There’s so much to do in Provincetown on New Year’s Weekend! It’s an exciting weekend of Celebrations: Fireworks over our beautiful Provincetown Harbor! Holiday Market! Special Holiday Menus at Ptown’s fabulous restaurants! Dance parties! Polar Bear Plunge! Lite Brite Bike Ride! Drag Bingo! Theatre! Movies! Cabaret! Art! Live Music! There are drag queens, singers, more drag queens, more singers, even more…well, you get it. So, let’s start at the very beginning (sorry, I had a Rodgers & Hammerstein moment!).
New Year’s Weekend in Ptown!
RuPaul’s All-Stars Viewing Party
Hosted by Thirsty Burlington & Bang! Don’t miss a minute of the Drag Drama in Season 4 of RuPaul’s All-Stars! Cheer on your favorites and dish the others along with Provincetown’s own Drag Super Stars, Thirsty Burlington and Bang!
Friday, December 28, 2018 @ 7pm @ Wave Bar @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430 – Tickets
Suede in Concert
She calls Cape Cod home, but tours nationally and internationally all year, filling venues from Boston and New York to San Francisco and New Zealand. Suede comes back to her Provincetown home, the Crown & Anchor, for her annual New Year’s show! She delivers a show with humor and wit, with musical artistry from a cappella to “bring down the house” belting blues. Imagine a cross between Natalie Cole, Diana Krall and Bette Midler. Add a dash of Louis Armstrong and you might get an idea of Suede’s unique talents and charm.
Saturday, December 29, 2018 @ 7:30pm @ Paramount @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430 – Tickets
Marti Gould Cummings – Balls Drop – A Pre-New Years Drag Concert
Marti Gould Cummings and his husband Blake Allen will be closing out the year with comedy and music in the most magical place there is: Provincetown. Marti is a NYC based drag artist who performs weekly in NYC, alongside the city’s leading Broadway and nightlife talents. His long running Broadway talk show, Stage Fright, has featured over 100 Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, Grammy and Oscar-winning and nominated guests. His comedy and musical concerts have taken him around the world, selling out shows across the USA, Europe, Canada and Mexico. Marti is a regular fixture on the RSVP and Atlantis cruises and will be making his Lincoln Center concert debut in early 2019, with his band Marti and the Cummers. His holiday duets album featuring Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman and Tony Award-nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega, is available on iTunes and Spotify. Last season, Marti was thrilled to have been a creator, producer and star of the Fusion television networks most streamed show “Shade: Queens of NYC.”
December 29 & 30, 2018 @ 7:30pm @ Pilgrim House – 336 Commercial Street – (508) 487-6424 Tickets
The Dina Martina Christmas Show!
The holiday season will be extra special this year, as the beloved comic genius Dina Martina will blanket Provincetown in side- splitting yuletide merriment with THE DINA MARTINA CHRISTMAS SHOW. For one magical night – December 30th – Miss Martina (a.k.a. “The Second Lady of Entertainment”) will bring her famed holiday train wreck of a show to the Paramount at the Crown & Anchor! This hysterically funny show, like all of Martina’s shows, promises to be a truly wondrous and surreal blend of questionable song, unnecessary dance and overburdened costumes. Add to that, Miss Martina’s favorite seasonal tradition – distributing pointless (and seriously coveted) holiday gifts to lucky audience members – and you have one of the most treasured holiday traditions this side of anywhere. It is nearly impossible to adequately describe a Dina Martina show, other than that they’ve become synonymous with jaw-dropping pathos and mind-blowing comedy. What a Dina Martina show is, is a smart and hilarious evening of entertainment you will never forget.
Sunday, December 30, 2018 @ 7:30pm @ Paramount @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430 – Tickets
Well-Strung: Home for the Holidays
Well-Strung – the critically acclaimed singing string quartet – plays a special holiday concert at Provincetown Town Hall. Well-Strung and their producing partners, Mark Cortale and director Richard Jay-Alexander, have created a special holiday concert showcasing traditional and popular holiday song. The show will feature the group’s own unique pop-classical spin on some of the most beautiful and traditional holiday favorites, such as “Silent Night” and “Sleigh Ride,” all the way to Carol Hall’s “Hard Candy Christmas” and everything in between.
Sunday, December 30, 2018 @ 8:30pm @ Provincetown Town Hall, 260 Commercial Street – Tickets
Thirsty Burlington – Cher Live!
Provincetown’s own Thirsty Burlington returns to help ring in the New Year with her spectacular Cher Live! Amazing live vocals, lots of Cher humor and stunning costume changes make for a very exciting show! Ring in the New Year with Cher Live!
Monday, December 31, 2018 @ 7:30pm @ Paramount @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430 – Tickets
First Light Provincetown
Come see a New Year’s Eve fireworks display that will light up Provincetown Harbor! Fireworks will be launched from MacMillan Pier, but are also visible at multiple locations.
Sunday, December. 30, 2018 @ 5:30pm (rain date – January 1, 2019 @ 5:30pm)
Bobby Wetherbee
If you just want to hang out after a show, Bobby Wetherbee will be on the piano Saturday, Sunday and Monday, no cover – just fun!
Saturday & Sunday, December 29 & 30 @ 9pm & Monday, December 31 @ 10pm @ Dive Bar @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430
New Years Day Brunch
Kick off 2019 with a delicious Brunch! As the First Light Weekend comes to a close, The Crown & Anchor Restaurant will be serving a delicious Brunch so you can kick off the New Year in style.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019 @ 11am @ Crown & Anchor – 247 Commercial Street – (508)487-1430 – Tickets
Polar Bear Plunge
Take out that summer swimsuit and take the annual Polar Bear Plunge challenge on New Year’s Day 2019! This tradition is the 3rd annual event and is part of the Provincetown First Light celebrations for New Year’s Weekend 2018 – 2019. Registration proceeds benefit the Center For Coastal Studies. This event, co-sponsored by the Harbor Lounge, Yolqueria and the 8 Dyer Hotel, will feature a quick dip in the harbor followed by warm-up cocktails and chili at Harbor Lounge. And if you don’t want to take the plunge, come on down and cheer on those brave plungers! There will be a DJ, music and a guest emcee, as well as coffee, tea and hot chocolate.
Monday, January 1, 2019 – 11am – 1pm @ Johnson’s Street Parking Lot – 371 Commercial St – Provincetown Harbor
