Audra McDonald, Max Von Essen, Ginger Minj & More to Kick Off PTown Summer Lineup
The season will also feature Miz Cracker, Cindy Firing’s Tribute to Barbara Cook,
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jun. 15, 2023
Mark Cortale, Producing Artistic Director of Provincetown’s Art House Theatre, has revealed that this 2023 summer of music and comedy superstars will be his final season at The Art House’s helm, due to a repurposing of the venue. Cortale hopes to continue his programming at Town Hall next summer. Taking center stage again for this final season is the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series, first launched 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.
Summer 2023’s Town Hall series, produced by Cortale in P-Town’s largest venue, will once again raise funds for Sandy Hook Promiseand 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. A week later, 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.
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 consecutive 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, will make his anticipated series bow on July 14 & 15 with Seth Rudetsky as music director and host.
If that star-power were not already magnetic enough to feel its gravitational pull in all directions… 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.
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Mark Cortale (Producer) is currently producing the world premiere of Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's new hit musical Days of Wine and Roses starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian D'Arcy James at The Atlantic Theater in New York. This summer he will celebrate his twelfth and final 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.
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
Next Up… in late July through early September:
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
Melissa Errico
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
Aug. 10 & 11 @ 6:00 PM ET
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
Beth Malone
Tony Nominated star of Fun Home
w/Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Broadway @ The Art House
Sept. 8 & 9 @ 7:00 PM ET
The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Tickets & info: www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006. Box office hours 508-487-9222
Town Hall
260 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.
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