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Best Bets: Its a busy week on Cape Cod with choral and chamber music, learning to plant, exploring watercolors and brunching with true-crime writers.

A classic comedy of manners from the 1960s, Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park,” is the latest fare from the Cotuit Center for the Arts. It is a gem of

Neil Simons zany comedy Barefoot in the Park brings out the wonderfully wacky in a newly married couple and the people around them.

College Light Opera Company and Harbor Stage start seasons, the Academy stages "Guys and Dolls," Charlie Brown and company visit Cotuit & more shows.

In one of the first returns to live indoor productions since March 2020, Cotuit Center for the Arts has brought back “Grounded,” its celebrated 2017 one-person show with teacher Anna Botsford reprising her role as a fighter pilot. Cotuit reworked its main-stage area from 175 seats to 50, all comfortable socially distanced. It was spectacular Thursday night to be watching live theater again, and the very intense “Grounded” kept us all captivated while also forcing us to reflect on how ou...

Sound familiar? That has been teacher Anna Botsford’s experience as she has tried to motivate high-schoolers in virtual Sturgis Public Charter School West theater classes, noting “A year ago, I jumped into online teaching and I had no idea what I was doing.” This week, for the first time in two years, Botsford returns to familiar ground: a stage. But that virtual life still surrounds her. In “Grounded,” a one-woman show at Cotuit Center for the Arts, Botsford reprises the role of an ...