts!

Please click here to donate on line. Or call the theater at 508-487-9793. You may, of course, send your contribution by mail to The Provincetown Theater Foundation, 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA 02657.

Thank you for your generous support!

Karen Billard
President

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