{"id":94105,"date":"2025-08-10T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94105"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:52:08","slug":"shows-in-ptown-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/shows-in-ptown-and-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shows in Ptown and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick jaunt down to the <em>Provincetown Theater <\/em>to see <strong>Christopher Durang<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; While I\u2019d love to ramble on about the fantastic set and unfussy direction, these plays all rise or fall on the actors.&nbsp; Provincetown is fortunate to have a balanced troupe that works well together.&nbsp; Since I know my audience, let\u2019s get right to <strong>Jeff Brackett <\/strong>as Spike.&nbsp; One must acknowledge his physical beauty, his rippling body, an ass that goes on for days, and a penis that bounces along in the undies he\u2019s usually sporting.&nbsp; But, brace yourself \u2013 he can also act.&nbsp; There is such depth to his portrayal, one wonders if he put more thought into the role than Durang himself!&nbsp; It may seem impossible based on what I just said, but <strong>Jennifer Cabral <\/strong>steals virtually every scene she\u2019s in.&nbsp; Her Sonia is always up to something \u2013 even if it\u2019s just a twinkle in her mischievous eyes.&nbsp; <strong>Susan Lambert <\/strong>as Masha gets most of the bitchy lines and plays imperious to the hilt.&nbsp; <strong>William Mullin <\/strong>captures the frustration of downtrodden Vanya to the point that he is the most Chekhovian.&nbsp; The show has been playing to full houses all summer, so I suggest you grab tickets quickly since it closes on August 28<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ProvincetownTheater.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ProvincetownTheater.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in NYC, <strong>Jinkx Monsoon <\/strong>took over the titular role in <em>Broadway<\/em>\u2019s <strong><em>Oh, Mary!<\/em><\/strong> and had a resounding success.&nbsp; Somehow I missed that she\u2019d be joined by <strong>Kumail Nanjiani <\/strong>as <strong>Lincoln<\/strong> (naturally) and <strong>Michael Urie <\/strong>as her teacher.&nbsp; The cast was rapturously received by the capacity crowd.&nbsp; They stay with the show until September 28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Across the pond, Rosie O\u2019Donnell enjoyed capacity crowds at the <em>Edinburgh Fringe Festival <\/em>with a new solo show.&nbsp; <strong><em>Rosie O\u2019Donnell: Common Knowledge<\/em><\/strong> is more of a one-woman show than her usual stand-up act.&nbsp; It\u2019s the story of her life, starting with the death of her mother \u2013 predictably not one of the funnier sections.&nbsp; One critic described it this way: \u201cThe US star\u2019s engaging set is largely an earnest love letter to her non-binary child and newly adopted home of Ireland.\u201d&nbsp; The run sold out quickly and critics are applauding the meld of writing, comedy and storytelling.&nbsp; Someone who saw a preview in Dublin was <strong>Cynthia Nixon<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cNothing like seeing my friend (and Miranda\u2019s one-night&nbsp;stand, Mary) kill it onstage IN DUBLIN.&nbsp; And we had the luck of the Irish to see her once more at the airport as she was taking her show to the <em>Edinburgh Fringe Festival<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a quick jaunt down to the Provincetown Theater to see Christopher Durang\u2019s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.&nbsp; While I\u2019d love to ramble on about the fantastic set and unfussy direction, these plays all rise or fall on the actors.&nbsp; Provincetown is fortunate to have a balanced troupe that works well together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94106,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105\/revisions\/94106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}