Author: Geneva Corwin
Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center

Dirty Pictures

Monday, August 19, 2013
In a true story of love and betrayal, in 1960 three gay Smith College professors are arrested for looking at pictures of naked men, and their lives are destroyed. By Dinitia Smith, author and longtime cultural correspondent for the New York Times.

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On Religion

Monday, August 12, 2013
ON RELIGION is a dramatized contemplation on the complex issues of faith and religion in modern society. Grace, a militant atheist professor, clashes with her born-again son, Tom. When he is suddenly killed in a suicide bombing, the conflict between her grief and her principles threatens to rip her and her family apart.

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The Second Girl

Monday, August 5, 2013
The family of James Tyrone gathered in the living room in August 1912 and the events of that day play out in the great American Classic, Long Day's Journey Into Night. The Second Girl tells the story of what went on in the kitchen on that day between the immigrant Irish servant girls, Bridget and Cathleen and the chauffeur, Jack Smythe. It evokes the love and despair of the big house while detailing the thrill, the tragedy and the triumphs that occur when you sacrifice one home for another.

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Search: Paul Clayton

Monday, July 29, 2013
A Wiki Folk Musical that celebrates the true story in words and song of one of Bob Dylan’s first musical mentors. Paul Clayton of New Bedford, was the most recorded, young, folk singer in America when Bobby Zimmerman arrived in 1961 Greenwich Village to begin his career as Bob Dylan. It was Paul who helped open the doors to the folk world to him. From 1961-1965 Paul taught Bob the tricks of the trade while falling helplessly in love with him.

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The Whaleship Essex

Monday, July 22, 2013
The Essex and its crew met with tragedy on November 20, 1820 when it was sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Based on first-hand accounts, “The Whaleship Essex” is an epic, ensemble tale of survival. Infused with authentic sea shanties, “The Whaleship Essex” revels in the common language shared by both the theatrical and the nautical worlds.

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Katharine Cornell Theater, Vineyard Haven

Shakespeare for the Masses – King John

November 2 & 3, 2012
Shakespeare for the Masses, The Vineyard Playhouse’s popular off-season theater troupe, begins their fifth season this weekend with KING JOHN at the Katharine Cornell Theater, with Christopher Brophy in the title role. As usual with Shakespeare for the Masses, the adaptation is short, funny, and physically lively (the play includes three elaborate on-stage battles).

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All New

Monday, August 27
"All New" is an intimate concert of songs from four of Marisa Michelson's musicals, including Still Life with Toe Shoes; Tamar and the River; Scherezade and The Grid. Marisa’s music draws inspiration from world music such as Middle Eastern and pre-Western chanting, all the way to alternative pop singers, even while her songs live primarily in an all-new genre of music-theatre: a nexus between the theatre and opera worlds. The songs have lyrics by playwright and television writer, Jason Grote; playwright Joshua H. Cohen, and playwright Frank Terry (see bios and play descriptions below). Marisa will be joined by the incredible Chad Goodridge (Broadway's PASSING STRANGE), Margot Bassett (Meredith Monk's SONGS OF ASCENSION), Maggie Brothers, and the Vineyard's own Paul Munafo.

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5pm at the Tisbury Amphitheater, Off State Road, Vineyard Haven

Romeo & Juliet

July 19, 21, 25, 27 & August 2, 4, 8, 10, 16, 18


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Kansas City Swing

Monday, August 13
1947. It’s autumn and Jackie Robinson just integrated pro baseball. The Satchel Paige All-Stars gear up to play the Bob Feller All-Stars in a thrilling off-season match-up. But there’s a storm brewing; baseball is about to change, and so is America. From the same writing team that created the smash hit play, FLY!

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My Mom Is Trying To Ruin My Life – The Musical

Monday, August 6
If she’s such a great Mom, why is she trying to ruin her daughter’s life? Meet a Mom you'll never forget. And a ten year old girl who will steal your heart. With songs you'll be singing for the rest of the summer.

Starring Shelagh Hackett as Mom, Paul Munafo as Dad and Katie Morse as Emma.
With Scott Barrow, Christopher Kann, Adam Petkus, Jill Macy, Augie Padua, Sam Graber-Hahn, Nina Moore, Simone Davis, Danielle Hopkins, Belle Dinning, Sofy Scarano and Kaya Seiman.

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Emily & Joyce

Monday, July 30
The sweet poetic world of Emily Dickinson collides with the dark and dangerous world of Joyce Carol Oates to give you an unforgettable evening of poetry, comedy and the surreal.

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The Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs

Daniel Beaty

Friday July 27th, 2012
"Through the Night" embodies the stories of six men who experience an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives forever. Daniel Beaty seamlessly weaves humour, poetry and music into a thrilling evening of theatre!

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Outcasts

Monday, July 23
Sandwiched between the resort communities and fishing villages of Cape Cod and the Islands, Penikese housed dozens of patients and their families against their will for almost 20 years.

There will be a brief Q&A after the reading with Scott Barrow and Eve Rifkah.

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¿iUwe!

Monday, July 16, 7pm
An original musical revue by Molly Conole

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5pm at the Tisbury Amphitheater, Off State Road, Vineyard Haven

Twelfth Night

July 18, 20, 26, 28 & August 1, 3, 9, 11, 15, 17 2012


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Making A Movie

Monday, July 2
The author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz traces two writers' precarious paths through a boarding house in Montreal and the boulevards of Hollywood

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The King

Monday, June 25, 2012
A one-character play conceived and adapted from “King Lear”.

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Featherstone Center for the Arts

Opening Reception for The Art of Costume Design

May 27, 2012
Opening Reception for The Art of Costume Design - Celebrating 30 Years at The Vineyard Playhouse with Guest Curators: MJ Bruder Munafo and Kate Hancock 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Virginia Weston Besse Gallery, Featherstone, Oak Bluffs. Continues through June 6. Open Daily 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. In celebration of the Vineyard Playhouse's 30th Anniversary with over 250 productions and for being the only year round professional theater on Martha's Vineyard, Featherstone Center for the Arts will host The Art of Costume Design– Celebrating 30 Years at the Vineyard Playhouse with Guest Curators: MJ Bruder Munafo and Kate Hancock. A wide array of costumes will be displayed in the gallery, featuring original designs by Abigail Bailey, Chrysal Parrot, Chelsea McCarthy, Cynthia Bermudes, and others. Shows represented include THE SNOW QUEEN, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, FLY and several more. Also included are watercolors by Reggie Ray, who is currently on Broadway as Costume Designer for “Stickfly". Among the costumes will be props designed by Sally Cohn and Kate Hancock. Photographs, playbills, and posters will hang throughout the gallery as well as other memorabilia from the productions.

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The Martha's Vineyard Museum

ShowTime: 100 Years of Theater on Martha’s Vineyard

Theater has been a vibrant part of Martha's Vineyard's cultural landscape for more than a hundred years. Playhouses, open fields, schools, and churches across the Island provided the stage for seasoned and novice actors, directors, and playwrights. Summer theater, in particular, has entertained generations of island visitors; the Island has also been a place of refuge and recharging for stars of stage and screen. Showtime: 100 Years of Theater on Martha's Vineyard a collaborative exhibition, explores the deep connections between the Island and the performing arts and artists it has hosted over the years.

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And Everything Is Going Fine

Monday, August 29, 2011
An intimate portrait of master monologist SPALDING GRAY, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray.

Spalding returns one last time – in this riveting final film monologue – to The Vineyard Playhouse stage where he performed his monologues live for many years.

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At the Union Chapel, Oak Bluffs.

Opera Noire of New York

August 25, 2011
Sopranos:
Karen Slack
Janinah Burnett
Jeryl Cunningham-Fleming


Tenors:
Robert Mack
Roderick George

Baritones:
Kenneth Overton
Thomas Beard

Pianist:
Kevin Miller

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Coming up for Air: An Auto JAZZography

August 15 - 17, 2011
Stan Strickland, one of Boston’s most versatile and well-known jazz musicians and a Vineyard favorite, will be bringing his one-man theatrical show Coming Up for Air – an AutoJAZZography to The Vineyard Playhouse, August 15-17, 2011. Playing sax, flute, keyboards and an assortment of percussion, Strickland riffs about his life and art -- taking the audience on a dramatic musical odyssey of soulful discovery.

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Outdoors at The Tisbury Amphitheater

The Comedy of Errors

July 20 - August 14, 2011
Two sets of identical twins!
Mistaken identities!
Mass confusion!
Happy ending!!

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