PASSIONS FLARE IN NAMING OF P-TOWN TROUPE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 16, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In Provincetown, a brouhaha is bubbling over changes planned for two local theaters.

The boards of the Provincetown Theatre Company, a 40-year-old community troupe, and the Provincetown Repertory Theatre, a 10-year- old Equity theater, voted in late August to merge this fall and start putting on shows beginning early next year. Details and legal arrangements are still to be worked out, but the two companies hope to start operating in November as a single organization with a new name, the Provincetown Players.

The proposed name spurred immediate controversy in theater circles. The legendary ...

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