artscope magazine: July/August 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Past, Present, Future: ANISH KAPOOR ANDREW SAFTEL: How do we get there? WEDDED BLISS: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony A POLITIC, Gallery XIV El Greco To Velázquez: Art during the reign of Philip III Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008 Collector's Choice: Late 19th Century Vibrations OFF THE WALL: 2008 Annual members’ Juried exhibition Featured Artist Laurence Young An Artful Touch: An Artful Touch Gallery Everday Monuments: the Photographs of Jerome Liebling: SAM FEINSTEIN (1915-2003): A retrospective DORA ATWATER MILLIKIN: Geometry of Place Nancy Craig: New Paintings and Works on Paper, and Romolo Del Deo: New Sculpture and Bronze Furniture ALEX KATZ AND FRIENDS / THE GLEANERS BLACK WOMANHOOD: Images, Icons, And Ideologies of the African Body 215 College Street Artists' Cooperative Gallery Kevin Gilmore: Recent Paintings Paintings: Stephen Courbois, Sculpture: Pat Musick Penelope Jencks: Sculpture in Bronze, Terracotta and Plaster Theater: Counter Productions Theater: Ko FEST Music: Marblehead Summer Jazz Concerts and Festival of Arts Dance: Bates Summer Dance Festival Musings: FUNG WAH ADVENTURE Capsule Previews: May/June 2008

Theater: Counter Productions Michael Persson The Full Monty August 12 through September 3 Copenhagen August 21 through September 6 Provincetown Theater 238 Bradford Street Provicetown, Massachusetts Last summer, another chapter in Provincetown’s theater history was enacted as community theater returned to its humble origins in the birthplace of America’s modern version of this dramatic form. Until artistic director Susan Grilli and her “Counter Productions” wrote themselves into this new epoch, summer-theater in Provincetown had lurched towards a bagatelle of sing-a-longs directed towards the day-tripper. In short, the upshot of fusing Provincetown’s two old theater companies, Provincetown Theater Company and the Provincetown Repertory Theater, creating The New Provincetown Players (NPP), a provocative homage to “Town’s” first company that included the likes of Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell and Neith Boyce, was to see this great hope fall upon its sword. In 2008, Susan Grilli hopes to build on what Provincetown locals and visitors stood up and applauded last summer, when “I Am My Own Wife” and “Bingo” diverted them from the professional surroundings of the Provincetown Theater and productions like “Forever Plaid” for the quaint setting of the Provincetown Inn in the town’s far West End — a difference similar to that of London’s elite Swan Theatre, of the 17th century, and the commoners’ Globe. This past winter, NPP’s board invited Grilli to their very fine theater, giving her the opportunity to do all that she said she wanted to do after returning to Provincetown from her five-year professional sojourn in New York’s theater land. “I wanted to drench the town in theater energy,” she said, watching actors gather in the theater lobby for a staging of a winning play from the annual Spring Playwrights’ Festival. “Like a city arts center where there’s always something happening, I wanted this space to become a destination for art.” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...