Author: JP

“Chilmark” Review

August 30, 2018
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

August 24, 2018
“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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Patricia Neal Stage

Monday Night Special – Nuclear Family

July 30, 2018 at 7:30 pm
They care about you, they give you advice, they stick with you. Problem: Advice differs. And it’s all good. Solution: You stick with them. It’s a family. Yours?

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Playhouse Revs Up Summer Season

June 23, 2018
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

June 22, 2018
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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Connecting The Dots

May 17, 2018
Throughout the month of May, around 40 of Jack Ryan’s original drawings will be on display at the playhouse.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Mother (and me)

May 11 & 12, 2018

A larger than life Hungarian “Mama Rose” is waltzing into dementia as her Broadway baby shimmies into middle age.
Two shows only. 7:30 pm Friday & Saturday

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Island playhouse adds solo shows

May 6, 2018
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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Patricia Neal Stage

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

April 16, 2018
(1963) (205 min) Directed by Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Patricia Neal Stage

Fahrenheit 451

April 9, 2018
(1966) (112 min) Directed by Francois Truffaut, with Oscar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby

Poetry Cafe

April 5, 2018 at 7 pm

Hosted by Arnie Reisman
with poets Steve Ewing, Don McLagan, Georgia Morris, Barbara Peckham, Laura Roosevelt and Michael West

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Patricia Neal Stage

Great Expectations

April 2, 2018
(1946) (118 min) Directed by David Lean, with John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martha Hunt and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Patricia Neal Stage

Cat Ballou

March 26, 2018
(1965) (97 min) Directed by Elliot Silverstein, with Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Patricia Neal Stage

Dark Passage

March 19, 2018
(1947) (106 min) Directed by Delmer Daves, with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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Patricia Neal Stage

Advise and Consent

March 12, 2018
(1962) (139 min) Directed by Otto Preminger, with Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney and others.

Movies start at 7:00 pm
$5 at the door, cash only

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