Day 78 Afterglow theater festival in Provincetown MA

The First Annual AFTERGLOW Festival takes place at the Provincetown Theater from September 14 through 18, 2011. AFTERGLOW is a gathering to Provincetown of both renowned and under-the-radar innovative stage artists evolving the world of live performance. The festival name recognizes the season in which it occurs, post Labor Day and the full glare of summer, a most beautiful and inspiring time in Provincetown. Afterglow invites both performers and the public to bask in artistic expression.

The Afterglow Festival honors Provincetown as the birthplace of Modern American Theater, recapturing its evolutionary spirit by presenting staged works from performing artists across a wide spectrum of forms.

Afterglow will serve as a destination for international and regional stage artists to express their inimitable creativity and innovation while re-establishing this peerless seaside community as a home for vanguard stagecraft.

This festival shall fill a niche in the Provincetown arts scene long left vacant. In a performance landscape of community theater productions and summer nightclub entertainment, Afterglow galvanizes progressive, new artists and audiences.

The first annual Afterglow Festival is slated to present a critically and publically acclaimed roster of live performers including Obie award winner John Kelly, Obie award winner and Tony award nominee Justin Vivian Bond, Obie award winner Taylor Mac, and Golden Globe nomine, Obie award winner and Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival John Cameron Mitchell.

Conceived by John Cameron Mitchell and Quinn Cox, Afterglow renews the centennial artistic bond between Greenwich Village and Provincetown, enriching the cultural heritage of this great Cape Cod hamlet, making it a post-seasonal destination for international artists and audiences alike.

Provincetown Theatre

238 Bradford St

Provincetown MA