A Letter from the Publisher
To our new Ptown family and friends, the following letter from the Publisher recently appeared on NiteLifeExchange.com, one of New York’s premier NiteLife & Cabaret websites. We’d like to share it with all of you.
As the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of NiteLifeExchange.com, I am proud to announce the launch of PtownNiteLife.com. Like NiteLife Exchange, Ptown NiteLife was created to support and promote the art of live entertainment; NiteLife Exchange, “Where Broadway & Cabaret Meet” and Ptown NiteLife, “Where Provincetown Finds the Nite Life!”
I realized, while attending the Provincetown Cabaret Fest 2018, that the talent performing in Ptown is some of the best in the world and that creating this website was something that would add to the coverage of the industry in Provincetown. Thus, we decided to add a new sibling to the NiteLife Exchange family and Ptown NiteLife was born. The websites interconnect the nite life scene in New York City with the vibrant one in Ptown. We’re introducing Ptown NiteLife to an audience looking for a vacation where entertainment is part of the package.
Our new online publication will cover everything from cabaret and theatre to piano bars and comedy shows to drag shows and impressionists, plus all the special events that go on year-round in Provincetown. Also included are listings of all the hotspots in town; where to go, where to eat and where to play, for those new to the Provincetown experience.
Ptown NiteLife will feature stories on shows and performers and columns such as Lynda Sturner’s The Ptown Buzzz, an overview of what’s coming up and “Six Questions,” which asks questions (six to be exact) to give insight into the lives and careers of its subjects.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading PtownNiteLife as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Click to experience PtownNiteLife.com
Scott Barbarino
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief NiteLifeExchange.com – PtownNiteLife.com
Scott Barbarino – Publisher/Editor in Chief
Scott Barbarino wears many hats; he is a promoter, making his living managing and producing shows in live entertainment venues. In 2007, Scott added another hat to his collection by creating NiteLifeExchange.com, an entertainment website “Where Broadway Meets Cabaret,” focusing 0n Cabaret performers who appear on Broadway and vice versa. This past year, NLE has extended its coverage to include South Florida and now the newly added PtownNiteLife.com, covering Provincetown, Massachusetts. His career began at the original Duplex Cabaret, where he became the Manager and Entertainment Coordinator and the Host of “Stars of Tomorrow,” one of the first competition shows in cabaret. Over the next 30 years, Scott managed and/or booked acts The Duplex, The Parkside Lounge on New York’s Lower East Side, Chelsea Lobster Company, THAT Bar, Dillon’s Supper Club, The Cutting Room and Iridium Jazz Club. He is currently the Artistic Director of Ellen’s Stardust Diner on Broadway. Scott has served on the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs as Member-at-Large (1997-2000), President (2004) and continues as a member of the Board. He is also a member of ASCAP.
Penny Landau – Editor, Ptown NiteLife – Six Questions & The TV Junkie
Penny Landau was professionally in print as a poet when she was 15 years old. Since then, she has worked as a theatre critic and feature writer for The Advocate, Hotwire (women’s music magazine), Long Island Nightlife, The New York Native, Gay Community News of Boston, Weekly News of Miami and a dozen soap opera magazines. As “The TV Junkie,” her column has been published on BroadwayWorld.com, TheClydeFitchReport.com and for the past 11 years, NiteLifeExchange.com, where she is Executive Editor Emeritus. She is also a published scholar whose area of expertise is American Theatre History.
Lynda Sturner – Columnist – The Ptown Buzzz
Lynda Sturner is a journalist who has written for TheaterMania.com
, The Provincetown Banner and of course, NiteLifeExchange.com. As an actress, she has appeared on Broadway in Oliver and Off-Broadway’s The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. She is a well-known actress on the Cape, from Provincetown to Wellfleet. Lynda was the recipient of an “Oscar” for her performance at the Dublin Gay International Theatre Festival in Super-Lubricated, one of her own plays written with Jim Dalglish. She is also an accomplished playwright whose plays have been produced at the Woman’s Project Playwrights Lab, the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit Lab. Her play A Talented Woman also written with Jim Dalglish (2013 Kaplan Prize awarded by Eventide Arts), was produced at Cotuit Center for the Arts this past April.
Michael Barbieri – Columnist – Bistro Bites – Drag-tastic
Michael Barbieri has lived many lives. As an actor, he appeared in numerous Off-Off Broadway shows. He was one of the founding members of the MAC Award-winning vocal group, Scott Barbarino and the Bev-Naps and for many years, was a singing bartender with the popular weekend crew at Rose’s Turn Piano Bar. He is perhaps best known in the cabaret community for his more than 20 years as a MAC and Bistro Award-winning Technical Director, having designed lighting and sound for countless performers, including Julie Wilson, Andrea McArdle, Ben Vereen, Amanda McBroom, Linda Lavin, The Manhattan Transfer, Ken Page, Elaine Stritch and many others. He began his writing career about 8 years ago, reviewing Las Vegas restaurants, shows and hotels for QVegas/QLife Magazine and was also a contributor to Gay Vegas Magazine, having created their Las Vegas Experience column.
Larry Myers – Writer
Larry Myers, PhD is international award-winning dramatist who taught at St. John’s University, Kent and Cincinnati. Executive/Artistic Director of The Playwright Sanctuary (a tri-costal theatre foundation endorsed by the late Edward Albee); Co-Creator of the New Dramatic Workshop
(with original founder Dr. Maria (Mrs. Erwin) Piscator at New School; Board member American Stanislavski Association; and creator of Jack Kerouac Literary Group (endorsed by Kerouac Executor/Brother in Law John Sampas).
Winston Mathis – Webmaster/Social Media Manger/Graphic Designer
Diana Cosarca is currently continuing her Bachelors Degree in early childhood education at the University of New Mexico, and is super mom to 2 year old Hunter Gabriel. Her duties include overseeing the advertising department and handles all sales and requests. She also provides administrative support to various aspects of NiteLife Exchange.
Patricia Fitzpatrick – Consultant
Patricia (Hopkins) Fitzpatrick was a featured solo performer at the renowned University of Detroit Chorus. During that time she also participated in the “Make Way For Youth” Chorus on Detroit’s WJR Radio. Her singing career, after college, included regular performances at “The Oldest Bar” in Key West, Florida and a wide variety of night clubs in the Mid-West, including the Detroit Playboy Club. Thirty years later ,while serving as the first Director of Tourism for the Town of Provincetown, Fitzpatrick set up grants to encourage and promote festivals to extend the town’s tourism season. Fitzpatrick was instrumental in facilitating the first grant to establish, in 2000, the Annual Provincetown CabaretFest.
After her retirement from the Tourism Office in 2005, Fitzpatrick returned to performing. She was twice nominated for the prestigious New York City MAC Award , served on the Boston Cabaret Association Board of Director’s and performed at Ronnie Scott’s in London, The Sugar Club with Bobby Wetherbee on Antiqua, The Little Onion in Denver, Club Café in Boston, Provincetown and New York City. In 2015, her company Ambassador Productions, took over producing the Annual Provincetown Cabaret Festival. Under her leadership, the festival has grown to be the largest Cabaret Festival in Massachusetts.