Monday Night Specials
Edward Beck
Patricia Neal Stage

Sweetened Water

July 07, 2014
A house on Martha's Vineyard is the setting for this play about Cynthia, a recent widow dealing with her sorrow and an uncertain future; and Richard, a priest who has just lost his mother. At the suggestion of their mutual friend, Sara, Richard moves into Cynthia's house for a quiet retreat. Themes of grief, faith, intimacy and secrets are paramount as these three individuals come to terms with events that have now bound them inextricably together.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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