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Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV’s Will & Grace, and recent star of Broadway’s Young Frankenstein. On August 28 & 29 she returns to Provincetown by popular demand - for three shows only - after her sold-out Art House debut last summer. Patti LuPone won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, as well Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, for her performance as Rose in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy, and created the title role in Evita on Broadway with her now legendary performance, for which she won her first Tony and Drama Desk Awards. On August 31 and September 1 she makes a triumphant Provincetown return for 4 shows only, after debuting at The Art House last summer. Chita Rivera is a living Broadway legend and a two-time Tony winner as Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Anna in The Rink. She originated the Broadway roles of Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, and appeared in the original casts of Guys and Dolls, Can Can, Seventh Heaven, Mr. Wonderful, Jerry’s Girls, and many others. She makes her Provincetown debut on Sept. 7 & 8 with two shows only. Series host and SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky joins each of the three leading ladies at the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.

Audra McDonald, the five-time Tony Award winner and recent star of Porgy and Bess on Broadway and TV’s Private Practice, makes her Provincetown debut with four shows only on July 21 and 22 at 5pm and 7pm. Sirius/XM radio star Seth Rudetsky, whom the New York Times just dubbed “The Mayor of Broadway,” hosts again at the piano.

Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) has been the acknowledged entertainment Queen of P-town for the past decade. Each summer brings the anticipated premiere of her latest, original and irreverent music-comedy show – a summer-long ‘hot ticket’ every year. After a typically busy year starring to critical acclaim as the title roles in the original musical comedy farces Mildred Fierce in Boston and Scrooge in Rouge in New Orleans, as well as in Menotti’s opera The Medium in New York, Varla returns to P-Town to premiere "Twice Upon A Mattress…Will My Prince Ever Come?" at The Art House from July 1 – August 31, with MRF at the piano. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com

Called the “hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games” by the New York Daily News, Well-Strung: the Singing String Quartet will return to Provincetown’s Art House theater this season. Since the group’s 3-month run at the venue last summer, they’ve been on a roll - with two recent hit New York productions Off-Broadway and their first album released this spring. Well-Strung will debut an all-new show for the summer, running from June 30 – Sept. 1. It is directed again by Donna Drake, and will feature new arrangements of songs by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and Third Eye Blind among others as well as new material written by Jeffery Roberson (aka Varla Jean Merman). For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Nightlife fixtures Joey Arias & Raven O are joining forces for the first time in a decade. This summer the two will bring their burlesque star-status to Provincetown with their new show Wanted Live at The Art House from July 6 to Sept. 1. For tickets, please visit ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Joanna Gleason won the Tony Award for her leading role of the Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. She launches this season’s Broadway @ The Art House season in Provincetown on June 28 and 29 with An Evening with Joanna Gleason. Each performance will combine the East Coast premiere of a the hilarious and moving one act play Bloom, written for her by Emmy and Golden Globe winning writer Michael Patrick King (creator of Sex and The City & Two Broke Girls) with a second act of songs featuring special guests Well-Strung, and hosted by pianist/host Seth Rudetsky. For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony-winner for Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie and star of the critically acclaimed ABC Family series Bunheads will perform three shows during the upcoming July 4th holiday in Provincetown, MA. Her performances, as part of this summer’s star-studded Broadway @ The Art House series, include 7pm on Thursday, July 4 and at 5pm and 7pm on Friday July 5. The popular concert series, now in its third season in Provincetown where it originated (and sprouting roots as well in New Orleans, Santa Monica, London, Sydney and elsewhere), is again hosted by Sirius XM radio star Seth Rudetsky. For tickets, please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Creative team attracts cream of star crop for Broadway @ series, including Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Christine Ebersole, Megan Mullally, Joanna Gleason, and more