There's No Place Like Provincetown: Star-Studded Summer 2016 Season Announced!

Mark Cortale, Producing Artistic Director of The Art House in Provincetown, MA, has sprung an early spring surprise announcement of his hotly anticipated summer season for the Cape Cod destination. Since taking the helm at the venue six years ago, The Art House has presented some of Broadway and Hollywood's most talented stars. The 2016 summer season will include artists like Kristin Chenoweth, Patti LuPone, Cheyenne Jackson, the Indigo Girls, Megan Hilty and Steve Grand. This summer, the venue's marquee Broadway concert series will again encompass performances at both The Art House as well as Provincetown's Town Hall.

For tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Kicking off the season on Memorial Day Weekend will be a debut concert by Grammy-winning platinum-selling recording stars, the Indigo Girls, for one show only at Town Hall on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 PM. Meanwhile that weekend at the Art House, Indie Rock star Melissa Ferrick takes up residence for her sixth consecutive season opener with three shows on May 28 at 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM and May 29 at 6:00 PM.

The summer's star-studded lineup continues to roll into town in June, beginning with Varla Jean Merman & Ryan Landry's debut of "Brown is the New Pink," a hilarious women's prison parody of Orange is the New Black, running June 3 to September 3, and Featuring the "Cutabitch Prison Girls" aka Penny Champagne, Liza Lott, Qya Marie and Jessica Barstis. Varla Jean, Provincetown's reigning Queen of Commercial Street, next debuts her brand new solo show "A Little White Music" from June 22 through September 3, with Gerald Goode at the piano. Next up, Well-Strung, the singing string quartet return for a fifth consecutive summer to debut their all new show directed by Jeffery Roberson, running from June 30 through September 10.

Fourth of July weekend brings Cheyenne Jackson, star of TV's 30 Rock and Glee and Broadway's "Finian's Rainbow," "Xanadu," "All Shook Up," and "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at Town Hall on July 3 at 8:30 PM for one show only. Bookending him that weekend at The Art House is Tori Scott, hailed as one of Time Out New York's Top 10 Cabaret Artists, on July 2 and 5 at 7:00 PM. Steve Grand, who burst onto the scene with his video An All American Boy and his #3 Billboard Independent Album, makes his long-awaited Art House debut on July 6, 7, and 8 at 7:30 PM. RuPaul Drag Race stars return by popular demand this summer, including Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon returning with cohort Major Scales in an all-new show from July 9 through September 17, and Drag Race star Courtney Act brings "The Girl From Oz" to The Art House July 12 - August 25.

Megan Hilty, the breakout star of NBC's "Smash" and on Broadway in "Wicked" and "9 to 5: The Musical" makes her anticipated return to Broadway @ the Art House on July 17, 18, 19 at 7:00 PM. Cabaret legend and P-town favorite Marilyn Maye returns for her fifth season with Billy Stritch at the piano, onAugust 3 - 6 at 7:00 PM.

Late summer heats up further with three leading ladies at Town Hall. Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio will debut her "Not Today Satan" for P-town audiences on August 15 at 8:30 PM. Kristin Chenoweth - star of Broadway's original "Wicked" as Glinda and Tony-winner for "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," and star of TV's "Glee" and Emmy-winner for "Pushing Daisies," with Mary-Mitchell Campbell at the piano August 16 for two shows only, at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM. Last but certainly not least, Patti LuPone two-time Tony Award winner for Gypsy, and as the original Evita on Broadway, makes her first return to P-town in three years this Labor Day weekend on September 4 at 6:30 PM in her show "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" with music director Joseph Thalken at the piano.

About The Art House and The Broadway series:

The Art House is Provincetown's premier entertainment venue and Cape Cod's summer home to top Broadway talent, internationally touring cabaret artists and stand-up comics. The Art House, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, is the original home to the internationally acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted by Seth Rudetsky. In its fifth season last summer, the series presented Broadway superstars like Rosie O'Donnell, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Audra McDonald and Will Swenson, and Vanessa Williams. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. In 2014-15 in addition to Santa Monica, the series travels to New Orleans @ The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Nourse Theatre, Dallas @ The Dallas Theater Center, San Antonio @ The Woodlawn Theatre, The Poconos @ The Pocono Community Theatre, Detroit @ The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, Provincetown @ The Art House for its fifth consecutive summer... and at a city near you soon! Additional artists who have participated throughout this season include Vanessa Williams, Chita Rivera, Cheyenne Jackson, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason and Christine Ebersole. Info at markcortalepresents.com.