TICKETS FOR THE 2013 FESTIVAL WILL GO ON SALE IN SPRING 2013
(the below information is a time capsule of the 2012 festival)

In-person ticket purchases at the Crown & Anchor Box Office
247 Commercial Street, Provincetown, Cape Cod 

Single Tickets to All Shows are $30

Click below for evening GLIMMER Passes to 2 or 3 shows for $51 or $78

Wednesday Glimmer Pass:   Amber Martin, Justin Vivian Bond, Joseph Keckler $78
Thursday Glimmer Pass:   Tina Alexis Allen, Lady Rizo, Heloise & The Savior Faire $78
Friday Glimmer Pass:   Bridget Everett, Cole Escola + Erin Markey $51
Saturday Glimmer Pass:   Dan Fishback, John Cantwell $51
Sunday Glimmer Pass:   Jay Brannan, John Cameron Mitchell + Stephen Trask $51

Click here for a GLOW Pass to all 12 shows for $300

Click here for a GLAMOUR Pass to all 12 shows plus all festival events
including the Opening Night Benefit Party + Performance for $500

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Opening Benefit Party + Townie Night Performance

photo credit: Brian Doben

Starsky + Cox • Steer the Stars
Cosmic Comics Corral a Cavalcade of Festival Perfomers
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 – 9 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

With divining rod and cattle prod, Stella Starsky + Quinn Cox host this season’s star-studded opener with the third in their tantric thruple, Musical Director Matt Ray. Stand-up authors and astrologers Starsky + Cox connect the cosmic dots for us, showing how above so below, to hilarious results. The Afterglow Festival ignites with performances by Amber Martin, Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Joseph Keckler, Lady Rizo, John Cantwell, Heloise & the Savior Faire. Townie tickets available in person only at the Crown box office. Reserved seating for those also attending the Opening Benefit Party at Harbor Lounge. For more information on the full Benefit evening click here. Not a Townie and just want to attend the performance? Click here to buy ticket to the performance only.

“Brilliant and sexy”—Vogue       “Psychics to the Stars”—Vanity Fair
“A word-of-mouth phenomenon, a rare find”—Time 

“Starsky + Cox will inspire a whole new generation.”—The New York Oberserver
“Wonderfully dirty”—O, The Oprah Magazine
“The favored astrologers of fashion insiders”—Elle
“Starsky + Cox’s popularity with the hipperati has made them household names.”
—Marie Claire

photo credit: Matthu Placek

Amber Martin • Amber Alert!
The Ongoing Acid-Capped Musical Comedy Series
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 – 7 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

A continuing series of musical vignettes staged, choreographed and curated by comedic character monologuist, dancer and vocalist, Amber Martin. This performance is composed of all new material involving some of Amber’s self-created characters placed in scenarios that are both heart-warming and twisted. Music is the focus of this show, a meticulously chosen series of songs sewn together with onstage costume changes and guest appearances. Amber never leaves the stage in this eighty-minute explosion of laughter and song.

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“The pitch-perfect, multi-talented Martin seamlessly floats between multiple costumes, personae and skits, never once leaving the stage, and carrying the calm of a seasoned performer”– The New York Times

“Her fullness of voice and spot-on characterizations put the show in another dimension. Martin is a powerful woman whose heightened sense of the ridiculous goes head to head with her distinctly American voice.”
– The New Yorker

photo credit: Brett Lindell

Justin Vivian Bond • Mx Bond’s Experiment in Terror
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 – 9 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

An evening of songs and short stories wherein the artist, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, plays piano, sings, and gets wildly uncomfortable. There will also be psychic, emotional, visual and physical projections.  Bring your own kitchen sink.

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“Greatest cabaret artist of [v's] generation”—The New Yorker

“Bond’s voice is raw, piercing and full of purpose”—TimeOut New York

“Hilarious, heart-wrenching, vulnerable, sardonic, Wiccan and world-weary”
—OUT Magazine 

photo credit: Adam Gardiner

Joseph Keckler • I Am An Opera
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 – 11 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

Downtown it boy Joseph Keckler conjures and confronts a topsy turvy world in which he is taunted and possessed by various spirits, including his own adolescent self and the restless ghosts of several deceased art forms. Part satire, part self-portrait, and part aesthetic exorcism, I am an Opera wonders not only when life becomes art, but when life becomes dead art. Keckler fuses lyrical, humorous narratives with a mimetic, velvet voice to create dramas, comedies, and fantasias bringing the banal to an operatic intensity.

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“Divine!”—Time Out New York;  ”Captivated the crowd.”—ArtForum; ”Downtown it boy”—The L Magazine 
“Extraordinary range, richness and malleability, from low baritone to glass-shattering falsetto.—The Irish Times

“The real deal”—BlackBook;  “We wouldn’t want him any other way.”— The Village Voice 
An arresting display of vocal control and disarming wit— a tour de force of deconstruction.”
—Baltimore City Paper  

Tina Alexis Allen  • Secrets of A Holy Father
Thursday, September 13, 2012 – 7 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

Based on a true story, Sir John’s youngest daughter (actress/playwright Tina Alexis Allen) yearns to understand the complicated and highly secretive double life of her father. By transforming herself into him, Allen takes her father’s journey in life and the afterlife, submerging into the universal themes of family betrayal and redemption in a tour-de-force performance of the heart. In its New England premier, Secrets of A Holy Father next moves Off-Broadway.

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“Ms. Allen is an actor of great conviction.”—The New York Times

“Her character work rivals that of Lily Tomlin. “—In Magazine

photo credit: Kim Nicholais

Lady Rizo • In High Definition
Thursday, September 13, 2012 – 9 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

The daring chanteuse, comedienne and ‘cabaret superstar’ (NY Mag) Lady Rizo took Provincetown comfortably by the shorthairs  in her debut there last year.  Fresh off of her European debut at the Edinburgh Festival, the Grammy-winning songstress guides you into a starry nighttime brimming with stunning originals, thrilling quips, twisted standards, and vintage arrangements of current pop songs.

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“Sings her songs bewitchingly.”—The New York Times
“A high-class, high-energy belter, who specializes in making old standards sound soulful and contemporary.”
—The Wall Street Journal       

“Winkingly sexy chanteuse… Lusciously retro vocals.”—TimeOut New York
“The talented Lady Rizo, who combines glamour, wit, and real vocal chops.”
— Michael Musto, Village Voice

photo credit: Kate and Camilla

Heloise & The Savoir Faire • White Dwarf and Diamond Dust
Thursday, September 13, 2012 – 11 PM
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

The international glam party-punk sensation brings their fun-loving spectacle to Provincetown. In a performance that’s equal parts love song to the Sun and conceptual dance party, goddess of creativity Heloise Williams and her ultracool bandmates present pulsing new work that references both ancient and contemporary mythologies, addressing and contextualizing the universe of inspiration.

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“The throbbing sounds of disco and electro-punk get a fresh coat of glitter in the music of Heloise & the Savoir Faire.”—The New Yorker

“Heloise and the Savoir Faire makes the indie kids stop and stare “—Bust Magazine
“Heloise and the Savoir Faire spearheaded an art-disco renaissance.”—The Independent (UK) 

photo credit: Allison Michael Orenstein

Bridget Everett  • American Champion
Friday, September 14, 2012 – 7 PM 
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

Bridget Everett takes the stage for a night of chaos, sex and tender moments.  Armed with the voice of angel, a glass of oaky california chardonnay and the heart of a champion, Everett will stop at nothing to make your dreams come true.  Things you didn’t know you didn’t know you’ll soon know.

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“Without a doubt, the life of the party!”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times 
“Astonishing and totally fearless mama bear of alt cabaret”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

“Now there’s a girl with great talent,” says LuPone. “She’s got guts. She’s fearless. That girl’s got guts.”
—Patti Lupone interviewed in Provincetown Magazine
“A gorgeously subversive talent—and what genitals!”—Michael Musto, Village Voice

photo credit: Amos Mac

Cole Escola + Erin Markey • Check It Out
Friday, September 14, 2012 – 10 PM 
the Cabaret at the Crown & Anchor

The comic geniuses behind Night Mother LIVE! from New York City have created a monster comedic cabaret act about what it’s like to grow up white in an all-white neighborhood where the summers are hot and the winters are cold.  Drawing inspiration from “Toddlers and Tiaras,” “FOX News,”, and soft-core porn, this motherlode of mindful mayhem is set to original music, commercial jingles, and TV show theme songs. Come for the nudity, stay for the laughs, try not to think about your job™, and then leave.

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“Erin Markey delivers a fearless and spellbinding performance…A study in lethal ambiguity, Markey’s every look and utterance is open to multiple shades of interpretation. Her southern-accented voice drips with insinuation, warning, promise, threat.”—Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

“A force of nature…is notorious within the New York performance art world for darting from hilarious to terrifying, taking audiences to the brink before letting them up for air.”—Nick Curley, New York Press

 “Markey, in particular, has an ominously intense sexiness. When she laughs, it bubbles up without quite spilling over. You dread running into her in a dark alley, but you kinda wish for it, too.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

“Blending boyish mischief with dizzy charm and the ruthless coyness of a starlet bent on fame, Cole Escola’s comic persona suggests a street urchin raised by The Match Game”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

“Punkish and Puckish” —Charles Isherwood on Cole Escola, The New York Times

photo credit: Allison Michael Orenstein

Dan Fishback  • thirtynothing
Saturday, September 15, 2012 – 7 PM
the Counter Production’s Studio, Whaler’s Wharf

In his new solo performance, thirtynothing, Dan Fishback juxtaposes tales from the terrifying dawn of the AIDS epidemic with stories from his own more innocent childhood in those same years. As he unearths forgotten work by gay artists who died in the 80s and 90s, Fishback weaves stories from his own life through stories from theirs. Searching for role models and father figures amongst artists like Mark Morrisroe, David Wojnarowicz, David B. Feinberg, Essex Hemphill and many more, Fishback interacts with their work, dramatizing the generation gap between older and younger gay men. With insight, wit, and his characteristic dark, neurotic humor, Fishback tears open issues of sexual intimacy, mass death and cultural memory, creating an abstract theatrical landscape where the living and the dead can co-mingle and collaborate.

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“Dan Fishback seems so much like a nerdy close friend that audience members have to restrain themselves from responding.”
—The New Yorker
“thirtynothing is one of the most powerful performance pieces I have ever seen.” – Kimya Dawson
“Fishback has a Kushnerian sense for the complexities of historical memory.” —The Village Voice

“The Dan Fishback experience is sort of like the Beyonce experience. Except, with Dan, neuroses replace the wigs, glitz and glamour.”—Gayletter
“‘thirtynothing is smart, honest, and heartfelt. Dan Fishback is also those things, and, it should be noted, funny. Effortlessly, unceasingly funny.” —The New York Examiner

John Cantwell  • Love, Connie
If She Wants to Get Her Cat Back, It’ll Take Everything She’s Got
Saturday, September 15, 2012 – 10 PM
the Cabaret at the Crown & Anchor

Connie Slocum is a loveable, albeit hirsute, ramshackle flashdancer who wants nothing more than to entertain an audience with her wild choreography and pageantry skills.  But a nemesis from Connie’s past threatens to derail her opening night by putting her beloved pussy cat, Vickie, in jeopardy.  Watch Connie boogie to pop hits in 12 amazing dance numbers; strip off an array of spectacular outfits and camp emotions in 7 DePalma-inspired films; all while never forgetting that there’s an audience to entertain and a cat she loves more than life itself!

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“Go!  Lightning speed costume changes and high-energy dance routines… interspersed with sinister, projected mini-movies that feature a black leather-clad stalker with evil designs on Connie’s precious white cat. ” — LA Weekly

“Eerie… Enigmatic…  Unlike any stage performance you’re likely to experience.” —Xaque Gruber, Venice Magazine

“A drag show with a difference…very Brian DePalma’s Dressed To Kill… all set to raucous ’80′s pop tunes.  Pure enjoyment!”
—Pauline Adamek, ArtsBeat L.A.

photo credit: Mike Eller

Jay Brannan • Rob Me Blind
Sunday, September 16, 2012 – 7 PM 
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

Recently completing a worldwide tour to present his new album “Rob Me Blind”, Jay Brannan returns to his groupies in Provincetown to share some sly, funny lore from life’s long, hard road along with his own Billboard-topping melodic folk songs and a sprinkling of covers, in a free-loving festival setting.

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“…wistful singer-songwriter fare…”— Rolling Stone
“…his tenor voice makes even the saddest lyrics easy on the ear.”— The New York Times

“Brannan’s star is on the ascent”—James Reed, The Boston Globe
” The male Joni Mitchell”—Alex Catarinella, Gen Art Plus

“His voice is completely distinctive and new. Perhaps if Nick Drake, Janis Ian and Liz Phair all were mixed up in a blender you’d get his sound and songwriting skills.”—Matt Budd, The Huffington Post

photo credit: Nick Vogelson

John Cameron Mitchell + Stephen Trask • (Work in Progress)
Sunday, September 16, 2012 – 9 PM 
the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor

John Cameron Mitchell  stars in this excerpted work-in-progress reading of a new musical written by Mitchell and Stephen Trask whose collaboration brought the world Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 

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