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The future. That’s what the Mass Cultural Council s announcement earlier this month that a total of $842,000 in Cultural Facilities Fund grants will go to nine area Cape Cod and Islands organizations means to the groups struggling to figure out what’s next after the shutdowns and losses of the pandemic. “I’ve said all along that if we got this grant, we can just keep going, said Janine Perry, producing artistic director at Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster, where work is due to wrap up next month on the restoration of the exterior of the century-old Crosby Barn. That building will become the company’s second indoor performance space, but the inside of the barn is now empty. With the $190,000 facilities grant which must be matched through fundraising, so it becomes almost $400,000 Cape Rep officials can take a big step toward finishing the overall $2.3 million project. The restoration was also recently supported by $400,000 in town Community Development fu ....
Ready to work and willing to take on the weather, staff at three Cape Cod theaters are making plans to emerge from pandemic shutdowns by moving outdoors. Provincetown Theater, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster will all set up outside stages from June or July through Labor Day for their first in-person theater shows since 2019. The decisions are in part bids to survive financially and not lose audiences by being closed for two all-important summers in a row. But company officials also emphasize the need for both the theater-makers and their audience members to be back together in person. ....
Reviving the lost art of listening to a full album of music is at the heart of a new virtual show that producers at Cape Rep Theatre hope will launch a series. “The Vinyl Sessions” will premiere Saturday night with a show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Carole King’s landmark 1971 album “Tapestry.” The show will feature performances of each of the album’s songs in order by local stars familiar to the Brewster theater’s audiences. The show can be watched on YouTube or the company website anytime after the show’s 7 p.m. Saturday debut. Viewing is free, but donations in these troubled times for the arts are very welcome. ....