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Patricia Neal Stage

Pang!

November 8 & 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Pang! is an evening of short plays based on the oral histories of families hungering for change, performed as a live radio theater broadcast.

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Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby

Poetry & Pie – November 2019

November 6, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Season premiere! Featuring guest poets Steve Ewing (Edgartown Poet Laureate), Jill Jupen (Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate), Ann Lees and Christopher Legge.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Rear Window

November 4, 2019
(1954) (112 min) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter

Movies start at 7 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Patricia Neal Stage

Our Town

October 11 - November 3, 2019
A new production of the classic story by Thornton Wilder, featuring a cast of professional and local performers. Our Town is supported in part by a grant from the Martha's Vineyard Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Blues Revue Turns Playhouse Into Nightclub

August 30, 2019
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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Edward Beck
Patricia Neal Stage

Ungodly Pursuit

August 26, 2019
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church puts a priest under scrutiny.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Mona/Lina

August 19, 2019
The reclusive daughter of a notorious artist must either banish her ghosts or live with them for the rest of her life.
Please note that this reading will contain strong language.


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Bringing Theatre Alive for Kids

August 16, 2019
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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Patricia Neal Stage

Low Down Dirty Blues

August 10 - September 7, 2019
Welcome to Big Mama's Home of the Blues, where the party is just heating up! This sizzling revue finds a group of veteran blues musicians assembled for a late-night jam session, swapping stories and sharing their favorite tunes. Featuring nearly two-dozen smokin’ songs and non-stop riffs, these hot rhythms celebrate the bawdier side of the Blues and are guaranteed to keep the theater sultry and steamy from the first note to the last.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Drive

July 29, 2019
It’s the near future, and long-haul trucks are electric and self-driven. Life will have to change for the men and women truckers who hang out in small-town Iowa’s Drive Bar. But change isn’t always a bad thing.
Please note that this reading will contain strong language.

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Patricia Neal Stage

The Broken Closet

July 22, 2019
A family struggles with grief and guilt after losing a beloved member to heroin addiction. A powerful story of loss and hope.

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Going Big on the Gallery Scene

July 22, 2019
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

July 18, 2019
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

July 18, 2019
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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Patricia Neal Stage

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

July 13 - August 3, 2019
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. A wonderfully absurd comedy about three eccentric siblings. Vanya and Sonia are watching wild turkeys in the cherry orchard at their family home in Bucks County when Masha, their movie-star sister, comes to visit with her latest boy-toy. Add a psychic cleaning lady and a star-struck neighbor and anything goes. No familiarity with Chekhov is required! "Durang at his absurdist best - unhinged, hilarious, and heartwarming!" (Carol Rocamora)

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Shakespeare in the Amphitheater

July 12, 2019
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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Patricia Neal Stage

Sid & Howard

July 1, 2019
An antic comedy that imagines a could-have-been meeting of terror-meister H.P. Lovecraft, New Yorker wit S.J. Perelman, and the mystery woman who changed Lovecraft’s life.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Dear Elizabeth

June 22 - July 6, 2019
Poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell shared a deep, thirty-year friendship. A love story told through their brilliant, witty, revealing correspondence.

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Arts Beat: ‘Dear Elizabeth’

June 20, 2019
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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