Tom Harvey, ShowQueen Gallery Owner & Curator

I’ve always been a theater nerd. But over the past decade, that love for theater has blossomed into a full-blown obsession with live performance. In 2025 alone, I attended more than 65 live performances across New York City, Boston, Provincetown, London, and throughout New England. My tastes run the gamut: Broadway musicals and plays, Off-Broadway, regional and touring productions, one-night-only concert performances, readings of new works, and a healthy dose of good old-fashioned piano bar and cabaret. Add in a lifelong love of classic films, Old Hollywood stars, and iconic LGBTQ+ divas, and you’ll start to understand my creative orbit.

My journey into collecting began in 2015 with a single, serendipitous discovery: seven lithograph prints of watercolor paintings by legendary Broadway dancer, actor, and director Tommy Tune, found on a charity auction site. I was instantly mesmerized. All seven were framed—six still hang in our Boston condo, and one lives in my Provincetown home office. That moment opened the floodgates. Soon after came backstage photographs of Patti LuPone, a candid shot of jazz legend Chet Baker, images of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor on the sets of Billy Wilder films, Andy Warhol prints and a growing collection of theater memorabilia and artwork that simply made me happy.

By 2017, while leading the IT team at a mid-sized biotech company, I had already mapped out my retirement plan to include my passion. I knew that when the time came, I wanted to share my creative vision in a retail or gallery space. Over the past year, it became clear that showing only my own collection would be too limiting, and frankly, not nearly as exciting. So I began reaching out to artists I admire, inviting them to collaborate with me on something bigger.

That dream becomes reality in Spring 2026 with the opening of ShowQueen Gallery, located at 432 Commercial Street, G1, in the heart of Provincetown’s historic East End Gallery District. I’ll be retiring from my full-time IT career after March 2026, with the gallery opening before the end of May.

I invite you visit ShowQueen Gallery and experience work by some of my favorite artists, alongside select pieces from my own collection gathered over the past decade. I’m the first to admit I have plenty to learn in my inaugural year as a "gallerist", but the support from family, friends, artists, and the Provincetown gallery community has been nothing short of extraordinary.

Let’s geek out together!  I can’t wait to share stories, favorites, and Tony/Oscar snubs with you over fabulous art, iconic inspiration, and a little ShowQueen applause.

— Tom