Must-see entertainment in Cape Cod

  • Top Choice
    Cape Cinema

    On the grounds of the Cape Playhouse, this vintage movie theater shows foreign and independent films. It's a true art house: the entire ceiling is covered…

  • Wellfleet Drive-In

    By night, park your car at the 1950s-era Wellfleet Drive-In, where everything except the feature flick is true to the era. Grab a bite to eat at the old…

  • Payomet Performing Arts Center

    The center's theme – 'national talent on a local stage' – rings true, with performances by everyone from folk icons Arlo Guthrie and Ani DiFranco to…

  • Cape Playhouse

    The Cape Playhouse is the oldest operating professional summer theater (since 1927) in the US. Bette Davis once worked here as an usher, and some of the…

  • Cotuit Center For the Arts

    Whether you're looking to take in a musical or learn the basics of landscape painting, the overflowing calendar of events at the Cotuit Center For the…

  • Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

    WHAT's happening! The Cape's most celebrated theater always has something going on in its state-of-the-art Julie Harris Stage. The contemporary,…

  • College Light Opera Company

    A well-regarded summer stage of college students from across the country who hope to make a career in musical theater. Expect Broadway and light-opera…

  • Cape Cod Theatre Project

    The Theatre Project brings professional actors together with playwrights to perform staged readings of four new works during the month of July. Many of…

  • Kate Gould Park

    If you're in town on a Friday night, don't miss the free summertime band concerts held under the stars at Kate Gould Park, behind the Wayside Inn on Main…

  • Cape Cod Melody Tent

    The Melody Tent is just that – a giant tent, seating 2300 people – with nobody sitting more than 50ft from the revolving stage. From Memorial Day to Labor…

  • Provincetown Theater

    This stellar performing arts center, 1 mile northeast of the town center, always has something of interest happening – sometimes Broadway musicals,…

  • Waters Edge Cinema

    Upstairs at the Whaler's Wharf complex, this cinema shows mainstream and art-house films – a good option on a rainy day.

  • Provincetown Art House

    The Art House has two state-of-the-art stages featuring a variety of edgy theater performances, drag shows and cabarets.

  • Chatham Orpheum

    A beautifully restored, two-screen movie house dating from 1916. There's a cool cafe inside.

  • Monomoy Theatre

    Students from the University of Hartford (Connecticut) stage musicals, Shakespeare and contemporary plays at this well-known summertime playhouse.