Audra McDonald, Jessie Mueller, Jeremy Jordan & More to Perform in P-Town This Summer
Broadway @ The Art House series and more returns with Seth Rudetsky, Beth Malone, Claybourne Elder, Matt Doyle, Liz Callaway & Ann Hampton Callaway, and more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Mar. 01, 2023
Mark Cortale, the Producing Artistic Director of Provincetown's Art House Theatre, has announced a glittering season of music and comedy superstars for this summer of 2023. Taking center stage again is his internationally acclaimed Broadway series, first launched here by Cortale in 2011 featuring Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky as music director and host. For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
The 2023 season leaps head-first into summer on Memorial Day Weekend intent on making waves with arm-loads of award-winning P-Town favorites. Indie Rock star Melissa Ferrick returns for her own twelfth Art House anniversary season on May 28 for one show only. Jessie Mueller, Tony Award winner for her starring role as Carole King in Beautiful-The Carole King Musical, makes a Town Hall debut with Lindsay Mendez, Tony Award winner as Carrie Pepperidge in the revival of Carousel on Broadway and last seen starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff this season in Merrily We Roll Along, both stars accompanied by host Seth Rudetsky.
Summer at the far end of Cape Cod only gets hotter and the gravitational pull stronger from there, as Cortale's Provincetown Art House and Town Hall stake a claim for "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven" to rival MGM's glory days. Summer 2023's Town Hall series, produced by Cortale at Provincetown's largest venue, will once again raise funds for Sandy Hook Promise and will also notably be the landing site for a stop on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 4 champion Monét X Change in her debut P-Town performance over Fourth of July weekend on July 2, for one night only. Historic six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald, star of Broadway's The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, and HBO's The Gilded Age, will return to the Town Hall series on July 9 with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host. Jeremy Jordan, heartthrob star of B'ways Newsies, NBC's Smash and the film adaptation of The Last 5 Years stokes the fire on August 6 with Ben Rauhala at the piano. Hot on his heels w/a thunderclap, drag phenom Alaska Thunderf*ck, winner of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, returns to conquer P-Town & Town Hall on August 13 for one show only. One week later, LaChanze, Tony Award winner for Alice Walker's The Color Purple original musical staging, star of Once On This Island and Emmy Award winner for PBS Handel's Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise makes her PTown debut on August 20 with host Seth Rudetsky at the piano. Next up is Nina West who made history at the 71st Emmy Awards as the first-ever person to walk the red carpet in full drag, when season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race won five Primetime Emmy Awards. The most googled Drag Queen in the world when Nina was anointed America's Sweetheart by RuPaul in 2021, she takes a break from the national tour of Hairspray as Edna Turnblad to return to P-Town on August 27 accompanied by Seth Rudetsky. Summing-up summer in historic style is 23 year-old Samara Joy, a 2-time Grammy Award winner this February 2023 for Best Jazz Vocal Album and the auspicious Best New Artist award for her Verve Records debut Linger Awhile. The Bronx-born rising star joins the likes of Sarah, Ella and Billie as that venerable record label's next mononymous jazz singing sensation, and makes her Provincetown debut at Town Hall on the eve of Labor Day weekend, this August 31st.
The pull of P-Town is as American as apple pie...as American in its own unique way as the pull of NYC's diversity and opportunity for invention and re-invention for over two centuries. Provincetown has been named America's Best Beach Town, celebrated as the Best Gay Resort in America, and for over a century many of the nation's greatest artists have called P-Town home. In that tradition of cutting-edge artistry, for this twelfth season, Cortale's celebrated Broadway @ The Art House series will once again be home to a heavenly constellation of the New York stage's greatest stars:
Max von Essen, the Tony and Grammy Award nominated singer and actor best known for his role as Henri in the award winning production of An American in Paris on Broadway, a year long run in the Broadway production of Anastasia and just off of a nationwide tour in Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Falsettos, returns to the scene of his debut a year ago, this time around on June 30 & July 1st, with Billy Stritch on piano. Making her Broadway series debut this summer on a wave of rave reviews from Chicago to New York, is Cindy Firing with You & I: Cindy Firing Pays Tribute to Barbara Cook, on July 7 for one night only, with John Cook at the piano. In yet another starry P-Town debut in this summer's Broadway@ series is Claybourne Elder, who stars as John Adams on HBO's The Gilded Age and in Broadway's revival of Company, is making his series bow on July 14 & 15 with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host. Also debuting in the series together this summer as a duo are Nicholas King & Seth Sikes: The New Belters, two of New York's most popular young nightclub entertainers, who join forces to make the American Songbook Swing on July 21 & 22. Mandy Gonzalez, star of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hits Hamilton and In The Heights, makes her anticipated debut in the series on July 28 & 29 w/host Seth Rudetsky at the piano.
As August bakes P-Town's beaches to a beautiful bronze outside, inside the Art House Tony-nominated sisters Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway will return after last summer's debut of Broadway the Calla-way! for Broadway @ The Art House. Liz Callaway, Tony nominee for Baby and star of Cats and Miss Saigon and her sister Ann Hampton Callaway, Tony nominated star of the hit musical Swing!, writer-singer of the theme song to TV's The Nanny, co-star on August 2nd through 5th, with Alex Rybeck at piano. Beth Malone, Tony nominated star of Fun Home, Angels in America and most recently star of the Off-Broadway revival of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, makes her P-Town Art House series return on August 10 & 11, with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host. Marilyn Maye, Grammy nominee and living legend who has been called "The greatest white female singer in the world" by none other than Ella Fitzgerald" returns for her twelfth summer for a week-and-a-half run from August 23 through September 2, with Tedd Firth at piano, Daniel Glass on drums & Steve Doyle on bass. Putting an exclamation point on the series this summer, Matt Doyle, Tony Award winner for Broadway's revival of Company, and star of the smash hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway, as well as CBS TV's The Code and the CW's original Gossip Girl will make his anticipated series debut on September 8 & 9 with Seth Rudetsky as pianist & host.
If that constellation of summer star-power were not already magnetic enough to feel its gravitational pull from north, south, east and west, The Art House over the past dozen years has earned an international reputation for presenting cutting-edge comedy and music talent originating out of the LGBTQ club scene, and increasingly crossing-over to mainstream success. Summer 2023 continues to build on that innovative reputation: RuPaul's Drag Race star and self-described "women's lifestyle brand" Miz Cracker who debuted here last summer, returns to Provincetown with her hilarious stand-up comedy for an extended stay Wednesdays to Saturdays, July 5 through September 2 at 8 PM. Ginger Minj, who treated The Art House to a sold-out run a year ago, returns by popular demand also Wednesdays to Saturdays from July 5 to September 2 at 9:30 PM. Anne Steele, is the NYC-based singer-songwriter that Curve Magazine, on hearing her EP, "Made Out Of Stars" raved "I'm convinced that Steele herself is made out of heavenly, cosmic stuff. Sporting a million-watt smile, a voice as clear and bright as a bell, and a heart of gold." She makes her debut at The Art House with her hit new show, Where The Boys Are which celebrates all of the songs made famous by male artists and songwriters that Steele says helped shape her as an artist through the years - performing with William TN Hall at the piano, one show only on July 8. Jujubee, who is best known for their appearances as the RuPaul's Drag Race top 3 finalist on: World of Wonders RuPauls Drag Race Season 2, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Seasons 1 & 5, BBC's RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, and the Netflix original AJ and the Queen and competing on Paramount Plus Queen of the Universe celebrates their Art House debut with performances July 19 - 29, on Wednesdays through Saturdays @ 9:30PM. And perennial P-Town favorites UNITARD, the comedy trio that Time Out NY called "incredibly vicious and relentlessly hilarious" returns to Art House stage with Tard Core: Refreshed on August 9 for one show only.
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Mark Cortale is celebrating his twelfth season as Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA where he has presented artists that include Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Mullally and Christine Ebersole. He recently co-produced the Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated Off-Broadway musical Midnight At The Never Get. Mark founded the international Broadway @ Concert Series featuring Seth Rudetsky as music director and host in Provincetown in 2011 and has presented these concerts at theaters that include the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Broward Center, The Wallis, The Kimmel Center, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Huntington Theatre Company, the Leicester Square Theatre in London and The Sydney Theatre in Australia. Mark also founded the singing string quartet Well-Strung which debuted at Ars Nova in 2012. He also founded the developmental theater lab New Works Provincetown. In conjunction with producing partners Jonathan Murray and Harvey Reese, New Works Provincetown has commissioned four new full scale musicals to date including: Maiden Voyage with book and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Carmel Dean and Beautiful Little Fool with music and lyrics by Hannah Corneau, directed by Michael Greif.
Melissa Ferrick
One Show Only!
Singer & Songwriter
The Art House
May 27 @ 6:30 PM ET
Jessie Mueller & Lindsay Mendez
Broadway @ Town Hall
May 28 @ 6:30 PM ET
Max von Essen
Tony & Grammy nominated Broadway star of An American In Paris
w/ Billy Stritch at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
June 30 & July 1 @ 7:00 PM ET
Monét X Change
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race
The Town Hall Series
July 2 @ 8:30 PM ET
Mz. Cracker
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race
The Art House
July 5 - September 2, Wed - Sat @ 8:00 PM ET
Ginger Minj
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race
The Art House
July 5 - September 2, Wed - Sat @ 9:30 PM ET
*(no shows 7/19 - 7/29)
Cindy Firing
You & I: A Tribute to Barbara Cook
w/John Cook at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
One Show Only!
July 7 @ 6:00 PM ET
Anne Steele
Singer/Songwriter
w/William TN Hall at the piano
The Art House
One Show Only!
July 8 @ 6:30 PM ET
Audra McDonald
Six Time Tony Award Winner
Broadway @ Town Hall
July 9 @ 8:30 PM ET
Claybourne Elder
Star of Company & HBO's The Gilded Age
Broadway @ The Art House
July 14 & 15 @ 6:00 PM ET
Jujubee
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race
The Art House
July 19 - 29, Wed - Sat @ 9:30 PM ET
Nicolas King & Seth Sikes
The New Belters
w/Billy Stritch at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
July 21 & 22 @ 6:00 PM ET
Mandy Gonzalez
Star of In The Heights & Hamilton
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
July 28 & 29 @ 6:00 PM ET
Liz Callaway & Ann Hampton Callaway
The Callaway Sisters
w/Alex Rybeck at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
August 2 - 5 @ 6:00 PM ET
Jeremy Jordan
Star of Newsies, NBC's Smash & The Last 5 Years.
w/Ben Rauhala at the piano
Broadway @ Town Hall
August 6 @ 8:30 PM ET
UNITARD
Tard Core: Refreshed
starring Mike Albo, Nora Burns & David Ilku
Dangerous Adult Comedy
One Night Only
August 9 @ 6:30 PM ET
Beth Malone
Tony Nominated star of Fun Home
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
Alaska Thunderfuck
RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars Champion
The Town Hall Series
August 13 @ 8:30 PM ET
LaChanze
Tony Award Winning Star of The Color Purple &
Once On This Island
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ Town Hall
August 20 @ 8:30 PM ET
Marilyn Maye
Legendary Cabaret Star
w/Tedd Firth at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
August 23 - September 2 @ 6:00 PM ET
Nina West
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race Star & Hairspray The Musical
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ Town Hall
August 27 @ 8:30 PM ET
Samara Joy
2023 Grammy Award Winner
Best New Artist & Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Town Hall Series
August 31 @ 8:30 PM ET
Matt Doyle
Tony Award Winner for Company
Broadway @ The Art House
September 8 & 9 @ 7:00 PM
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