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Art opening and documentary screening
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On tap at the M.V. Playhouse
Need a little entertainment in the off-season? The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse keeps its doors open all winter long to bring Vineyarders a variety of excuses to get out of the house.
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Poetry and Pie (news brief)
Arnie Reisman, former Martha’s Vineyard poet laureate, hosts the evening alongside guest poets Eleanor Bates, Maureen Hall, Annette Sandrock, and Jennifer Smith-Turner.
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Photojournalist Allen Green has an eye for good stories and photos
Green’s solo exhibit “The Natural World … A Closer Look,” marks the photographer’s first public showing of his fine art photography.
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2019 Art on the Vineyard
Author and illustrator Kate Feiffer showed something new at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in July with the unveiling of her latest series of drawings, titled “Dedicated to Doodle.” The selection featured in the solo show included, among other things, a number of simple line drawings embellishing the dedication pages of classic books.
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Arts Fuse Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2019
("Dear Elizabeth") was an adroitly modulated dramatization of Ruhl’s selection of letters between poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, beautifully acted by Jeannie Affelder and Raymond Fox.
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Another Vanguard Year for the Arts
In every month of 2019, Island artists, arts organizations, schools and libraries created a vibrant mix of experiences, frequently breaking new ground.
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The year in entertainment 2020
The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse staged four full productions during the summer.
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Gifts to Island nonprofits make a big ‘impact’
It was all smiles and applause at the Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard’s annual grant ceremony as the organization awarded $173,000 to fund projects, initiatives, and equipment at 28 Island nonprofits.
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Art and Social Justice Meet at Yard’s Off-Season Opener
The Yard opens its winter arts season at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 with two performances of Pang!, a theatre work about food insecurity by performance artist Dan Froot.
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Stage Manager Timothy Toothman interviewed on The Vineyard Current
Timothy Toothman the Stage Manager for the Playhouse’s production of OUR TOWN is among the guests interviewed on MVY Radio's weekly radio show, The Vineyard Current.
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Classic Americana onstage at the Playhouse
‘Our Town’ brings small-town, everyday lives into focus.
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Playhouse Delivers Timely Performance of Our Town
The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse is off to a strong post-season start with its new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning Our Town, playing weekends through Nov. 3.
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Vineyard Haven included in “The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities in America”
The density and diversity of businesses in the creative economy make Vineyard Haven a very distinctive arts and culture-rich community.
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Sacred spaces captured in Michael Stimola’s photographs
During the month of October, photographer Michael Stimola will exhibit a series of photos at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse which showcase a subject that has fascinated him for years.
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Billy Hoff’s inscrutable images
For the Playhouse show, Hoff included works that feature a curtain framing the action. He specifically chose this theme for its connection to the theater.
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New play tackles Church’s response to sexual abuse crisis
In the face of last August’s Pennsylvania grand jury report chronicling seven decades of clergy abuse at the hands of over 300 priests, some church leaders chose silence. Father Edward Beck decided to write.
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Blues Revue Turns Playhouse Into Nightclub
A Chicago blues joint popped up in Vineyard Haven this month, with live music five nights a week. But you’ll need to get there soon if you want to catch a performance because Big Mama’s Blues Club is closing Sept. 7.
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Singing the blues at the playhouse
An accomplished cast of performers make this musical revue top-notch.
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Priest playwright tackles the big question onstage at the M.V. Playhouse
It’s interesting to think about what reactions his new play may provoke, from the public and from Mother Church.
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Bringing Theatre Alive for Kids
When a family drives up to Tashmoo Overlook they need only to follow the signs and the laughter to the Tisbury Amphitheater where every Saturday morning they will find The Fabulists running the show.
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Chekhov Meets Comedy, With a Dash of Disney
Just one more week to see the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse's production of Christopher Durang’s comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013.
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Going Big on the Gallery Scene
Carol Brown Goldberg’s one-woman show Mirror Universe, in the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse lobby gallery, is a carnival of color, form and motion, with each painting revealing different elements depending on where in the room you stand to view it.
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Hilarious and heartwarming fare
Laughter abounds in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which even in its title sounds more than a little absurd. This laughter-provoking farce by well-known playwright Christopher Durang is a rollicking story essentially centering around sibling rivalry.
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Actors talking Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” produced by the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, opened last Thursday, and runs through August 11. You should go.
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Shakespeare in the Amphitheater
The family-friendly show is directed by Brooke Hardman Ditchfield, the Vineyard’s preeminent Shakespeare interpreter, and stars a cast of 15, including nine-year-old Carlotta Lash Roberts as young Prince Mamillius of Sicily.
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Durang à la Chekhov brings comedy with an edge to the Playhouse
Christopher Durang is a Tony awardwinning playwright. He’s erudite. He writes sparkling dialogue. He knows his theater. He explores complex themes. And his plays can be very, very funny...
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Outdoor Shakespeare Returns with The Winter’s Tale
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The Playhouse’s Sid & Howard Rewrites the History of Famed Writers
In 1921, Sidney Joseph Perelman couldn’t wait to get out of Providence, the city Howard Phillips Lovecraft never wanted to leave...
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‘Dear Elizabeth’
The MV Times offers a review of the production.
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Playhouse Opens Summer Season With Poetic Passion
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse opens its summer main stage series June 22 with a play about a pair of American writers whose 30-year friendship was as deeply devoted as the most passionate lifelong love affair.
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Arts Beat: ‘Dear Elizabeth’
Playhouse artistic and executive director MJ Bruder Munafo chose this play for artistic and practical reasons, saying, “I like Ruhl, real life stories, poetry, and Elizabeth Bishop. It’s perfect for our intimate theater.”
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She’s devoted to doodling
Take a closer look at Kate Feiffer’s new exhibit at M.V. Playhouse.
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Sneak Peek
M.V. Playhouse offers Monday Night Special series this summer.
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Summer stage
M.V. Playhouse offers everything from romance to the blues to Shakespeare.
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Cabaret collaboration
Elizabeth Parrish, Mark Fifer, and Paola Styron transform cabaret into theater.
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Finding Her True Self in Song
Shelagh Hackett lost no time pulling the audience into the story her life with the first words of Kiss Me I’m Irish, her one-woman play at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse last weekend...
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Going solo
In a theatrical version of “It takes a village,” Hackett recently related the serendipitous path she took in creating “Kiss Me, I’m Irish,” her new solo show premiering this Friday and Saturday at the M.V. Playhouse as part of its Spring Solo Shows.
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Molly Conole sings her story
Solo show takes the stage at M.V. Playhouse this weekend.
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Playhouse Opens Series of One-Woman Shows
Last weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, audiences witnessed the transformation of a dumpy, embittered divorcée into a polished, professional and optimistic single woman in Lynne Adams’s solo show Two-Faced.
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Let the Solo Shows begin
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse will open its 2019 season of live theater with a series of solo shows throughout the month of May. Kicking off the lineup will be a comedy written and performed by actress and writer Lynne Adams.
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Putting the pieces together
Artists Jenik Munafo Khelalfa and Cindy Kane have work on exhibit at the Playhouse.
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LGBTQ Spectrum Film Festival is a community effort
Among the partnering organizations are the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Alex’s Place teen center, the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard, and the Martha’s Vineyard Library Association. Each of these organizations will participate in the festival in one way or another.
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Vineyard arts groups breaking new ground
MJ Bruder Munafo, artistic and executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse just off Vineyard Haven’s Main Street, describes the town’s cultural district as “one of the absolute richest in the commonwealth. Rich in the quantity and quality of creative organizations and historical significance.”
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Shakespeare for the Masses: Romeo and Juliet
The shows take place at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse on Saturday, March 30 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 31 at 2 p.m.
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When Art Helps Start the Conversation
Mr. Roach is now stepping out as an artist in his own right. In his current one-man show of paintings, though April 4 in the Lobby Art Space of the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in Vineyard Haven, he explores the world above the waves with still lives, landscapes and human subjects that spark the viewer’s imagination.
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Chris Roberts Tackles White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The show begins at 7 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse,
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This Actor Booked Her First Equity Job With Backstage—and You Can, Too!
After relocating from England to Brooklyn, New York, Finty Kelly just booked her first-ever Equity gig: “Passionata” at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse—and she did it through Backstage.
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On Stage With Bernard Madoff, an Innocent’s Perspective
(Jenny) maintains her role as literary manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, where she also runs the monthly Jenny’s Drama Salon.
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Sean Roach’s paintings tell a contemporary story
It’s appropriate that artist Sean Roach’s first Island exhibit of his work is happening at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse. Not only is Roach a former actor (as well as writer and producer of his own kids’ TV show), his latest series of paintings all feature a narrative with dramatic potential.
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