The Provincetown Theater

Our Mission

The mission of Provincetown Theater is to sponsor new play development and productions by American artists; produce professional and non-professional theater; provide educational and training opportunity for youth and adults; and to maintain the Provincetown Theater as a performing arts venue for the Cape Cod community.

Our History

Provincetown Theater Foundation

Provincetown is the undisputed birthplace of Modern American drama. Ever since the Provincetown Players produced Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff in 1916, the town has hosted and nurtured playwrights and writers from Tennessee Williams to contemporary award-winners such as Norman Mailer, Michael Cunningham, Wendy Kesselman, Paula Vogel and John Guare. Yet, once the famous Playhouse on the Wharf burned down in 1977, Provincetown had no adequate facility for performing and developing new plays.

In 2001, a group of prominent community members formed the Provincetown Theater Foundation, Inc. as a 501c3 nonprofit organization, to manifest a long-held dream, construction of a new, state-of-the art theater facility to house the decade-old Provincetown Repertory Theatre (REP), a professional Equity company, and the community-based Provincetown Theatre Company (PTC), active for forty-one years. With enormous support from individual contributors, volunteers and friends of the community, the Foundation raised the funds to make the building a reality. Located on the grounds of the former Provincetown Mechanics building at 238 Bradford Street, construction began in September 2003.

The opening of the Provincetown Theater on June 22, 2004 was a landmark in Provincetown’s cultural history. Our premier season garnered national media attention, rave reviews (NY Times and Best of Boston, Boston Magazine) and artistic contributions from several acclaimed authors, playwrights and directors including Pulitzer Prize writers Michael Cunningham, Terence McNally and Norman Mailer.

The Provincetown Theater Foundation forged a three-way agreement to share the facility among the Foundation, PTC and REP.

In an effort to reduce public confusion about similar names, avoid duplication of staff, operations and fundraising efforts, the two companies merged on November 1, 2005, to form The Provincetown Theatre Company (PTC). PTC is forging a distinguished new identity using the best elements of REP and PTC to create its current and future seasons. The Provincetown Theater Foundation and The Provincetown Theater Company are now one and the same, under the leadership of one Board of Directors.

Our Services and Programs

The Provincetown Theater Company has a Winter Reading Series that supports the development of new plays by American artists; we produce original plays and established works; the Theater Company and the Children’s Theater provides educational and training opportunities; and we maintain the state-of-the-art facility as a rental venue for community and professional theater groups.

Fees Charged

Readings $5.00, plays $12-$25 off season, $30 in season.

Hours/Schedule

We have a year-round theater schedule on our website, www.provincetowntheater.com.

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