Press Reviews and Articles
Always in season
MJ Bruder Munafo, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, has a catchphrase she likes to use, “The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse — where the off season is the on season.”
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A Truly Vineyard Theatrical Tribute
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Theatrical Tribute to Garson Kanin
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In Theatrical Stag’s Leap, Poetry of Pain Leaps Off the Page
Most readers — and there have been many since the book won both the Pulitzer and TS Eliot 2013 prizes for poetry — have come to Stag’s Leap individually, through the printed work. Far fewer people have had the chance to hear the poetry in a theatrical performance of Stag’s Leap that visited the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse on Oct. 26 and Oct. 27.
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When the World Goes Crazy, Art Is Sane Alternative
After a sold-out first reading of her play Dystopian Daze last September at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, actress and playwright Brooke Adams went back to work on the black comedy she wrote in response to America’s turn toward authoritarianism.
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Blending theater and poetry in ‘Stag’s Leap’
A theater company from Salt Lake City will bring a unique theater experience to the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse this weekend.
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Delusion by Proxy
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Brooke Adams’ ‘Delusion by Proxy’ hits close to home
The dark comedy, which will be presented as a staged reading by the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse this weekend, is called “Delusion by Proxy” — a reference to a psychiatric syndrome in which delusions are shared by one or more individuals.
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Playhouse set designer exhibits work of a different kind
Pegnato is getting a chance to show another side of her work with an exhibit featuring her paintings in the Art Space in the Playhouse’s lobby.
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Playhouse Set Designer Takes Turn at Center Stage
At the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Lisa Pegnato plays a key role that never requires her to step in front of the audience.
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‘The Room Where I Was Held’ takes a page out of today’s newspapers
The tense and chilling drama weaves ideas of family, politics, values, idealism, and life and death together in a story that twists and turns from ominous beginning to shocking conclusion.
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Debut Playwright Is Seasoned Storyteller
The sound of Arabic music is the first hint that this is a different kind of drama. Just how different is revealed gradually, through a series of revelations that add up to a suspenseful evening with a shocking conclusion.
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Edvard Munch Is More Than the Scream, Much More
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‘Dear Edvard’
Munch is coming to the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.
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Fred J. Hancock exhibit showcases the shape of shadows
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“Chilmark” Review
The unique and moving drama “Chilmark,” making its world premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, suggests that all was not always so peaceful and safe in that up-Island community...
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Winds of Change on Stage Through Lens of Chilmark’s Deaf Community
“I wanted to set it at a time when things were changing,” Ms. Rush said “There were a lot of things changing in the education of the deaf. There was the end of the whaling industry. Steel and oil and all those things were changing America. So it seemed like a seminal time in American history to set the play.”
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All the World Truly Is a Stage for the Fabulists
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Angela Davis Looms Large in New Theatrical Memoir
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(Angela’s Mixtape) Coming of age
A strong female cast takes the stage in ‘Angela’s Mixtape.’
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This ‘Hamlet’ is for everyone
Tisbury Amphitheater is the perfect place to rediscover Shakespeare’s classic.
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Hamlet in the Amphitheater; a Woodsy Venue for a Meaty Role
On July 18, Hamlet opens at the Tisbury Amphitheater, with Scott Barrow playing the titular role. Mr. Barrow, a playhouse veteran, has spent time on the Vineyard since he was a youngster, and has family ties to the Island that go back generations.
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Passionata at the Playhouse; A Tale of Farcical Proportions
Passionata takes aim—with a decidedly 21st-century eye—at age-old conventions of marriage, property and heredity, while never giving up on the potential of true love.
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Passionata is no shrinking violet
Despite many nods to its Edwardian farce heritage, the show is as vibrantly up-to-date as any Hollywood romcom, but far more clever.
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Playhouse Revs Up Summer Season
Click on the Now Playing tab on the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse website and what comes up is a little like a virtual version of Five Corners in August. The schedule is robust.
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Embracing the Theatre of Life
It’s June 5 and MJ Bruder Munafo has her running shoes on. In just a few weeks the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse will begin its summer season and rehearsals begin today.
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Gwyn McAllister channels George Bernard Shaw in ‘Passionata’
The green rose, a fictional flower, provides a rich McAllister-assisted mythology at the heart of the romance.
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Fishing is the best medicine
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Martha’s Vineyard: Down-Island Travel Guide
“The Vineyard Playhouse, in Vineyard Haven, always has something worth attending. It’s a real gem to be able to go to the theater and see such high-quality shows.”
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Turning Life’s Curveballs Into Art
When Jenny Allen performs at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse this weekend, she’s bringing her acclaimed one-woman show full circle to its original stage.
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I Got Sick Then I Got Better in the MV Times
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Connecting The Dots
Throughout the month of May, around 40 of Jack Ryan’s original drawings will be on display at the playhouse.
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Island playhouse adds solo shows
The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in Vineyard Haven will run a new series of solo performances on weekends through May that offers often humorous female perspectives on life milestones.
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In My Own Little Corner at Playhouse
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Long History of Caring Makes Vineyard a Disability Paradise
For some VIP members, the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse has become a regular hangout. People with disabilities are part of the volunteer usher staff and in March, the lobby art show was dedicated to work by VIP members.
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Going Solo
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Coming Attractions
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Sarah Moore featured at the M.V. Playhouse ArtSpace
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A Very Important Exhibit (by Vineyard Independence Partnership)
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This was then: The Capawoc
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Shakespeare for the Masses
The idea behind Shakespeare for the Masses is to bring the bard’s work to the people, all of the people, by creating free shows with a contemporary feel. They are also slimmed down, to a running time of about an hour.
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Shakespeare on the Vineyard
For 10 years now, the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse has been offering up a series of dramatic readings called Shakespeare for the Masses. Conceived and created by Nicole Galland and Chelsea McCarthy, the series pares down the plays of the Bard to around an hour, heightens the humor — whether drama or comedy — and incorporates a narrator to fill in the gaps and provide some explanation and commentary.
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Water for Art
Living on an Island has clearly had an influence on the work of artist Debby Rosenthal. Since switching her medium from pastels to acrylics, Ms. Rosenthal has turned her attention to water, with plenty of it on view at her solo show at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse through Feb. 1.
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